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marigold:

Survivor Spotlight Interviews Return: Ace Gordon & Dan Kay

Dan Kay and Ace Gordon appeared on WDEF News 12 at Noon for our "Survivor: Spotlight."

marigold:

Another video interview with Ace and Dan:

AOL Video Home Two fail to outlast on 'Survivor'

Link to view video interview:   http://video.aol.ca/video-detail/two-fail-to-outlast-on-survivor/894547701

marigold:

There is another interview with Ace and Dan here:

http://www.comcast.net/tv/insidesurvivor/388/castawayinterviewdankayandacegordon/

marigold:
An interview with Ace and Dan:

Exlusive Interview: Ace Gordon and Dan Kay of 'Survivor: Gabon'

On this week's episode of Survivor, Jeff Probst threw a twist at the contestants.  Players from both tribes were going to be eliminated and individual immunity would be up for grabs.  The contestants competed in a log roll, sometimes going head to head against their own tribemate, and in the end, Marcus won, beating Ace and Sugar.  It seemed that Susie and Crystal would be obvious targets for elimination, and they were, except that it was Ace and Dan who were voted out instead.  Today, they spoke to BuddyTV in an exclusive interview and neither held back when it came to their opinions about the people who sent them home!

Let me start with Dan. So I cannot believe that Corinne called you a supposedly former fatty last night. How do you even respond to something like that?

Dan: I thought it was funny. I really did. As much as it shows her maturity level and her personality, it was funny to me. So I mean… she speaks for herself. I don’t need to even do it. I mean, what am I gonna do? Cry over it? It’s Corinne! If Corinne likes you, then you need counseling too.

Well, I didn’t think that you were playing a weak game socially. Did you think that you were having problems out there?

Dan: With Marcus and Corinne, I felt like I was having problems. Like I said, it is what it is. Marcus is an accomplished guy and he’s tough to get to know. Corinne is in her own world and I think, for me, I feel like we all had issues on the show and we all have our personality flaws and it’s just a matter of which personality flaws you can accept. Marcus and Corinne are two people with personality flaws that I just couldn’t accept.

Ok so Ace, why in the world would Fang vote you out instead of Crystal?

Ace: ‘Cause they’re mental midgets.

What is anyone thinking in this game? I cannot believe that Susie and Crystal are still in the game and you and Dan are on the phone with me right now.

Ace: Crazy! If it makes you feel any better, neither can we! It was just a combination of the characters that we were playing with, honestly. Fang was a tribe of unique personalities. You know, somebody asked me earlier, “How would you describe them?” and I said, “Well, we’ve got Sugar, who’s an idiot savant. We’ve got Matty who’s ‘way dude’. We’ve got Kenny who think he’s a strategist, while being 12 pounds and we’ve Crystal, who really competed in the Special Olympics.”

Dan: You are unleashing on this call! BuddyTV is getting the exclusive!

Ace: The exclusive that Ace is an ******* if you really provoke him.

But Ace, I thought you were in an alliance with Sugar until last night. You blew my mind. I had no idea.

Ace: Sugar’s a nice girl. She’s a friend of mine in real life. It’s just that, on the show, she was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. She spent 10 days on Exile Island and she’s never been that mentally stable anyway. She just pushed herself over the limit. At a certain point in the game, she was like, “I didn’t even know I was playing the game.” I said, “You didn’t even know you were on the show.”

Well Dan, if you had made it to the merge, who would you have started aligning yourself with to get to the end?

Dan: I would’ve aligned with Matty in a heartbeat and I would’ve aligned with Ace. I know Ace had Sugar in his pocket and I would’ve done everything in my power to take Corinne and Marcus out, absolutely.

Ace, who is playing the game the worst right now?

Ace: That’s a hard choice. I don’t know. Honestly, I mean, it’s part luck. It’s part luck out there. There’s some strategy but next week, there could be a switch-up that completely confuses everyone. The worst out there right now would have to be Susie.

Dan, is this gonna be a season where weak physical players get far in the game because they align together?

Dan: I think that if you wanna run statistics on that, there’s probably a lot of weak players left in the game so I’d have to say yes, based on statistical reason. You just don’t know what the producers are gonna throw at you or what challenges are coming up. That being said, it’s hard to determine. It could be anyone’s game.

Do you guys have any bitter or hard feelings about the way you guys went out of the game?

Dan: Absolutely and I’m working on dealing with those. I know it’s really immature and there are people that I’ve prided myself on being a little bit more mature than ‘cause there’s a lot of people between 22-25 and I think that age comes out in this game and you see that the lack of maturity. I kind of feel like I need to be more mature and deal with those feelings and I know a lot of people are dealing with those feelings but you know, I’m a little bit… I’m still a little bit upset, you know. I am.

What about you, Ace?

Ace: I mean it was just a game. I was disappointed. I was very disappointed in myself more than anyone else. I mean, I had no faith in any of them, to tell you the truth. So I was disappointed that I lost the log roll, I was disappointed that I didn’t have the capacity to keep Sugar under control, you know, and it was more that I was mad at myself than any of them. I mean, obviously, I was frustrated that I had saved for 4 weeks running suddenly decided to assassinate me for no reason. If there was a reason, I would’ve understood but it was just a complete pot luck choice. That was hard for me but otherwise, you know, I don’t care anymore.

