Jessica Williams

***Jessica*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Canary Islands

## Canary Islands

Jessica was the consensus villain of Season 11. She had a strong game, and was even considered to be a potential winner, but her interactions and attitude towards the other castaways was seen as sour to all. Whether you love her or hate her, the season is not the same without her.

Jessica was placed on the La Gomera tribe, where she instantly bonded well with Jonathan. The two created a tandem that over the course of the first two weeks of the game, had a vice grip on the tribe; both Jonathan and Jessica were in multiple alliances, and all of them had the other six La Gomera members in them. Her true intentions were to stick with Jonathan, Jabari, and Amber, and planned to vote off Jonathan sometime during the merge - but Jonathan had the same idea for Jessica. Her approach for the rest of the game would be to “…play this game like a sociopath….I will have an entire conversation with you and feel nothing.” Despite winning so often, her concern about Jonathan turning on her was increasing during the winning streak, as all it could take is for someone to figure out and expose the alliances the tandem was in.

Those concerns would be nearly washed at the merge, as she had the former Tenerife to now worry about along with her former tribe. She immediately went into strategy mode figuring out how to approach the rest of the game. Jessica loved Vince, but wanted a former Tenerife gone before they can reach the Final Tribal Council. She also wanted Patrick voted off soon, as she noticed his activity rise to a threatening level. However, after Jonathan’s immunity win, the two options were Jabari and Phillip for the 7th vote off. She saw the benefit in keeping Phillip but voted for him to go for approaching Vince before her about a Jabari vote off plan.

At final nine, Jessica was quiet in following the La Gomera’s plan to vote off a Tenerife. As the vote tied 3-3-3, she was fairly concerned about her social positioning after the vote, especially after lying to the former Tenerife. She never enjoyed the idea of jury management but was aware enough to realize that it was necessary to rebuild bonds with the Tenerife to help her gain jury votes at the Final Tribal Council. The problem, though, is that she kept rubbing Vince the wrong way, and her threat level was noticeably increasing with all the other castaways. The Jabari vote off was a straightforward one for the entire tribe, but the final seven of this season is when the game completely broke.

To start, Patrick had thought of an idea to blindside Jonathan with Vince, Chelsea, and Amber, ever since the final nine, and all four of them made an alliance to do so at the final eight . However, as the idea lingered, Amber shifted the target from Jonathan to Jessica, because Jessica was seen as a stronger social player than Jonathan. Jessica, on the other hand, was confident that Chelsea would leave this round (she considered Vince, but after he won immunity, she targeted the other former Tenerife in Chelsea). She was so confident that this round would go her way, she infamously said to Vince “You already know that your vote here doesn’t matter.” She even told Chelsea the morning of tribal council that she would be leaving the game.

Chelsea, Patrick, Amber, and especially Vince had the last laugh, as Jessica was completely blindsided in a 4-3 vote, with this being the last parchment shown (made by Vince):

Jessica had a strong difficulty in voting the winner, as she saw both finalists as very strong winners. She decided to give Jonathan a vote to win because of his slightly better social game than Amber, and his overwhelmingly good physical game.