Jeff Probst

FOR THE PAST 23 YEARS, SURVIVOR HOST AND PRODUCER JEFF PROBST HAS been a mainstay on our televisions, and year after year he continues to be amazed by the game

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"I am constantly inspired-and then five minutes later deliciously entertained by some incredible blind side." Now entering its 45th season (September 27), Probst says "what makes this job so fun is that we get to redesign the game every season and then turn it over to a new group of humans to see what they do with it." And it's those humans that make the game so unpredictable. "We have no say on who stays or who goes, we have no say in who finds an idol or what they do with it. We have no say on who's going to win a challenge. All we're doing is watching." To Probst, it's in how players connect that resonates so much with viewers, because "we often see ourselves