It's in the news today, but it was actually on TV Reload, the podcast last Deep the Line. Hey guys, welcome back to TV Reload. Thank you for clicking and downloading. On today's episode with original Titan Viola, the sixth eliminated contestant from this year's A Strand Survivor on Network ten, I will be talking about her time in Samoa and of course what she thinks now that the smoke has
well and truly been snuffed out on her torch. Australian Survivor Titans Versus Rebels is a showdown that pits the winners against the underdogs and the big wigs against the battlers, with each player competing for the grand prize of half a million dollars. Viola was originally from South Sudan and
moved to Australia when she was two years old. The Powerlift and Strength coach made an easy choice for her to be a part of the Titans team and on the outset, Viola made a strong connection with fellow Titan Valeria, gaining a power couple status with fellow castaways calling them the two V's. They bonded with diplomat Mark, creating a new trio, which Mark intended to use to break up
his original alliance, the Middle Aged Mafia. Their plan was to eliminate Sweet Caroline first, but in the confusion of the buff swap, sadly, Viola found herself blindsided when Caroline led a preemptive strike against the three of them. Viola will reveal how she was cast on Australian Survivor and if being previously seen on the doghouse helped her with
the folks at Network ten. We will unpack that blind side where we will find out if she thought Mark was in fact a part of her demise, which we will then find out if Viola wants her elimination revenged by her remaining friends. I will ask Viola about how Alex comes across in real life and what she thinks of contestants like Aileen, Raymond and Scott who have been getting a little less screen time. Plus, we will find out why being malleable is important and why type bonds
with fellow contestants makes you an easy target. There is so much to unpack with Viola and she is really fun to chat too today, so sit back and relax as we dive just that little bit deeper into the world of Australian Survivor. I have to say to you right off the bat, I'm so impressed with how humble you were.
You know, you often see people that have.
Been eliminated, their tortures have been snuffed, and then they have their little piece to camera and you can see that they're so angry.
You were fantastic.
I think it just comes from a standpoint of like game respects game. You know what I mean, hate the player, No, don't hit the player. Sorry, don't hit the player. I need the game. I think in a game like Survivor and you when you know what everyone goes through and you know the decisions they have to make on the day to day, you can respect good gameplay in this big shown. So I was like, listen, it is what it is. Respect to you.
How did you treat the game of Australian Survivor. I mean, what were your biggest influences when it came to taking on this sort of a competition.
Yeah, so one of the biggest one was Shannie. I think Shannis, like social gameplay, really just showed how important that was over things like physical gameplay. It was being really easy for me to go in and you know, align the fact that I'd be decent a challenges and think that's going to get me through. But I knew that wasn't going to do much for me in the long term. So I knew how tulye more so on finding a strong person that I could bind myself to
between market bell area. I think that strategy works really well fish one, and I was prepared to follow a similar gameplay, but I think I just should have put a bit more strategy into it.
There is a lot of people that will do their research before going in, and they'll watch specific players and assume that that timeline will play itself out the same way, where the game is different every single time, and then you throw something like Titans versus Rebels, which by name alone, you know they are going to throw things out of whack. They're going to do things differently.
When I got onto that island right because I knew why they selected me, but I didn't know who else they selected. So I remember, we're all sitting around in a cube circle. We just met each other. We just sort of like assusting each other out, and one by one every time is saying why are they're retired? And what they do for work, and as I grew out of the circle, I'm like, oh gee, I'm not a
bit really really really big pond. So I think the Titans really were Titlands because of the soft they've done in life. At the same time, I think it put me in such a interesting predicament where I was lucky in the sense that everyone was the first time player, but unlucky. And since that, I'm playing with players that I used to be in the top of their game.
So I'm like, true.
I mean, there was a lot of chatter about you being on another show, The Doghouse, and that was really interesting because I was reading on the comments section last night. People were wondering whether that was a little step into television and did that help you get onto Australian Survivor. I just assumed they were unrelated, but what can you tell us about that so that I'm related?
