Peterson: Definitely not. Of course I was playing to win the overall game or at least make it to the merge. I wish I could've lasted longer so I could have participated in more challenges and won some immunities and actually played a social game.

TME: Do you think your uncle's gloating [after the first challenge] is really what put a target on your back and ultimately sent you to Redemption Island?

Peterson: I don't think so. Honestly, if Gervase hadn't been celebrating like that then my tribe would've blamed it on his swimming. Gervase's gloating was a good scapegoat to use. So what? He gloated. He wasn't on our team. 

TME: You did manage to win twice on Redemption Island, once against a really good player - Rupert. How did that feel?

Peterson: That felt awesome because everybody knows Rupert, everybody's watched Rupert and knows what a great competitor he is. So that put some pep in my step after I won that duel.

TME: How awkward was it being on Redemption Island with a married couple?

Peterson: People don't realize I wasn't the third wheel, John was. Me and Candice had our own little marriage going on. I would bring home the bacon at night and show her the fish I caught and she'd boil water for the rice. So we had a good system going on.

TME: Who do you think on Tadhana is the most deserving to win?

Peterson: That's hard. The only real impressions I had from people [on that tribe] was all lies, so I'd say nobody. 

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