“Survivor” star Zeke Smith spoke to Andy Cohen about being outed as a transgender man during a 2017 episode of the show. Jeff Varner outed Smith in a shocking Tribal Council “Survivor: Game Changers” moment.
Smith has now spoken about the impact it had on his life during Thursday’s episode of Cohen’s “For Real: The Story of Reality TV”.
Cohen’s show focuses on regular people who became household names, thanks to shows like “Survivor” and “Big Brother”. Smith explained how he “was checked out for about 45 minutes to an hour” after Varner, who was eliminated without a formal vote, outed him. “In all the ways I had gamed out I would potentially talk about being trans, it was never being so dramatically outed at Tribal Council,” he said,