Even when I got this was so funny, like I didn't tell the Doghouse anything about Survivor because it's a very close and confidential sort of thing, right, And like I didn't know if I couldn't even tell them, So I was like, listen, I'm not going to shoot myself shoot my shot because I went to have a big mouth.
So I didn't tell the dog House anything about me being a survivor, but I did manage a survivor that I was in the Doghouse, and I think even with that, when I got off the show, it was like, well, a few weeks and then straight away, looking skinny as hell, I was off to filming the Doghouse. So the two shows they had like absolutely nothing to do with each other. And it's so interesting everyone thinking that, like I had this secret connection. I'm like, no, they's I just applied.
I applied and my person I spoke for yourself.
I just always think it's so funny because, like you know, when we look at things, you know, we simplify and we always believe we know something.
With the nature of the.
Way you could be cast on a show like a strands of IVRN take part in a competition like this, those two things seem very unrelated to me. But for the untrained eye, they probably thought, well, it's spoke Channel ten.
It make guess, it makes sense. But I think what the Doghouse did teach me in propressions, I guess was the production side of things and like being aware that like, oh my gosh, there's a reality of the actually shure have been like you've really got to live through the conditions. So I think it prepared me to not expect something.
So so whilst from what I was going into, I think on top of that, it really taught me as well about like the way you come across it comes from the words that you say, treat people how you would in your day to day and you'll be okay. So I think that really helped me a lot. I think The Doghouse gave a bit of parr and I'll say what they gone to the show.
I thought you were going to say, I learned from the Doghouse if you sleep with dogs, you catch fleas.
Ye I'm bad. I'm not that bad.
No, no, no, no, no, I mean I think it's unrelated.
Quote Again, it's funny that you mentioned the conditions, because it does seem like at this point of the competition that the castaways are getting a little bit more conditioned to the conditions.
I'd say, over time you could just.
Kind of accept you new reality, right, because like everything that happens is everything that happens, You're almost happening the outside world. So in many ways, you start to accept it in things like, you know, the fact that your back's always going to be crooked with you sleep, or the fact that your stomach is always going to run more. With some degree, I think after a while we accept it. At the same time, it does get harder. When I
first got on Survivor, I was doing really confident. I was like, Yeah, I've trained for this, like my exercises. I'm a strength traditioning coach. I had this really big ego that really got knocked out and humbled all the reality of Survivor. Like I think when I got on and I realized, oh my gosh, I'm actually losing strength. I'm actually losing like body weight and whatnot. I'm not as strong and confident in my capacity as I usually
would be. I think it humbled me to a degree where I was like, I can't rely it on my fiscal strength, like I have to rely on my social way. I have to run my she did to play because that's going to deplete Yeah.
Well, I want to get into that in a second. But I just was going to say, last night, Kelly arrived back and was saying that she orchestrated Nathan's exit from the show, which seemed like her kind of backpedaling in a way, you know, trying to get out of maybe what she didn't do while she was there.
What do you think of Kelly Boy?
I was having the sweetest dream of my life, like I was back in Australia. I was like eating a nice stack of barbecue ribs, and all of a sudden I got work to not just killed the vibe for me. So I think like the way Kelly entered was definitely a shock, and to see her gameplay live now is also a shock. I think she's a very interesting player,
and I haven't figured out her gameplay yet. It could potentially make her last very, very long because people can predict that unpredicted about unpredictable behavior of Kelly.
I think she's making good television, you know, at the end of the day. She looks like one of those people that you'd be like, I don't know if I could live with you, but I'm entertained by the turbulence that comes with someone's personality type that is so vastly different from everybody else's.
She's definitely like the actually wrote a person I've ever met. In many ways, Kelly can be misunderstood, and I think unfortunately in a game of Survivor, I think it's one of those places where she's most likely misunderstood. I think in a different context, perhaps she has a very different side that we don't know about. But I think Kelly definitely made for really good TV.
