Bill Posley
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Bill Posley should have been safe for at least another three days.For the first time in Survivor's 24 seasons, a tribe voluntarily gave up their immunity for the opportunity to vote out one of their own and Posley, 28, paid the price.
Now back home in Venice, Calif., the stand-up comedian spoke to PEOPLE about why he took the risk of going to Tribal Council, how he has become an unlikely role model and all about "spoiled brat" Colton.
Why would you agree to give up immunity?!I thought I had guys like Jonas, Troy, Matt and Jay on my side and that I could get them to help me blindside Colton. I figured we could go in to Tribal Council and reveal Colton for who he is. I didn't know how much power Colton had. I didn't know he didn't like me. I didn't even know he had an idol until Leif said something. It all came crashing down at Tribal Council.
Why did Colton have such an issue with you?I think that the tribe gave me a lot of attention when I was being funny and goofing off and unfortunately it took the spotlight off of him. I think he was used to being in control of his life. He hated having a lot of attention being on someone else.
Your confrontation with him at camp was very heated.I tried to go up and make some sort of offer of the olive branch and see if we could talk this out, but he didn’t want to talk. Finally I was fed up with playing nice. Nobody else was standing up to him and I couldn't take it anymore, so I said what I feel like everybody needed to be saying: "He's a spoiled brat and can't talk to anybody the way he wants to."
Colton called Leif a munchkin and an Oompa Loompa.It is horrible. Colton comes from a spoiled, sheltered, ignorant background. To be able to go to your church with your boyfriend and live with him as an openly gay man and not be persecuted and ridiculed in a town in Alabama – that's so rare. He was never persecuted and ridiculed because his family is so affluent and they spoil him. He doesn't know the hurt that a guy like Leif had to deal with his whole life. Colton doesn't know how it is to be picked on so he thinks its okay to call Leif a munchkin or Oompa Loompa. He thinks it's okay to call me ghetto trash and say that I should kill myself. It's crazy.
You two had it out at Tribal Council.He said in Tribal that he "doesn't associate himself with poor people" and to "take my broke ass home." I think it was just a classist thing. He's ignorant and just didn't like that I was from a different walk of life than him. To have everyone sit quietly while Colton said those things about me was hard.
Tarzan spoke up.For him to defend Colton after what he had heard was appalling.
Did you take anything positive out of this experience?I had a mom write to me and tell me her and her daughter were tearing up listening to me talk at Tribal and were so sad about what Colton had said. I thought I would be the funny guy not somebody that people would be inspired by.