The bad blood was flowing on Survivor during Wednesday night’s (March 25) double-elimination episode, in which Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish were heavily in the conversation as the tension amped up between the remaining contestants in season 50’s “In the Hands of the Fans” contest.
Though Eilish is not on Fiji’s Mamanuca Islands along with the returning castmates from previous seasons, her name adorns the new “Billie Eilish Boomerang” immunity idol, which was found on last week’s episode and gifted to season 25’s Rizo “Riz God” Velovic. That led to a skirmish between Velovic and season 46 runner-up Charlie Davis as the contestants scrambled to form alliances before the season’s first double dismissal.
One team that will viewers will definitely not see forming is one between the two men, who went at each other in their voting confessional videos, according to EW. “Charlie, let me speak Taylor Swift to you,” Velovic said before launching into a string of Swift song title-inspired disses as he cast his vote to boot Davis from the island. “This is no love story between us. After tonight, there will be bad blood. And when I take you out in RizGod-style, I’mma get out of here in my getaway car. Sayonara. Adios.”
Davis then hit back with a bit less bite, and decidedly less Swift content. “If I had known nothing about your game, it would have been better than me knowing the one thing that is getting you voted out tonight: that you betrayed your number one,” he said before getting the bad news at the tribal council that he was the other eliminee after Velovic joined three others in voting against him.
“I can only imagine that I might have played a little too hard,” Davis said in his exit confessional. “Blindsiding, it’s really fun to do it, but it’s not fun to be on the receiving side of it.”
The episode was the second in a row to get a surprise musical twist. During last week’s show, Zac Brown swam with the sharks and showed off his impressive spearfishing skills. Later, he rewarded Team Kalo with a private meal and acoustic mini-set for winning that day’s puzzle challenge. “I love the unpredictability of [Survivor],” Brown told Team Kalo while grilling their freshly caught fish. “I’ve seen all of you play, so it’s weird — I feel like I know all of you.”
Survivor airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on CBS and Paramount+.
