Survivor 48 Cast Includes Two Firefighters, a Surgeon, a Master Debater and a Stunt Man — See Photos

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Now a month out from its Season 48 premiere, CBS' Survivor has unveiled the 18 new castaways who will be vying for the title of Sole Survivor (and a none-too-shabby $1 million prize).
This cycle's contenders range in age from 24 to 55, while their occupations include surgeon, stunt man, gym teacher, debate professor (all ears on him at tribal council time!) and pizzeria manager.
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You also have a fire captain and a fire lieutenant, which seems like it would somehow play into any fire-making challenge, though I am not quite sure how. (I haven't watched since Season 1 or so. 'Member that lady with the rat speech?)
Survivor Season 48 will kick off with a two-hour premiere in Wednesday, Feb. 26, to be followed by weekly 90-minute outings. The show will of course also be available to stream on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ With Showtime subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after). Emmy Award winner Jeff Probst returns as host.
Yet again, the participants will be divided into three tribes of six and 'face a season to remember from the moment they step on the beach. Even the strongest competitors will be tested and forced to dig deep mentally and physically to ensure their torch stays lit,' the synopsis assures us.
Survivor Season 47 this past fall averaged nearly 6 million total viewers and a 0.91 demo rating (with delayed playback). It was broadcast TV's #1-rated non-sports program, and the second-most watched, #1-rated reality show.
Now, meet the cast….
Age: 38Hometown: New York, N.Y.Current Residence: Brooklyn, N.Y.Occupation: Tech product lead
Age: 38Hometown: East Bay, Calif.Current Residence: Costa Mesa, Calif.Occupation: Debate professor
Age: 24Hometown: Eagan, Minn.Current Residence: Providence, R.I.Occupation: Ph.D. candidate
Age: 31Hometown: Roanoke, Va.Current Residence: Brooklyn, N.Y.Occupation: Attorney
Age: 34Hometown: Waco, TexasCurrent Residence: Waco, TexasOccupation: P.E. coach
Age: 30Hometown: PhiladelphiaCurrent Residence: Simi Valley, Calif.Occupation: Marketing professional
Age: 45Hometown: Vacaville, Calif.Current Residence: West Sacramento, Calif.Occupation: Fire captain
Age: 31Hometown: Toronto, CanadaCurrent Residence: Foster City, Calif.Occupation: Software engineer
Age: 39Hometown: Long Beach, Calif.Current Residence: Buena Park, Calif.Occupation: Stunt performer
Age: 34Hometown: The Woodlands, TexasCurrent Residence: Los AngelesOccupation: Music executive
Age: 34Hometown: Fremont, Calif.Current Residence: Livermore, Calif.Occupation: Finance manager
Age: 46Hometown: Columbia, S.C.Current Residence: Greenville, S.C.Occupation: Surgeon
Age: 34Hometown: Monroe, Mich.Current Residence: St. Petersburg, Fla.Occupation: Flight attendant
Age: 29Hometown: Winthrop, Mass.Current Residence: Winthrop, Mass.Occupation: Pizzeria manager
Age: 33Hometown: West Orange, N.J.Current Residence: Arlington, Va.Occupation: PR consultant
Age: 55Hometown: ChicagoCurrent Residence: ChicagoOccupation: Fire lieutenant
Age: 28Hometown: Monrovia, LiberiaCurrent Residence: Augusta, Ga.Occupation: Sales expert
Age: 31Hometown: Montgomery Village, Md.Current Residence: PhiladelphiaOccupation: Substance abuse counselor
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43 Laughably Fake Movie And TV Moments That Completely Took People Out Of It

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43 Laughably Fake Movie And TV Moments That Completely Took People Out Of It

Recently, Reddit user Behind_Th3_8_Ball asked about props that ruined a movie, and a bunch of people chimed in with the wildly fake movie moments that always bother them. Here are 43 fake-looking things from movies that I can't believe made it onto the screen. We also used some examples from r/MovieMistakes. garbage can from Independence Day, which literally says "art department" on it: Suggested by u/Namtab666 extremely obvious fake baby from American Sniper: Suggested by u/Behind_Th3_8_Ball "I don't understand this shot. Why they didn't just shoot at an angle where you can only see the prop from the back? That way, you can still capture Bradley's emotions and not disclose that it was