‘Survivor 47’ preview: Terran ‘TK’ Foster on facing death’s door because of ‘pretty rare kidney disease’ [WATCH]

Marcus James Dixon
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“Survivor 47” fans, it’s time to meet Terran “TK” Foster, a 31-year-old athlete marketing manager from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. “Even now I just sit here and I see ants and bugs crawling, and I’m like, what the hell is going on?” the fish-out-of-water castaway wonders aloud in CBS’s preview video. Watch TK’s intro above at the 13:17 mark.

Opening up about his health issues, he reveals, “When I was 14, I was diagnosed with FSGS [Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis]. It’s a pretty rare kidney disease. I had 50% kidney failure by the time I found out anything was even wrong with me. I was told by three different doctors that I wasn’t going to make it. Nothing’s going to be as bad as dying, right? So at the end of the day, I don’t really care what adversity I face. I’m just excited to be in all of this and just experience it all.”

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As for his day job, TK explains, “I wanted to play football my whole life. With my sickness and illness, I couldn’t play anymore. So I just told myself, if I can’t play in the NFL, I’m going to work for the NFL in some type of capacity. I’m in athlete marketing. I essentially play a middleman between partners and players.”

TK concludes by talking some game strategy. “You’re dealing with all types of people in my line of work. You’ve got people who are from a country town all the way in middle Tennessee somewhere, and then you have a guy who’s from urban New York. I have to treat them the same and I have to work with them the same, so I think that’ll help me here as well,” he divulges.

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Terran “TK” Foster is one of the six contestants competing on the blue Tuku tribe this year, along with Caroline Vidmar, Gabe Ortis, Kyle Ostwald, Sue Smey and Tiyana Hallums. 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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