‘Survivor 49’ player promises to go to a straight bar if voted out first

Everyone goes on Survivor with the dream of winning the title of Sole Survivor and the $1 million prize that goes with it. But underneath every dream lurks a nightmare, and the nightmare for any Survivor contestant is going through the entire casting process, finally making it to Fiji, enduring the silent Ponderosa pre-game, getting on the island, being welcomed by Jeff Probst… and then being the first one voted out of the game two days later.

That sounds absolutely horrible. So why not make it even worse? We here at Entertainment Weekly tried our best to light a fire under the cast and give them some extra motivation heading into the game by asking them before filming to come up with a self-imposed punishment should they happen to be the first one out. What will each of them do if they are the first person on the receiving end of a brutal torch snuffing? Read on and find out.

Alex Moore

I don’t know if I could top Star’s answer from last year, but I have a beautiful rooftop pool in DC that I love hosting at over the summer. And so if I get voted out of Survivor first, I’m not going to have any apartment parties this summer because I’m going to be too sad. I’m going to literally still be in denial. Someone’s going to need to check on me. No pool parties this summer.

Michelle “MC” Chukwujekwu

Other people might think like, “Oh, I’m going to make myself work out, do burpees.” But I do that already, so I’ve got to think outside the box. My punishment for getting voted off first is that I’m not going to allow myself to eat cinnamon rolls for a year. I am obsessed with cinnamon rolls. I love cinnamon rolls and that would really hurt me. But I would deserve it.

Jake Latimer

I’d say to stop drinking beer for a year, but I feel like you need the beer to get over the going out first. So I’d probably just have to do the dishes for the next year for my wife.

Nicole Mazullo

I would go to a strictly straight bar and have to socialize and just be in that aura.

Steven Ramm

I am the commissioner of a fantasy football league. We’ve been going for about 10 years now. I’m a Denver Broncos fan so we’re called the Tim Tebow Appreciation Society. We have punishments every year, and I lost for the first time, this last season that we just wrapped up and I had to do the punishment. I had to dress in a Tim Tebow shirt that’s literally his face collaged all over it, but it’s when he got that monk haircut where they shaved his head. And so I’ve got fryer Tebow, and I had to go sing karaoke in a big public room. I had to sing “Pink Pony Club.”

So maybe I’ll do something like that. If I lose, I will wear a collage shirt of Jeff Probst’s face, and I’ll go up and sing “Survivor” from Destiny’s Child. I love punishments like that because it’s a game, and if I get voted out first, I’ll be devastated. But everybody will, because you don’t come here to lose first, but at the end of the day, it’s a game and you come here to learn something new about yourself. And hopefully if I get sent out, I’ll get sent out in a way that fills me in on a blind spot that I have.

Kristina Mills

Alright, my punishment is that I won’t be allowed to watch the NBA playoffs. And I say that because I’m a diehard OKC Thunder fan and we’re finally in this position that we might win this year. And so if I had to miss that, that would hurt my heart. I was there since the very beginning.

Rizo Velovic

Growing up, I was big into TV, and Disney Channel original movies are my thing. And I actually have the Camp Rock soundtrack and the High School Musical soundtrack memorized. So to all of Survivor Twitter and Survivor Reddit, if I am the first boot, I will do a two-minute performance for any High School Musical or Camp Rock soundtrack that the fans vote on.

Savannah Louie

My Survivor punishment is no food other than what you would find on a Survivor island. Or at least things like rice, coconut maybe. What else do they have out here? Cassava. Maybe some fish too. You get a little protein in there, but the Survivor diet for the rest of the 26 days.

Jeremiah Ing

My punishment if I get voted out first is I’m not going to finish watching season 49.

Sage Ahrens-Nichols

If I get voted out first, I will do CrossFit for a month. I’ve never done it and it doesn’t look like anything I want to do.

Nate Moore

So if I get voted out of Survivor 49 first, then I will have to apply to Big Brother, because I think I’d rather die.

Sophi Balerdi

My hair is my thing, so because I know it’s not going to happen, I’ll say I’m going to shave my head if I get voted at first.

Jawan Pitts

If I’m the first person voted out, I’d give up watching horror movies for a whole year, which is basically an eternity for me. But the real horror? I’d force myself to say my favorite Survivor player is Randy Bailey from Gabon and not Jeremy Collins when asked. That’s when you’ll know I’ve truly suffered.

Sophie Segreti

My family does a Survivor every Christmas. We do our own thing, and if I get voted out first, my punishment will be that I’m going to not participate. I will just be the Jeff because I don’t deserve to play.

Jason Treul

My punishment is that I will wake up before work every day for a year to go to the gym because clearly the reason that I was voted out first was because I am the smallest dude and I need to up my threat level a little bit.

Shannon Fairweather

My punishment processing process would be a good 10 pages of journaling. Let’s really sit down and dig into this. And then maybe a strict hour-long meditation. Just really reflect on all of it. And to be honest with you, I’m probably going to do that either way.

Matt Williams

If I get voted out first, I’m going to take the 500-hour required course and become a pilates instructor.

Annie Davis

If I get voted out first, I will dress like my lead guitar player on stage for an entire show. He is great and we love each other to death. He’s religious and comes from the church world, while I swear every other word and have songs about dildos. So sometimes he comes in and he’s very buttoned up and I sometimes make [my band] wear the outfits that I choose for them so that they’re not left to their own devices. But I can be Blake onstage, and he would probably think that was the greatest thing ever.

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