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Jeff Probst is cracking down on how he handles future quitters on Survivor.
“I need to declare proper right here in your present that from this level ahead in case you are a Survivor participant and also you stop, your torch won’t be snuffed,” Probst, 62, mentioned throughout a Wednesday, November 15, episode of Reside With Kelly and Mark. “That’s over. To get your torch snuffed, you bought to play the sport.”
Probst’s emotional response comes after Survivor 45 had two gamers — Hannah Rose and Sean Edwards — stop earlier than making it to the midway level of the sport, regardless of the present schedule having a shorter time-frame. Within the previous period, castaways would compete for 39 days. Nevertheless, with the introduction of COVID-19 protocols in 2020, the brand new seasons comply with a 26-day format.
When questioned why some folks resolve to surrender their likelihood for the million-dollar prize and title of Sole Survivor, Probst theorized the surroundings of the Fijian jungle performs a giant half.
“The one factor you’ll be able to’t check for in all of the psych testing is all the actual components — the rain, the bamboo, the snakes and all that,” he defined.
For the reason that actuality present’s premiere in 2000, solely a handful of contestants have voluntarily exited the sport.
“The reality is over 45 seasons, lower than one % stop,” he defined to hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. “So it’s fairly exceptional folks truly do it.”
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Survivor obtained its first quitter within the seventh season of the sequence, Survivor: Pearl Islands. Osten Taylor requested his tribe to vote him out as a result of bodily toll the sport had taken on his physique. Probst known as Taylor out throughout the tribal council and mentioned his request sounded extra like a stop reasonably than a sacrifice for his staff.
“Take it for no matter you need. When you wanna say quitting, should you wanna say stopping. “Yeah, I’m quitting,” Taylor mentioned on the time. “My well being to me is extra vital to me than 1,000,000 {dollars}, I assume.”
Probst was angered by Taylor’s determination on the time and whereas snuffing his torch, the host quipped: “Osten, per your needs, go dwelling,” as a substitute of his tagline, “The tribe has spoken.”
Years later, Probst admitted that the first-ever stop agitated him and mirrored on how he addressed it.
“I used to be so upset about it,” Probst confessed in a January 2013 interview with the Tv Academy Basis. “I used to be like, ‘I’m not saying “the Tribe has spoken.’ You gotta earn that line!’ and [creator Mark Burnett] mentioned, ‘Advantageous, don’t say it.’ So I mentioned, ‘Per your needs, go dwelling!’ And I keep in mind going dwelling and considering, ‘That was so intelligent, Probst.’”
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