Link: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/survivor/exlusive-interview-ace-gordon-24139.aspx

marigold:
An interview with Ace and Dan:

Survivor Exit Interview: Dan & Ace

Last time on Survivor: Gabon, Dan got caught in a web of intrigue, even though he should have been coasting along for at least another week. A surprise Tribal Council for both sides left him open to attack and Kota took the bait. Ace on the other hand was putting together an unassailable alliance at Fang when Sugar turned the tables on him to lead a revolt, knocking him out of the game. It gave us the first good shock to the system so far this season.

We caught up with the pair, who seem to be buddies now, during a round of interviews about the dramatic events on the show.

FC: Hey Guys! Where are you today?
D&A: We're in New York. Where are you?

FC: I'm in PA but I'm a native New Yorker.
Ace: You'd never know it by that accent.

FC: Well, we'll get to accents in a minute there Ace!
(Dan laughs) Ace: I've only been asked that 22 times today.

FC: Well then, we'll leave that one alone Ace, because I'm sure you have. Seriously, it's been awhile for you guys since you were voted out, but for us it was only last night. And no disrespect to you Dan but the big shock was when Ace got knocked out of the game.
Dan: It's no disrespect to me at all.

FC: Well, I mean you kinda got caught in the gears of the Survivor machine.
Dan: Well, I don't wanna take the question from Ace, but that's the way the game is played and these things happen.
Ace: Well, I did see that day that they were coming to assassinate me and I just couldn't see the logic behind it with Sugar. But the fact is she didn't understand the logic of what she did either. In perspective it was a big shock. By that time I had turned around Fang and I was in the position I needed to be in to actually move forward in the game productively. That's life.

FC: One of the great things about Survivor is there's always a shocker and this is the first one of the season so far.
Ace; It was unnecessary, that was the whole point, after I'd been protecting them for so long. So to kill me for no reason was slightly frustrating.

FC: Sugar may have been a little confused I think, and the way Immunity was handed out there, it was chipping away at your defences.
Ace: Very much so, I think you're completely right.

FC: In the normal course of events there you would probably have been able to dominate and take Crystal out.
Ace: Which is what I was looking for, I mean it was a rather unusual concoction, it's become a different game. As they say, it's not the Survivor of 5 years ago. It's not a game like Brian played in Thailand, because they've thrown so many twists in to make it good TV nowadays it's not really beneficial to Dan or myself in relation to being intelligent or physically adept, because they immediately think you're too much of a threat and they gang up on you.

FC: What was your attitude coming into the game. You seem like you're a student of the game to me.
Ace: Yes, I've watched a lot of the game. My attitude was to be as fluid as possible, to make my way through without having to align to anyone specifically but still keeping people close. And that's what Sugar was. She had the Immunity Idol, she was another vote in my pocket and on the same note, it wasn't any sort of emotional connection. It was more the idea that you need numbers. I mean the fact that people leave the alliances open up until the last moment just means you can be assasinated right off the bat.

FC: Well you were playing a smart game, I thought you were the best strategist there.
Ace: Thank you very much.

FC: And Dan, like I said, you just got caught up in the gears. When Kota was forced to go to Tribal Council, that was a bad twist for you.
Dan: I think the worst twist was when we switched up tribes. That was new this year and for 5 hours, I was really happy, because I was comfortable and then that switch happened, so I think both of those combined were unfortunate incidences, where the game itself caused my downfall.
I think more importantly and ultimately, mentally I was having difficulty being in the game. Part of the game is trying to relate to people that you don't like, and there were 2 people I didn't like on Kota. But I should have played it more into that strategy.

FC: Last night's edit showed maybe you were a little over compulsive. I'd never seen that before, but they really played it up.
Dan: Yeah, when it got to when I was starting to feel a little more insecure, it was getting more difficult to work with them. The more I got to know Corinne and Marcus the more I didn't want to be a part of their mindset. There was a lot they didn't show. With Marcus I was trying to get him to feel more comfortable, and then we would reverse it. I would ask if I could trust them and he would just shrug it off. That started to really bother me.

FC: Let me ask you something about Exile Island. Part of the reason you got squeezed was speculation you may have had the Immunity Idol, although you stated many times you didn't have it.
Dan: There comes a point where the Idol does more harm then it does good. There were times where I envisioned myself faking that I did have it. I wish I'd have done it.

FC: That's the ultimate case of "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" I've ever heard.
Dan: Yeah, I know but... everything happens for a reason.

FC: Ace, when did you learn how to do a log roll?
Ace: (chuckling) I don't know! I think it was more of an act of balance. I just like running. I used to run across rocks as a kid. We all do that growing up, and I think it just added into it. I'm quite nimble on my feet. But I would have been better off if I was in either Marcus' or Sugar's position, and not in the center.

FC: Well, you seemed to be in the center from the very beginning.

FC: Before I let you guys go, can I get a prediction on a winner?
Ace: I think Obama.

FC: Barack On!
Dan: I'm gonna refrain, but I will say I predict it will be the person who gets the most votes at the last Tribal Council.

FC: That's a sound prediction! Ace, how about it?
Ace: I really can't say. I just don't know who is gonna win.

FC: Alright guys, thanks for talking with us today. Good luck and I hope you feel proud of yourselves. It's no small accomplishment to be on Survivor in the first place.
Dan: Thanks alot!
Ace : Thanks for the conversation!

Link: http://thebiz.fancast.com/2008/11/fc_hey_guys_where_are.html#more

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