{"id":2204678,"date":"2025-12-18T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2204678"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:37:20","slug":"exclusive-survivor-49s-rizo-velovic-reveals-moment-he-was-asked-to-be-on-season-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/exclusive-survivor-49s-rizo-velovic-reveals-moment-he-was-asked-to-be-on-season-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | \u2018Survivor 49\u2019s Rizo Velovic reveals moment he was asked to be on Season 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2Frizo-velovic.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>You haven\u2019t seen the last of the \u201cRiz God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/entertainment\/survivor-49s-sophi-balerdi-on-jury-info-she-got-after-final-tribal\/\">\u201cSurvivor 49\u201d<\/a> fourth-place finisher Rizo Velovic exclusively told The Post how he got the invite to compete on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/28\/entertainment\/survivor-season-50-cast-mike-white-and-more-returning\/\">\u201cSurvivor 50,\u201d<\/a> the upcoming milestone season featuring 24 all-star players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was unreal because as a \u2018Survivor\u2019 fan, like a true student of the game, only less than ten people have ever done what I\u2019m going to do \u2014 go back to back,\u201d Velovic, 26, said. \u201cAnd the fact that I got back to back for \u2018Survivor 50,\u2019 arguably what\u2019s going to be the biggest season of all time. They saw potential in me. It was game-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rizo Velovic on \u201cSurvivor 49.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rizo Velovic in his interview with The Post. <span class=\"credit\">celebrity.land<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Velovic explained that the offer came the morning after the<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/entertainment\/survivor-49s-sophi-balerdi-on-jury-info-she-got-after-final-tribal\/\"> \u201cSurvivor 49\u201d final tribal council.<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cSo it was the next day at Ponderosa. Production\u2019s like, \u2018Rizo, we need to talk to you,&#8217;\u201d the tech salesman recalled. \u201cI walk into a room, there\u2019s a computer, and Jeff Probst is on it. He\u2019s like looking at me, so I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my God, Jeff!\u2019 I thought he just did this with everybody in the finale. I was like, \u2018So good to see you! You just called me Riz God. It\u2019s like we\u2019re best friends. I\u2019ve seen you for 25 days at this point.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rizo Velovic on \u201cSurvivor 49.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Robert Voets\/CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Steven Ramm, Sage Ahrens-Nichols, and Rizo Velovic on \u201cSurvivor\u201d Season 49. <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd then Jeff very seriously goes into this monologue. \u2018Rizo \u2014 Survivor 50.\u2019 And in my mind, I\u2019m like, \u2018Is he about to ask me if I\u2019m gonna be on Survivor 50?\u201d Velovic said. \u201cAnd then he asks me and I lose my marbles. I go ballistic. I start crying. I\u2019m like, \u2018Absolutely. Yes. Signed, sealed, delivered. Don\u2019t even have to worry. I don\u2019t even have to leave Fiji. Just keep me here. Whatever.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Velovic didn\u2019t even ask his parents what he should do \u2014 he simply gave CBS an \u201cautomatic yes\u201d and was on a return trip to Fiji before he knew it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was unreal. It was crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I got to play with the legends that I grew up idolizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rizo Velovic competing in a challenge on \u201cSurvivor 49.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Robert Voets\/CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before he even got home from Season 49, Velovic learned that his closest ally and the season\u2019s winner, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/entertainment\/survivor-49-winner-savannah-louie-reacts-to-mean-girl-accusations\/\">Savannah Louie, <\/a>was also going on \u201cSurvivor 50.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very funny because the way that they did it, they pulled both Savannah and I together like at different intervals,\u201d Velovic explained. \u201cSo at Ponderosa as we were going home, flying back home, Savannah goes, \u2018Congratulations.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Why?\u2019 She\u2019s like, \u2018I know.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018What?\u2019 Because they swore me to secrecy. She\u2019s like, \u2018They asked me too.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018What are you talking about?\u2019 She\u2019s like, \u2018Rizo, Survivor 50!\u2019 I was like, \u2018What the f\u2013k? They asked you? You just won!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe deduced it because she went in the same room I went in. So it was crazy,\u201d Velovic said. \u201cI was so happy. I was like, oh my God, we just ran this game together in 49 and now we get to run the tables back on 50. So I was super excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sage Ahrens-Nichols, Savannah Louie, and Rizo Velovic on \u201cSurvivor 49.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The final five of \u201cSurvivor 49.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for the Season 50 cast, Velovic was excited to play with so many legends of the game \u2014 but four stood out to him the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew era, it was definitely Q [Burdette] and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/12\/entertainment\/survivor-47-genevieve-mushaluk-calls-watching-herself-a-nightmare\/\">Genevieve [Mushaluk]<\/a>, and then old era, Cirie [Fields] and Coach [Wade],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurvivor 50\u201d premieres Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You haven\u2019t seen the last of the \u201cRiz God.\u201d \u201cSurvivor 49\u201d fourth-place finisher Rizo Velovic exclusively told The Post how he got the invite to compete on \u201cSurvivor 50,\u201d the upcoming milestone season featuring 24 all-star players. \u201cIt was unreal because as a \u2018Survivor\u2019 fan, like a true student of the game, only less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2204679,"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":[25174],"tags":[21741,25404,28097,24758,24122,308295,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2204678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-reality-show","tag-reality-stars","tag-reality-tv","tag-survivor","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Exclusive-\u2018Survivor-49s-Rizo-Velovic-reveals-moment-he-was.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204678","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=2204678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204680,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204678\/revisions\/2204680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}