Survivor’s First Evictee Matt Explains His Bonkers Tribal Council Behaviour & Denies Being Sexist

Last night’s first episode of Australian Survivor saw some bizarre gameplay, with Matt being the first contestant sent home after he went on a rampage at tribal council and verbally attacked his fellow game players.

In the end, it came down to Matt and Steve, but the police officer sealed his fate by saying far too much. In his tirade, he exposed alliances, attacked the women and just did everything you probably shouldn’t do this early in the game.

We spoke to Matt about his odd strategy.

“I knew I was in trouble and I was not in with that bromance alliance at all. They were tight. And what wasn’t shown was that Tegan was tight with them as well,” he told Punkee.

“I think in the end, I knew I was in massive trouble and I thought if I could get a bit of confusion going and make the girls realise that the guys are so tight, that maybe they might think that I’m making a good point.”

Matt made a pretty bizarre comment during the council, saying that all the women weren’t playing the game. When asked about people accusing him of being sexist, this is what he had to say:

“I’m not even going to waste my time answering that. I don’t know how anyone could come up with that [accusation] after that tribal. You know, I was outing the guys. I was wanting the girls to get in and vote for them.

That comment I said ‘It’s time to start playing the game ladies,’ that wasn’t targeted at the ladies. That was targeted at Shonee, Fenella, and Anita.”

“I was trying to make it clear to them that they can’t continue to fly under the radar and think they’re not going to be outnumbered,” he said.

“All I was saying was not to leave it too late. If you wanna stay longer, if you wanna win then it’s time to start playing the game and getting these big guys out.”

We can assume by ‘big guys’ he means competitors like Zach, who Matt called the most untrustworthy islander.

Matt concluded by saying, he’d rather be “memorable” and leave a mark on the competition – even if he was the first to leave.

“What would be worst than being first out would be going first and not saying anything. In the end, I outed the bromance because I knew they were in control.”