Is Australian Survivor fake or real? Former contestants and crew speak out
Once you join the cast of Survivor, you can kiss the outside world goodbye. Until you get eliminated of course.
According to a report from news.com.au, season three’s Rohan MacLaren said that he and his fellow contestants arrived in Samoa in vans with blacked-out windows and weren’t allowed to talk to any of the other competitors until they’d landed on the island.
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“It felt like I’d been abducted for the first five minutes, it was just missing the bag over my head,” model Rohan said. “Then it got quite serene. It was a nice time to sit and think. I prefer the blacked out van. You really feel like you’re in the wild.”
Australian Survivor 2023 winner, Liz Parnov reflected on the isolation she experienced during her time on the show, and told TV Week just how much she struggled.
“When you are disconnected from all your friends and family and there’s no contact, it’s challenging. Just not having communication with my partner, [or] my family, it was really difficult for me. When there’s absolutely no contact you don’t realise how much you miss people until you are in that position.”
