{"id":2404376,"date":"2026-05-06T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2404376"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:08:40","slug":"billie-eilish-definitely-doesnt-watch-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/billie-eilish-definitely-doesnt-watch-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish Definitely Doesn\u2019t Watch Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is, weirdly, a lot of crossover between the music industry and CBS\u2019s beloved reality TV competition show <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i>. Musician <\/span>Ben Katzman<\/span><\/a> (formerly of <\/span>Guerilla Toss<\/span><\/a>) got to the final 3 in Season 46 just a few years ago. Country singer Zac Brown had an over-stuffed and ill-advised cameo<\/a> just a few <\/span>months<\/span><\/i> ago. For some reason, every music publicist I know is obsessed with the show, with multiple agencies even having their own in-company fantasy league for Season 50. God knows we here at <\/span>Paste<\/span><\/i>\u2014specifically, editor Matt Mitchell and I\u2014are diehards ourselves, despite working at what is, ostensibly, a music magazine; every Thursday morning for the past two months, our first order of business has been to unpack the shenanigans that went down on our screens the night before. So, yes, there\u2019s a surprising amount of music people who religiously tune into <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i> every week. But based on <\/span>a clip from today\u2019s episode<\/span><\/a> of <\/span>Good Hang with Amy Poehler<\/span><\/i>, it doesn\u2019t seem like Billie Eilish is one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what, right? Who cares if one random popstar has better things to do than watch Rick Devens dramatically flip a Mr. Beast coin<\/a> at Tribal Council? Except Billie Eilish is not a \u201crandom popstar\u201d when it comes to <\/span>Survivor <\/span><\/i>Season 50. She\u2019s practically the season\u2019s secret 25th player. If you took a shot every time she gets mentioned by name, you\u2019d get alcohol poisoning before an episode ended. Hell, I\u2019d bet the audience has heard her name more than Tiffany Ervin\u2019s, and Tiffany is still actively in the running for the now-2-million dollar prize as we speak (to be fair, the lack of focus on Tiffany is the <\/span>editors<\/span><\/i>\u2019 fault, not her own or even Billie Eilish\u2019s; <\/span>Survivor\u2019<\/span><\/i>s never been good at editing women, and boy, has this season been no exception).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To celebrate this massive, historic season, Jeff Probst and the <\/span>Survivor <\/span><\/i>producers decided to put all the major decisions \u201cin the hands of the fans,\u201d which is the season\u2019s tagline. But, really, the only fans whose hands seem to matter are celebrities. Which brings us back to the \u201cBirds of a Feather\u201d singer herself. Supposedly, we\u2019ve got Billie Eilish to thank for one of the most useless, lackluster twists in <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i> history: the \u201cBillie Eilish Boomerang Idol,\u201d which is a functionally useless immunity idol for the person who finds it, unless they gift it to another player and <\/span>that <\/span><\/i>player gets voted out without playing the idol\u2014or, my bad, without playing <\/span>the Billie Eilish Boomerang Idol<\/span><\/i>, since it seems the players are legally obligated to use its full nine-syllable name every time it\u2019s brought up.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been frustrating, to say the least. But what\u2019s been particularly strange about the in-game advantage has been the utter lack of response from Billie Eilish herself. All of the other celebrities featured on the season have, at least, done <\/span>something<\/span><\/i> with the show: both Zac Brown and Mr. Beast flew out to Fiji to do their part live and in-person, and when a bafflingly lopsided Jimmy Fallon-inspired advantage sent fan-favorite contestant Christian Hubicki home, Fallon at least had the decency to book the robotics professor on his show for the following night. Eilish, however, has said nothing at all, her conspicuous silence all the funnier considering just how determined the show is to invoke her name at any\u2014and I mean <\/span>any<\/span><\/i>\u2014opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

That silence, it seems, has ended today. At long last\u2014roughly two months into the season\u2014Billie Eilish has finally uttered the word <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i> in a public forum. And, frankly, she does not sound like she gives a single shit about any of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of beautiful, honestly. Eilish rolls her eyes when she says \u201cBillie Eilish Idol\u201d\u2014which <\/span>alone<\/span><\/i> proves she hasn\u2019t been watching the season, since anyone who <\/span>has <\/span><\/i>been will never forget the phrase \u201cBillie Eilish Boomerang Idol\u201d for as long as they live\u2014and does sarcastic finger-quotes when she says she \u201cwrote a letter to the contestants,\u201d all but confirming that the cameo was handled entirely by her team. She notably cuts herself off when explaining what the idol \u201cdoes,\u201d presumably because she doesn\u2019t actually know: \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018Here\u2019s your secret idol. If you use this idol, you can-\u2019 you know?\u201d You can <\/span>what<\/span><\/i>, Billie? (For the uninitiated: using an idol means you\u2019re safe at Tribal Council and will not be eliminated that night. Except, as stated above, the Billie Eilish Boomerang Idol is unnecessarily convoluted and has had little impact on the game as a result.) Honestly, the fact that she doesn\u2019t say the word \u201cboomerang\u201d <\/span>once<\/span><\/i> is damning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amy Poehler tries to give Eilish some grace and instead asks the singer what she loves about <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i>. Eilish rubs at her ear, swivels in her chair, and says: \u201cUmmm\u2026\u201d She does come up with an answer, eventually: she loves <\/span>imagining<\/span><\/i> she could be on the show and thinks she\u2019d be good at \u201cthe physical part,\u201d but says \u201cthe math part of the problems are the things that I couldn\u2019t do.\u201d The math part? Of <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i>? <\/span>What<\/span><\/i> math part? Okay, maybe she means figuring out how best to split the vote to get your target out\u2014except she <\/span>doesn\u2019t<\/span><\/i>, because when she elaborates somewhat, she gestures vaguely to \u201cwhen they have to, like, solve the- you know?\u201d while doing an inconclusive solving-a-puzzle hand motion. When asked what they think their flaw would be on <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i>, most people would answer with the survival aspect, the social maneuvering aspect, or the strategy aspect. I have never once heard someone say it\u2019s because of the puzzles that <\/span>sometimes<\/span><\/i> come at the end of immunity challenges. Now, I\u2019m not a betting woman, but if I had to bet: Billie Eilish has never seen <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i> and was shown a single challenge by her team before signing off on the show using her name for a game advantage\u2014which is how she knows absolutely nothing except for the fact that the challenges include both a physical portion and a puzzle portion, and that idols exist and do <\/span>something<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is probably not the glowing promotion <\/span>Survivor<\/span><\/i> was looking for when they inked a deal with Eilish\u2019s team before the season started. But, man, after two months of my eyes rolling into the back of my head every time the phrase \u201cBillie Eilish Boomerang Idol\u201d is uttered, there\u2019s something immensely satisfying about seeing Billie Eilish herself do the same:<\/span><\/p>\n

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