‘Survivor 50”s Jenna tries to cheat on her castmates pre-season (not included)

Jenna Lewis-Doherty It’s old school survivor The Season 1 fan-favorite and Season 50 contestant has a few new tricks up her sleeve as a contestant.

know she is probably underestimated by most young people survivor 50 After being cast, she decided to pander to the perception that she was too old to be a threat in the game. It all started with a flight to Fiji.

“On the plane, you couldn’t bring any electronics, but I had a CD player and I made CDs,” Jenna, 48, told us US Weekly Exclusively on the red carpet survivor 50 Premieres Tuesday, February 24th. “I didn’t before. I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to look like I don’t know how to use technology.'”

“Well, I do,” she continued. “I had to reteach myself how to burn CDs, but I took my CD player with me everywhere. Everybody noticed. I embroidered on the plane. Everybody noticed.”

Jenna ranks eighth Survivor: Borneothe show’s first season aired in 2000. Her stature and reputation as a player, a fan favorite before anyone really knew how to play the game, earned her invitations to return Survivor: All Starsshe finished third.

all star The show aired in 2004, and Jenna has not appeared in the show since. when survivor When starting to assemble the cast for Season 50, the production team wanted cast members from the first season. host Jeff Probst Insisted asking Jenna.

“I think Jeff saw me as the first villain,” Jenna said. “If you’ve seen survivor 1I was playing outside at the time. Ramona (gray)It was this amazing girl who came out and said, “I think Jenna could be my first white friend.” In my confessional, I said, “Too little, too late.” I wrote her name like I didn’t care. But I didn’t. I love Ramona. I don’t care. I can compartmentalize. I know it’s 39 days. I have a lifetime to apologize. “

like many of my predecessors survivor Gamers, Jenna held on for a while before real life got in the way and her fandom faded. (When she said “no one watches” the 20s, she was referring to seasons 20 to 29.)

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Still, it was an easy decision when she got the call.

“If you didn’t win Survivor in the first few seasons, you don’t know this deep issue,” she said. “Whenever you think about it, you say, ‘If one thing changes, I’ll be relevant. If one thing changes, I’ll be cool.'” That’s what I think. If I did one thing different, I would be cool and relevant. “

exist survivor 50Jenna finds herself in a tribe with other players from other countries survivor’old times including Desiree Fields and Oz’s Desire. this will be the biggest survivor The first season in the show’s history featured 24 castaways castaways on a Fiji beach, but Jenna had only previously acted with one other cast member from the cast. Colby Donaldsonrunner-up in Survivor: The Australian Outbackalso played all star Later, he returned for Season 20, Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains2010.

Survivor 50: In the hands of fans Premieres on CBS on Wednesday, February 25th at 8pm ET for three hours. Starting March 4, the show will return to its normal 90-minute format.