Warning: This article contains spoilers about Wednesdays season finale ofSurvivor: Island of the Idols.
You need a good social game to winSurvivor, and Tommy Sheehan had averygood social game.
That became abundantly clear when he was crowned the winner ofSurvivor: Island of the Idols.
Tommy Sheehan on ‘Survivor: Island of Idols’.Robert Voets/CBS
That leadership and affability led him all the way to the $1 million prize over Dean and Noura.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First off, congratulations, millionaire!TOMMY SHEEHAN: It cant get better than this.
And thank you for having me because Im a huge fan of you guys, so this is awesome.
A true super-fan moment.
Maybe me and you were the true alliance.
Thank you for picking me.
Walking in with Dean, and Noura their thing was they played a fourth quarter.
But I played all four, so I walked in defensively because I thought I had the win.
Obviously you dont want to get overconfident, but I was playing defense, I was more apologizing.
I was owning my game.
I was trying to just say to them, Hey, everything I said to you is true.
But I just couldnt sit next to you.
They just didnt show it.
And right after that, I knew: All right, Im good.
Because I had the social game.
I was just more scared of the immunity wins and stuff like that because I didnt play that game.
But after I said souvenir, I knew I had the game in the bag.
He just laughed at me.
They didnt really show it, but me and Dean were really best friends out there.
So we played back and forth and made fun of each other left and right.
What happens if Janet or Lauren slips into that final three?
for everyone, but they didnt make it there.
However, if Janet was sitting there I would have been like, Guys, just vote for her.
And then Lauren versus me, that would be like a Dom versus Wendell.
We played a Dom-Wendell game.
Lauren versus me, I think thats anyones game.
Ive talked to Kellee at length.
Ive talked to everybody at length.
It was a great teaching moment for our students, so I look at the positive in everything.
Every single thing, I was kind of calling it.
Just my building relationships from the Kellee vote to the Missy vote.
I really had a hold on that game.
They wouldnt even need to give me a day.
If they said, Hey, it starts right after final Tribal.
You have to walk right off to the welcome mats, I would have been there in a heartbeat.
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