Survivor 4: Peter not disappointed at leaving

Peter Harkey, first evictee from Survivor: Marquesas, has said that he wasn't disappointed at being voted off first.



"It hurt the ego a little bit, but the next day I thought it was perfect," he said in an interview with CBS's The Early Show. "I could feel myself getting way too serious. I really wanted to stay in a neutral state, and I felt myself get caught up in that game."

Asked on whether he thought he'd be voted off after his tribe lost immunity, he replied: "I knew I was voted off early on the third day. Love's a beautiful thing, no doubt about it. Gina and Hunter were falling in love, and Rob and Sarah, and that created two couples right off the bat. Sean and V share a love of scripture. When we hit the island, there were three couples, and this was more Temptation Island than Survivor. Tricia was playing the mum role. I told her I couldn't call her mum. I looked in everyone's eyes after we lost the challenge and could tell it was me. No one would make eye contact with me."

He said that he didn't wanted to be leader, as the leader would need to "unify" the team, which he called "three separate tribes". "I told myself I wasn't going to be part of an alliance," he continued. "For a couple of reasons. I went in there, and I don't like doing things behind people's backs, and it would seem disingenuous. But then again, I was voted off first. Part of me thought that Mark Burnett would switch teams right away. The love was real you could smell it."

Unlike some of the members of the tribe, Peter said he tried "not to get judgmental" of Sarah, whom put in little effort with the rafting to shore. "I vowed once I knew it was time to go, I would just accept it. I would not try and take someone else out. The day after tribal council, I saw their faces and went into the woods to have a talk with myself and agreed that I would accept it."

Read the full interview on CBS News Online here.