Season 49 of Survivor is officially underway on CBS, and fans might be curious to know about the two alternates this season.

If you don’t know, the casting process always brings out 18 castaways to Fiji for pre-production, and they also fly out one male and one female “alternate” should any situation arise where an originally selected contestant can no longer compete.

This season, both alternates ended up replacing contestants who were going to compete.

We know have some clues about why.

Host Jeff Probst gave some insight previously and shared that something happened during the sequester period before production began, “when all of the cast lie in wait for the game to begin, forbidden from talking with one another.”

Jeff told Parade , “The result is a reminder that we t

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