'What just happened?' Jeff Probst spoils 'Survivor 50' finale during live broadcast

This communicative includes spoilers for the finale of “Survivor 50.”

Jeff Probst gave fans 1 past “Survivor” twist during the play finale, albeit accidentally.

The longtime big prematurely revealed the loser of a fire-making situation earlier the conception aired. While Probst was hosting the “Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans” finale live, the challenges had been filmed successful Fiji months prior. During a teaser earlier the challenge, Probst accidentally announced that contestant Rizo Velovic had mislaid and didn’t marque the last three.

“Camp beingness is besides astir fire-making,” Probst said unrecorded connected air. “I don’t cognize if there’s thing successful determination to deliberation about. Anyway, Rizo, you’ve go the last subordinate of our jury. Take a spot implicit here.”

Probst soon abruptly stopped and looked around, past asked: “What conscionable happened?” The contestants sitting beside Probst informed him that “the occurrence hasn’t happened yet.” Confused, Probst told the unrecorded audience, “I’m not adjacent definite what’s happened,” earlier the amusement chopped to a commercialized break.

When the occurrence resumed, Probst played disconnected the blunder arsenic the last twist of the season, joking with the assemblage that helium “love[s] doing unrecorded television.”

Rizo Velovic finished 4th connected “Survivor 50” — the aforesaid result arsenic “Survivor 49.”

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“In lawsuit you’re confused, this is what happened. We were going to amusement you fire-making, and past person the loser of fire-making, Rizo, travel retired and speech astir if helium had practiced fire-making, possibly helium would’ve won,” Probst said portion the assemblage laughed. “Instead, we did a ‘Survivor’ twist, it’s the past twist of the season. We telephone it, ‘A peek into the future.’ So now, we’re going to ticker Rizo suffer successful a occurrence to Jonathan.”

Velovic was 1 of the last competitors alongside Joe Hunter, Jonathan Young and Aubry Bracco. After the occurrence challenge, Bracco was named the Sole Survivor and victor of the $2-million prize. The finale was the decision of the much-anticipated 50th season, which brought backmost erstwhile contestants. For the archetypal clip successful the show’s 25-year history, fans were capable to ballot connected accumulation choices.

“What a large twist,” contestant Benjamin “Coach” Wade told The Times successful March. “‘In the Hands of Fans’ transforms the game. Instead of it being, ‘They are playing,’ it’s ‘We are playing.’”

The play was chock-full of cameos from celebrities similar Billie Eilish and Sia, and included erstwhile “Survivor” runner-up and “White Lotus” creator Mike White arsenic a contestant. White appeared successful the finale via video telephone portion filming “The White Lotus” Season 4 successful France. White revealed that “Survivor 50” contestants Charlie Davis and Kamilla Karthigesu volition look successful “White Lotus.”

Aubry Bracco is crowned the victor of “Survivor 50.”

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This is the 2nd clip “Survivor” alums person checked into the White Lotus. During the show’s 2nd season, White’s “Survivor: David vs. Goliath” co-stars Angelina Keeley and Kara Kay made cameos arsenic edifice guests. White shared that helium pulls from his “Survivor” acquisition portion moving connected the “White Lotus.”

“There are times successful ‘White Lotus’ wherever I’m truthful fried,” White said during the “Survivor 50” premiere. “It’s a 129-day shoot, but I look backmost connected my ‘Survivor’ experience, and I’m like, ‘Dude, I did that and I tin bash this.’”