Survivor 48 hasn’t yet finished airing, Survivor 49 doesn’t yet have a premiere date, and Survivor 50 hasn’t even started filming… but CBS could be dropping the cast for its milestone season sooner than expected.
Eagle-eyed fans picked up on a series of clues on the official Survivor Instagram account‘s last three posts. The first came in a post from 8 hours ago about Shauhin, with the final image in the slideshow showing the Survivor 50 logo. The second happened in a post from 4 hours ago, where at the end of a video about Kamilla, the word “CAST” flashed briefly. Finally, in a post from 3 hours ago, the final image shows the word “WEDNESDAY.”
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Combined, we have “Survivor 50 Cast Wednesday,” which many fans have taken to mean CBS is officially announcing the cast for the 50th season during the Survivor 48 finale on Wednesday, May 21.
Is this actually what the hidden messages mean? Survivor 50, which will feature the show’s first returning player cast since season 40, has been nicknamed “In The Hands of the Fans,” and throughout Survivor 48, viewers have been able to vote on certain game elements. Could we get one last vote based on the cast? Perhaps filling in the final spots? While last week’s vote was announced as the last, it did specifically last “game element,” which could mean a cast vote is still on the table.
UPDATE: The Survivor Instagram followed this up on Tuesday (May 20) with another post, revealing the cast announcement will be happening on Wednesday, May 28th.
Survivor 50 is scheduled to film in Fiji in early June.
Stay tuned to Inside Survivor for more info.
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Hopefully, we get to vote on the number of tribes and how many people in each tribe
Naw, it’s waaaay too soon and would be a very bad idea if they do. Announcing will make it extremely hard to prevent pre-filming alliances, which would ruin the season imo.
They’ll probably reveal them as they’re leaving the US to film. That leaves them no extra time for pregame alliances beyond what they’ve done so far based on inside information and rumors.
Why would they reveal the Survivor 50 cast before they reveal the season 49 cast? What sense does that honestly make?
Yeah it’s very confusing.
It will be on wednesday May 28th.
Which, 49 or 50? That is the question
There is no live show so I am curious how they would announce it but I am here for it.
Hoping for Genevieve, Cody, Shan, Carolyn, Chrissy, Christian and Angelina somehow!
Last night’s episode of Club Condo from RHAP had a weird moment where one host seemed like he was about to announce this on the show, and the other two stopped him from doing it almost as if they knew something wasn’t right. It makes me think this may well be some kind of misdirect.
Season 50 Exclusive Cast Reveal episode is on Wednesday at 7am EST.