‘Survivor 47’ preview: Aysha Welch hopes to be ‘inspiring’ to young girls out there [WATCH]
“Survivor 47” fans, it’s time to meet Aysha Welch, a 32-year-old IT consultant from Houston, Texas. “If we sit next to each other on a plane, I will talk your ear off,” she states in CBS’s preview video. “I literally have at least six or seven contacts in my phone of so-and-so’s name — airplane.” Watch Aysha’s intro above at the 6:14 mark.
The bubbly castaway notes, “I always thought, I’m gonna be married by 23, I’m gonna have kids by 25. And I am 32 and single. What that has prepared me for is to be adaptable. I don’t know what Jeff is gonna throw at us. All I know is that I have the ability to create strong relationships. And that’s what’s gonna carry me through the game.”
Speaking about her island strategy, Aysha reveals, “If I see somebody that seems unapproachable, they seem impossible to work with, I’m going to want to make it happen. I’m going to feel that personal satisfaction that I was able to win them over.”
Referencing recent New Era players like Maryanne Oketch, Shan Smith and Katurah Topps, Aysha says, “Seeing someone like me, I thought, wait, if they could do it, I could do it. And so if I could do that for some other girl out there, I think that’s inspiring.”
Aysha Welch is one of the six contestants competing on the red Lavo tribe this year, along with Genevieve Mushaluk, Kishan Patel, Rome Cooney, Solomon “Sol” Yi and Teeny Chirichillo. See the cast photos in our gallery below.
The 47th season of “Survivor” will premiere on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 with a two-hour episode, followed by 90-minute episodes thereafter. Four-time Emmy winner Jeff Probst returns to host and produce the long-running reality TV show, which films in Mamanuca Islands, Fiji. Make your predictions at Gold Derby right now to let us know who YOU think will win and who will be voted out each week.
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