‘Survivor’s Jeff Probst Details Contestant’s Snake Bite That Led to Medical Evacuation
He may not have won Survivor, but Jake Latimer can still call himself a survivor.
The contestant on season 49 of the reality competition series was airlifted out of Fiji and subsequently pulled from the game after being bitten by a highly venomous banded sea krait snake while standing in the water near his tribe’s beach, and now he’s opening up about the harrowing moment for the first time.
“I opened my eyes, and the snake is latched onto the bottom of my foot, mouth wide open,” Jake recalled in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Oct. 9. “But it didn’t hurt at the time. I just felt a tingling kind of sensation. And that’s when I yelled to Alex. I’m like, ‘Guys, I think this thing just bit me!’ Then, as we saw on the show, everything else kind of followed after that.”
The 36-year-old, who was expecting his first child at the time, was then transferred by boat to production’s base camp to receive treatment by the show’s medical staff, who he said made him “feel safe.”
