More - Jeff Probst Quotes

The notion of Exile Island was to remove someone socially as well as physically from the game. But there's simply not enough time, and you would see the same thing over and over: People hungry, sitting in the rain and trying to figure out how many more hours until they can go back to their beach.

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 Exile

At some point, at least you know there are some things that are good and solid and you can rely on. Nobody in their right mind thinks Survivor is about survival ... It's a game show.

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This is definitely a season in which teams need the strongest players to survive.

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I know the big events, like if a camp burned down from a fire. But in terms of the minutiae from day to day... not much. If somebody's just whining, I won't know about it, because everybody whines. But if there's a legitimate concern that a person may quit tonight at tribal council, then yes, I need to know that. Tribal council lasts anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half.

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 Events

Exile Island. There were a couple of times at tribal council this season where I was having an almost out of body experience and I realized: I'm getting paid to do this fascinating job!

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Right off the bat, we send all the castaways on an 11-mile trek through the jungle. It starts one minute into show and finishes the next day. People are getting sick and everything. You'll see.

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People are wondering when it's going to stop, where it's going to stop.

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 People

This is our toughest one yet, ... It's fair to say Palau was a vacation compared to this.

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 Vacation

It was a doozy,

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It was a lot of fun because we never had anyone on the show with such a lie to tell and tell it so well.

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 Fun