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Two 'Survivor 50' contestants, 'Survivor 45's' Dee Valladares and 'Survivor 38: Edge of Extinction's' Rick Devens, give THR a tour of the 'Survivor' exhibit at Paley Center in New York City. During the tour, they discuss how to answer host Jeff Probst's questions at tribal council, their immunity challenge wins, what it's like really like filming in the voting booth and the cultural impact of 'Survivor,; including references in the ABC sitcom 'Abbott Elementary.' Plus, they also shout out fellow 'Survivor 50' contestant and 'The White Lotus' showrunner Mike White.

In celebration of the hit CBS series 'Survivor,' the Paley Center has opened a limited-time exhibit of the reality series, complete with voting urns, immunity necklaces, fan-favorite challenges like "Get A Grip" and even a full tribal council replica. The exhibit runs through May 31. The 50th season of 'Survivor' is currently airing on CBS.

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00:00Hey, Hollywood Reporter. I'm Rick Devins and I'm Deva Ardares and we're gonna give you a tour of the Survivor
00:06Exhibit here at the Paley Museum in New York City
00:21Let's see. Oh, that's my girl
00:24Okay, so I just found something on and I need to know whether it's true or not. I was told
00:29I won't say to my source, but I was told that Destiny's Child
00:34I'm a Survivor is inspired by Survivor
00:37Sounds good to me. I know me too. Did we just spread the rumor?
00:40I know that all of us castaways use it as often as possible
00:43This part of the museum shows clips from the show
00:47But it also has clips from other shows like Abbott Elementary the office. Does the name Boston Rob mean anything
00:53to you?
00:53I'm a warm-blooded mostly straight woman who was alive in 2003
00:57Of course the name Boston Rob means something to me
00:59Well, like all the things in pop culture that have I mean look even white
01:03Who's that guy? Yeah, who is that?
01:05On Survivor like the way to stay in the game is you lower your threat level and it's like now
01:12I feel like I've raised my threat level. Do we keep walking around see what else we see?
01:16All right, if you could take one of these what would you take home?
01:21Oh
01:22Wow, I'd take China. How about you?
01:24Damn, I don't want to copy you
01:26I'll take China too. I'll steal it from you actually
01:29There you go. Yeah, I believe that
01:30I believe it. Immunity necklace. How many times did you wear this in 45?
01:353
01:363
01:36Oh, 3? That's good.
01:384. I did 4 in 38, but 3 is good.
01:40Okay, and what's your point?
01:43And he stays quiet.
01:45I think most people would rather win 4 immunities than the entire season.
01:48What's your point? I still don't understand.
01:51Alright, well...
01:53And that's how it feels when Jeff is asking you questions at Tribal.
01:56You're like, hey, what do I say?
01:58I don't know if Jeff has ever frozen me up like you just did.
02:00He's like, oh.
02:01Well, he freezes...
02:02Sometimes I'm like, Jeff, don't ask that.
02:04Yeah, what type of Tribal person are you?
02:06Are you the don't call on me person?
02:08Yeah, but he calls on everybody all the time.
02:10So you really can't even keep up.
02:12And you gotta give him something.
02:13Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:14He won't let you give him nothing.
02:16Did you win this one?
02:17No, you didn't.
02:19Get a grip.
02:19My toes aren't big enough.
02:21Is there room for your toe in there?
02:23There is. A little bit. Not too much, but...
02:26This is the right size. Oh my God.
02:29Do you want to try?
02:30I think if I was ever in this challenge, I would be really trying to just not be the first
02:36one out.
02:37I want to be at least the second one.
02:39Actually, I agree.
02:39And I'd probably be the one who moved down right away.
02:42You would get all the splinters too.
02:44It's like way high in the air. I know.
02:46That's... I don't want to do that challenge.
02:48You know, it's from season one to 50.
02:51Every time I walk through here, I'm finding new things.
02:53Because I've been watching Survivor since high school, it's like China.
02:56Where was I when China was on?
02:58And it reminds me of like that time in my life.
03:01And then it's like, oh, this season was on.
03:03I had a crush on Elizabeth Hasselbeck in Australia.
03:05It's like, now I'm married with kids.
03:07Like, I remember my high school girlfriend being upset.
03:09Because I said something about Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
03:12Because she had this little, you know, pony buns or whatever.
03:15It's crazy.
03:15Hey, who's that?
03:16That's me.
03:17It's crazy.
03:18It's crazy because this was like almost three years ago, maybe.
03:21And three years is not a long, long time.
03:23But it feels like a much more innocent person, I think.
03:27It's totally changed your life.
03:29Yeah, it really has.
03:30Like, I don't think in that moment I knew anything, really.
03:33Survivor's the gift that keeps on giving.
03:40So this is the voting earned from my original season.
03:44Season 38, The Edge of Extinction.
03:46And a lot of Devins votes went in there.
03:48A lot of Rick's, a lot of misspelled Devins.
03:51But a lot of them, when they came out, did not count.
03:53First vote, Devins, does not count.
03:55How do you feel?
03:56I didn't recognize it at first.
03:58And now it's like, wow, we have a lot of history in me in this.
04:02I didn't win season 38.
04:04Must be nice to win.