Well. You know what's interesting though, because she was kicked to the curb from the Rebels team, and so when she returned, I thought it was quite unreasonable of them to just assume that she would feed the information or the truth back to them. You know.
I kind of felt like it seems strange that that's what they wanted from her.
Perhaps they felt as though Ellie Kelly rode them. I think at that point it was may be in like a tipso tat, like Okay, yeah, but you did all this so us this kind of information is you're not justifying to feel hurt. But in saying that, yeah, you're justifying to feel her, they like rejected you to that degree. So I get it.
What I was going to ask you is, do you think that the biggest players in the game, like a Ferris and a Kirby should be more worried about some of those sleeping giants in the background.
I mean Eileen and Scott and Raymond.
They're not getting a lot of airtime, but something is making me feel like they're not just fodder for the Kings and Queen of the show to eliminate.
Yeah. Like I dare say, I Lead is phenomenal player, and I think her gameplay, if it's being low key, I think it's working out really really well. I think in the Revels trick those normal play is slack, straight up, and I think the absolute luck of all of ending in that kind of scenario after its private squall. I don't know what kind of prayers they're making, but I
need to get a hold of that. But I think that definitely is potential for someone like I Lead, especially as well as Scott, but definitely I Lead also in my Duke, to definitely make some big moves. But I think it's one of those situations where time to help.
I think it's just going to see how that evolves. But I do think they're going to need to sort of watch them a little bit more than they are. Last night, all the super fans were trying to pick who is going to get the biggest blind side. I don't know if you saw that on social media, but you know the episode was being promoted as the biggest
blind side so far. You get to finally watch the three hundred and sixty degree view of survivor by watching the episode, what surprised you the most by the work that was done behind the scenes that you didn't see in SOMEOA.
What surprised me Caroline did surprise me? I think her capacity to get the numbers and have short conversations, short efficient as opposed to like long conversations where you tell the entire pan and the backstory. I think her ability to have short efficient conversations and switch Eden and switch Kitty. I think that was really really impressive. I'm like, you know what, that was well, Blade, respect to you, Like, I definitely didn't see you coming at that speed of
that accuracy. So I think one hundred percent that surprised me. And I think what surprised me was everyone's reasons for coming on board with the plan. I think, for example, I think Sarah mentioned in her confessional was because I didn't share much information with her, which I'm like, you know what, that's understandable. I get that because in my position, I couldn't because I put a tag on my back. But in your position, that puts a tag on your
back either way. So I get that, and the weirdest reason. I get that. But I think for the most part, everyone had sufficient reasons and I can respect it. I don't think there was any sense of like, ah, I've got to get further out or something I'm leading to my character.
I mean, this is the thing.
I feel bad for Mark in a way because you know, Kitty, Caroline and Eden, you know, they were all in an alliance with Mark. Yeah, it was kind of interesting to see them leaving him out of the conversation when it came to them coming for your blind side. Do you hope now that Mark is going to seek your revenge?
There's one thing that did are going to show, and that's the depth of myself and Valves and Master relationship. They don't show just how much we were like all for each other. I think we all had an understanding that we wouldn't turned on each other, and it was up actually just Saul and we felt that this was the lives I really counted in the long term for the game. So I think definitely, like I'd be very
surprised if they did. Eventually, I think if that was me in their shoes, I would not be satisfied until someone goes home. So I think it'll be interesting to see how it plays. But even when I got out, I think there was so much like shock, or so much it happens so quickly that you don't really realize that you know what's happening.
Knew that Mark had nothing to do with it, right, No.
So when I got off the show, I was I was just reflecting. I was like, wait a minute, did Mark betrate me like he did? Become very unclear because I kind of conversations with people, so I'm like, I'm not sure what happened. I was like, wait a.
Minute, but you feeling better about it now that you know that Mark didn't.
