Monty Brinton/CBSAw. Taj rendezvoused with her hubby in exile. Stephen and his brother shared one of their warmest hugs ever. Coach had his back cracked by his assistant coach.
The happy tears flowed like wine on day 31 as the six remaining members of Survivor: Tocantins' Forza tribe bid big money on French fries, nachos and chicken hearts and then were treated to visits from loved ones.
Well, at least they got that all that love out of their systems early on.
Apparently not that moved by her familial sentiment, Coach urged for Taj's dismissal after saying she and Erinn should be "cut off at the kneecaps" for not joining his crusade against Sierra last week. Sierra was voted off anyway, but that's not the dragon slayer's point.
"I'm just gonna throw a reality check on you—one of us three is going to win it," Coach informed J.T. and Stephen.
Debbie rallied the troops for Coach's ouster, meanwhile, telling J.T. and Stephen that she would offer them her immunity idol if they made it to the final three.
Quite the offer...
Though J.T. was faster at burrowing under a fence like a puppy, Stephen solved the mathematical immunity-challenge equation the fastest, becoming golden for another week.
"No one really knows what's going on with what Stephen and I do," a very relaxed J.T. assured us.
Apparently not. The joined-at-the-hip duo apparently decided that a few more days of Coach were worth it, because they saw to it that Debbie got the boot.
"She definitely has a lot going on under that [sweet] persona, and she worries me a bit," Stephen, who sat through Tribal Council tonight like a shaman with all those immunity-idol feathers, had said earlier.
So out went Debbie, 4-1-1, with Coach voting for Taj and Debbie casting her ballot for Coach.
Five contestants remain.
(Originally published May 7, 2009, at 6:15 p.m. PT)
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