History repeated itself on Hunted Australia 2023 with the two winners being from different teams. Both Holly Colvin and Jimi Love successfully evaded the Hunters and make it to the extraction point, after their partners, Josh Pinata and Ed Abbott were captured.
The two winners split the prize pot and received $50,000 each. While that money was technically awarded to Jimi, the marriage celebrant revealed that he’ll be splitting it with his Fugitive partner Ed.
“He’s getting 25 grand as well. I know that Ed’s excited and he’s going to be looking into getting a hair transplant,” he joked during a post-elimination interview with Chattr.
“I couldn’t have done this without Ed. And I took all the money [we had left while on the run] and we went out with our own plans, but we were still doing that as a team. So to me, he was just as much of a winner as me.”
“The moment that I realized Ed wasn’t coming was when through the headset I heard the words ‘cleared for takeoff’. And those words, they broke my heart,” he added.
Jimi said that he was unemployed for six months prior to the show, so his share will go towards sorting out his finances, however, he added there’s one splurge purchase he’s got his eye on.
“I really want one of those Apple VR or virtual reality goggles, they look so cool, but it’s like seven or eight thousand Australian dollars and you can only get them in America. That’s on my wish list!”
Jimi on how much he and Ed mocked the Hunters while on the run
Perhaps one of the most memorable moments of Hunted Australia was when Ed and Jimi mercilessly mocked the Hunters by running around in a field and imitating them failing to catch a Fugitive.
Reflecting on the scene, Jimi said that he and Ed killed a lot of their time on the run by making fun of the Hunter’s inability to catch them – which eventually rang true for him.
“We’ve spent so long in areas where we just were not ever seeing other human beings. We didn’t have books, we couldn’t play uno because it was too windy. So all we could do was literally make our own fun. So we would roleplay the Hunters for hours, we would run around pretending to be Hunters,” he explained.
“I feel like we spent 21 days relentlessly mocking the Hunters. And at the end of the day, the Hunters never saw me. I saw the Hunters, but they never saw me. And I’m so lucky that they never saw me because gosh, the mocking I did of them!” He laughed.
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