Danni Boatwright Interview

As a winner of Survivor, you would expect Danni Boatwright to be held up highly in terms of the ‘all time greats’ for her win in Guatemala, but just like the season she won, there is often mystery and negativity surrounding her. Overcoming numerous odds to get far in the game, Danni survived some big moves and moments and became the first ‘new’ person in the history of the show to defeat a returning player. There are also those rumours that she deliberately hid her strategy from the producers as well.

Danni suffered a roller coaster ride throughout, going from a power position to a underdog position before finding herself in the best position possibly with immunity around her neck at the final tribal council. Up against the returning Stephenie, she dominated the final tribal council and was only one vote away from scoring the first clean sweep in Survivor history before walking away with the $1 million prize.

I spoke to Danni about why she feels she was ‘boring’, the dominance of airtime given to Bobby Jon & Stephenie, being the ‘velvet steamroller’, how her parents knew she had made it far, believing it not to be fair that returning players were allowed to play against new contestants, her true thoughts on the ‘spoilt brat’ that was Stephenie, which contestant from her season was ‘the funniest person ever’, what season would be the only season she would return for and why she turned down Heroes vs Villains, the truth behind the situation with Rafe, how she met her husband, why the jury cheered at the final tribal council for her as well as the numerous opportunities after Survivor and what quote she said that really pissed Jeff Probst off.