Watch Out Judd And Stephenie
It's down to the last three weeks on "Survivor: Guatemala." Only six contestants are left and it looks like Stephenie is calling all the shots.
"When Stephanie first walked out, I thought she was going to be the first one off," favorite "Survivor" Rupert Boneham tells The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith.
After all, he says, she had already played the game and someone else needs to get the chance to win $1 million.
Stephenie erupted in the last episode because Lydia got her out of the reward challenge. Something not uncommon, Rupert says, when the game is coming to the end.
"When you get down to the end, you start doing that little picking on each other and trying to defend yourself and the paranoia just sets in," Rupert says.
The problem he sees for both Stephenie and Judd is that they are being too cocky and showing too much strength. And that is dangerous.
"It's such a game of social. I didn't really understand that the first time I played that the social aspect is so important," he says.
In the Final Four alliance of Stephenie, Judd, Cindy and Raef, Rupert likes the last two the most.
"Cindy is a little, kind of in the weeds. She's not exactly out front. Sometimes those are the people who kind of climb to the front," he says. "Raef is going to be looked at as a little more of an obstacle now that he's winning everything. Cindy could come up and take this whole darn thing away from everybody."
It would be a good opportunity, in fact, for Cindy and Raef to team up with Lydia and Danni and get rid of Judd, Rupert says. But that would be unlikely.
"I'm looking at Danni being ousted tomorrow," he says. "Lydia, she was always that Rudolph, that little reindeer that didn't get to play the reindeer games. She sat out every other challenge. She's kind of doomed, too."
If he could give advice to the people in the Final Four as they move forward, Rupert says: "To Judd and Stephenie, watch out that attitude. When you feel like have you all the power that is when somebody comes behind you."
Rupert says he's addicted to the show. "I was a junkie before I got on the show. Now I'm serious about it. Now I'm serious!"
Given the opportunity, he says he would play again without hesitation. "I would even play for my charity. If I won, whatever I won, I'd play it off for the juvenile court system and for Rupert's Kids."