# Survivor: Worlds Apart Cast announced. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684 "2015-01-23T16:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/1 "2015-01-23T16:07:44Z")
[From EW.](http://insidetv.ew.com/2015/01/21/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-jeff-probst/) White Collar/Blue Collar/No Collar The usual collection of vapid airheads and random beefcake. Probst promises a new twist to the game this season. Premieres Feb. 25. Doesn’t seem to have the usual “sacrificial” old fart on a tribe this season. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/2 "2015-01-23T16:12:50Z")
As long as there’s no returnees from previous seasons and no redemption island, I’ll watch. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/3 "2015-01-23T16:21:36Z")
Preach it! ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/4 "2015-01-23T17:24:14Z")
I much prefer these kinds of casts to the ones with old ladies and fat guys. They don’t seem especially beefcake to me, they’re just young. Whoa! That tall blonde in the tan bikini on the top left in the top picture, though… Which one is she? The hairdresser? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/5 "2015-01-23T17:48:56Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > I much prefer these kinds of casts to the ones with old ladies and fat guys. I want at least one “old age and treachery guy” so I can root for him, and watch him out think the kids. Some of them have done very well. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/6 "2015-01-23T17:50:06Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > As long as there’s no returnees from previous seasons Unless the show is _all_ returnees, which is nice _once in a while_. But dont mix them. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/7 "2015-01-24T01:29:00Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > I much prefer these kinds of casts to the ones with old ladies and fat guys. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/8 "2015-01-24T01:29:44Z")
I can’t watch more that five minutes of this show without wanting to poke my eyes out but I may make an exception this season because one of the contestants, Tyler Fredrickson, is the son of one of my co-workers. This is actually the third time that I am one degree of separation from a Survivor contestant. The other two were a good friend of a good friend and a guy who worked at former place of employment but left before I started there. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/9 "2015-01-24T01:35:32Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I want at least one “old age and treachery guy” so I can root for him, and watch him out think the kids. Some of them have done very well. Most notably Bob Crowley in Season 17 _Survivor: Gabon_. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/10 "2015-01-24T02:20:25Z")
No one is “super old” (60 or up for this show), but each team does seem to have one person that will be seen as old/physically not as useful. The white-collar tribe has five people between 27 and 37 and one 52-year-old. The outlier for the blue collar tribe seems to be me to be the bearded guy with the pot belly (postal driver). Not sure on the no-collar tribe though… maybe the Youtube sensation, Will Sims? They’ll be a tough tribe to figure out though. No lawyer, and the law student ends up on the no-collar tribe? Eh… she better be a ‘I want to save everyone’ hippie type for that to make sense. She is from SF, though… > [@DrDeth](#): > > I want at least one “old age and treachery guy” so I can root for him, and watch him out think the kids. Some of them have done very well. True, they’re usually the only thing that makes watching the parts in-between challenges sufferable. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/11 "2015-01-24T02:26:56Z")
Watching _Survivor_ is a ritual with us and we even have $5 bets on who will last longer, so I’ll be there regardless. I would also like an old fart to pull for, but I’ll make my choice(s) when I can see them in the first episode. I keep wanting them to have yo-yo contests or spin-the-bottle! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/12 "2015-02-24T22:33:09Z")
Tomorrow night, people! Pop your popcorn and pick a tribe! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/13 "2015-02-24T23:10:03Z")
Overwhelmingly Californian. Which tells me Survivor is no longer getting enough recruits from among its viewers. They are forced to pad the roster with young Californians looking for their big break. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/14 "2015-02-24T23:16:48Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Overwhelmingly Californian. Which tells me Survivor is no longer getting enough recruits from among its viewers. They are forced to pad the roster with young Californians looking for their big break. I thought that Survivor had been seeking out people itself for at least a decade. They do take people that apply, but they find most people themselves. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/15 "2015-02-24T23:59:02Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Overwhelmingly Californian. Which tells me Survivor is no longer getting enough recruits from among its viewers. They are forced to pad the roster with young Californians looking for their big break. Not “forced to”- they get thousands of applications from their viewers. But it’s Hollywood, and by and large viewers want to look at young buff people with overly white teeth. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-worlds-apart-cast-announced/710684/16 "2015-02-25T00:13:40Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Overwhelmingly Californian. Which tells me Survivor is no longer getting enough recruits from among its viewers. They are forced to pad the roster with young Californians looking for their big break. It tells me that the people behind this very popular and long lasting show know exactly what they’re doing. For whatever reason, that’s what people want to see.