Oh my lord, when I tell you the heart release.
Did you send him a Christmas present this year?
Well? Actually went a visited Mark, like I'll hung out with I'm the very multiple times Marks in Busan I went over and like met him and it's wife and whatnot. So I think we have a very cirse relationship friendship between all three of us.
And it works out shortly after a few drinks, then he would have revealed that he had your back, right, But I guess he's still you know, even when they would tell you that in the real world, until you're watch it on the television, till you watch you to see how it happened, you'd still be slightly reserved. You know.
I think a lot of people have been talking about this, and in the game of survivor any kind of alliance that is super duper strong or a real connection that is formed can be a bit of a weakness to your game. And you with the two V alliance, does that make you now wonder and second guess whether or not it was a good idea for you to have such a strong connection with Valeria.
Yeah, I felt as though at the time, at the point in the game where me and Valeria were forming our connection, it was a point in the game where everyone was forming connections. You know, we've sort of broke up into individual pairs and trios are based of the betters we had. But for that reason, I felt as though myself, even though me and I were very very close, I felt as though it wasn't just something that should be targeted is considering everyone had their own person in
their own regard. But I think looking back now, especially seeing you know, Winner in Jaden's gameplay, where they're like they're building to be malleable, I think it makes them very flexible to player and very easy to align software. You know that they're working in that best interest. So I think in the future perhaps so considerate. I think it just really depends on the characters that come across.
I think if I was recognize another version of Valeria or someone else with like that kind of similarities, I think be very difficult for me to not align myself with them, But I think I'll definitely be a lot more covert about the depth of their lives.
I think malleable is the word, isn't it Like isn't that seems to be like the currency to keep yourself in the game as long as you can, you know, because you can't get stuck on a consistent you can't stuck get stuck on one relationship. It is interesting, though, because you've left two of your best friends behind in the competition. I was curious to ask you about the advice that you may have for Mark and for Valeria
now being left in the competition. What do you think that they can do now to keep themselves be strong in the game.
Well, I know about the both of them. I'm like, they both be very passionate people. I think would be very hard for them to just get over a boat like this. But at the same time, they're both really smart social base. I think they'll know to, you know, tuck it away when the time is right, do what you have to do. But now it's not the time. So play the game, play the friend card, play the O show you know what that's right on valuable? Go ahead,
talk up about me. If you need to throw an your name under the bus, do what you need to do and with a.
Time that's right attack interesting. It is interesting.
I think that's good advice. Though we always knew you were a smart girl. How about Alex? You know Alex is you know, he's got an interesting fan base that's from behind the scenes. I think most of them are people who are enjoying him in his speedos. But I'm really curious to know about how Alex is being perceived because he kind of is coming across as the goofy outsider in a way, or is he playing a good game. I'd love to know what you have to say about Alex at this point of the competition. Yeah.
Yeah, So from the short time I spent with absolute game versus what I'm seeing like being treated out in front of me, I think my initial intuition about Alex rescript in being that he is anyone by himself. He will do what you need to do. He will really support, He will sir struggle up if needed. As long as it's not here, he will do what he has to do. And you know what I do, you respect that? I like respect that. I think, on the surface level, is
a very sociable player. You know, Kaneki has excuses can draw from, but on the surface, if it's you, it'll be you as well as it's not me.
Fair play.
I love the fact that people referred to Caroline as sweet Caroline because she's nothing but sweet girl. And Kitty you know as well, Like you know, both of those women, they've got a very serious game play. That's that's going on behind the scenes. But you know, you had a
relationship with them at some point. So I just was curious about what exposed that fracture in the relationship you had with those two women, because at one point it did seem like you know, you were able to use that friendship.
