MrBeast brought a massive twist to Survivor 50, and it ended with Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick heading to the jury after the season’s 10th episode closed in chaos. Rick Devens won safety by flipping the influencer’s coin, a result that also pushed the prize pot to $2 million.
The vote did not unfold neatly. The remaining players were pulled into a live tribal council, Stephenie stole Devens’ vote and wrote Aubry Bracco’s name down twice, but Cirie Fields and everyone else still sent her out. By the time her torch was snuffed, the plan had changed on her and the game had turned in the space of one conversation.
LaGrossa Kendrick said the loss hit harder than any of her previous exits. It was, she said, the hardest torch snuff of the four times she has played Survivor, and part of that sting came from how certain she felt about her position before the vote broke open. “my name hadn’t come up the whole season!” she said, adding that she “really felt like I was playing a very solid game.”
Her exit also reopened an old fault line with Fields. The two had already played together on multiple competition shows, including The Traitors and Snake in the Grass, but LaGrossa Kendrick said they have not been close this season. “haven’t talked,” she said of their current relationship, though she added they spoke during premiere week. She also recalled Fields telling her, “Listen, I only told Rizo [Velovic] because I needed another person to align with, because I felt the old-school alliance wasn't working out.”
LaGrossa Kendrick said that explanation did not square with how the vote fell on her. “Yeah, I understand, but you telling Rizo made Rizo not trust me, so that's a problem,” she said. “I've been loyal to Cirie.” She added, “This is now our fourth show together.” For a player who believed her name was not in play, the betrayal landed as much in the history between them as in the vote itself.
The episode also showed how quickly alliance talk can collapse once a live tribal starts and a twist rewrites the numbers. MrBeast’s move changed the safety and the money, but it was the social damage around it that cost LaGrossa Kendrick the game. Her elimination leaves Fields and the rest of the cast to keep working in a season where one unexpected decision can alter both the target and the payout in a single night.