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WARNING: spoilers below for the Survivor 50 finale.<\/p>\n
Oops. Jeff Probst definitely didn\u2019t mean to say that. <\/p>\n
The longtime Survivor host has just become the latest personality to land in the live-TV blunder hall of fame, making a colossal mistake during Wednesday night\u2019s Survivor 50 finale.<\/p>\n
The mistake? Prematurely announcing Rizo Velovic as the loser of the high-stakes fire-making challenge \u2014 which determines who moves on to the Final Three \u2014 before the pre-taped showdown even got a chance to air.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how the snafu unfolded.<\/p>\n
After Aubry Bracco won the season\u2019s final immunity challenge, she locked in her spot in the Final Three, leaving Rizo Velovic and Jonathan to battle it out in the fire-making challenge.<\/p>\n
During a live segment, just before the challenge was about to go to air, Probst invited \u201cRizGod\u201d Velovic onstage to talk about his fire-making skills. <\/p>\n
It was at that critical juncture, just as he was about to throw to commercial break, that Probst revealed Velovic would be the season\u2019s last juror \u2014 accidentally revealing that he had lost the challenge and had been eliminated from the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you\u2019ve become the final member of our jury, take a spot over here,\u201d Probst said, pointing to a visibly stunned Velovic in a clip later shared on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is it \u2014 these are the people, their games fell a little short, but this is the group, that is going to\u2026\u201d Probst continued, before abruptly stopping mid-sentence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat just happened?\u201d he asked, which is when other contestants pointed out his mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fire hasn\u2019t happened yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The realization triggered audible gasps and “ooos” from the live audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In another clip shared to X, when the show returned from commercial, Probst attempted to laugh off the blunder, framing it as a “Survivor twist.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI love doing live television,\u201d said Probst, who also executive produces the series, as the audience erupted in cheers.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIn case you\u2019re confused, this is what happened: we were going to show you fire-making and then have the loser of fire-making, Rizo, come out and talk about how charming he is and if he had practised fire-making, maybe he would\u2019ve won.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead, we did a Survivor twist, it\u2019s the last twist of the season. We call it a peek into the future,\u201d he said, drawing laughter from the crowd.<\/p>\n
He then doubled down on the accidental spoiler, telling viewers that they would now \u201cwatch Rizo lose in a fire to Jonathan.\u201d<\/p>\n
No official statement has been released from the show\u2019s broadcaster, CBS, on the apparent blunder.<\/p>\n
Bracco was eventually crowned the winner of Survivor Season 50, defeating fellow finallists Jonathon Young and Joe Hunter in a 8-3-0 jury vote to claim the $2-million US prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-684591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}