Australian Survivor 2025‘s Karin Gunatilake had her torch snuffed at Tribal Council after The Berries alliance conspired a plan to blindside her.
The Berries — who formed at a Reward meal and consisted of Logan Johannisen, AJ Antonios, Kaelan Lockhart and Kristin Alston — chose to target Karin. However, their secret was revealed when Kristin spilled the beans to Karin. Despite knowing about the plan, Karin was unable to twist the rest of the tribe’s votes in her favour, and The Berries succeeded.
Looking back at her last moments on Australian Survivor, Karin told Chattr that she made a mistake by ignoring AJ’s strong relationship with Kaelan and presuming that his number one ally was Myles.
“My biggest failing is not reading the relationship [AJ] had with Kaelan. I thought Myles and AJ were a rock solid two, which is why it really confused and convoluted my thought process,” she explained.
Karin said she’d wanted to work with Myles on multiple occasions but thought it would be too risky because of his strong bond with AJ.
“As much as I wanted to work with Myles, I was like, ‘Well, I can’t work with you until I separate you from AJ. If I don’t separate you, I can’t work with you because you’re always going to go back to your buddy.'”
However, as viewers have seen in recent episodes, AJ and Kaelan have a very strong alliance, which perhaps supersedes AJ’s loyalty to Myles.
“I always thought Myles and AJ were that close, whereas my biggest failing was not realizing that Kaelan was actually very, very close to AJ because I thought I had a good working relationship with Kaelan as well because we’d played together from essentially day one.
“I did not see how strong that relationship was. That’s a testament to Kaelan’s game and keeping that relationship under wraps so well, and also a testament to AJ in developing that relationship time and time again, so much so that he had two people that were very loyal to him.”
Myles said Kaelan fed him and AJ information about the other players
Myles backed up Karin’s claims about the working relationship between the three men and said that Kaelan would even feed him and AJ information from other players.
“Kaelan had every number in the game to choose from, but for whatever reason — Kaelan decided that AJ was his guy, and I was one of his guys,” Myles told Chattr.
“Kaelan had all the information, so I do genuinely believe that a big part of the reason AJ and I were able to get up to the antics that we were able to do was because of Kaelan,” he said.
“Kaelan was there feeding us little bits of information. He was there stabilising other people and making sure people were okay with us. He had a huge part in mine and AJ’s success moving through the game.”
Kaelan is certainly emerging as a strong strategic player in the latter half of Australian Survivor 2025!
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