<p id=”par-1_13″>Jenna Lewis-Dougherty’s <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/survivor-50-massive-3-hour-premiere.html/”>time on <em>Survivor 50</em></a> didn’t end the way she had hoped. </p>
<p id=”par-2_70″>On Wednesday, Jenna became the first person voted off the island in the landmark 50th season of the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jeff-probst-finally-compete-survivor-years-talking-smack-players.html/”>CBS competition series</a>. It was a difficult moment for the mom of four, who was marking her return to the competition more than 25 years after participating in the very first season of <em>Survivor </em>back in 2000, where she finished eighth. (She also appeared in the show’s first all-star season in 2004.) </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-jenna-lewis-dougherty-jokes-about-her-survivor-50-experience”>Jenna Lewis-Dougherty jokes about her ‘Survivor 50’ experience</h2>
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<p id=”par-3_38″>Jenna reacted to her brief run on <em>Survivor 50 </em>in a series of social media posts. In several, she jokingly drowned her feelings by eating cake. In another, she highlighted one of the silver linings of the experience. </p>
<p id=”par-4_24″>“Well at least I got a good face card out of this!” she <a href=”https://www.instagram.com/p/DVOLk8zgMR-/?hl=en” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>captioned</a> a screenshot of herself during the season 50 opening credits. </p>
<p id=”par-5_37″>“TERRIBLE ENDING!! 2 [stars],” she quipped in another tongue-in-cheek <a href=”https://www.instagram.com/p/DVOMevmADq_/?hl=en” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>update</a>. “Don’t know if anyone [caught] this little known show, #Survivor #Survivor50 Starts out great, but terrible ending. But worth a star or two, for the cute host.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-survivor-alum-says-she-was-at-a-disadvantage-heading-into-season-50″>‘Survivor’ alum says she was at a disadvantage heading into season 50 </h2>
<p id=”par-6_48″>Jenna, who was part of the Cila Tribe during her brief stay on the island, weighed in on her early <em>Survivor </em>exit in an interview with <a href=”https://ew.com/survivor-50-jenna-lewis-dougherty-done-in-pregame-alliances-interview-11914811″>EW</a>. She said she was at a disadvantage going into the competition because she’d been out of the <em>Survivor </em>universe so long. </p>
<p id=”par-7_32″>“[O]n my tribe there were definitely groups that had a lot of pregame connections that I felt like the second I landed, it was off and I was like, ‘Ugh!’” she said. </p>
<p id=”par-8_53″>Jenna was the only season 1 player to return for season 50. With her last <em>Survivor </em>season 20 years behind her and one of just a handful of people from the first 10 seasons competing this time around, Jenna said she just didn’t have the relationships with other players than some people had. </p>
<p id=”par-9_46″>“All the OGs except for me had somebody. I was really upset about that … they know that I don’t know anyone. They know I haven’t been in the verse,” she said. “And I was thrown in there. I feel like I was kind of sacrificed.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_38″>With her elimination, Jenna says it’s the end of a <em>Survivor </em>era. She thinks the winner of <em>Survivor 50 </em>will likely be someone from one of the more recent seasons, who are more heavily represented in the cast. </p>
<p id=”par-11_72″>“I think actually this was kind of put together a little bit heavy with the new schoolers because I really think they wanted a new schooler to take the reins and pass the torch, so to speak,” she said. “So we’ll see if that happens. But I truly think that that’s why it was really heavy on the new side and a little bit lighter on the older side with the OGs.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_14″><em>Survivor 50 </em>airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Episodes stream on Paramount+. </p>
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