a prop." —u/raizo11 "A blanket around the baby's shoulders would have gone a long, long way. What were they thinking??!?!" —u/dae_giovanni the baby that appears on the ceiling in Mark's dream in Trainpotting (yes, it's supposed to be creepy, but STILL): Suggested by u/Significant_Fuel5944 the fake baby in this Malcolm in the Middle scene: Suggested by u/plainandawesome characters in post apocalyptic movies and shows, especially women, have perfect Dina in The Last Of Us: "Movies about struggling characters who have freshly cut, coloured and blow-dried/styled hair. Your hair is probably the first thing you neglect as a struggling woman, especially." —u/bibijoe Karen from The Grudge 2: "When the woman in The Grudge 2 has perfectly curled hair while in the hospital." —u/Sweaty_Chard_6250 an FBI agent uses Excel to hack a nuclear weapon in Unthinkable — and you can also see a movie script pulled up: Suggested by u/HalfACupkake you can see that a character's not actually on the phone, like in this scene from The Boys...: "Whenever people talk on phones, and you can clearly see the lock screen or the homepage of the phone not being in a call." —u/Coffmad1 worse, when the character's on a different app, like Abby in this NCIS scene. Suggested by u/Foxterriers when characters text using a non-messaging app, like in School of Rock, when an audience member "texts" someone using a blank document: Suggested by [deleted] fake video game-playing moments, like this one from Rumble in the Bronx...: "Rumble in the Bronx had a kid playing a Sega Game Gear, and it is very obvious that there is no game cartridge plugged in." —u/CaptainBloodface12 this one from Malcolm in the Middle...: "Reese from Malcolm in the Middle has a scene where he is playing a Game Boy THAT LITERALLY DOESN'T HAVE A CARTRIDGE IN IT." —u/bariztizg the "controller acting" from Anora, where this character just mashes buttons indiscriminately: "Anora (which I otherwise loved) had some of the worst controller acting I've ever seen; it's straight out of a made-for-TV movie. The actor is 23 as well, surely he's held a controller???" —u/wills_b costume from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scene, where you can clearly see the person inside: Suggested by u/SlipTheSlime actors drink from clearly empty coffee cups, like during the stakeout scenes of Law & Order...: "I can't stand when actors drink from empty coffee cups!!! Totally takes me out of the moment, and then it's all I can notice. Of course I can't think of any movies that do this now though..." —u/mudmilkshake "Not a movie, but almost every stakeout scene from every iteration of Law & Order. To me, adding some weight so they feel a bit more real to the actors and so the cup doesn't sound empty when it's put down seems like such a simple thing, but I'm sure there's more to it." —u/RedCorundum on Gilmore Girls, where the characers keep gesturing while holding cups that are clearly empty: "Gilmore Girls was the worst at this, to the point where it seemed like the cast was treating it as a running gag. They'd be gesturing wildly with supposedly full cups in their hands." —u/mbklein "Comes back from the bar at Luke's with two 'freshly filled' coffee cups. Can't see the coffee. Every time." —u/y3llowed communicator from The Phantom Menace, which is obviously a Gillette Razor: "The Gillette Ladyshave that Qui-Gon uses as his communicator in Star Wars: Episode 1 always gets me." —u/PauPau86 "My girlfriend and I both noticed that opening night in the theater because she used that exact razor." —u/Ralph--Hinkley Anakin's backpack from the same film, which looked like the backpack every other kid had at the time: "Anakin's backpack in The Phantom Menace. I just remember kids having one like that at the time, and it just seemed out of place in the movie." —u/tr1ckyf1sh of The Phantom Menace — when you could tell this guy in the background was DEFINITELY not Samuel L. Jackson: Suggested by u/colinaclark obvious mannequin used in this stunt from Wonder Woman 1984: "Wonder Woman 1984. She saves a kid during the highway scene, I think it was. She ends up holding the kid close and rolling on the ground. It was clearly a mannequin." —u/FubarioFromSicario the wildly fake dummy from the car explosion in Casino: "Casino is still a great movie, but the opening shot of DeNiro's car blowing