Survivor’s most savage double-cross sees Phoebe voted out

Survivor bad boy David is the game’s most devious player – but his latest savage move left one of his fellow contestants shell-shocked.

Survivor: All-Stars contestant David Genat made another game-changing move during Tuesday’s episode, betraying the person who trusted him most.

And in a candid Instagram post after Tuesday’s episode, the player he voted out revealed she was “devastated” over the betrayal.

PHOEBE SPEAKS OUT

Speaking to news.com.au this morning, ousted player Phoebe Timmins admitted it had been “tough” to watch the episode back last night.

She said there were elements of the episode — in particular, David gloating as he plotted to vote her out — that shocked her.

“While I understood it strategically, I wasn’t prepared for how brutal he was. I would’ve appreciated a bit more of a heads up on what to expect in the edit – the eye-rolling and things like that. As a friend, just to have prepared me a bit more for things like that, I would’ve appreciated,” she said.

Phoebe was lost for words after she was voted out.

Timmins, who was shown lost for words after her eviction in last night’s episode, said it took some time to process what had happened.

“There was so much disappointment for me — I really wanted to go further, so coming to terms with it after was hard. When you come out of an experience like that and you’re sent home a day later, the decompressing is difficult. You’re not in a jury villa with people who shared the experience, and I wasn’t able to communicate with the one person that really had all the answers I needed.”

HOW IT WENT DOWN

Genat has developed a reputation as one of Survivor’s most cutthroat players – earlier this season, he’d blindsided tribemate Daisy because she orchestrated the vote to kick him out of the game last season.

This season, he’d been forming a tight bond with tribemate Phoebe – but she damaged it when she voted against him at a recent tribal council.

Phoebe he is not your friend! Run!

Phoebe thought that was all in the past, declaring that David was still “the person I trust most out here” – but she’d clearly underestimated his ability to hold a grudge.

During Tuesday’s episode, Phoebe confided in David that she’d found a clue telling her there was an immunity idol hidden in a termite mound somewhere around camp. Having searched fruitlessly by herself, she needed his help to try and find it.

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Eyes lighting up, David sent Phoebe further away from camp while he raced to the “exact termite mound” he wanted to search – a distinctive spot behind the tribe’s shelter. Sure enough, the idol hidden was there.

David wearing one of his TWO immunity idols.

That’s another immunity idol to sit alongside the one he already had: “First time in the history of Australian Survivor, someone is sitting on two idols. And Phoebe’s still looking for that idol!” he gloated.

In the scenes that followed, David helped Phoebe tirelessly scour the jungle for an idol he’d already pocketed. As she bush-bashed through the scrub he even played up for the cameras, laughing behind her back:

That’s cold.

As the group headed for tribal council, David let viewers in on his devious plan: “Phoebe betrayed me at the last vote … I’m going to blindside her.”

Sure enough, midway through tribal council, David produces one of his two immunity idols, announcing that he’d be playing it for himself. Phoebe looked stricken at this brand new information from the man she thought was her closest ally:

‘I've made a huge mistake.’

When time came to read the votes, David didn’t play his idol – meaning he still had two at his disposal.

As the votes poured in for Phoebe and she ran the numbers in her head, she turned back to David: “Did you vote for me?”

Oof, this is hard to watch.

After a tie and a revote – more time for a stony-faced David to sit next to the woman he’d just betrayed – Phoebe was finally put out of her misery.

As host Jonathan LaPaglia told her to leave tribal council, David rose to give her a parting hug. Her response:

“Duuuuude … come on.”

Phoebe appeared stunned after her elimination, explaining that she “didn’t expect a vote to come from Dave. I don’t really have anything to say right now; I think the less I say the better.”

A glimpse of David casting his vote for Phoebe showed he was loving every last minute of it: “Bluffing you with your own idol? Ouch.”

‘Bluffing you with your own idol? Ouch.’

After the episode aired, Phoebe posted on Instagram to explain she had been “devastated” by her eviction.

“Well that was...heartbreaking. When I was voted out, I couldn’t speak. I knew if I tried to talk, I’d fall apart. I didn’t want to fall apart on camera. I was devastated,” she wrote.

“I trusted someone I’d been in a close alliance with from day 1. He was the wrong person... whilst I feel things got far too personal and went beyond the spirit of strategy with certain individuals, I can also sleep soundly knowing I was outplayed by the better player in David.”

Survivor: All-Stars continues 7:30pm Wednesday on Ten.