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Denise won’t hear a word of Probst’s cultural factors bollocks. She’s spent much of her life with people for whom English is a second language, and “they are helpful and kind,” and these qualities aren’t “part of who Abi is”. Probst asks Abi if this is the first time she has been in a situation with a group of people who’ve said “Wow, what’s wrong with you?” “Absolutely!” says Abi, “I’m very loved by my friends and family,” blah blah blah.

Abi also claims to be very emotional right now because she brought Lisa into an alliance with her and Peter and because she doubted Lisa, Lisa cannot forgive her. Lisa says that she forgave Abi, but she needs to find some people who will trust her.

Probst says he gets the feeling Abi doesn’t feel understood by anybody. Abi’s only too willing to agree to this, even though it sounds more like Abi doesn't really understand anybody. “I’m holding back my tears... tears of feeling alone."

Now Probst suggests that taking Abi to the end would make for an easy win. Denise says that it would be “an easy win if that’s the kind of game that you want to play. We see that season after season, where people take... the deadweight, the unlikable person...” Abi interrupts to say “Wow, I never thought I was the unlikable person." That’s kind of her problem.

Denise covers to say that she was talking about past seasons, wink wink, but now it’s Probst’s turn. “Abi, you didn’t grasp that you were unlikable?” “I seriously did not know that she was that hated in the game.”

Probst is back on his cultural bandwagon, and points out “you didn’t grasp that people laughing at you was a sign in our culture that you are full of it?” Don’t people laugh at idiots in other cultures? I’m pretty sure they do. But even though it’s Abi and I don’t particularly care, I don’t like how much Probst is inserting himself – once again – into the game. Asking questions is fine. Basically telling a castaway in front of the jury that she is full of it is too far.

But we’re not done yet. Probst says to Denise, “You were just talking about wanting to play the game with good people, and not bring someone like Abi to the end, which implies that you are a good person?” The irony of Probst implying that Abi is a bad person is not lost on me. Denise says no, but it’s like she’s “not going to bring someone with [her] just so she can win by default. It’s like bringing someone to a poker game who has never played poker just so you can steal their money." “That’s enough,” blubs Abi. Apparently Abi has never “had such hatred." I hope she never checks out this thing called the Internet.

Denise explains that it’s not hatred, it’s frustration. Denise expressed her frustration at Abi’s gloating after the reward challenge. Abi talks over her. “I wasn’t gloating, I was sharing our experience”. Denise goes on “then declared you were basically on strike” when Abi interrupts again. “This would be a social cue, I am trying to finish a sentence and you keep...” “You are exaggerating,” accuses Abi, interrupting Denise for the fourth time that sentence. Abi claims that Denise is manipulating things to make her look bad. Denise double-facepalms and says she is done.

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