Jeff Probst on Survivor Season 49 Solid Betrayals

Survivor’s newest crop of castaways is keen to outwit, outplay and outlast—at any price.

With season 49 of the CBS competitors sequence formally underway, longtime host Jeff Probst revealed that the contestants had no downside turning their backs on their supposed allies with a view to safe the $1 million prize.

“The again half of the sport was the antithesis of loyalty and deep bonds,” he stated in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter printed Sept. 24. “It was, ‘No matter serves me on this very second, this very second.’ And it made for a extremely enjoyable season as a result of the entrance half is actually robust.”

Certainly, Jeff, 63, famous that the gameplay at the beginning of the season usually left him “out of breath,” significantly because the solid fashioned deep bonds—or so it appeared.

“The entrance half of the sport was nearly like tattoos by way of these alliances [that] have been fashioned and other people stated, ‘I’m with them for all times and I’ll by no means betray you,’” he defined. “After which the merge hits and the again half of the sport, it was like, ‘Wait a minute, this seems this can be a momentary tattoo. It’s very straightforward for me to scrub this off proper now.’”