Survivor castaway Jonathan Young has addressed allegations he didn't treat women well while playing Season 42 in Fiji.
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Maryanne Oketch, however, came out victorious and won in a landslide after she received the votes of all seven other members of the eight-person jury, and third-place finisher Romeo Escobar received zero votes.
Jonathan was known for being a competition beast as well as a provider and great fisherman on his tribes throughout the season, but he was also labeled a "misogynist" and had been accused of being arrogant and condescending to women.
"Man, I hate that they felt that way. Because whenever I got a chance to talk about them, I would give them praise," Jonathan told Entertainment Weekly after the finale aired on CBS.
Lindsay Dolashewich seemed to have the biggest issue with Jonathan, as she complained in the finale how Jonathan was cocky and she couldn't stand how he talked to her. She called Jonathan "righteous," and Maryanne even noted how Jonathan hadn't treated the women very well.
"I would say, 'You guys are doing great.' Lindsay, I would always talk about, 'She's such a dominant force to be in these challenges. We got to get her out because she's so good,'" Jonathan insisted.
"And that's what I would do is I'd try to build them up and I hate that they... Now they get to see that I was always lifting them up."
Also during his interview, the 29-year-old beach service co-owner from Gadsden, AL, who currently resides in Gulf Shores, AL, admitted it was pretty crushing to lose the Final Individual Immunity challenge to Romeo.
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"Man, I don't know what happened, but I must have had brain fog because I did six on the practice round before that and I always had six balls going," Jonathan said.
"And yeah, I don't know. It was disappointing, but there's a place in Survivor that you reach and all you can do is all you can do. And I knew that everything that I was giving is all that I had to give."
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Had Jonathan made it to the Final 3 and jury questioning, he said, "I think I would've done well when it came to talking. I think that going to the jury and them asking me questions and answering questions will be great. How people would've voted, we'll never know."
Jonathan said no one had any idea what it was like to be a 6'4" and 250-pound starving person in the game.
"They have no idea... what you have to do to change perceptions. Just like I have no idea what it's like being them. But yeah, they didn't see my strategy and that's completely okay because I didn't want them to," Jonathan noted.
Despite the hardships and adversity Jonathan had to face during the game, he said he'd absolutely be willing to play Survivor again.
"Let me tell you, if I get the chance to go back to Survivor, I don't care when the call is, I'm on a plane," Jonathan told EW.
"In a heartbeat, I would be back on Survivor," he said, adding how he was "happy even thinking about it."
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Maryanne told EW after the Survivor finale aired on CBS that she thought whipping out her hidden Immunity Idol -- that no one else knew about -- during the jury questioning "clinched" her victory.
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