White Lotus creator Mike White announced for Survivor 50

The White Lotus creator Mike White is headed back to the island to compete in the Survivor franchise for its fiftieth season, featuring all returning players.

Though he’s arguably best known for creating and writing iconic characters such as Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid for TV’s crown jewel satirical dramedy The White Lotus, the HBO series was not Mike White’s first foray into television.

Before the first season of The White Lotus in 2021, White competed on CBS’s iconic reality television competition Survivor; he took part in the show’s 37th season in 2018, managing to place second in the ‘David vs. Goliath’ themed season.

And as announced 28 May, White is now part of the cast of Survivor 50 – the franchise’s milestone fiftieth season, which is set to feature all returning players from across the Survivor-verse.

Survivor‘s executive producer and host Jeff Probst told CBS Mornings 28 May that White wanted to “play again” as soon as he finished his first time on the show, which sees players compete for a $1 million cash prize by voting each other out, completing trials and trying to gain Immunity Idols.

“Mike, after he finished playing, said, ‘I want to play again. When White Lotus hit, and I thought, ‘Well, he’ll never play again.’ But he kept texting and saying, ‘Look, I’m serious. If you ever do anything where you have returning players, I want to play again.’ So we’re happy to have Mike.”

White is responsible for a few iconic moments from his season – not least the scene in which his teammates scramble to find an Immunity Idol, while he swirls a glass of red wine. Very Tanya McQuoid.

We’ll see how he fares, because as Parker Posey’s Victoria Ratliff declared on the recent White Lotus; “I just don’t think I’m meant to live an uncomfortable life”.

Survivor 50‘s cast is 24-strong, with Probst citing “brutal” cuts from a pool of a possible 750 players to EW. The cast includes a player from the show’s very first season in 2000 (Jenna Lewis-Dougherty), to two competitors who have competed in the as-yet-unaired Survivor 49, and returned straight away (à la Lydia B. Kollins on All Stars 10).

Two players are competing for the fifth time (Cirie Fields and Ozzy Lusth), and Angelina Keeley, who competed alongside White on ‘David Vs. Goliath’ and was cast by the latter in season two of The White Lotus, is also returning.

Winners Dee Valladares (Survivor 45) and Kyle Fraser (Survivor 48) will also return. The full cast list is available here.

Survivor 50 will premiere in spring 2026.

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