{"id":294938,"date":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294938\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","slug":"jeff-probst-on-hosting-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294938\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Probst on Hosting, Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1426964\/survivors-jeff-probst-on-mrbeast-billie-eilish-jimmy-fallon-cameos?query=jeff%20probst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jeff Probst<\/a>\u00a0won\u2019t be dropping his buff anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/survivor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Survivor<\/a> host doesn\u2019t plan on going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m telling you right now, there&#8217;s no thought in my mind at all about leaving,\u201d the 64-year-old, who has helmed the show since its premiere in 2000, told Entertainment Weekly in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/jeff-probst-survivor-hosting-future-this-show-will-go-on-without-me-11902304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">interview published Feb. 12<\/a>. \u201cI love where the show is. I love our crew. I love the type of people that are applying. It&#8217;s up in every category of ethnic diversity. Everybody&#8217;s saying it\u2019s because \u2018I see myself reflected and represented on the show, so now I want to be on the show.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0That makes me excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the switch in 2021 from a 39-day competition to one lasting just over three weeks made everyone\u2019s load a little lighter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 26-day schedule got rid of a third of the shoot, and for everybody out here, that has been really positive, because the show is draining,\u201d Probst told the outlet while filming season 50. \u201cBut now it&#8217;s doable. It&#8217;s still draining, but it&#8217;s doable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Probst\u00a0won\u2019t be dropping his buff anytime soon. Because the Survivor host doesn\u2019t plan on going anywhere. \u201cI&#8217;m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-294938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}