Thanks to a food shortage, lack of sleep, personality conflicts, a wicked losing streak at challenges and being handed a leadership role he didn’t want, 26-year-old G.C. “G-Sizzle” Brown all but asked to be sent home from Survivor: Gabon to Portland, Ore. In a phone interview, the maintenance supervisor and aspiring hip hop artist reveals who he wants to win the $1 million prize and explains where he disappeared to and why he was ready to go home. – Carrie Bell
What was the best part about being on Survivor? The Worst?
The whole experience of going to Africa. I enjoyed the whole experience of being thrown into that situation where you are forced to survive with the elements. You have to catch your own food, find water, deal with the people. I met some good people out there. The worst was not winning that million.
By the end of your time, you seemed beat down and practically requested being sent home. Did you play the game well?
I was good at the survival part. I was able to make a good alliance at the beginning. My biggest downfall was my attitude. It was hard for me to just accept things, which I should have [done]. When people made comments to me, I should have just ignored them and just kept on pushing. But I always chose to say something back and that wasn’t a good thing. I was arguing with people out there and that’s not a good look.
In hindsight, do you see why Randy wanted to conserve the rice, or were you just too hungry to consider one meal a day?
We all wanted to have two meals a day. There were only one or two people who I felt were eating more than the rest of us. I was just saying that it was unfair that these people were eating so much and now that we were running low, we were all supposed to sacrifice. I understood where he was coming from but people had been overeating and not paying attention to it. We were all already losing a lot of weight.
How did the show affect you physically?
In the first week, I had already lost 15 pounds. So when he suggested we get even less to eat when I was so hungry, it was really tough to deal with. I lost about 23 pounds by the time I left. I couldn’t sleep there. I don’t sleep well at home. I am a very light sleeper and out there, when you have bugs crawling on you and gorillas making noise in the woods behind you and elephants crashing into trees, it made it even harder to sleep. That took a toll on me.
Fang is being obliterated and people are talking about curses. Were there more substantive reasons that your team fared so poorly?
I think it has to do with the way that the tribe was originally picked. When Jillian started to pick, about three or four people into it, I was thinking to myself, “Please don’t pick me to go to that tribe. They aren’t looking too good so far.” And just my luck, I ended up there. Just looking at the other team, I knew we would get killed in challenges. But I tried not to doubt myself because anything is possible so we needed to try.
Where did you go when you disappeared in this week’s episode?
I heard there was a mall not far away from camp. I heard there was a McDonald’s out there and I needed to find something to eat. I’m just joking. I went fishing for the tribe. I wanted to catch some fish before the challenge and I lost track of time. When I heard everyone calling for me, I went back to camp and I got back right before we had to leave.
Did you give up and were you asking to be voted out?
I did talk to Ken and Matty before that Tribal Council. I told them how I was feeling. He knew that I was ready to go about that time. Ken told me he was also concerned because he felt he needed me to stay to get farther in the game. So I didn’t know what he was going to do for sure, so at council that night, I was still thinking it could have been Sugar that was gonna go.
Who do you think will walk away with the million?
I don’t know who it’s gonna be but I hope Kenny wins because that’s my dude right there and I might need to borrow some money.
What was the first thing you did when you returned to civilization?
I was craving some pizza. And then, definitely a shower. It took a couple to get all that dirt off.
What has life been like since returning to Portland? What are you up to these days?
Life has been good. Ain’t no place like home. I’ve been working on my new hip hop album, which should be out at the beginning of next year. I’ve been producing and I’m going to work on another TV show with my brother starting in January. It’s a local show where we show music videos and live performances by local bands and talk about stuff going on in the community. I am trying to get in the movies and get my CD out there for the world to listen to. I’ll try anything.
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