Jon Lovett doesnt seem particularly comfortable with being a public figure.
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This interview was published on June 29, 2024.Survivors 47th seasonpremiered on September 18, 2024.
Jon Lovett was voted off first.
Jon Lovettdoesnt like birthday attention.
Its even odder given he has just returned from filming the upcoming season ofSurvivor.
In classic queer tradition, his jokes often tiptoe right up to the line of being in poor taste.
He rarely gives interviews, and since he owns his own podcast company, he has the final edit.
For the better part of the past decade, Lovett was in a relationship with the journalistRonan Farrow.
(Id send him a draft and put in a question, right on this page: Marriage?
On the moon or even here on earth.
He read the draft, and found the proposal here, and said, Sure.)
Post-lockdown, the two broke up.
(Neither did some of his confused friends, who didnt understand why he wasnt texting them back.)
When the trailer came out in May, he was inarguably the best part.
BetweenSurvivorplatitudes from his fellow players (This will be the most important chapter of my life, etc.
), theres Lovett saying, I have no outdoor skills.
What am I doing here?
I went camping as a Cub Scout; I threw up and went home.
From thetrailer, it seems clear which classicSurvivorarchetype hell be edited into: the nerd.
Still, you never know.
I got to have a fascinating, meaningful experience, he says.
For him, the answer was 40.
In the meantime, hes making some more uncomfortable decisions.
Another impulse that struck him during the pandemic and he has since put into practice: wearing skirts onstage.
Theres a push-and-pull thing going on, one that he doesnt seem to have figured out himself.
He agrees that it didnt make much sense.
I ask if it was impulsive.
How could it be impulsive?
I ask if it gave him anxiety.
I ask if he was at peace with the choice.
Its just a funny thing to do to go onSurvivor.Honestly, its so funny.
Even now, its just so silly.
Maybe its all as simple as that.
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