Actuality TV’s most ubiquitous present returns on Wednesday, February 26, and Jeff Probst tells TV Insider that “blindsides are at an all-time excessive” in Survivor 48 due to its many paired alliances. This group of 18 castaways, cut up into three groups, have been extra inclined to pair up with only one different participant this season, versus making bigger alliances. However there’s one duo that didn’t intend to be partnered up and actually attempt to break up on a number of events, however they’re “like magnets,” Probst says, making for some comedic friction. We’ve received a Survivor odd couple on our arms.
“Season 48 had an uncommon variety of pairs that shaped form of rapidly,” Probst tells TV Insider. “However what was actually attention-grabbing was a few of them you’ll take a look at and go, ‘That is sensible. I might see them pairing up in life, you already know, changing into pals.’ A few of them you’d by no means see coming. A few of them are very public, everyone is aware of they’re a pair. Different are very hidden and subsequently very highly effective.”
“The opposite attention-grabbing factor in regards to the pairs is their worth system,” he continues. “There are pairs that say, ‘Honor and integrity. I’m taking it old style. If I provide you with my phrase, you bought it.’ After which there are different pairs going, ‘Oh my God, I can’t imagine you’re actually going to offer me your phrase and hold it as a result of I’ll destroy you.; It’s enjoyable to observe these pairs play out. And there’s additionally pairs that don’t wish to be pairs in any respect, however they will’t assist it. They’re similar to magnets. They only ebb and movement collectively in a really enjoyable and humorous approach.”
Whereas he doesn’t reveal who they’re, this duo could be massive contributors to what the four-time Emmy-winning host calls “a very enjoyable season.” “They’re like a sitcom,” he teases, saying that they “simply form of can’t resist one another,” regardless of how onerous one in all them tries.
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“They’re on the identical tribe, and one thing about their energies reluctantly pulls them collectively despite the fact that they need to not be collectively,” Probst shares. “Wherever one goes, the opposite goes.” He provides that these two gamers “wouldn’t say they’re a pair. They’re a pair. When one particular person goes to the jungle, the opposite particular person follows them. And even when the primary particular person says, ‘Would you please cease following,’ the second particular person received’t. I simply discovered myself laughing each time I noticed them collectively as a result of all I needed to say was, ‘The way you two doing?’ And [the answer] can be, ‘Not properly.’”
Due to that duo and different vigorous gamers, Probst says that “Survivor 48 has a very enjoyable humorousness about it. It additionally has lots of emotion and it has actually nice gameplay.” The upper quantity of alliances means extra room for betrayals. “Blindsides are at an all-time excessive, and I don’t see them going away,” he says. “The Shot within the Darkish alone modified the whole lot as a result of should you inform me or I sense that I’m going house and I actually suppose I’ve no choices, I’m going to play my Shot within the Darkish. Low odds, but when I get it, you’re the one I’m voting for. So simply know I’m taking no prisoners.”
That doesn’t imply that there’s an uptick in castaways utilizing that benefit in 48. “It’s the risk that I’ll play it that makes each different participant” squirm, Probst says. One other factor making these gamers squirm: The potential for losing an idol.
Survivor 46 set a file for the most individuals voted out with immunity idols of their pockets (5 gamers might’ve saved themselves, however received voted out as a substitute). Probst says the worry of repeating that historical past was felt in Season 47 and the “concern” continues in Season 48. “It’s actually attention-grabbing how the sport ebbs and flows based mostly on earlier seasons,” he displays. “Proper now we’re form of in a should you received an idol, play the idol [mode].” Thank goodness.
Survivor, Season 48 Premiere, Wednesday, February 26, 8/7c, CBS