up with the dummy inside always makes me laugh." —u/Global-Discussion-41 "I wonder at what point would he realise 'Holy shit, this looks ridiculous.'And at what point is it no longer worth it to go back and reshoot a car blowing up?I think we can all agree, Scorsese probably misjudged where that point was in this instance." —u/GimmeSomeSugar Here it is in a slowed-down GIF, so you can see how bad it is. badly photoshopped family photo in Twin Peaks: The Return: "I FUCKING HATE SHITTY PHOTOSHOPPED FAMILY PHOTOS! If you can't make it look half real, why even do it?" —u/Efficient-Editor-242 "Twin Peaks: The Return features my favourite example of this ever. If you haven't seen it, check out the photo of Andy, Lucy, and their 'kid' played by Michael Cera." —u/Hipyeti obviously fake stalactite from The Lord of the Rings: Suggested by u/IljaMaran from The Lord of the Rings, when this extra is clearly using imaginary arrows: Suggested by u/AnalysisMoney stunt from The Fugitive, where it's clearly a dummy and not Harrison Ford: "When Kimble jumps off the dam in The Fugitive. Worst dummy shot in cinema history." —u/EpicWheezes Check it out in GIF format here: toilet seat from Liar Liar, which you can tell is made out of foam: Suggested by u/heidismiles game of hackey sack going on with no hackey sack in this scene from Twilight: Suggested by u/Charlie4774 about Bond making espresso in this scene from Live and Let Die: "The shitty espresso that James Bond serves M in Live and Let Die." —u/seleucus_nicator way Steven Seagal holds a gun in Sniper Special Ops: "Not so much the prop itself. But the way he holds the gun, lmao." —u/Ghostman_Jack a character fits through the air ducts, like this scene from Die Hard: "Clean, accessible air ducts that are always big enough to crawl through. Just once, I want to see a hero get stuck in a duct and have to be cut out by the fire department." —u/colores_a_mano "The size of the things always fuckin' slays me. Never mind the fact that any tinbanger knows — even if you could fit, you ain't moving silently through thin galvanized steel tunnel that was probably installed by the lowest bidder in the most slapdash, cost-efficient way they if you're really lucky, it's connected like the building diagram actually says it is as opposed to dead-ending at a wall." —u/l_rufus_californicus eggs from Batman V Superman: "The plastic eggs Cavill is cooking Batman V Superman. Fisher-Price looking ass eggs." —u/lazlo871 uncanny valley CGI Renesmee from Breaking Dawn: "The CGI baby in Twilight. Might as well call it a prop." —u/ProAnalCyst "It's soooo uncanny valley! How did they think anyone would be okay with that fake ass baby?" —u/zaforocks fake prop toilet from Boondock Saints: "Boondock Saints is one of my guilty pleasure movies, but the clearly fake prop toilet that gets dropped on the Russian mobster…" —u/underground4077 Wash wasn't even holding onto the wheel in Firefly: "What about the very first episode of Firefly where the shot was slightly too wide and you could see Wash wasn't actually holding on to the steering and just had his hands in position? Or did I imagine it?" —u/StrictlyMarzipanOwl when Brian pulls at a brake that isn't there in 2 Fast 2 Furious: Suggested by [deleted] also Antonio Banderas just miming moving imaginary controls in this scene from Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams: Suggested by u/Chair_Last moment in D2: The Mighty Ducks when you can tell the background extras are actually just cardboard cutouts: Suggested by u/LisleSwanson of cardboard cutouts — these fake books behind Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Suggested by u/Oldspice_DentalFloss scene from Men in Black where Zed and K are only pretending to type in the background: Suggested by u/MyNameGifOreilly bending scabbard from One Piece: Suggested by u/MikeFleezy "metal" rod from the show Dark, which moves: Suggested by u/AjemMirumilovny man's photo in Smallville, which is very obviously glued/taped on rather than printed as a part of the newspaper: Suggested by u/ArtisanGerard coffee cup in Game of Thrones: "The Starbucks cup marked the end of anything good out of GoT." —u/Voluntary_Perry What wildly fake or unrealistic moment or item took you out of a film or TV show? Let us know in the comments. Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.

