Sage Ahrens-Nichols refused to hug Shannon Fairweather after she staged a successful blindside elimination against her in Survivor 49 Episode 6, which aired on Wednesday, October 29, on CBS . Shannon hugged her other new tribe members, Jawan Pitts and Steven Ramm, but Sage said she couldn’t accept the hug because it wouldn’t be “genuine.” She offered her handshake instead, and you could see Shannon processing the flood of information this rejection delivered in the moment. (Read our Survivor 49 Episode 6 recap here .)

Shannon, the seventh person sent home in Survivor 49 (just one episode shy of the merge), tells TV Insider that when she responded to her elimination with lots of words of gratitude and love, she was trying to soothe herself through the shock of the blindsi

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