Mike White Says He Heard Nothing From Christian Hubicki After ‘Survivor 50'-But He Says He Reached Out
Mike White says he hasn't heard from Christian Hubicki since being voted off Survivor 50-but now Hubicki is telling a different story.
White was voted off in episode 4 of season 50, which aired on March 18, while Hubicki was booted during the most recent episode on Wednesday, Apr. 22.
In his exclusive exit interview with Parade, The White Lotus creator said he and the robotics professor "[hadn 't] talked since the season." Hubicki, who starred on Survivor: David vs. Goliath with White in 2018, orchestrated his blindside.
However, in Hubicki's exit interview, he claimed that he did, in fact, reach out.
"I reached out to Mike as soon as I got back. I sent him a long message saying, 'You know why I did what I did.' Because I really wanted to work with him," Hubicki told Parade exclusively. "And I didn't want him to think I was always planning to deceive him and get him out. So I gave him a really long message saying all the reasons that it happened. And also, I hated the fact that it got him, because I know he cared deeply about this game. He cares so much about Survivor, and to take him out of it, I knew it would hurt him."
"So I tried to give him every element of the explanation. So hopefully at some point, he absorbs that. And I hope someday he understands, and I'm hopeful that he will, because there certainly was no malice behind it," he added.
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Also during his exit interview, White claimed Hubicki "was doing a lot of crazy stuff" on the island compared to their first season together-even alleging he made a preseason boot list.
"Sometimes I felt like, 'Oh, he's doing this for attention, for the cameras or something,'" White said. "Because he's pratfalling, he's doing a lot of crazy antics. And so I was like, 'Maybe this is just him hamming it up for the cameras.'"
Hubicki, for his part, said he was unaware of White's allegations, but said he hopes "everyone knows that I respect everyone on that island in terms of my time I got to spend with them."
"I respect them as competitors," he said of White and fellow David vs. Goliath alum and season 50 castaway Angelina Keeley. "And I hope that one day we can really have a relationship with everyone on that island, them included."
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This story was originally published April 24, 2026 at 3:26 PM.