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‘Survivor’ Host Jeff Probst Admits He Had a Gender Bias in Early Seasons


Residing and studying. Jeff Probst admitted throughout the Survivor: Winners at Conflict finale that he now realizes he had a gender bias in early seasons of the CBS actuality present.

Throughout Tribal Council on the Wednesday, Might 13, episode, contestant Sarah Lacina defined that she felt her efforts within the competitors weren’t acknowledged in the identical manner as her “Cops ‘R’ Us” ally, Tony Vlachos, resulting from her gender.

“If a girl on this recreation lies or cheats or steals, she’s faux and phony and a bitch,” a visibly emotional Sarah, 35, defined. “If a man does it, it’s good gameplay. … It’s a gender bias. It holds me again. It holds different ladies again from taking part in the sport the way in which we ought to be taking part in the sport.”

After Jeff, 58, praised the “lovely” and “highly effective” cultural shift within the recreation’s later seasons, he requested Tony, 46, and Ben Driebergen to share their ideas on Sarah’s feedback.

“I see it in actual life. I see it in my work place. I see it in all places,” the Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey, police officer mentioned. The Marine Corps veteran, 37, added, “I do know that girls can do something {that a} man can do, particularly in Survivor. … I feel everybody must respect ladies as a result of they’re all our moms they usually’re our daughters, and that’s what we’ve obtained to sit down again and understand.”

Jeff Probst on the three-hour season finale of Survivor. CBS

The TV host agreed, telling the forged, “I’m sure if I look again at all the feedback I’ve revamped 20 years, I might discover the very same bias in me — who I name by final names. Guys have completely different relationships with one another, and I may not know how you can have that relationship with a girl.”

He continued, “I’ll positively personal the truth that I don’t suppose I noticed it when Survivor began, and I don’t suppose I even knew I used to be alleged to search for it. However I’m very a lot conscious of it now, and I’m grateful that we are able to open up and examine, despite the fact that it comes with disaster or it comes with hardship or it comes with some tears. No matter it’s, it’s on the market and it’s being talked about.”

Sarah then joked, “You can begin calling me Lacina,” which put a smile on Jeff’s face.

After the finale aired, the Emmy winner opened as much as Leisure Weekly about his determination to handle his previous bias and embrace the second within the three-hour episode.

“I’ve been with Survivor for 20 years and I’ve made loads of errors alongside the way in which,” he instructed the journal. “I additionally hope that I’ve modified, grown and matured all through the years. I’m not the identical particular person I used to be once I began with the present in 2000. I’ve discovered a lot from these gamers. These sorts of private moments with the gamers come up infrequently the place I really feel it’s acceptable for me to inject my very own story into the sport. Gender bias is one thing that has change into such an necessary matter that this one felt it was well timed and related for a lot of causes. I’m grateful to Sarah for mentioning the subject. It gave me the chance to handle my very own life classes!”

Tony received the $2 million grand prize on the finish of Wednesday’s finale, defeating Natalie Anderson and Michele Fitzgerald.

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