Record number of Survivor applicants ready to share their sex tapes and time

WANT to join Australian Survivor? First you’ll have to fess up to any sex tapes and reveal if you have ever tried to convert someone to your religious faith.

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WANT to join Australian Survivor?

First you’ll have to survive a time-sapping selection process, fess up to any sex tapes floating about and reveal if you have ever tried to convert someone to your religious faith.

Australian Survivor hopefuls have to outwit, outlast and outplay an exhausting and intrusive online application process divulging their darkest secrets in a bid to join the show — and are doing so in record numbers.

More than 10,000 applicants have willingly disclosed the skeletons in their closets, their psychiatric history, their jilted lovers, and shared their views on monogamy and fidelity, and if they’ve ever been unfaithful, just as part of the casting process.

And the numbers are so big that at this rate, Channel Ten’s going to need a bigger island.

Clearly producers are expecting intense conflict — mental and physical — with other mandatory questions including:

• Have you ever struck anyone in self-defence or anger?

• When did you last lose your temper?

• Do you have mood swings?

• When was the last time you had an argument? Did you win? and

• Have you ever intervened in a fight?

Applicants also must disclose any criminal record, drug history, enemies, relationships they are ashamed of, if they have a mental illness and if they have ever visited a therapist and why.

Personality questions include what you think your gravestone epitaph will read, what you would do if you saw a woman with a baby shoplifting, and how you’d cope if an old school classmate sold a juicy story about you to the tabloid press.

Survive the privacy intrusions, and hopefuls must also survive the time taken to apply — at least three hours is needed to fill out the online questionnaire and prepare the required audition video.

Applicants are expected to top 15,000 before closing on February 10 — a record result for Channel Ten.

“This is the biggest response to a casting call we have ever had. The casting tour has been extended and additional staff have been hired to cope with the volume of outstanding applications,” Ten’s Head of Entertainment and Factual Programming, Stephen Tate, said.

“We are still receiving more than 100 applications a day, and we had to extend the casting tour as a result.”

Meanwhile, we won’t see the show until at least late May, with applicants told they will need to be available from May 23 to July 24 if they make the final competitor cut of an expected ten people.

A venue has not been revealed for the series, but it’s understood it will be filmed on the Malaysian island of Pulau Tiga, the same location used for the first US season of the franchise in 2000.

If you’re keen to apply you can go to go.mycastingnet.com/Apply/Show/AustralianSurvivor

Originally published as Record number of Survivor applicants ready to share their sex tapes and time