‘Survivor 48’ star Justin Pioppi eliminated in longest tribal council ever: ‘Blows my mind’

nypost.com:

“Survivor 48” is in the history books.Wednesday night’s wild tribal council saw Mary Zheng save herself with the Shot in the Dark, leading to two tie votes between Justin Pioppi and Sai Hughley.

The drama culminated with Hughley convincing Cedrek McFadden to keep her over Pioppi, who became the third person eliminated from the season.In his exclusive interview with The Post, the 30-year-old pizzeria manager revealed a shocking fact about his final tribal council.“Apparently this was the longest tribal council in the history of ‘Survivor,’ which blows my mind,” Pioppi said. “We were there for probably like 4 or 5 hours.

You know you’re in for a late night when there’s a commercial break in tribal council. So we definitely kept everyone up past their bedtime.”Pioppi explained that most of his argument to McFadden to keep him “got cut” from the final edit because the episode was so action-packed. “I don’t envy the job of the editors or the producers.

It’s a very, very difficult task to get so much content in a small amount of time,” he said.“But I think that my argument stuck with Cedrek,” Pioppi continued. “I was speaking very logically.