RECAP: After three straight losses, the hosts began to show their older ages and slowed way down to be beaten at long last. Using his intense, yet very skewed knowledge of Survivor to his advantage, Jeff made an alliance with Alex (the intellectual), Chris (the relationship destroyer), Drew (the scapegoat), Gordon (the strong chef) and Phil (the adventurer). He completely disregards Julie, showing his blatant sexism towards finding females useless, but decides to target Pat first due to his old age and uselessness in the game. Julie, annoyed by Jeff disregarding her, takes pity on those outside his inner circle and forms a bond with Pat, Ryan and Tom. Julie is able to win over Gordon, who has a soft spot for females, and eventually rope in Drew as well. Since she did value Jeff's knowledge of Survivor, Julie decided to target the irritating Chris Harrison instead. At tribal council, Chris realized he would not be getting a rose that night, and was blindsided out of the game.
A tribe swap soon followed, creating two even teams of eight and mixing up hosts and players. Interestingly, Elissa and Rachel were randomly chosen to be on the same team, as were Katherine and Natalie.
20th - Lindzi Cox (The Bachelor, Season 16)
19th - Barbie Marshall (Hell's Kitchen, Season 10)
18th - Elise Wims (Hell's Kitchen, Season 9)
17th - Chris Harrison (The Bachelor)
---------Tribe Switch---------
Team #1:
Alex Trebek (Jeopardy)
Drew Carey (The Price Is Right)
Elissa Slater (Big Brother, Season 15)
Pat Sajak (Wheel Of Fortune)
Rachel Reilly (Big Brother, Season 12 & 13)
Ryan Seacrest (American Idol)
Tierra LiCausi (The Bachelor, Season 17)
Tom Bergeron (Dancing With The Stars)
Team #2:
Gordon Ramsey (Hell's Kitchen)
Jane Bright (Survivor Nicaragua)
Jeff Probst (Survivor)
Julie Chen (Big Brother)
Katherine "Kat" Chang (The Amazing Race, Season 17)
Natalie "Nat" Strand (The Amazing Race, Season 17)
Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race)
Russell Hantz (Survivor Samoa, Heroes Vs. Villains, Redemption Island)
After the first challenge following the swap, Team #2 won their second in a row, thanks to the new added strength of Gordon, Jeff, Julie and Phil helping out. This means that the new swapped Team #1 loses and must vote someone out. Both pre-merge idols are still in play. Vote out someone from Team #1.
