‘Survivor 47’ preview: Gabe Ortis giving villain energy as he declares, ‘I’m not here to make friends’ [WATCH]
“Survivor 47” fans, it’s time to meet Gabe Ortis, a 26-year-old radio show host from Baltimore, Maryland. In CBS’s preview video, he’s giving villain energy as he adamantly declares, “It used to be a cliche and now it’s not anymore. I want to make this a cliche again: I’m not here to make friends.” Watch Gabe’s intro above at the 7:12 mark.
Reflecting on his childhood, Gabe recalls, “Growing up, I had two older brothers, so I constantly had to watch them do things that I couldn’t do, just because I wasn’t old enough. I had to figure out ways around those rules. It’s kind of how I learned to operate within the world. You can cut corners, lie, cheat and steal to get ahead and get little advantages that stack up throughout life.”
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How might his profession help him in the game? “I think being a talk show host is one of the perfect jobs to have coming into ‘Survivor,'” he begins. “Knowing when it’s your time to be the guy and take up all the air in the room, and when it’s time to recoil and let something else take up that spotlight.”
Gabe then details his island strategy, saying, “It’s all about working people. I don’t care about these people. They don’t mean anything to me before this game, and if they don’t mean anything to me after this game, it’s not going to change my life at all. I’m here to build a legacy in the game that I love and walk away with a million dollars. That’s it.”
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Gabe Ortis is one of the six contestants competing on the blue Tuku tribe this year, along with Caroline Vidmar, Kyle Ostwald, Sue Smey, Tiyana Hallums and Terran “TK” Foster. 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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