{"id":2444787,"date":"2026-06-04T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2444787"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:59:23","slug":"survivor-runner-up-ken-mcnickle-diagnosed-with-cancer-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/survivor-runner-up-ken-mcnickle-diagnosed-with-cancer-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Survivor&#8217; Runner Up Ken McNickle Diagnosed with Cancer &#8211; Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2224391\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Survivor <\/em><\/strong>season 33 runner up <strong>Ken McNickle<\/strong> has announced he has cancer.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know, the 43-year-old reality star competed on <em>Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X<\/em>, and came in second place.<\/p>\n<p>He posted on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZDFUkhkWWS\/?img_index=1\">Instagram <\/a>that he had been diagnosed with cancer, and wished he had taken care of himself \u201cbetter and sooner.\u201d He also wrote, \u201cAs I\u2019ve said before, if you have a health concern, don\u2019t sit on it. Get yourself checked. There\u2019s no valid reason not to. Not one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did not disclose which type of cancer he was battling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Klein<\/strong>, who won the 2016 season, commented on the post, writing, \u201cI\u2019m deeply sorry Ken that you have to go through this. You are a strong, resilient person and cancer f-ked with the wrong guy. You got this. Sending healing energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sending <strong>Ken <\/strong>well wishes at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cbs\/\" rel=\"tag\">CBS<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ken-mcnickle\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ken Mcnickle<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/survivor\/\" rel=\"tag\">Survivor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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 www.justjared.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Instagram Survivor season 33 runner up Ken McNickle has announced he has cancer. If you don\u2019t know, the 43-year-old reality star competed on Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X, and came in second place. He posted on Instagram that he had been diagnosed with cancer, and wished he had taken care of himself \u201cbetter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444788,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2444787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Survivor-Runner-Up-Ken-McNickle-Diagnosed-with-Cancer-Just.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444787","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=2444787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444789,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444787\/revisions\/2444789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}