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Mike White is taking advantage of his Survivor superfan standing.
The creator of The White Lotus is likely one of the returning gamers who will compete on Survivor‘s fiftieth season.
White has appeared on the legendary actuality competitors sequence earlier than. He has even forged different contestants as extras on The White Lotus.
Contemporary from the storytelling excellence and fascinating plot of Season 3, White is ready to tough it.
Mike White is returning to ‘Survivor’
On Wednesday, Might 28, host Jeff Probst revealed that 54-year-old Mike White is returning to Survivor.
Years in the past, earlier than helming one in all HBO’s most talked-about success tales, he competed in 2018.
That was merely Survivor‘s thirty seventh season, “David vs Goliath.”
White got here in second place on the time.
Some solely do Survivor for an opportunity at successful — or not less than hoping for alternatives that include fame.
White doesn’t want both. His success on The White Lotus has seen to that.
He has a well-documented ardour for actuality tv.
He even instructed among the Season 3 forged to look at Southern Allure for inspiration for his or her characters.
‘The White Lotus’ isn’t holding him again
Host Jeff Probst spoke to CBS Mornings about Mike White returning to the competitors.
“Mike, after he finished playing, said, ‘I want to play again,’” he recalled.
“When White Lotus hit, and I thought, ‘Well, he’ll never play again.’”
Probst continued: “But he kept texting and saying, ‘Look, I’m serious. If you ever do anything where you have returning players, I want to play again.’ So we’re happy to have Mike.”
As some reporting has already identified, White might have each benefits and downsides as he returns to the sequence.
See, the present isn’t actually about survival abilities.
For that, you seem on one thing like Alone. Survivor is about thoughts video games, whether or not it’s making mates or outmaneuvering enemies. Or each.
Some contestants could have a simple time voting off the HBO showrunner.
Others is perhaps desperate to endear themselves to the person who has repeatedly forged Survivor alums in cameo roles on The White Lotus.
50 seasons is a large deal
Clearly, Mike White isn’t the one returning Survivor competitor. He’s one in all 24 returning gamers for the milestone season.
Whereas he’ll probably be the one one casting future HBO extras or discovering inspiration for extra jaw-dropping The White Lotus plotlines, he’ll be only one competitor amongst many.
White was already an actor earlier than.
Now he’s some of the well-known showrunners on the planet. It is going to be fascinating for his fellow devotees of the fact sequence to look at how this dynamic performs out.
