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Leila Mostyn- Survivor: Montserrat

The one thing Leila seems to be known for in Montserrat is her showmance with Alex Gregoire and how terribly they covered it up. However, Leila was way more than your typical flirt and clearly the brains behind the duo. Starting at the merge feast, when Leila found the idol clue, she was smart enough to tell people she caught Pamela Roslyn finding the clue in case someone else saw a blonde with it at the feast. She was also able to use the fact that Pamela had saved herself already with an idol to increase the target on her back in addition to out-lasting Pamela in the immunity challenge. All this sealed Pamela's fate and lead to her elimination. Leila was also social enough to gain the trust of rival alliance member Jason Drysdale to the point where he refused to vote for her in They Slaughtered My Goat In Front Of Me. In that same episode, she was smart enough to realize that the "Friendship" between Braiden McAdam and Ella Sing was something more and when she spied on a conversation between them, she discovered the secret Exile Island Alliance between them, Doug Johnson, and Ryan Kulikowski. Speaking of the Exile Island Alliance, when Doug proposed to her taking out Deanne Arbuthnot, she was able to not only turn the tables on Doug, but officially dismantle the alliance when Ryan and Braiden flipped. Leila's unfortunate downfall came due to factors outside of her control. First, sensing that Carson Dupuis was ready to turn on them, she was able to use her great social game to reel him back in, but the damage had already been done when Carson's hatred of Deanne caused Deanne to flip with Ryan and Braiden instead. Leila was one of those players that did everything she could post-merge, but the ball just kept getting bounced the other way. Despite her stellar game-play, she never got even a comment on episode pages for her efforts. Also, when Leila was ultimately eliminated, people didn't talk about how she nearly achieved the impossible and staying alive despite the target on her back. Rather, it was mostly backlash directed at Ella Sing for not flipping on Ryan and Braiden.