If viewers were shocked by the first person to be voted out of Survivor 47 on Wednesday’s two-hour premiere on CBS, they weren’t alone. So was the host. It appeared that Andy Reuda would be the first booted after the AI research assistant from Brooklyn suffered from heat exhaustion at the challenge and called out his tribe mates for not liking him.

The host and executive producer also unpacks Andy mid-challenge medical situation, and his post-challenge meltdown.

When podcast host Jon Lovett found himself in trouble in the Survivor 47 premiere, he attempted a risky move to save himself from elimination on night one. Jeff Probst says in the Survivor On Fire podcast (embedded below) that he once believed Jon was capable of winning the entire game,

Jon Lovett, a podcaster and former speechwriter for the Obama administration, talks about the new season of Survivor.

On Wednesday’s premiere episode of “Survivor 47,” Jeff Probst declared the start to the season’s first immunity challenge “one of the worst starts to any challenge in 47 seasons.” In that contest, the six members of Gata were one of two tribes to capsize their paddle boat in the water,

Jeff Probst is ready to put Jon Lovett in the Survivor narrating hall of fame. "Jon Lovett is one of the greatest storytellers that we will ever have on Survivor," Probst said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published on Tuesday,