This is the bit from the Examiner interview where it appears that he spoils that the next person misses the jury.

Tom Santilli: When you found out you missed the merge by only a few days, was that like salt in the wound?

Joaquin: Yeah, it really was. You know you go back to Ponderosa and then they send the next person up and you find out you were just hours away from hitting the merge and being reunited with Carolyn. To miss the next step of playing in individual challenges, that's something that I would have thrived at, obviously. I was a challenge beast out there. That really did hurt. It really did. But that's all right, there's nothing you can do about it.

I guess I'm not convinced that necessarily means that the next person doesn't make the jury. I know the jury and pre-jury boots are separated, but couldn't there be a brief overlap where the last non-jury member sees the first jury member?

If the next person misses the jury, that means that there's 11 people remaining so a Final 3 would have 8 jurors - have they done that before? A final 2 would have 9, but we know Probst hates Final 2s. I think it's far more likely either Joaquin saw the first jury member briefly before leaving or he is just talking in a general sense rather than about his specific circumstances.