Column | A live TV gaffe turned the ‘Survivor 50’ finale into a fitting train wreck
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“Survivor 50,” the milestone season of CBS’s indefatigable reality competition, concluded Wednesday night in fitting fashion: as a subversively entertaining train wreck.
It ultimately was Aubry Bracco — making her third trip to “Survivor’s” final five — who emerged from a field of returning fan favorites and triumphed after 26 days in the Fijian jungle. But the biggest twist of an otherwise pedestrian finale was a blunder by host Jeff Probst (or perhaps someone in the CBS control room) during the show’s live reunion framing device in a Los Angeles studio.
