Candace Smith is one of those hot chicks who is out to prove that she has brains to match her beauty. The 31 year old model/actress/event planner/attorney originally from Ohio butted heads with several people in her tribe, especially the equally arrogant Benjamin “Coach” Wade. After her tribe surprised her with an early departure on last week’s episode of Survivor: Tocantins, she spoke in an interview about her experiences. Here are some highlights:
After you were eliminated, you said you were “surprised” and “pissed off” about your elimination. Did you really have no idea you might be a target?
Candace: Yeah, I was definitely taken by surprise. I would say like right before we went to Tribal Council I noticed some people had some difficulty making eye contact with me and I kinda sensed that maybe they were all in on some shadiness, but I thought “No way. Look at how strong I am in competition and how hard I work at camp. There’s no way they would make the idiotic decision to get rid of me now.
So far Coach seems to [be coming across to viewers] off as a pretty arrogant and a kind of creepy…
Candace: Oh he’s beyond arrogant and creepy. I’m gonna tell you right now there’s no way I would let him coach my daughter or my son in anything. He’s creepy, he’s a pervert. He constantly tried to feel on my ass, he wanted to lick on my neck, he constantly talked about how sexy I was. After the challenge you saw how I performed, do you think he talked to me about my performance or my breasts? Which one?
So is it safe to say that you didn’t form any lasting relationships or friends on the tribe?
Candace: (Laughs) I mean, I have a connection with Jerry because Jerry reminds me of one of my uncles, I love Jerry. The only other person on the tribe that I could see myself socializing with, or wanting to have a cup of coffee with, is [Tyson Apostol]. I don’t even respect the other people, they’re not even interesting they have nothing to contribute to the world. They just kinda talk nonsense.
Other than Sierra’s apparent alliance with Brendan, were you aware any other alliances while you were out there? I mean you had also said Coach, Debbie [and Sierra], but aside from that.
Candace: I mean, Coach wanted to have an alliance with all the men and me, and then vote [the weakest girls] off one-by-one. That’s what he wanted. I’d be an idiot to go along with that right? Because my head would be on the chopping block as soon as all the women were gone, and I shared that with the women. But obviously they weren’t smart enough to digest the information and do something useful with it.
Overall, what surprised you the most about Survivor?
Candace: How difficult it really was. Like I consider myself to be a very strong person, I knew that I hadn’t spent my childhood camping, or [my] adulthood, and this was gonna be completely foreign to me and I had no idea how difficult it would be for me to be out in the elements like that.
I knew it’s be difficult, but not that difficult. And I knew the social aspect of the game would be difficult for me because I just have a hard time faking it with people. But it’s like when you combine the elements it was impossible. I was just like… my tolerance level had just fallen to the ground.
How were you cast for the show?
Candace: Well, someone from casting told me “Hey Candace there’s this opportunity, they want you to apply.”
At first I said no, I’d never watched the show so they’re like “Candace you really need to check out the show. So I got a bunch of past episodes and watched it, became fascinated by it, and just the competitor in me came out. So I went ahead and did the application and video and did the whole process.
This once again proves my point that Survivor is becoming less and less reality tv and more and more a soap opera, cast completely by producers to get the outcome they want. Yuck.
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