Three Times Jeff Probst Nearly Didn’t Survive Survivor

As the sand starts flying on season 48 of CBS’s reality stalwart Survivor (Wednesdays, 8 P.M.), Us flashes back to moments when host Jeff Probst nearly had his own torch snuffed. 1 TERROR AT 4,500 FEET For 2004’s Survivor: Vanuatu, Probst jumps out of a plane on his high-adrenaline journey to deliver the votes. But when he should have been pulling his parachute, “I decide to take in beautiful California,” he recalled on his On Fire podcast. Snafu No. 2: It doesn’t open properly. Somehow Probst managed to remember his training and try scissor kicks, and the chute unfurled. Still, he said it was “one of the scariest times of my life.” 2 TARGET FOR JELLYFISH OK, this wasn’t life-threatening, but we can see how it might feel that way: While Probst…

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