1st castaway kicked off older tribe on ‘Survivor: Nicaragua’

1st castaway kicked off ‘Survivor: Nicaragua’

LOS ANGELES — Wendy DeSmidt-Kohloff got off to a baaaad start on “Survivor: Nicaragua.”

The goat rancher from Fromberg, Mont., was the first person voted off the 21st edition of the CBS reality TV competition, which divided the tribes by age. DeSmidt-Kohloff, 48, a member of the older Espada tribe, was deemed the weakest — and weirdest — by her tribemates before she was sent packing at the conclusion of Wednesday’s season premiere.

“I don’t feel like I connected very well with the people here,” she said.

Jimmy Johnson, 67, the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins, wasn’t able to lead his Espada tribe to victory in an immunity challenge that involved directing buckets of water through gutters. But the smooth talker was able to escape elimination by assuring his tribemates that a jury would never “award me a million bucks.”

“I’m going to be a target every single tribal council,” he declared. “I know that.”

The Espada tribe chose to hang onto the newly introduced “medallion of power” instead of use it to earn an advantage in the challenge: one less bucket to fill with water. The younger, rowdier La Flor tribe, which first found the influential accessory dangling from a tree at the beginning of the episode, earlier traded it in for flint and fishing supplies.

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