04:06Yeah, it was.
04:06But I had the best time.
04:08Like, it went better than I ever could have imagined.
04:15This is the original banner from season 45.
04:18It's like, it's even dirty.
04:19Was this like, at the beach?
04:21Yeah, yeah.
04:21These are the ones that I think that are standing right before a challenge.
04:25And they're just going like this through the wind.
04:27And it's, I don't know, you know you're on Survivor when you're there.
04:30But you know when you look at your banners and stuff like, oh my god, that is so cool.
04:33I'm like, you're walking and, I mean, we're players but we're still fans too.
04:37And then I remember like, seeing the slogan.
04:40I'm like, that's me.
04:41Oh, I thought that was Austin.
04:43You're so stupid.
04:44Or it might be you.
04:45Let's see.
04:55We did, okay.
04:56I know.
04:56Can I just say something?
04:57Did you catch that on camera?
04:59We sat down and we like, we did the exact same thing that we do at Tribal Council.
05:06No, it is funny.
05:07I tensed up just being in here and I don't like being in there.
05:10It's because you're close to a fire.
05:11I'm like, I've never seen a flag go up.
05:13What is that, what's it like?
05:14Yeah.
05:15This is cool.
05:16You can hear the fire pit.
05:17I think the feeling never changes about being on Tribal.
05:21I hate it.
05:21Because you know Jeff is going to hit you with questions and you just got to be prepared.
05:26Was there ever a Tribal in 45 that you were just freaking out?
05:29Every single Tribal.
05:31Oh, for real?
05:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:32I don't think just because I knew where votes were going that I wasn't freaking out.
05:36Because you can never be too certain on Survivor.
05:38Yeah.
05:38Like I refuse to ever be like 100% it's going this way because you just never know.
05:44Yeah.
05:44What about you?
05:45Do you feel on your season?
05:46I was so lucky on 38 that like half the time I went to Tribal I was saved.
05:51I either had the immunity necklace or I knew there was an idol in my pocket.
05:55So I'm sitting there ready to like put on a show when everyone else is freaking out.
05:59So it's his favorite spot, apparently.
06:01Yeah, right.
06:02So Tribal, that being said, you know, they did get rid of me twice in one season at Tribal
06:08and you didn't get rid of it all in 45, so.
06:11The seats are the same.
06:13The stool, same distance.
06:15There's somebody sitting here, but it feels kind of eerie.
06:18It's like Jonathan Young's knees are up to his ears because he's on the same seats as the rest of
06:23us.
06:25Let's take a look at the booth.
06:28It breaks its exhibit.
06:29Who's?
06:30Okay.
06:30So what you all don't see is that we come to vote here and there's a million cameras in front
06:37of our faces.
06:38So as we're writing somebody's name down, right?
06:40So I'm gonna write somebody else's name down.
06:42Oh boy.
06:46So as we're writing name downs and you're turning it around.
06:52Hey!
06:52There's just, you're just staring at a camera and it feels a little awkward.
06:55And not only that, there's a sign here that says, look here.
06:59And it has an arrow because that's, that's how starved we are.
07:02Yeah.
07:02Well, we're starved.
07:03We're pissed.
07:04We're like, it's, it's real feeling, the real emotions.
07:07And it literally says a red sign, look here.
07:09And then it's so quiet.
07:11Yeah.
07:11You see a million people behind and whatever you're saying, whether it's funny or not, nobody's laughing.
07:16No one's, you're not talking to anyone.
07:18So it's kind of awkward, right?
07:19Yeah.
07:19And it makes sense that it says, look here, because it's literally the only time in the game we're allowed
07:23to look at a camera.
07:24Like they don't want us to look in the camera.
07:26So they have to remind us.
07:28I forgot about that.
07:29Should we tell them about the Jeff thing?
07:31The first tribal you go to each season, Jeff is like, just so you know how loud you can be
07:36in the tribal.
07:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:37This is me talking normally.
07:38And he walks all the way across and he walks into the, I'm still talking normally.
07:42I'm up and you start not hearing him and not hearing him.
07:45And then he walks back, I'm still, and it gets louder again.
07:47So he tells you kind of exactly how loud you can be.
07:49I think for me, I'm not worried because I, it was designed specifically for us to not, for us to
07:56not hear people's votes.
07:57Like I trust production so much that hopefully my trust is good in their hands because I, I'm pretty loud
08:05in there.
08:06I was going to say fair to say volume control, not a strength of ours.
08:10This is not it.
08:10Yeah.
08:11We are loud right now, actually.
08:19There we go.
08:20I think you should put, so that's what your handwriting looks like.
08:26I didn't fit it very well, but you know what?
08:29It gets the point across.
08:31Alright guys, it's time to go.
08:33Y'all got to get out of here.
08:34We're voting you off.
08:36And we're not sorry about it.
08:37Adrian like chemical, bro.
08:40Frank had to go need to go need to stop checking it.
08:43If you accept everything, check it out, just from an загual and Auftaff, and go need to try.
08:44Would you like or would it be a stuk of all, it is a 절대ech time myself.
08:44What are you doing now, why are you worth it?
08:44I found you not myself.
08:45I won't have one if not, I own.
08:49I can only use you.
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