Survivor Gabon: Interview with Paloma – “Ace is sneaky.” – Fans Of Reality TV

Survivor Gabon: Interview with Paloma – “Ace is sneaky.” – Fans Of Reality TV

Paloma Expresses Her Feelings About Ace

Paloma Soto-Castillo, the 24-year-old student and former Kenya charity worker from Downey, CA, was the latest to be booted from the game, and the first bootee of the physically powerful Kota tribe. Paloma can reduce the circumstances of her torch being extinguished to three little letters – A-C-E. FoRT caught up to Paloma by conference call where she spoke to reporters about her Survivor experience.

How do you think you came across to viewers?

I don’t know! I feel like a lot of people have been saying that I came across as sassy, feisty, and a lot of people say I was funny. A lot of people say I was a “cute little girl” on the show.

It does seem like on our site that people describe you as “cute”. Would you say that’s a fair representation of you?

I get that in the real world outside of Survivor. It’s just because of my voice, it’s squeaky, it sounds like a mouse – I get it. And just because I look young for my age, and my personality in general. So I do get that a lot, so it wasn’t surprising to me that it came out on the show and people decided that’s who I was.

Can you give us your idea of what happened and why it went wrong for you?

I just feel that the Kota tribe was all about having a physically strong tribe. They really wanted to be a strong tribe when it came to the physical aspect of the game. And Ace was their main guy. He was the most athletic person we had – he was in the best shape, he was the strongest; so as much as they didn’t like him, as much as he annoyed everybody, they felt that they needed to keep him around for the challenges that were coming up. By voting against Ace or voting for Sugar or somebody that Ace didn’t want to be voted off, they felt like they would upset him and if he was upset, it wouldn’t keep the tribe unified. They wanted to keep the tribe unified and ready for the challenges. They had to keep it the way Ace wanted them to vote because otherwise he would have been upset.

What did you think of his idea to throw the reward challenge?

You know, Ace is sneaky. He always had a plan, and a part of the plan in throwing the reward challenge was to have the strongest people be able to play for the immunity challenge, which is obviously more important than the reward challenge. But for the reward challenge, he wanted to put me on the pole, which was another part of his plan to make me look as weak as I could. That’s what he wanted, and that’s what he accomplished.

He could have played the weaker players without actually aiming to throw the competition, though.

Yeah, I feel that his whole little spiel about throwing the competition was just another Ace moment that he had. I mean, he had so many Ace moments. It was just an Ace moment of him trying to sound intelligent and have a strategy for the team to listen to, to have a plan basically. It was just like, “Okay everybody, listen up! I have a plan. This is what I think we should do.” It wasn’t necessarily the smartest thing but it was his way of taking control over everything like he always did.

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