It took three weeks, but the villains are finally acting like villains.  Their first loss in an immunity challenge sent the villains tribe into full-on attack mode last Thursday, and the game is officially on.  Boston Rob is seizing control, Parvati is using sex-appeal to swing votes and Russell is back to his old tricks.  Randy Bailey got the worst of the sudden mutiny, and tossed his buff in the fire in disgust as he was voted out at tribal council.  We chatted with him this week about his time on the show, the different types of villains and what he's doing with a Jeff Probst voodoo doll.

What did you make of the villains tribe?  Were they more or less villainous than expected?

I was lumped in with the villains, so I can't hold that against them.  There are two kinds of villains out there: the kind of villain that's notorious for screwing people over and the kind of villain like myself that's known for being honest and saying snarky things in confessionals.  I never lied in my first season, and yet I was still a villain.

Just brutally honest, I guess.

They didn't put me on the show to be a nice guy.

Of the two types of villains you're describing, how did the tribe break down?  Were they more like you or more the backstabbing type?

I got along well with Coach and Jerry, and I think both of them are more the kind of villain that I am than Boston Rob and as we learned later Russell.  When we were playing we had never seen Russell on TV so we didn't know what we were dealing with.

So you saw on TV that Russell had hid the machete?

I didn't know that he hid the machete until the first 20 minutes of his first episode [of Survivor: Samoa] when he's pouring out the water and burning the socks.  The light bulb went on and I was like, 'that son of a ***.'

How dangerous is Parvati?  What happens if she makes it to the merge?

I wanted her out first, as did a lot of people.  She could go a long way.  People all the time are like, 'we'll get Parvati next.'  If you don't take advantage of it when you can she has a way of wiggling her way into one more week and one more week.

Coach said he is immune to her charms, but ended up voting for you.  Do you think he's being honest about the game?

He was a million percent honest with me.  We talked before tribal council and I said the same thing to Jerry, I told them both that there's no reason to go out on a limb and not vote for me.  Certainly don't vote for Parvati because I wasn't even going to vote for her.

I was curious about your vote for Rob.  Why not vote for Parvati?

I just wanted to send a message to my friends that were left to not trust this guy.  And I wanted to send a message to Rob to say 'hey, I'm onto you, I know you're a scumbag'.

You've expressed irritation in the past with excessive twists on seasons of Survivor. 

I would have loved some twists this time! 

Do you expect many this season or will it play out pretty straightforward?

I went out there thinking they'd do what they did with us in Gabon where we went until day 10 or day 12 and then they switched things up to keep things unpredictable.  As far as immunity idols and exile island I don't know what's coming.

In the immunity challenge you were also playing for the reward of your own personal item.  What were you playing for?

I had a voodoo doll in Jeff Probst's likeness.  Our luxury items even had to fit the theme of villains.  They wouldn't let me bring my teddy bear (laughs).

You saw firsthand in the challenge how James is behaving.  What's wrong with him? 

I think it's his ego.  I think he actually believes what he saw the first two times he played this game.  He [was voted] fan favourite both times and I think he thinks he's immune from any kind of criticism.  He appears like he's not worried in the slightest about getting voted out.

If you were asked to come on the show again, would you?

I'm feeling like it's probably done.  The wounds run pretty deep.  But, wounds do heal.  I may answer that question differently in a year or two.  You never know.  Never say never.

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Survivor: Heroes vs Villains airs Thursdays at 8.00 pm et/pt