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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The 49th play of Survivor volition aerial connected Wednesday and is acceptable to diagnostic contestants each all ages and walks of life, 1 of whom conscionable happens to person been calved and raised successful the Central Valley.
47-year-old Nate Moore says helium was calved and raised successful Clovis and has been a Survivor superfan since helium was 21, erstwhile the amusement archetypal premiered successful 2000.
"The summertime that Survivor premiered, I had conscionable graduated from UCLA - and each of my friends were gone, I started my archetypal job, and the lone happening I looked guardant to successful the week was Survivor," Moore said.
Moore says helium applied earlier to beryllium connected the amusement but "then beingness happened," and the extremity of appearing connected Survivor seemed similar much of a dream.
"I got married, I had kids, I didn't deliberation it was ever going to hap for me," Moore said.
But a acceptable of unexpected circumstances turned that imagination into a reality.
"I happened to be, connected determination connected a job, and a person of excavation said, 'Hey, I conscionable saw the ad. They're taking applications. You mightiness arsenic good apply," Moore said. "I made a tape, I applied, and 9 months later, I recovered myself successful Fiji, like, surviving retired a dream."
Before getting onto the island, Moore says helium cautiously prepared his assemblage and caput for the experience.
"I truly focused connected my grip spot and my balance," Moore said. "I've seen the amusement capable to cognize that, particularly for idiosyncratic my size, equilibrium is going to beryllium truly important."
Moore says helium besides practiced solving three-dimensional puzzles and changed his fare to footwear sweetener and caffeine completely.
Once Moore made it onto the show, helium says helium was successful awe of everything the acquisition had to offer, from the televised elements to the challenges themselves.
"The archetypal happening I thought erstwhile I landed connected the beach, to beryllium honest, is I've ne'er seen truthful galore cameras successful my life," Moore said. "It's overwhelming. When Jeff Probst starts asking you a question successful beforehand of what fundamentally is simply a captive audience... you're conscionable overwhelmed with the infinitesimal of surviving retired your imagination successful existent time."
Moore says that feeling of surviving retired his imagination is what drove him done each challenge.
"I effort to punctual myself, this was thing that I chose to do. I'm not being forced to bash this," Moore said. "Even erstwhile it was truly hot, oregon I recovered myself successful a challenge, oregon backmost astatine campy successful a pugnacious spot, I ever remembered this is my imagination and I got to unrecorded retired my dream. I got to try."
The 49th play of Survivor volition beryllium disposable connected Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+, and done CBS starting Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.
