Rachel Reilly may be the first person to complete the CBS reality trifecta: Survivor, Big Brother, and The Amazing Race!
In an interview with Us Weekly published on Monday, July 20, the Big Brother champion shared Survivor is her “dream” and that she talks about it all the time with her husband, fellow Big Brother and Amazing Race alum Brendon Villegas.
“Brendon is in the process of teaching me how to get a really good fire going,” Reilly said. “What else did you say you’re going to work on with me?”
Villegas replied, “Eating one handful of rice a day. Building a shelter.”
Although Reilly is confident in her abilities, her husband is more skeptical.
“OK, let’s see,” Villegas said with a laugh. “Hey, we’re in Alabama. We got plenty of stuff to practice with out here. Surviving mosquitoes for 10 minutes.”
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Back in the fall, Reilly shared via her Instagram Story that she was working on her application for the long-running reality series.
If given a spot, Reilly would become the first person to complete the CBS reality trifecta. So far, she’s competed on three seasons of Big Brother—winning one—and three seasons on The Amazing Race.
While being interviewed by Entertainment Tonight on the Emmy Awards red carpet in September, Survivor host Jeff Probst was told about Reilly’s interest in going on the show and becoming the first person to complete the trifecta.
“Well, first she’s got to apply,” Probst said. “I mean, come on, she’s got to want it bad enough to send in a little two minute video and say, ‘Here’s why I should be on.’”
“There’s no secret passageway to getting on Survivor,” he continued. “I think she’s got a shot.”
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The push for Reilly to star on Survivor came after she was shockingly eliminated from Big Brother27 last year due to the highly controversial “White Locust” twist. Fans and former houseguests found the twist to be unfair as it sent the reality tv legend home without an eviction vote.
Nevertheless, Reilly became the first member of the Big Brother 27 jury, ultimately voting for ally Ashley Hollis to win the game. She later made a cameo during the premiere of Big Brother 28, where she was pushed by a velociraptor into a volcano in a now-viral moment.
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