Time flies! Nearly 600 other people have competed on Survivor since the truth festival premiered in May 2000 — and 20 of them came back to commemorate the 40th season, Survivor: Winners at War.

Each of the returning castaways have won at least one previous season, with Sandra Diaz-Twine being the only two-time champ in the display’s history. For the special all-winners season, the grand prize was once doubled from $1 million to $2 million, making it the largest amount for a U.S. truth series since The X Factor.

While quite a lot of fan favorites — together with “Boston Rob” Mariano, Amber Mariano, Parvati Shallow, Jeremy Collins and Ethan Zohn — returned, some notable past winners did not make the general minimize. Richard Hatch, who gained the inaugural season, Survivor: Borneo, did not receive an invitation because of his irrelevant behavior on Survivor: All-Stars, while Survivor: Caramoan winner John Cochran passed at the opportunity.

Ethan, who gained Survivor: Africa in 2001, is the most senior participant of the bunch, and Nick Wilson, who took house the title of Sole Survivor on Survivor: David vs. Goliath in 2018, is the latest.

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“There have been a couple of folks that had stated through the years that they might by no means play again, and like a terrible salesman, I took them at their phrase. Rob was one. Parvati was once one,” longtime host Jeff Probst told Us Weekly exclusively on set in Fiji. “But people’s lives exchange, and we tried them again and they started announcing yes. Then it changed into an abundance of riches. So a lot so that it was in reality laborious to not come with one of the most winners because we didn’t wish to cross above 20.”

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