Though Survivor has a crew of a whole lot on-site in Fiji, the players in front of the camera are largely on their very own — even against potential predators.
Jeff Probst, who has hosted all 48 seasons of the truth TV hit, was asked through the Wednesday, April 23, episode of his “On Fire” podcast whether the crew would warn solid members if a snake had slithered into camp without them knowing.
“Absolutely … not,” said Probst, 63.
Through the years, castaways have had encounters with snakes, though none has unexpectedly snuck into camp. In a 2002 interview on Live with Regis and Kelly, Probst himself recalled encountering a king cobra during Survivor: Thailand.
“They appear like a traditional snake until they form of rear up after which their hood opens up,” he described. “I watched one — the warmth up there may be about 115 or so through the day — and I watch this king cobra for only a second because it checked out me and it literally did one in all these, it went to strike and it just went ehhhh.”
Probst then brought his hand down, mimicking the snake deciding to back off in the extraordinary heat.
Survivor 47 winner Rachel LaMont, who’s cohosting the podcast with Probst and Jay Wolff this season, didn’t have an analogous encounter, but described intimately the fearless critters that infiltrated camp during her season.
“There’s mosquitoes, there’s flies, there’s lizards crawling on you all night in your body,” she said.
Except for its basic structure, the Survivor game doesn’t have a ton of stringent rules. Players are allowed to barter with host Jeff Probst over supplies, cheat off of one another during puzzle competitions and principally govern themselves at their very own camps. Probst, 63, doesn’t also have a problem with players blatantly lying to him […]
Rachel, 35, added that she and her castmates used their buffs as face coverings while they slept. In essentially the most recent episode of Survivor, which also aired April 23, she noticed the present players didn’t do the identical.
“To not cover your face in any capability — I do know a buff is a really thin piece of material and it doesn’t do anything, but mentally it does a lot,” she said.
Rachel added that she covered her head “each night with my buff” aside from the night she spent in Mergatory, the purpose in the sport where players have finished the tribal portion but haven’t yet earned their merged tribe buffs.
Protection while castaways sleep has long been a difficulty on Survivor. In Survivor: Kaoh Rong, which aired in 2016, a worm crawled in solid member Jennifer Lanzetti’s ear while she was sleeping. Jennifer described feeling the worm moving deeper into her ear canal as she was powerless to get it out.
“It’s disgusting hearing these little legs crawl around in your head,” she said on the show.
The worm eventually crawled out by itself, but not before causing Jennifer excruciating pain and causing her ear to bleed.
