Jimmy Fallon came up with the Survivor: Island of the Idols premiere twist

The Hollywood Reporter

Survivor host and executive producer Jeff Probst points out that Fallon came up with the premise for Survivor: Second Chance. Now Probst is revealing that last night's twist came from The Tonight Show host two to three years ago. "We thought it was a great idea, but we could never make sense of it," says Probst. Fallon adds via email to EW. "Jeff probably regrets giving me his email after he was on my show a few years ago,. I use it all the time. I will have ideas in the middle of the night and just shoot off a short email and say 'Is this anything?' Now and then he'll respond with: 'This email is no longer in use.' But I know he's reading them!"

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