‘Survivor’ star Charlie Davis to cohost ‘On Hearth with Jeff Probst’ podcast

Survivor 47 is about to unfurl with a two-hour premiere Sept. 18 on CBS. And one other season of Survivor can solely imply one factor: one other season of the On Hearth with Jeff Probst podcast. And one other season of the On Hearth with Jeff Probst podcast can solely imply one factor: one other new cohost.

The Survivor host and showrunner started incorporating former contestants as season-long podcast cohosts for One Hearth’s second season when he welcomed Survivor: Fringe of Extinction favourite Rick Devens to the present. Subsequent, Survivor 45 winner Dee Valladares joined Probst and producer Jay Wolff to interrupt down season 46 on the present.

So who’s it going to be filling the contestant cohost footwear whereas sharing participant perception on Survivor 47? “We really put it out to the followers,” Probst tells Leisure Weekly. “It wasn’t a fan vote or something like that, however we did say, ‘We’re curious who you’d prefer to see.’ And there was one title that was mentioned greater than some other by fairly a bit, and that was Charlie from season 46.”

Which is why Probst is proud to announce that his new cohost for season 4 of On Hearth will probably be… Jelinsky! Wait, what? No. (Even when Jelinsky cohosting for season 40-several would make all of the sense on the planet.) No, the precise cohost for subsequent season is one other Survivor 46 fan favourite, Charlie Davis. “Charlie’s going to be the brand new cohost,” Probst reveals. “We have already had a number of conferences to speak about how the present works, and I’m pumped.”

Not solely does the addition of Charlie have the potential to lure within the always-lucrative T Swift crowd, however the runner-up has proven a eager sport sense combined with a dry humorousness that ought to play nicely on the pod. He’s additionally proven no hesitation to dive into controversial waters, as demonstrated by his feedback after Maria Shrime Gonzalez gave her million-dollar vote to Kenzie Petty as a substitute of her island BFF.

“He brings one thing fully totally different than Devens or Dee,” says Probst of his new partner-in-podcasting-crime. “And he brings what you’ll assume Charlie would carry, which is a very astute viewpoint to each single second. You possibly can ask him about any second inside an episode and he’ll say, ‘Here is what you need to be desirous about, here is the place I made a mistake, and here is what I wasn’t desirous about.’ So I believe followers are actually going to take pleasure in it.”

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And the Hostmaster Common himself has actually been having fun with the experience. “This podcast has was one thing that is a lot extra enjoyable than I ever knew it may very well be. And I get to be taught in regards to the present in numerous methods as a result of I do have a fan in Jay, who’s the manager producer, after which we get this participant perspective that I do not get. I haven’t got conversations with gamers about their technique until they’re taking place in public, wherein case, who is aware of if it is true or not. However to listen to somebody like Dee take us by way of final season, and now having Charlie take us by way of this season, it’s extremely enjoyable for me. It teaches me rather a lot.”

And along with Survivor, it also needs to educate him rather a lot in regards to the Taylor Swift catalog alongside the way in which.

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