‘Survivor 48’ player promises to not smoke weed for 2 years if voted out first

Winning Survivor is a dream come true for any reality contestant wannabe. You get it all — the money, the glory, the title of Sole Survivor. But every season, that dream turns into a nightmare for the first person voted out. The shame! The indignity! The lack of screen time! It is a crushing blow for whoever suffers that terrible fate.

With that mind, we decided to give the cast of Survivor 48 — which premieres Feb. 26 on CBS — a little extra incentive to make sure that does not happen to them. We asked each of the 18 players to come up with a self-imposed punishment they will administer should they be the first person on the receiving end of a ceremonial Jeff Probst torch-snuffing, and let’s just say we got some very creative responses.

We will find out on Feb. 26 which one of these contestants will experience double trouble by being voted out and then having to take part in their own punishment penalty. In the meantime, see what everyone is up against should they be the first torch to fall.

Star Toomey

I’m team 420. If I am the first person out, I will no longer smoke weed for at least two years. That’s crazy. That’s serious, for real. But I’m not trying to be the first person out. I don’t want to be Francesca — two times two. I feel like that’s a big discipline for me because I’m 420 stoner life! But sometimes you got to make those minor sacrifices, so if I got to put the weed down for me to get better and come back stronger, then I will.

Mitch Guerra

If I’m the first person voted out on season 48, I am going to make a shirt with my face on it that says “The First Boot.” Honestly, if that happens, my friends and coworkers would never let me hear the end of it. So let’s just pray that isn’t the case.

Bianca Roses

You are the first person I’m even acknowledging that this is possible to. Even with my family, we haven’t spoken about it. We just haven’t addressed it because I’m like, “I can’t put that out to the universe.” I would say my punishment is I cannot have my mom’s chicken cutlets for a year. That would be torture. Literally torture. They’re so good, and she fries them perfectly — not too much, not too little. We put some lemon on, and sometimes my Nonno will put really freshly fine-chopped parsley in the breadcrumbs and extra Parmesan cheese. They’re unlike any other chicken cutlet you’ll ever have, I promise you. It’s all I want when I first get home. I’ve already thought about it a thousand times. If I can’t have her chicken cutlets for a year, I would just probably turn into a raging bitch, actually. So I don’t know if that would be good for everyone else.

Cedrek McFadden

I’m a big fan of I shows on Netflix. Usually I’m watching dystopian, futuristic shows where the world’s ending and there’s two people that have to figure it out or have to walk from here to California and solve the problem — those types of things. So the punishment for me will be to stay off Netflix for 30 days.

Eva Erickson

The thing that I would hate that if I’m voted out first that I’d have to do is I have to wear jeans every day for a year. I hate jeans. I hate wearing pants. I wear shorts year-round, even in the winter in Minnesota. I’d be leaving practice and it’d be negative 10 out and I’d be wearing shorts because I hate pants, and jeans especially. That would be a huge punishment to me.

Joe Hunter

The biggest punishment on the planet— and I cannot believe I’m saying this — but I played football and ran track at UCLA, and if I am voted out first… oh my God… I will say I love the USC Trojans.

Kamilla Karthigesu

My punishment is that I have to publicly admit to every single person I know that Boston Rob is a Survivor legend and he deserves to be a Survivor legend. I am very anti-Boston Rob because he won on his fourth try and it was Redemption Island where no one knew how to play the game. Those people just showed up to the beach and they’re like, “Someone tell us what to do. I don’t know why I’m here. Oh, you’ll tell us what to do? Okay, I’ll listen to you.” Put any modern Survivor player on that season and they would’ve won.

Justin Pioppi

I gave up alcohol before I came out here. I gave up pizza. To be honest with you, I’ll sneak a slice here or two with my uncle on Sundays. But other than that, I really haven’t had much pizza. I gave up iced coffee, which to me is like my pride and joy. So I think the last thing would be chocolate. I have a little bit of a sweet tooth. We make really good homemade cannolis that are chocolate dipped. So maybe I’ll lay off those for a while. I could do a month, but I feel like that’s not enough time. We’ll do 39 days as an homage to the original Survivor. We’ll leave the Australian Outback out and say 39 days. You got my word on that.

