A well-known face from San Antonio TV is about to commerce her microphone for a machete. Former KENS5 journalist Savannah Louie hopes to “outwit, outplay, and outlast” 17 different castaways on the brand new season of CBS’s actuality juggernaut Survivor, premiering September 29.
The 31-year-old California native was a fixture on KENS5 between 2017-2019 as a correspondent, site visitors anchor, and occasional morning present co-host. She left San Antonio for St. Louis, Missouri, and later Atlanta, Georgia, however has since left the information enterprise. Though the Survivor solid reveal lists her as a “former reporter,” her LinkedIn says she is at present working in advertising and marketing for a Silicon Valley agency.
Louie hopes to observe within the footsteps of one other former KENS5 character, Kim Spradlin-Wolfe, who was the only survivor of the twenty fourth season of the collection, including an additional $100,000 to her $1 million haul because the fan favourite. In Leisure Weekly’s solid questionnaire, Louie mentioned that her time behind the information desk will give her a aggressive benefit.
“Via my work as a journalist, I turned an skilled at connecting with others, constructing belief with all various kinds of individuals, and working in high-stress eventualities,” she advised the journal. “An enormous a part of my job was getting individuals to belief me with a few of the most intimate particulars of their lives. And the newsroom is ultra-competitive. Should you can survive a newsroom, you’ll be able to survive something.”
The brand new Survivor solid options 4 Texans.Picture courtesy of Paramount.
Louie will compete towards a number of different Texans, together with Austin musician Kimberly “Annie” Davis, MBA profession coach and native Houstonian Kristina Mills, and health coach Michelle “MC” Chukwujekwu, who lists Dallas suburb Sachse as her hometown. Different notables embody a movie producer, a monetary crime marketing consultant, and quite a lot of males who’ve a tenuous grasp of blouse buttons.
Survivor followers should wait till this fall to see if Louie makes it to the ultimate tribal council, however Louie feels she has the appropriate stuff to make it till the tip. If she makes it to the highest two, she is going to compete towards White Lotus creator Mike White and Survivor legends Cerie Fields, Ozzie Lusth, and Benjamin “Coach” Wade within the landmark fiftieth season of the present.
“I’m an under-the-radar bodily risk with a social sport that may get me to the tip,” Louise advised Leisure Weekly. “I’m hoping others underestimate me whereas contemplating me somebody they belief – solely to understand I’m a pressure to be reckoned with as soon as it’s too late!”
The forty ninth season of Survivor will premiere with a two-hour episode on September 29. The episodes can be accessible for watch on CBS and Paramount Plus.