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If this was all we got from Lauren, shed still be an enjoyable character, but shed rank about fifteen to twenty spots lower just on the basis of being an average character. A Zoe Zanidakis, if you will, who served to be gruff and grumpy a lot, mainly filling out the numbers for the more strategic members of her alliance. But then we got to the final nine, and suddenly Lauren bucked all trends of her archetype by flipping into game mode and shaking things up. Winning reward, she pulled Ashley/Devon/Ben together and formed a new alliance against Chrissy/Ryan/JP (the Soko trio), and with a group effort, they blindsided JP out of the game, only to flip back and take Joe out in the very next vote.

I should also note that it was at that final eight round that we got some more Lauren the badass moments (single-handedly, or double-boobedly pushing logs through a challenge, followed by telling Chrissy off for being a soulless gamebot.) And then she found a hidden immunity idol! Well, HALF of an idol. She got the other half at a challenge, but still, it counts. Lauren is the ONLY female player since CAMBODIA to find one of the 32 hidden immunity idols found over the course of those seasons (up through episode 11 of DvG, and not counting Ryans from episode one, because that was a unique situation.) AND Lauren had a double vote advantage as well! It looked like things were going great for her, and she couldve been the first real fan-favorite female winner weve gotten in a LONG time.

Unfortunately, Ben had an idol himself, and Laurens managed to shoot herself in the foot multiple times over in her boot episode. It wouldve been funny if it wasnt so self-destructive on the part of a player I really liked. She found the idol alongside Ben, thus he knew about it. Then she got caught by Ben in a conversation about blindsiding Ben, thus putting him on notice. Then when Ben started scrambling and throwing her name out, Lauren gave Mike half her idol as a sign of trustwhich he threw in the fire because hes kind of a dick like that. And then Lauren got idoled out with Ben as the sole vote to eliminate her. Like I said, it was sad to see her blow up so quickly, but it still made for a memorable exit from the game. Ultimately, she was the most enjoyable member of the HHH cast, and she made enough of an impression to warrant the top spot on this ranking.
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