Survivor always brings two alternates out to Fiji just in case. Every now and again, one of them winds up making the actual cast, usually because a player got sick or experienced some kind of unexpected issue prior to filming. For the first time in the history of the show, Survivor 49 actually used both of its alternates, and host Jeff Probst is hoping it will serve as a “seismic warning” to future players.
If you’re wondering why someone getting sick would serve as a warning to future players, the answer is because the two players who were cut in favor of the alternatives weren’t sick. They were cut because they committed unspecified rules violations after getting to Fiji but before the game actually started. Exactly what those violations were is unclear. Probst didn’t say during his interview with Parade talking about what happened, but you can read a portion of his quote and then we can speculate…
