Everyone Underestimated Us': Cara Atchison’s Ultimate Alliance Finally Comes Undone

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On Monday night, Cara became the next Castaway sent to the Jury, ending one of the game’s best power couples

While George’s chaotic approach to the game put him in practically everybody’s line of fire, Cara was one of the few to embrace the King, even going so far as to play a Hidden Immunity Idol for him early in the game. The move ultimately backfired and ended Cara’s time in the game, or so she thought at the time.

“I was fully prepared to exit the competition,” Cara told 10 play, “I frankly never thought I was going to win. I hoped I’d win, but I never thought I was going to win... I just wanted to go as far as I could.

“I’m such a believer in the journey, there’s no point getting to the end and being miserable,” she continued. “George wanted that so badly and I did too, but I would rather have given that gift to allow him to have his journey.”

“Everyone underestimated us. George was my shield, he’s so bombastic I’d just send him off like a little wind-up doll to go and march out and I would lead from behind,” Cara explained. “I was all about relationship building, building alliances.”

Where George may have burned bridges, Cara was right behind him building them back up again.

“I felt like the guiding force behind George in terms of subtlety, nuance... my goal was to make it as far as I possibly could, and I wholeheartedly believe that we were both essential to each other in different ways.

“We were playing our own game, but we both knew what each other was doing pretty much all of the time.”

With such a tight pairing, as they got to the pointy end of the competition together, Cara said she and George knew that their honeymoon would eventually have to come to an end.

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