“Survivor 50” star Charlie Davis claims Dee Valladares and Rizo Velovic made a pregame alliance before they all arrived in Fiji.
“Dee had a FaceTime before the season with Rizo,” Davis told Page Six after the pair voted him out on Wednesday’s episode.
“I learned that obviously after the fact,” he added.
Davis alleged that after his elimination, second boot Savannah Louie told him at Ponderosa that her “Survivor 49” bestie Soph Balerdi connected Velovic with Valladeres before the game
Balerdi is very close friends with Velovic, who also competed on Season 49, and lives in Miami, where Valladares also resides.
“So I think that probably played into it too, because If I were Dee, I’d be like, ‘Oh wow. I have this like pre-game relationship with Rizo and no one else has that because no one else would have any way of like getting in touch with him or knowing he was on 50,’” Davis explained.
Velovic and Davis strategically clashed on Season 50, which led to the latter being voted out by Velvovic, Valladares, Cirie Fields and Kamilla Karthigesu in a shocking blindside.
But Davis told Page Six that he went after Velovic for more reasons than what was shown on TV.
“I viewed him as someone who… basically once he becomes a known quantity, the reason for targeting him almost disappears,” the “Survivor 46” runner-up explained.
“Being that like, ‘Oh, we don’t know how he plays. We’ve never seen him play.’ So that was sort of my rationale there.”
Davis added, “And then also I kind of thought that because he was so disconnected, there’d be the least ripple effects taking him out, and everyone would be like, ‘I need to be the one to pull Rizo in.’”
“And then all of a sudden, he’s got all these alliances,” Davis said, noting that’s “kind of what happened.”
Davis was especially surprised that Valladares voted him out, since he protected the “Survivor 45” winner on their original tribe.
“There was definitely talk about getting Dee out on Kalo, like coming from Chrissy [Hofbeck] and like all of that. So she was not, like, unscathed,” Davis told us.
“But I mean, for for one of the Kalo people to go home at that beach, it had to be Kalo, turning on each other,” he said. “And I didn’t want to turn on Dee. So I wasn’t surprised that she wasn’t targeted there.”
“Survivor 50” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
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