Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick Falls in Survivor 50 Cast Coin Flip
Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick's survivor 50 cast run ended at a Tribal Council that turned into a scramble over alliances, a coin flip, and a late vote shift. The four-time player said Rick Devens’ move to expose her and Jonathan forced her into damage control before the game broke against her.
“Oh, here we go. Now I have to do damage control,” Kendrick said after Devens started outing her and Jonathan. She added, “I cannot throw Jonathan under the bus, even though it was his plan and I’m getting dragged into it,” as the vote started to slide away from the plan she had been working with.
Devens forces a live scramble
Devens’ alliance exposure set off the kind of live Tribal Council that leaves players reacting in real time instead of guarding a fixed vote. Kendrick said she tried to turn the heat back on him, then found herself under fire from Devens, Tiffany, and Rizo.
That left the group circling around the Mr. Beast Beware Advantage and its coin flip twist, with Kendrick saying, “Shit, I want to flip the coin after that mess.” Jeff spelled out the risk in plain terms: “Wow, we didn’t think anybody would volunteer. You have a 50 percent chance of going home.”
The coin flip changes everything
Jonathan told Cirie, “No, I wouldn’t because you don’t want him to be safe, but then he could go home,” when she asked whether Devens should flip the coin. Cirie then told Kendrick, “I think you’re safe, but if you want to flip the coin, flip the coin.”
Kendrick let Devens take the flip. “I would’ve had to argue over it or go to rocks,” she said, and when the result landed against her interests, she put it bluntly: “I was shocked.” She said she clapped and acted happy for Devens anyway: “I am a good actress!”
Aubry was the fallback
Kendrick said the backup plan after the coin flip was to vote for Aubry if Devens stayed safe, and after another live Tribal Council, that name kept coming up. “It was not going to be Aubry,” she said, adding that even Joe told her the vote would land there before the target shifted back onto her.
Jonathan found out at the last minute that the vote had moved to Kendrick, and she said he went with it because “You either go with the vote or you’re going to be the odd man out.” That is the hard edge of this episode: once the alliance map went public and the coin flip landed, the safest move for everyone else was to follow the new majority, not save the person who had spent the council trying to hold it together.
