‘Survivor 47’ preview: Teeny Chirichillo likens strategy to ‘a pickpocket from the Oliver Twist universe’ [WATCH]
“Survivor 47” fans, it’s time to meet Teeny Chirichillo, a 24-year-old freelance writer from Manahawkin, New Jersey. “My bucket list consists of everything from Day 1 to Day 26 that could possibly happen,” the non-binary contestant says in CBS’s preview video. “I want to do everything.” Watch Teeny’s intro above at the 16:27 mark.
Teeny adds, “I’ve been developing my social game in life since I was [young]. I grew up dressing like a boy, wanted no attention for it, so had to distract them from having questions about me. That’s really taught me how to just befriend any type of personality.”
The freelance writer talks about their later years by stating, “In college, I was surrounded by people in sororities, and working in the technology industry it is alpha male sales bro personalities. I know how to get along with anybody. Even people that I don’t like so much, I know how to make them like me [laughs].”
As for their island strategy, Teeny reveals, “The energy that I’ll bring forth is a pickpocket from the Oliver Twist universe, stealing their trust, their hearts, their spot in the Final 3. And before they know it, they voted for me and I won.”
Teeny Chirichillo is one of the six contestants competing on the red Lavo tribe this year, along with Aysha Welch, Genevieve Mushaluk, Kishan Patel, Rome Cooney and Solomon “Sol” Yi. 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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