User blog comment:BrunoSomebody/Total Drama Island Rankings by BrunoSomebody/@comment-1874924-20170719143656/@comment-1874924-20170720025335

If I'm right, Sadie would probably have been sacked in Katie's place if the producers had known Sadie's VA was going to be unavailable.

There was apparently another similar situation. I read somewhere (I don't remember where) that Leshawna was originally supposed to be in the finals instead of Gwen, with Gwen presumably being eliminated after the fashion show challenge and Leshawna probably winning that challenge. When Leshawna's VA became unavailable for a time on short notice, the writers had to scramble. The fashion show challenge was scrapped and the episode was completely rewritten, becoming the Playa episode, and Gwen and Leshawna swapped places in the finish order. (They had been a tag team of sorts all season, rarely being both prominent in the same episode.)

I don't know if that report was correct, but it did fit the available facts: a hasty rewrite of what would have been Gwen's boot episode (retaining the original title in some markets, although it didn't fit the new story); an episode synopsis on the show's website that still reflected the original story; a horrendously contrived elimination of Leshawna; and Leshawna not speaking on the Dock of Shame. In retrospect, it could also explain why the normally level-headed Gwen was overwrought to the point of being OOC in the next episode, "Camp Castaways"; her part in that episode may have originally been meant for the more hotheaded and impetuous Leshawna.