Stephanie Berger

Many years ago, I was a smoker and I had decided that I was going to change my life around. I was going to quit smoking, and I was also going to start exercising. I handed one of my best friends $500 and I said, “You’re not allowed to give this back to me unless I work out four days a week for the next 28 days.” And he was like, “Well, I’m not going to keep it if you lose, I’m going to throw a party that you have to attend and I’m going to put an exercise bike in the middle of it and you have to spend the entire party on the exercise bike while everybody else is having a nice time and I’m going to spend your $500 on drinks and refreshments.”

So something to the spirit of that is really speaking to me. I don’t know if we would do exercise bike necessarily, although it’s a very efficient sort of an option, but something in that range.

David Kinne

My favorite thing in the world is chocolate milk. I’m not even exaggerating. You can ask any of my friends. It’s my lifeblood where I get all my muscles from. If I don’t make it to the jury, I’m going to be definitely upset with myself, and so I think the punishment is my favorite thing in the world — chocolate milk — is going to have to be taken away. And I’ll have to do this when I get home because it’s obviously easy to do when I’m out here. So when I get home, no chocolate milk for a week. Done.

Mary Zheng

If I get voted out first, I’m going to ban myself from swimming at Ponderosa until the day before I am sent home, because I love swimming. And actually, water challenges was one of the reasons why I applied for the show. Because I loved the water challenges and I was looking at these people’s struggle and I was just like, “That would not be me if I were out there.” So I love the water. I want those challenges where somebody has to dive down deep, retrieve rings, unlock a box. If we’re doing water challenges now, I am hoping to God that one of my tribe mates does poorly and I can just go twice. I also want to go fishing, but I don’t know if they’ll give us any fishing supplies.

Kyle Fraser

I have done white collar criminal defense at larger firms, which I very much enjoyed, but I want to eventually segue to more of a public interest job. My fiancée has given me this leeway, and my expectation is to bring home the gold on Survivor. That said, if I get voted out first and I don’t get that gold, then I’m working at a big law firm. That’s my punishment. I know that’s really lame and corny, but I’m going to go make the big bucks. I’m going to give myself a little bit of license to not try and save the world just yet. I’m going to go grind it out at a law firm and try and make the big bucks. That’s my punishment. Any lawyer knows that that’s a pretty difficult thing to do.

Charity Nelms

I wouldn’t punish myself. I would crawl into bed in deep depression and probably drink a couple bottles of wine. So not quite a punishment, but more of a coping mechanism. That would be devastating. I would think that everybody’s biggest fear out here is to be voted off first. But usually the first person voted off gets themselves voted off — they’re too annoying or too bossy or too loud or too much or too something. And so really if you just kind of stand back and just let that first vote happen — it won’t be you. And here’s the thing too: You have the same chances of winning the game as being first voted off, same percentage. So something to think about.

Thomas Krottinger

I already know it’s the worst punishment because I already did it to myself this year leading up to it. So, I’m gay, and my life force is cold brew. It brings me so much joy, and I gave up caffeine to get ready for this. So if I’m the first person voted out, I feel like I should still give up cold brew till the end of the year. That would be torture. Literally, I’ll cry.

Chrissy Sarnowsky

That is literally my biggest fear, being the first person voted out. I don’t dream, and Iiterally I would have dreams of being the first person voted. I’m like, “The hell kind of dream was that?” If I’m the first person voted out, I can’t show up to work ever again. I work with 5,000 firefighters who are all going to be watching this show and I’m here to represent them. And if I don’t represent them well, I will be dirt in the ground with the Chicago Fire Department. So that is a huge, huge thing for me.

Kevin Leung

My punishment if I get voted out first is I will do something so crazy. I’ll go to an international country and bungee jump or sky dive off somewhere to feel the thrill of what I didn’t feel on the island.

Sai Hughley

A punishment for me would be not working out for at least six months and eating McDonald’s, which I absolutely hate. Oh my God, why would I do that?

Shauhin Davari

I’ll not watch Survivor again. That’d be the biggest punishment. Every Wednesday night, I got 20 people that come over to my house and we all watch it together with a big community. I run a Survivor fantasy league. It’s also the thing that brought my family together. My family’s never been as close as they are right now, and it’s because of this show. It’s because Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m. we know we’re getting together, and we watch this thing, and my mom should have played back when she was able. And so me being out here for her going back and being like, “Sorry, we can’t watch it. I went out first. That’s my punishment” — that would be torture.

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