The host also almost took someone out with him.
Jeff Probstgives it his all while hostingSurvivor.
And the guy has come across some dangerous foes over 44 seasons.
‘Survivor’ host Jeff Probst.Robert Voets/CBS
But none of those necessarily proved to be super dangerous.
RELEASE THE FOOTAGE, YOU COWARDS!
), skydiving to the ground, and then motorcycling the votes to CBS Television City in Hollywood.
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor’.Robert Voets/CBS
If you’ve never seen it, do yourself a favor and bear witness right now.
But as smooth as Probst looks in that epic montage, it seems the shoot was anything but.
At least when it came to the skydiving.
All he had to do was follow the instructions.
“When you skydive, they tell you two things,” Probst explains.
And you’re supposed to pull your chute at 5,500 feet."
The problem was, by his sixth jump, Probst was getting pretty confident.
Too confident, it turns out.
So I’m just looking at the horizon and thinking,this is amazing.
And I look down at my altimeter and it says 4,500 feet."
That’s when the panic started to set in.
“So suddenly I go, ‘Oh my God!’
And what they teach you to do is wave your arms together like an X.
That lets everybody know,I’m pulling my chute.
So I reach back and I punch out and my chute goes up.
“Oh, thank God.”
The host thought he was okay at that point, but he thought wrong.
And is it square?
Is it there and is it square?
No, meaning it doesn’t have four points.
It has not opened.
This is no lie.”
“In that case they said to scissor kick.
So I’m at 4,400 feet.
I’m quickly getting close to the ground, and I scissor kick, and the chute opens.”
“He said he had a brown out,” reveals Probst.
“He said, ‘For a second, I passed out and then I came back.'”
“One of the scariest times of my life.”
For more behind-the-scenesSurvivorintel, listen to theOn Fire with Jeff Probst podcast.