There was always a bit of weariness because you had myself in vout, and then you have the New Age Mafia, and then you had Mark trying to be the super group that kept us together almost right, But there's always that slight understanding that yes, we're a larger group, but there's also fractions with that group that would become a parent at some point. And I think for me, I was still happy to work with them until Caroline started
intruding on me and vows conversations. I think in that kind of scenario where you're already hungry, you're really tired, you're really stressed, you're really thinking someone's had to get you, and then when you have someone sort of latantly adding themself in the conversation and stop being a conversation, that could be strategic in conversations could just be fine. I think it definitely made me have her as a potential threat to my game.
She kind of reminded me in a way of like you know, when your mum would try and hang out with your friends, she because you know when you know how she says toats like she was in a conversation with you two, and then she just joined the conversation with Tots, and I was like, girl, there's a certain age that I think that you can't I'm now being so ages and people are going to come for me. But I feel like there's an age that you can't say, Tots, do you know what I mean?
Are you drinking struggle? I already have Twitter coming after me, so I called them senior citizens. I can't be a little bit of this.
I think that's enough. I think we go. I think we got let me know what we know what you feel.
But it's interesting because those fractures happened at the same time then for Mark and Eden, you know what I mean, Like, so yeah, Ra, actually there appeared for them at the same time as the fracture on the other side. Was there something we missed there? Do you think that Mark had done anything to upset Eden?
My feelings though Mark and e respect each other, but the same time is always understanding that we are so similar in our game, right that at one point someone's got to cut the other out. I think it was like a weird sort of shrew Swere's like, not yeah, we're trying to need each other, but at some point
it's going to happen. So I think the more Mark started to sad with myself about especially after the where eating rute nervous against the more, that sort of need actually a bit more apparent in that degree, so I think bread then they were becoming suspicious of each other, and that kind of I guess rippled out in the effects of everyone's individual lands.
I've been asking everyone as well in the game in the name of Survivor, like finish this sentence, you know from what you now know, if you can finish this in a sentence in the game of Survivor.
In the game of Survivor, I have now learned the hunger is real, is real, but more importantly, it feels though it's time back yourself.
Well, there was a lot of conversations in that tribal council when it came to Jonathan and talking about when it's.
The right time to make a move.
You know, that was a very interesting time for Jonathan to be narrowing in on that conversation because it was time for somebody to make a move and holy that sadly that might have been you.
They made a move on you, Like I said, like much respect.
I think to be taken the way I was. I was like, that's a good game. That is phenomenal game. So I think much respect for doing what you need to do. And I think Caroline back herself in respect to that.
Sweet Caroline, Sweet Caroline, I don't know how she's going to go moving forward, But Sweet Caroline, what is something from behind the scenes, something we didn't see, kind of like a behind the scenes moment that maybe you thought was going to be on screen that we didn't get a chance to see.
Yeah, I think what I was surprised wasn't on the screen was the fact that I did trust Mark for the same time I realized that he was a massive bread I think they would have I really thought they would have showed my confessionals regarding that early on. I think one of my Day one confessionals was like, has nobody realized as a diplomat on the team? But does no one else? Freaking out? Does no one realize how
scary that is? And I think one of the biggest reasons why I aligned with Mark was like, you know, one, I genuinely did get along with him really really well, which surprised me. But two I recognized him to be
the biggest threat so early on. I'm surprised it didn't show that, but I think it more so it shows to his capacity to that, you know, to be really chill and calm on the surface at the same time be actually be ruthless and my strategic and long term minded viting and I think, yeah, I mean, even whether they showed that or not, you've seen that from the samp now, so much respect to that.
Well, we'll have to see how how will he hides that in the next couple of episodes. Let me okay, I don't know whether he's going to be able to. I think he's going to be pretty unnerved at this point. I just want to say, y'alla, thank you so much for taking the time and chatting with me about a strand Survivor. I loved watching you on the show. I thought you did a fantastic job and nice to chat with you today.
Hopefully I chat to you and getting the picture.
Of course, well, I'll have to come back and talk about doghouse, and then we'll come back when you're back on Survivor and who knows where, who knows where you'll go from there.
It's been lovely