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Nov 18, 2021 · Meghan Cook. Nov 18, 2021, 12:09 PM PST. Jury members stay at Ponderosa after they're voted off "Survivor." CBS; Marianne Ayala/Insider. "Survivor" players told Insider what it was like...
A teaser from the Survivor 46 jury has been provided before the big season finale. The first five members of the jury provided insight into the season and did an interview sharing what fans can ...
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Ponderosa is a special holding area for Survivor contestants before they compete and after being eliminated from the game. It is usually located at a resort or a hotel.
The contestants are sequestered at Ponderosa upon arriving on location and are not allowed to talk to each other until the game officially begins.
Eliminated castaways are taken away from Tribal Council and interviewed by a psychiatrist for debriefing, after which they proceed to a medical tent where the castaway undergoes a medical examination which includes treatment of wounds incurred during the game and comparison of pre- and post-game weight. They are then led to Ponderosa where they receive access to amenities usually uncommon to the game of Survivor such as food and creature comforts and contact with the outside world. Though access to mobile phones, social media, and the Internet are still prohibited to maintain the secrecy of the game's outcome, sequestered contestants have access to television, local newspapers, cameras, DVD, VCRs, and video game consoles. Occasionally, the eliminated castaways are taken on a field trip to experience local culture, buy souvenirs, and take pictures. In very rare cases, contestants may not be sent to Ponderosa and be immediately sent home, as was the case in Survivor: Cambodia where Vytas Baskauskas refused to be sequestered and requested to be sent home to be with his newborn son. In the same season, Terry Deitz had to be urgently flown home to attend a family emergency.
•Ponderosa is not located near Base Camp. Furthermore, while Jeff Probst, by virtue of being the show's Executive Producer, is allowed access to Ponderosa, he does not visit it.
•The Australian Survivor and Survivor NZ counterparts of Ponderosa are both called "The Jury Villa".
•The final Ponderosa videos of Micronesia, Gabon, Tocantins, Heroes vs. Villains, and Redemption Island are the only ones to have videos of the finalists being at Ponderosa on the final day before the cast heads home the following day.
•Since Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, jury members are given loved one visits if they were eliminated close to the Family Visit.
•Winners at War is the first season to feature a Ponderosa video for a pre-jury boot.
•Survivor 42 is the first season since China to not feature Ponderosa videos.
After Survivor 41, producers no longer shared videos of the jurors at Ponderosa, a post-game resort where the players stay before deciding who wins. The Ponderosa content dates all the way...
May 30, 2020 · ‘Survivor’ Ponderosa: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Jury Holding Area. 'Survivor' Ponderosa videos reveal everything you need to know about the place the castaways go after...
Venus Vafa calls Ponderosa on Survivor 46 ‘traumatizing’ “The vibes were terrible. I was terrified going to Ponderosa because I was like, ‘All of these people hate me,'” Venus told EW ...
Aug 28, 2022 · Russell Hantz on Ponderosa. In the July 8 video, Hantz pulled back the curtain and revealed some surprising truths about the mysterious resort for exiled castaways. Hantz told viewers that...
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