Who Got Voted Off ‘Survivor 50' Tonight? The Most Brutal Blindside of the Season!
If you had a nickel every time someone said there was "nowhere to hide" on Survivor 50, you'd have around two million dollars (the new prize for the milestone season as of last week). But this week's episode proved that more than ever, splitting the Final Nine into minuscule voting groups. With less than a week of the game left, some were taking this as a sign to make a move against the people who had been controlling the vote up to that point. And it all culminated in a night of two Tribal Councils, and the most brutal blindside of the season.
Here's our spoiler-filled recap of tonight's episode of Survivor 50, including who went home.
Who got voted off on Survivor 50 tonight?
Emily Flippen
When Emily Flippen made her return to Survivor, she provided a surprising takeaway from her star-making first season: She was too "soft." Feeling like her lack of agency led to her blindside, this time she went in with gusto, immediately floating out Ozzy Lusth's name from the very first vote. While this gameplay felt more in Emily's wheelhouse, it also made her competition feel she was, for lack of a better term, messy. Nowhere is that more prevalent than her first day on her new swap tribe, where she spent an afternoon telling Angelina Keeley she was on the bottom, and informing everyone that Aubry Bracco had an idol.
When the merge hit, while Emily cleaned up her loose lips, her ship was still sinking. Christian Hubicki's blindside left her in the dark the first time in her Survivor career, on the bottom alongside Rick Devens. And when the tribe was split, with Rick in possession of a new idol, she seemed like an easy target. But, going back to the initiative that brought her back in the first place, Emily worked her tail off that afternoon, concocting a plan to convince everyone she could get Rick to play his idol on her so they would dump votes onto him. It was a valiant effort, but ultimately a losing one. And while Emily was fated to go out on Day 21 once more, unlike her last time, she left with the confidence that she gave it everything she could.
Ozzy Lusth
Despite having played for four seasons, over 100 days, and nearly winning the game twice, Ozzy Lusth came into Survivor 50 with a completely different game. This time, he was "Oscar" (a moniker, as it turns out, in honor of his late father), someone who sought to reel in people rather than fish. His first step in that: Breaking bread with his old nemesis, Cirie Fields. Indeed, the two former Favorites became the tightest duo in the game, running things from behind the scenes. And Ozzy had even more backup in the form of advantages. By Day 4, he already had an Extra Vote and an idol, truly on the path to finally taking home the win his fifth time out.
Granted, it wasn't a smooth swim through the game for Ozzy. And, in some opportune moments when he was either left out of the vote or got votes against him, he had an incredibly emotional reaction, calling back to the post-blindside meltdowns he would have before. But wanting to prove he's truly changed, he always soldiered forward, not letting his feelings break his stride.
Despite how up-and-down the Survivor 50 postmerge has been, there has been one constant: Ozzy as a target. Between his challenge prowess (almost tying Boston Rob Mariano's all-time win record) and the fact he had a public idol, time and time again, his name was being floated out, only for Cirie to help whip the votes to keep him. It's only fitting, then, that the second he was separated from her down the beach was the second his game would implode. Assuming Aubry was a dead woman walking, Ozzy proceeded to out his entire game to her, in the hopes of gaining her favor on the jury. But Aubry quickly weaponized that information, giving everyone else the initiative to turn the tables on him. Ozzy spoke that night at Tribal Council about finding the "joy" in playing Survivor. But that joy quickly turned to anger and devastation as he was absolutely eviscerated, blindsided unanimously. Despite working so hard to change himself, Ozzy wound up succumbing to the exact same fate: Getting voted out with an idol in his pocket.
Were any idols or advantages found or played on Survivor 50 tonight?
Yes! Jonathan Young was the recipient of the first-ever "Power Broker Advantage," which we'll get into below. And Rick played the idol he received from MrBeast the previous episode, nullifying two votes against him. Sadly, Ozzy got voted out without playing his idol, leaving Rizo Velovic with the only idol left in the game.
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A new twist - and a challenge first!
Before this week's challenge, Jeff Probst promised a twist would be coming. He didn't realize, however, that it would happen in the challenge itself! Initially, the host determined that Tiffany Ervin had won the battle of endurance, outlasting the others in a test of balance on the water. But the Emmy winner was then literally carted away to consult with some producers, who had noticed Tiffany had not picked up her foot in time for the last portion of the challenge, giving her an unfair advantage as others plummeted into the ocean. She was subsequently disqualified, and the second-place finisher, Jonathan, was actually given immunity.
But that wasn't all! Besides the immunity necklace, Jonathan held lots of power at tonight's vote. The other eight players were divided into two groups of four, each tasked with voting someone out that night. Jonathan earned the right to both attend and vote at both Tribal Councils, essentially turning them into five-person votes. Not only that, but while everyone else was separated on two separate sides of the beach, he was the only person allowed to talk with both groups. It was an advantage Probst later coined the "Power Broker Advantage," giving him the most information on how the night was going to go down.
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Who is left in the game on Survivor 50?
Aubry Bracco
Cirie Fields
Joseph "Joe" Hunter
Jonathan Young
Rick Devens
Rizo Velovic
Tiffany Ervin
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This story was originally published May 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM.