SPOILERS: This post contains details about Send Help
While his legacy was certainly felt in Send Help, Jeff Probst was unfortunately too busy with Tribal Council to make a cameo.
After the Survivor host recently teased that director Sam Raimi “offered me a small part” as himself, the film’s writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift revealed details of the cameo that didn’t work out due to scheduling conflicts.
“FACT CHECK: True!” Shannon and Swift wrote on X. “We wrote a cameo for him at the very end. Playing himself. If you’ve seen it you know where. He says ‘Nice shot, Linda!’ and we see they’re on the same celebrity golf team. We couldn’t work out the schedule.”
The fact check comes after Probst recently expressed some FOMO over the missed opportunity, noting he was “very enthusiastic” about working with Raimi.
“Sam Raimi offered me a small part in that, to play myself at the end, and we could not work it out schedule-wise, because we were shooting [Survivor 50],” he said on a red carpet recently. “Oh, I know. That’s Sam Raimi! I was like, ‘Wait a minute! He wants me to be in his movie?’ So, we did talk. We did some cross-promotion together—and I got to meet him over Zoom—and I was very enthusiastic to be a part of it.”
Probst added, “I haven’t seen it yet. I can’t lie, I haven’t seen it yet. All I’ve heard is, [it’s] fantastic, but he and I talked about the story, and I’d seen the script, so I knew the dynamic.”
In Send Help, now in theaters, Linda (Rachel McAdams) and her overbearing boss Bradley (Dylan O’Brien) survive a plane crash and become stranded on a deserted island, where their past office grievances become a violent fight for survival. McAdams recorded a Survivor audition tape as Linda for the film, which plays into the character’s survival arc.
Meanwhile, Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans is underway, airing Wednesdays at 8pm ET on CBS, available to stream live with the Paramount+ Premium plan. The live finale is scheduled for May 20.