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Pickleball, punchlines, and personal growth: ‘Hacks' stars Megan Stalter and Paul W. Downs on their bond and what's next

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When Megan Stalter and Paul W. Downs stepped onto a pickleball court for a recent Gold Derby interview it was a full-circle callback to a fan-favorite scene from Max's critically acclaimed comedy Hacks. In the Season 3 episode, their characters — eccentric talent agents Kayla and Jimmy — hilariously face off against a TV network president played by Helen Hunt in a match that became a standout moment for fans. 'We trained, we had a coach,' Downs said, laughing. Stalter chimed in: 'Yes, I loved our classes.' More from GoldDerby 'That feeling of having a first crush': How Zach Cherry and Merritt Wever made their 'Severance' marriage feel real Brandon Scott Jones on CBS' 'Ghosts': 'I enjoy playing characters that are desperate' Critics hail Celine Song's 'Materialists' as an 'exquisitely made' modern love story - not a 'glossy romantic comedy' The blend of sharp comedy and heartfelt connection has propelled Hacks through four acclaimed seasons, with a fifth officially confirmed. The series follows Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a legendary comedian, who partners with Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), a young, edgy writer, to revitalize her act. Created by Downs, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Statsky, Hacks has garnered widespread acclaim for its witty writing, emotional depth, and standout performances including 48 Emmy nominations and 9 wins. For Downs, who also serves as co-creator, writer, and director, he says the recognition means a lot to him and the entire cast and crew. 'I think it was really special last season, having the series win, because our show is made by so many people. To share that with everybody was so gratifying, whether it's our cinematographer or a costume designer or a production designer, everybody that makes the show really cares about the show, watches the show and loves the show. For them to feel like they were part of what was recognized by people, it's incredibly gratifying,' he says. While Hacks delivers sharp humor, it consistently engages with deeper themes. 'We feel like a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,' Downs explained. 'Every season does explore something.' Season 4, for example, delves into the changing landscape of television, focusing on Deborah Vance's pursuit of a late-night talk show. Downs adds that the series also centers around characters who don't always fit in. 'I think for Jimmy and Kayla for example, they're outsiders just as much as Deborah and Ava are in the first season. They don't really fit in at Latitude, at this management company. So they leave and strike out on their own to start up their own thing. And Deborah and Ava are both two people who are kind of ostracized to the desert. So the show's really about people who are on the outside and are striving for dignity and doing that through the connection that they have, which is their work, whether that be writing comedy or representing comedy.' HBO Max Still, no matter how big the theme, the emotional center of the series remains with its characters and their relationships. Stalter, whose breakout turn as the wildly unfiltered Kayla has made her a fan favorite, is especially proud of her character's growth. 'She started off being the assistant who's kind of messing up. I feel like now she's secretly saving the day. She's like a secret genius,' she said. 'Their friendship's grown so much. I think it meant so much to Kayla when Jimmy steps in and chooses her, and that's all she's really wanted.' Downs echoed the sentiment. 'They both really care about doing a good job, I think, for each other in a lot of ways,' he said. 'And I love that Kayla is such a free character, which is a lot like Meg. Meg is such a fearless actor and so free.' That admiration carries into their viewing habits, too. 'I'm in a scene, I'm running over to laugh at the scene we just did,' Stalter said. 'I don't have any shame about it. It's so funny. He is so funny. Why wouldn't I want to see it twice?' As they look ahead to Season 5, the closeness among the cast and crew remains central — a bond strengthened through shared hardships, including COVID, the L.A. fires and Jean Smart's heart attack in 2023. 'We've gone through a lot as a cast and a crew. We've definitely gotten closer,' Downs said. Though Hacks has no shortage of Emmys, the cast is just as thrilled by fan responses. 'I've seen so many TikTok edits,' Stalter said. 'I'm tearing up at the fan edits of Deborah and Ava. I'm like, the show is so good. I am crying over the TikTok video.' When it comes to who might win a real-life Hacks cast pickleball tournament, Downs has a few ideas. 'I bet Hannah [Einbinder] would be good. She is very athletic. She was a cheerleader," he said. Stalter chimed in, 'I could see Jean [Smart] being good too. I feel like I'd get intimidated on the court playing against her.' Still, Downs had one final pick: 'Christopher McDonald — he's a great golfer and he plays tennis, too. I bet he'd be really good.' Best of GoldDerby Brandon Scott Jones on CBS' 'Ghosts': 'I enjoy playing characters that are desperate' 'She's got tunnel vision': Wendi McLendon-Covey reveals what she loves most about her character Joyce on 'St. Denis Medical' Marlon Wayans on laughing through tragedy in 'Good Grief' and why social media has made comedy 'toxic' Click here to read the full article.