For political operative George, there was someone he was thinking about when he was battling the harsh outback on Australian Survivor: his dog Douglas.
“I love Douglas,” George tells TV WEEK. “The thing I missed more than anything on those freezing nights was him lying on my legs and keeping me warm.”
George spent those outback nights lying next to his closest ally, real estate agent Cara.
“She didn’t keep me quite as warm,” he adds.
Could George be the next bachie?
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George is 31 and single. With all the love he’s been getting from viewers, is there any chance he could follow in the footsteps of Locky Gilbert and go from Survivor to The Bachelor Australia?
“I’m open-minded,” he says of the suggestion. “If people want me to be the next Bachelor, then they should let Channel 10 know.”
He believes The Bachelor with him would be “a bit different” from how it was with Locky.
“Will King George of Bankstown save The Bachelor’s ratings?” he adds with a laugh.
George took F45 classes to prepare for Survivor.
(Image: 10)George has proved more of a physical threat on Survivor than people may have expected. That’s because he put in a lot of training.
“I worked out six times a week at F45 Bankstown [in Sydney’s west] for about eight months to get ready for Survivor,” he explains. “But I started from a very, very low base.”
In terms of strategy, he says he was “underestimated” in the beginning, but kept himself in the game through “controlled chaos, controlled dysfunction”.
“I had a target on my back from day one, but always made sure somebody else had a bigger target,” he explains.
George talks strategy with the tribe.
(Image: 10)This week on Survivor, George is continuing to play his risky game of double agent in his “quest for glory”.
“King George didn’t come to the outback to be a symbolic sovereign,” he says. “I came to rule by decree.”
Australian Survivor: Brains V Brawn airs Monday and Tuesday, and Sunday, 7.30pm, on 10.
