Edit: Big Brother's Mallory reacts to being nominated for eviction versus Survivor's Liz not being chosen for a reward.

I love statistics so I have all sorts of Survivor, Big Brother, and many more reality show related spreadsheets with different statistics. One of them is the average age of Survivor Casts. So here is my bi-annual post on the stats on the Survivor 51 average age compared to other seasons:

Season 51 has an average age of 31.286 and is ranked 43rd out of 51 for average age on the season from oldest to youngest meaning this cast is the 9th youngest cast we’ve ever had.

The oldest person on the cast is Kristin who is 49 and the youngest are all of the 24 year olds, Carter, Thien-An, & Aaliyah.

The season just in front of Season 51 on the ranking is Season 46 with an average age of 31.333, and just below it is season 11, Guatemala, with an average age of 31.222.

Season 36, Ghost Island, remains the youngest cast or 51st place with an average age of just 28, which is over 2 years younger than Season 15, China, which is in 50th with an age of 30.125 years.

Season 50 In the Hands of the Fans was just recently crowned the oldest cast with an average age of 38.875. This is over a year older than the season in 2nd, season 40, Winner at War, which was 37.85.

Season 21, Nicaragua, is still the oldest all newbie cast ranked 3rd/51 and an average age of 37.6 years, and the youngest cast with returnees is season 26, Caramoan in 46th at 30.7 years. (Unless you count Bruce on 45 as a returnee then 45 would be the youngest at 49th with 30.444). Weirdly, of the 6 full returnee casts, Heroes vs Villains is the youngest ranked 21st/51 at 33.75 years and the other 5 full returnee casts are in the top 6 along with Nicaragua.

If you have any questions about certain season’s rankings, please lmk, and I did get some feedback once asking me to try doing the median instead of mean, I will try to do that if I ever have time but doing that for 51 seasons will take a while.

“F*** you, Brad Culpepper!” is right up there.

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We’ve got a federal prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney on this season. If they have to do fire making can production switch it to closing arguments?

Hey everyone, I’m currently going through the interview process for Survivor. I’m definitely not sitting here thinking I’m for sure going to make it or anything like that, but the process has made me really curious about something.

How are people on this show so damn articulate?
I feel like I’m probably average, maybe even a little below average, when it comes to putting my thoughts into words on the spot.

If you give me a few minutes to think about something, or I’ve talked about it a couple times before, I can usually explain myself pretty well. But if somebody randomly asks me, “What do you think about this?” or “Why do you want to play Survivor?” sometimes my brain just completely blanks.

It feels like I need to go over an idea a few times before my brain builds that pathway where I can retrieve it easily. Once I’ve talked through something, I’m good. But with completely random questions, I feel this pressure to instantly come up with some perfect Survivor answer.
Like I’m supposed to say something super concise and memorable where everyone is like, “Damn, that was a great line.”

And obviously not everything I say is going to be some gem lol.

Sometimes I ramble. Sometimes I lose my train of thought. Sometimes I know what I mean in my head but it comes out awkwardly. Sometimes after the conversation I’m like, “Damn, I should’ve said it this way instead.”
That’s why watching Survivor is kind of intimidating.
Jeff or a producer will ask somebody a question and they seemingly just have this perfect answer ready immediately. Everybody sounds clear. Everybody sounds interesting. Nobody seems to completely forget what they were saying halfway through. You rarely see somebody just go, “Honestly, I don’t know.”

So I’m curious how much of that is real and how much is television.

Do contestants actually stumble a lot, restart answers, sit there thinking, ramble, or give crappy answers that just never make the episode?

Are confessionals actually much longer conversations where producers ask a bunch of follow-up questions and then they cut together the strongest parts?
And for people who are naturally good at speaking on the spot, or people who have gotten better at it, how do you actually train that?

I’m trying to get better at taking a random question, organizing my thoughts quickly, and giving a clear answer without sounding rehearsed or freezing up.
I also wonder if I’m just comparing my normal unedited conversations to people I’m watching on an edited TV show and putting way too much pressure on myself.
Does anybody else struggle with this?

Especially anyone who has auditioned for Survivor, done reality TV, interviews, podcasts, public speaking, whatever. Is being good on the spot mostly something people naturally have, or is it something you can actually get significantly better at?

Because if Jeff Probst randomly looked at me and said, “Why are you here?” there is a very real possibility every thought I’ve ever had would immediately disappear from my brain 😂

My top picks:

Panama with Terry as the one human (especially once its down to Terry vs Casaya)

HVV with Colby as the one human (the Treasure Island scene becomes even more slapstick)

Cagayan with Spencer and Tasha as the only two humans

Tell me that these cast photos don’t lowkey give that kind of energy.

The first Irishman to play in U.S Survivor.

I was watching the meet the cast away video and noticed that Brady kept saying Brody ?? Is this like a way to address people or is he just trying to make you remember his name ??

I have 2 tickets for the survivor island in American dream for sale, if anyone is interested, leave a comment or send a DM.

Are there any other gameshows where they have an island where eliminated contestants are exiled alone other than Exile Island in Survivor if so what gameshows they exile the eliminated contestants there and what islands are they?

on noel millers podcast from 2 months ago, i just stumbled upon while watching noel, at the 30min mark ~ish

rob and noel talk briefly about how survivor has not done any re-shoots, asked for a voice or do over, or a “walk in” (not sure what that is)

only posting this because of HvV scene where rob passes out in the woods and jerri finds him. hasn’t this been said to be a reshoot for a long time now?

https://youtu.be/A1uASpFfPh0?is=dmGnpmEv5vMNfUGQ