As filming for the season had already wrapped up, the self-proclaimed “King of Bankstown” spoke from hard lockdown as Western Sydney battled the Delta variant outbreak.Despite his young age, Mladenov had his first does of the AstraZenica vaccine this week.“I’ve noticed with a few of my friends they’re of the mindset where they’re comfortable with AstraZenica now,” he said. “I want a freedom day more than anyone else and the only way we’re going to get there is if we take action, get vaccinated and get immunity.”And Mladenov is someone who is familiar with immunity challenges.On the show, after sensationally being saved when one of his only allies on the Brains tribe, Cara Atchison, played her hidden immunity idol to save him – only to see herself voted out – Mladenov realised his head was next on the chopping block.“Watching that episode back, that was a highly emotional tribal council, probably the most emotional tribal council that’s ever been on Australian Survivor,” Mladenov said.“When Cara, Baden and myself were walking into that tribal council we knew that our position in the tribe was extremely vulnerable.“Cara is the angel sent to me from the Macedonian Jesus. I was just overwhelmed with emotion that she literally sacrificed her game to save her friend.”In an epic twist, instead of being sent home, Atchison landed a spot on the competing Brawn tribe.Heading into tonight’s immunity challenge, political operative Mladenov said he would do whatever it took to try and stay in the game including breaking free from his tribe in the middle of a challenge to hunt for an immunity idol.“That’s part of the great twist of Survivor, there are idols hiding everywhere and when I heard that there was a hidden immunity idol available at tonight’s challenge, I know that I’m a sitting duck with this tribe,” Mladenov said. “Cara, my closest ally is now on the Brawn tribe, it’s just Baden and I flying the flag for the people that are willing to stand up for what they believe in and I have to go get that hidden immunity idol.”Mladenov said he had been a fan of Survivor since he watched the first American series at the age of 11, so finding himself in a minority so early in his season was not part of the plan.“I think that because I’m someone that’s not afraid to stand up for what I believe in or speak my mind, it made my head stick out but I have no regrets,” he said.“I’m someone that calls it for what it is. On that Brains tribe, from the very first tribal council, the trenches had been dug and it was a case of two fractions on the tribe.“There was a group of people that had a sense of purpose and values, and there was a group of people that would lie down on the rocks and try and make decisions, and tell people what to do. And I didn’t like that. I called it out, and it put me at risk.”Australian Survivor: Brains V Brawn continues 7.30pm Sunday on Ten.
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