{"id":2168756,"date":"2025-11-20T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2168756"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:10:17","slug":"jeff-probst-says-survivor-is-still-open-to-casting-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jeff-probst-says-survivor-is-still-open-to-casting-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Probst Says \u2018Survivor\u2019 is Still Open to Casting Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeff Probst<\/a> has responded to criticism that Survivor<\/a> needs to cast more villains, stemming from something the Emmy-winning host previously said about not wanting negativity on the show anymore. On the latest episode of the On Fire<\/a> podcast, Probst brought up the topic of villains when discussing his Survivor Mount Rushmore. The showrunner named \u2018Boston\u2019 Rob Mariano<\/a>, Parvati Shallow<\/a>, Sandra Diaz-Twine<\/a>, and Tony Vlachos<\/a> as his Mount Rushmore<\/a>, noting that all four are \u201ccelebrated villains\u2026 villains that we love.\u201d He went on to say he mentioned villains because \u201cpeople keep saying Probst doesn\u2019t want villains,\u201d perhaps referencing a recent article by Vulture<\/a>\u2018s Brian Moylan<\/a> titled \u2018Survivor Needs to Bring Back Villains.<\/div>\n

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Jeff Probst has responded to criticism that Survivor needs to cast more villains, stemming from something the Emmy-winning host previously said about not wanting negativity on the show anymore. On the latest episode of the On Fire podcast, Probst brought up the topic of villains when discussing his Survivor Mount Rushmore. The showrunner named \u2018Boston\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2168757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2168756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jeff-Probst-Says-\u2018Survivor-is-Still-Open-to-Casting-Villains.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168758,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168756\/revisions\/2168758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}