
Jeff Probst He is cracking down on how he treats submissives in the future Survivor.
“I want to announce here on your show that from now on, if you are a Survivor player and you quit, your flame will not be extinguished,” Probst, 62, said during the Wednesday, Nov. 15, episode of “Survivor.” Live with Kelly and Mark. “That’s it. To put out your flame, you have to play the game.”
Probst’s emotional response comes next Survivor 45 He had players — Hannah Rose And Sean Edwards — Quit before reaching the halfway point of the game, even though the current timeline has a shorter time frame. In ancient times, outcasts competed for 39 days. However, with the introduction of COVID-19 protocols in 2020, the new seasons follow a 26-day format.
When asked why some people decide to give up their chance for the million-dollar prize and the title of Sole Survivor, Probst posited that Fiji’s jungle environment plays a big role.
“The one thing you can’t test in all the psychological tests is all the real elements — the rain, the bamboo, the snakes, all that,” he explained.
Since the reality show’s premiere in 2000, only a handful of contestants have voluntarily exited the game.
“The truth is that over 45 seasons, less than one percent quit,” he explained to the hosts. Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos. “So it’s great that people are actually doing it.”

Survivor had its first withdrawal in the seventh season of the series, Survivor: Pearl Islands. East Taylor He asked his tribe to vote him out due to the physical damage the game had done to his body. Probst called out Taylor during tribal council and said his request seemed like a resignation rather than a sacrifice for his team.
“Take it for what you want. If you want to say quit, if you want to say stop. ‘Yes, I’ll quit,'” Taylor said at the time. “My health to me is more important to me than a million dollars, I think.”
Probst was furious with Taylor’s decision at the time, and while lighting his torch, the host quipped, “Austin, at your discretion, go home” instead of his catchphrase, “The tribe has spoken.”
Years later, Probst admitted that his first-ever resignation made him angry and thought about how he would handle it.
“I was very upset about that,” Probst admitted in a January 2013 interview Television Academy Foundation. “I was like, ‘I’m not saying ‘the tribe has spoken.’ You have to earn that line! And.” [creator Mark Burnett] “Well, don’t say that,” he said. I said: “As you wish, go home!” And I remember coming home and thinking, “That was very clever, Probst.”