Terran “TK” Foster was one of the strongest contestants on “Survivor” — but that didn’t stop his tribemates from voting him out.
The 31-year-old athlete marketing manager was blindsided during the second episode of Season 47 by Gabe Ortis and Tiyana Hallums, who he thought were his allies and joining him and Kyle Ostwald in voting out 59-year-old Sue Smey.
Following his elimination, Foster exclusively spoke to The Post about the tense relationship he had with Smey on the island.
“Everybody on that island knows Sue never wanted to work with me at any time,” he said. “I tried to talk to Sue on the multitude of occasions, and she was just not open to it. I remember my first day back after getting the tribe supplies, we’re there that first night and I ask everybody like, ‘hey, can everybody share your survivor story? I would love to know what’s going and why you’re here.’”
“Everybody goes down the line telling me their story,” Foster recalled. “It’s amazing. Great bonding moment for all of us. It comes up to Sue and she’s like, ‘I don’t really feel like sharing it.’ And I’m like, ‘Well I didn’t hear it yet.’ And she’s like, ‘I already told everybody. We can do it another time.’ It was just a weird situation.”
Foster also addressed a moment in Episode 2 where Smey complained about him constantly talking while she was trying to nap on the beach.
“Am I talking to myself? Why are you only calling me out, when you’re sitting next to me and Kyle?” he said. “Anybody from our tribe will tell you Kyle talked more than anybody. Me and Kyle are talking and you only call me out.”
Foster went on, “We also have an entire beach. If you were that irritated, wouldn’t you have just gotten up and walked a few feet and just laid down somewhere else so you couldn’t hear us?”
The Maryland resident said he felt that Smey “was trying to nitpick every little thing” he did.
“She never really gave me a chance to work with me. That was a weird situation. she wasn’t open to it. I don’t know what that was about,” he added.
Foster also reacted to Hallums, 27, abandoning their alliance and flipping to the other side.
“It made no sense,” he said. “I talked to T about this a bunch. I said, ‘Tiyana, listen, you’re probably the strongest girl out here. So you’re going to be a threat.’ And Kyle as well, another strong guy. So in my mind I said we all need to go to the merge together because at minimum we’ll be shields for each other.”
“I mean, if you look at it from a logistical standpoint, Tiyana was a part of my three and they had their three,” Foster also pointed out, referring to the divide in the tribe.
“And she essentially gave up my three to go be the fourth. So I think it was an emotional decision,” he added.
“Survivor” airs Wednesdays at 8 pm ET.
