Survivor host Jeff Probst has no interest in giving special treatment to vegetarian applicants.

After Survivor 47 shipwrecked Kyle Ostwald Bet blindly on a plate of chicken wings at a food auction featured on the Wednesday, Nov. 6, episode of the reality TV series, he decided to eat meat despite years of being a vegetarian. (Kyle’s competitor Sam Phalen offered to buy the wings from him, but Probst, 63, said no sharing or trading would be allowed.)

This moment sparked negative reactions among some fans, including one User wonder why Survivor “glorified giving the vegetarian the ‘moral dilemma’ of eating meat” and compared the situation to giving a margarita to a sober competitor.

A Reddit The user argued that Kyle, 31, eating the wings “just felt a little forced” although he acknowledged he “is his own person” who made the decision of his own free will.

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“What the hell Jeff?!” the Reddit user wrote. “It’s just weird that Survivor production could have beef with anything and these are the people who can’t eat beef.

Probst, who welcomed Survivor since premiering in 2000, insisted during Wednesday’s episode of his podcast “On Fire With Jeff Probst” that contestants with dietary restrictions “know what they’re getting into” when they apply to participate on the show.

“They know we’re not going to change our show to accommodate anyone, just like we didn’t change anything when (Survivor 43 competitor) Noelle (Lambert), who had a prosthetic leg, was on the show,” he said, emphasizing that he had “no advice” for contestants who can’t eat certain foods. “She still had to face the same challenges on the same giant balloon, all that. That’s how we see the game.”

Probst added that he usually doesn’t even know if contestants have any dietary restrictions.

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“You might be thinking, ‘How could you spend months and months getting to know these people and not know if they’re vegetarian or not?’ But I don’t,” he said. “It doesn’t matter to me.”

The TV producer said all he cared about was whether a candidate was “a good storyteller” with “a point of view”.

Kyle noted at the auction that he previously switched from veganism to vegetarianism solely because of his Survivor aspirations. Before the chicken wing incident, he broke down and ate a piece of crab during a deleted scene shared with Weekly Entertainment last month.

“Going from seven to eight years only eating things that grew from the earth itself – I haven’t harmed anything with a heartbeat in a long time – I finally felt so depressed to the point where I was ready to break the feeling. dedication I had to myself,” Kyle told the cameras.

When his shipwrecked companion Gabe Ortis asked him what the crab tasted like, Kyle replied, “Like I’m doing something wrong.”

Kyle is not the first Survivor The contestant has fewer food options than his competitors while living off the land. Survivor 46It is Liz Wilcoxwho suffers from significant food allergies and therefore could not eat coconut or anything else on the island, had a infamous collapse When Q Burdette didn’t invite her as a reward for eating Applebee’s food.

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“I’m pissed!” Liz memorably cried out in tears after Q, 30, made his choice.

Even though Liz knows better than anyone how hungry you can get on the show, she wasn’t impressed with this season’s content. Survivor auction.

“I’m sorry, but the auction on day 14 is just not exciting to watch. And it comes from ME. The hungriest candidate ever,” she wrote via X Wednesday.

In a next tweetLiz added: “Like I was definitely really hungry at this point, but I (also) wasn’t eating coconut! Call me sick – I just don’t think they’re hungry enough yet. Two more days and yes! Very very hungry!

If even Liz calls for tougher auction conditions Survivor, We doesn’t think the show will change its policy regarding dietary restrictions anytime soon.

Survivor airs on CBS and Paramount+ Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET. You can stream episodes on Paramount+ the next day.