Parvati Shallow's next reality TV show will reunite her with two U.S. ‘Survivor' legends in Australia: It's a ‘wild ride'
After traveling the world to exotic islands (Survivor: Micronesia), forbidden temples (Deal or No Deal Island), and Scottish castles (The Traitors), where is Parvati Shallow off to next?
The 42-year-old American reality TV superstar had better start practicing her didgeridoo, because her next venture will be Survivor: Australia v the World. The highly anticipated season is being dubbed the "Olympics of Survivor" because it pits contestants from Australia against those from the United States, New Zealand, South Africa, and Norway.
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Parvati will be competing alongside two fellow U.S. Survivor legends, Cirie Fields and Tony Vlachos. All three of them know what it's like to claim a show's ultimate prize money, with Parvati winning Survivor Season 16, Tony winning Survivor Seasons 28 and 40, and Cirie winning The Traitors Season 1.
As far as whether she'd want to take part in the 50th season of the American Survivor, Parvati tells Gold Derby, "I would have a hard time, because it doesn't seem like people want to play with me, or they haven't in the past. So, I'm not really feeling compelled to go out." Comparatively, she says her upcoming stint on Survivor: Australia v the World will be a "wild ride."
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The international program will debut this July on Australia's Network 10. Sadly, there are no current plans for U.S. distribution of the program. Likewise, older seasons of Australian Survivor are not available to watch in the States due to streaming rights issues. (Online Survivor communities continue to debate this hot topic.)
The Australian installment filmed in Samoa, just like 2023's Heroes v Villains, 2024's Titans v Rebels, and 2025's Brains v Brawn II. But unlike those cycles, which each took place over 47 days, Australia v the World will be a shortened version at only 16 days. In addition, there will be only 14 castaways, down from the normal 24 who play a normal season Down Under.
In addition to Parvati, Cirie, and Tony, it has been announced that "King" George Mladenov, Shonee Bowtell, and Kirby Bentley will be representing Australia. The identities of the New Zealand, South Africa, and Norway competitors will be unveiled at a later date.
Actor and TV personality Jonathan LaPaglia returns as the show's resident torch-snuffer, who notably closes out each episode with the same iconic catchphrase as America's host Jeff Probst: "The tribe has spoken." Probst has gone on record that he doesn't watch Australian Survivor, or any rival reality shows, because he never wants to be in a position where someone accuses him of borrowing an idea from elsewhere.
Besides her winning moment in Micronesia (watch below), Parvati also finished sixth in Cook Islands, second in Heroes vs. Villains, and 15th in Winners at War. As for non-Survivor projects, she placed 11th in The Traitors Season 2, and fourth in Deal or No Deal Island Season 2.
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Here, she talks with Liv Hewson, who plays teen Van (and who uses they/them pronouns), about their favorite costumes, the one look that defined their character, and what they took from the set. SEE'I was terrified — she has an Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby"': Melanie Lynskey on her epic 'Yellowjackets' fight with Hilary Swank Gold Derby: How do you work together in creating your character's look? Marie Schley: In terms of this season, it was a different process, because for the pilot, you put together a concept for your director and your showrunners, and then you do your fitting. But the characters evolve — certainly, Liv's character has. And so for this season, we are piggybacking on what's been established before, but also bringing in new ideas, more input, from the actors, because they're really living these characters. Liv Hewson: One of my favorite things about the process of figuring out the clothes on this show is how collaborative it is working with Marie. The restriction of Yellowjackets costume-wise is fun in that there literally is a finite amount of clothes that all of these characters are working with. The actor nerd in me really gets a kick out of tracking who would be wearing what, and what would they be using the clothes for. Something that is always really important to me is that Van is a butch lesbian, so what does her clothing say about her and communicate about her within the restriction of where they are? And how does her style evolve out in the wilderness? So it's about coming up with little nods, like her cutting the sleeves off of things, and masculinizing the clothes that they're all sharing. That was something that was really important to me. So it has been this beautiful process of discovery of these characters over the course of the experience they're having, while having to work within the framework of what they packed in the suitcases they have with them. Schley: I remember in our first fitting this season, there's this concept that they're sharing clothes amongst them. And Liv was, like, it really should be either Javi or Travis's clothes that she wears. So you'll see that Co-Ed Naked soccer T-shirt go between those two because they have a more similar aesthetic. In the first episode, we did a lot of different costumes for the summer solstice ritual and Van has this amazing storytelling monologue, which you did so beautifully. So there was this Ren Faire kind of poncho with shredded things on it that we fit in our first fitting. And Liv was definitely like, no flowers, let's minimalize this. It's really important to have that give and take to make sure it feels really authentic to that character. I think that it turned out really well. It turned out to be one of my favorite costumes, actually, Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with Showtime Hewson: I love it. I remember saying this very much in the world of what the others would be wearing. But with Van, it's Peter Pan, rather than like witch coven. With her gender expression plays a bigger part in her clothes. It felt really good to be wearing a garment like that. How does your process work? Do you sit together down together at the start of the season with the scripts saying, "OK, here's where we're going, so here's what the looks are going to be?" Schley: I wish we had that much time! You guys don't even get the scripts. I get them more ahead of you all do. So I'll give you kind of an idea. Sometimes I show you pictures, if I have them. It's a surprise in that first fitting I think, and I try to have enough there that we can cover ourselves. Hewson: We had a really cool opportunity to have more back and forth this season about what Van is wearing, and the scenes that she has with herself. That was a unique costume opportunity. 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It's an interesting puzzle that we're piecing in backwards. And I think that's true in this scenario too, where it's Van's demise — we don't really know what happens between season three and the future. Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with Showtime Hewson: Exactly. That outfit on the plane is beautifully out of time at the moment, but we don't know if we'll see it again. We don't know if that's a version of Van that we might get to be reintroduced to later. It's something that I really admire about the work that Marie and the costume team does on this show, that there's all these threads that you establish, and then, because of the parallel timeline nature of the show structurally, there are these images that you need to keep returning to, and things become imbued with significance because of what happens later. You don't necessarily know that pair of shoes is going to be one of the most important things that everybody's staring at for three years. But as you're doing it, you have to keep track of the symbols that we've established and what matters when, and what to draw the audience's attention to. So it's incredibly resourceful what Marie and the team do, and it's impressive. SEE'I was terrified — she has an Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby"': Melanie Lynskey on her epic 'Yellowjackets' fight with Hilary Swank How do you track all of that? Is it situation on your office walls? Schley: It is! In the pilot, it was in the script that the camera pans up to a pair of shoes at the edge of the pit. So we knew those shoes were going to tell a lot. And then, of course, because they were focused on they became very much a symbol. But we never knew who was going to be wearing them. That's why we also came up with the idea that people were going to be sharing. It wasn't just because it makes sense story-wise, but also for us, we had to move the shoes around, because we just didn't know where they were going to end up. 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'This doctor, who was a cocky ortho guy, was telling me he had this patient who was overweight and had a knee issue and he said the person got really offended. I thought the story was going to be, 'Can you f—ing believe this guy?,' but instead he said, 'I need to be more sensitive.' It was this very touching story about this jock-seeming guy and that seemed surprising in a way that felt like an interesting launch pad.' Spitzer says the episode works because 'this is one of those complicated areas. You don't want to make people feel ashamed, you need to meet them halfway, but some things are worse for your health than other things.' SEE 'I know this dude!': David Alan Grier explains why he leapt at the chance to play a 'burned-out' doctor on 'St. Denis Medical' The episode also features an excellent push-and-pull between Ron and McLendon-Covey's Joyce, the hospital administrator concerned with maintaining St. Denis' four-star rating online. 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