‘Survivor 47’ preview: Anika Dhar shares her ‘red flags’ and ‘green flags’ for dating apps [WATCH]
“Survivor 47” fans, it’s time to meet Anika Dhar, a 26-year-old marketing manager from Los Angeles, California. “I am exuberant, curious and calculated — calculated being my favorite word,” she states with a giggle in CBS’s preview video. Watch Anika’s intro above at the 0:00 mark.
“On dating apps, one of my prompts is, ‘I’m convinced that I can with Survivor,'” she reveals. “And I’ve been collecting all the different responses of all these different men. ‘You’re not gonna win if I’m on the show,’ or, ‘You really think you’re gonna win?’ If you doubt my skill set, red flag. If you’re mentioning players like [Parvati Shallow] and [Boston Rob Mariano] to me, green flag.”
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Anika adds, “I’m a manager of manager of finance and operations. It’s a very strategic role. I gather all of the data points. I analyze them, knowing how to move the business forward if we are doing good or bad. Same thing in ‘Survivor.’ I’m going to have to continuously update my gameplay based on how things go.”
Finally, the new castaway divulges, “Because I did grow up in a predominantly white area, I did change things about myself in order to fit in. It took me some time to fully embrace who I am instead of trying to run away or hide from it, and I think it’s the perfect timing for me to go into a game meeting people as who Anika is.”
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Anika Dhar is one of the six contestants competing on the yellow Gata tribe this year, along with Andy Rueda, Jon Lovett, Rachel LaMont, Sam Phalen and Sierra Wright. See the cast photos in our gallery below.
The 47th season of “Survivor” will premiere on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 with a two-hour episode, followed by 90-minute episodes thereafter. Four-time Emmy winner Jeff Probst returns to host and produce the long-running reality TV show, which films in Mamanuca Islands, Fiji. Make your predictions at Gold Derby right now to let us know who YOU think will win and who will be voted out each week.
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