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The queer castaways are already bringing the drama to ‘Survivor 47’—and it’s gloriously messy
*Spoilers ahead for the premiere of Survivor 47, “One Glorious and Perfect Episode”*We’re only one episode into the newest season of Survivor and already the LGBTQ+ contestants are stirring up some drama, which just confirms what we’ve been saying for years now: Nobody does reality TV like the queers!The long-running competition returned to CBS/Paramount+ for its 47th season of outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting, and from the jump eyes were on one castaway in particular: Jon Lovett.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Not since Mike White have we had a contestant who was this well known before the island: Lovett, famously, is a former speechwriter for Barack Obama‘s first term in the White House, a veteran TV writer and producer, and one of the co-founders of Crooked Media, which produces a number of podcasts including his own, Lovett Or Leave It, where he talks politics and pop culture with celebrity guests.Podcaster Jon Lovett kept his ‘Survivor’ secret when we interviewed him, but we’re re-reading his answers for clues.But you probably knew all of that… unless, of course, you happened to be in Lovett’s Survivor tribe.In one of the most comical moments of the premiere, Lovett introduces himself to the rest of his yellow-bandana’d Gata tribe, only to discover none of them have the slightest clue who he is.They did, however, rather quickly assume he lived in West Hollywood:This was a hate crime #Survivor pic.twitter.com/hvAPiVVZwYjon lovett told his survivor tribe he lives in la and a girl said "OH, west hollywood??" in one of the more breathtaking and honestly rather uplifting acts of light homophobia i've ever witnessedAs the tribe awkwardly gets to know one another, it did also give us the delightful moment where 31-year-old AI research assistant Andy Rueda comes out to Lovett in the most refreshingly matter-of-fact way possible:“I’m bi,” Rueda says. “I’m gay,” Lovett says in.
