“Survivor 48” players share their most embarrassing stories ever

Embarrassing things can happen on Survivor. But guess what? Embarrassing things can happen in normal life as well. The one difference, of course, is that when they happen in normal life, there is not a camera crew around to broadcast the embarrassment to the entire world. That’s where we come in.

To warm the cast of Survivor 48 up for any possible embarrassment to come, we asked them in Fiji before filming began to reveal their most humiliating moment ever. We were not prepared for their answers. WARNING: You may not be either.

Sai Hughley

I was around seven and was playing Nala in The Lion King. It was off-Broadway, don’t get too excited. But I was really nervous, and I could feel it. I was relatively young and when it was my part, it was dead silent… and I sharted. Everybody knew it was me, too. I couldn’t even be like, “Who was that?” So I completely forgot the line and just walked off. And then they were like, “No, you have to go back and do the part so other people can go.”

So that was the most embarrassing. I’ll never forget it, either. My mom still has it on recording and I’m like, “Please delete that! Why do you have that?” Because back in the day, they would record everything. So that’s the most embarrassing thing. I’ll never live that down.

Mitch Guerra

One time I was in Las Vegas, and I was about to hop into the shower. I had on my underwear and I thought I heard somebody knocking outside the door. So I opened the door, but the door shut behind me. I had to walk through the hotel lobby of one of the biggest casinos in Vegas in just my underwear. I got a lot of attention for that.

Charity Nelms

It literally happened this morning. We get here, it’s like four in the morning. I had to pee soooo bad. Full bladder. So we get up here, I’m like, “Cool, I got to go to the bathroom.” And he’s like, “Oh, there isn’t one.” And I’m like, “Okay, cool. I will christen the island. Awesome. I’ll be the first one. I got to go.” Now, I have a jumpsuit on, so I have to get fully nude, fully naked. Can’t pull my pants down. Got to take the whole thing off.

He’s like, “You can just go over here. “And I’m like, “Okay, will you keep people back for me?” He’s like, “Yes, I got you! I’ll keep people back.” I’m like, “Okay.” So fully naked, I’m going to the bathroom this morning at 4:00 a.m. and someone walks up from the other way with a flashlight. I’m fully butt naked! I’m like, “Are you kidding me right now?” So that happened, oh, I don’t know, five hours ago? That was pretty embarrassing.

Thomas Krottinger

When I was still in Wichita Falls, I was playing every sport imaginable — soccer, baseball, basketball, the whole thing. I was an obese child — like chunky monkey, the big face, the whole thing. There are photos of me on a horse where it looks like I needed a crane operator to pick me up and put me down on the horse. It’s like “You didn’t get up there by yourself, kid!” So because I was kind of large and in charge during school, and soccer is very competitive, when it was a competitive final game or whatever, I knew that I was going to be on the bench.

So I had a habit of sitting at of the top of the bench with the moms, because I knew that I wasn’t going to need to go in. They had the snacks. So I was just living my normal life having some snacks. And then, to my utter surprise, I remember hearing my name and I was like, “Oh dear God!” And this was so unexpected that I stood up and I tried to jump from the top of the bleachers onto the field. and sweet little Porker Thomas obviously makes it two rows before falling and breaking my teeth off on the metal bleachers.

I fall, break my teeth, roll down the bleachers somehow and splayed out on the ground. The game stopped. Everybody’s around me, blood is pouring out of my face, and I was still so excited that I was going to play in this big game that I was like, “I can go in. Can I go in? It’s fine.” Blood gurgling out of my mouth. That’s why when people give people a lot of crap for having veneers, I’m like “Leave them alone. You don’t know what happened.”

Eva Erickson

One of my super embarrassing moments that’s just so funny is one time between periods in hockey, I was sitting on the bench, and there’s no play happening, and I just randomly fell backwards onto the ice. Everybody stopped and looked at me and were like, “What just happened?” I was dying laughing, but I was like, “Oh my God, I can’t believe that just happened!” It was an important game, too. I was just sitting on the bench intently listening to the coach and I was like, “Yeah, let’s go!” And then I’m just like, “What?”

Joe Hunter

I’m in college at UCLA. We come into this main quad area, and this is right around lunchtime. And because the dean had just shown up, the presence in the room was quiet. You could kind of hear a pin drop. And right as he’s finishing up his deal, we had a practice, we’re all kind of filing in and it just happened to be me with five other teammates. And it was dead quiet.

I walk in, got my bag, dropped my bag, bent down, and I let an air biscuit go. And I thought based on the sweats I was wearing, it would just be silent but violent, but it was so loud. And I can’t stop laughing when I hear a fart. Some of the most attractive women on the planet — the volleyball team — were right there and they turn around and I’m just caught red handed, and all that came out was “Found it!”

Stephanie Berger

The one thing I wanted to be in the world was as cool as the Gossip Girl girlies. I was a New York City kid and had friends who were very famous adjacent — friends of friends of friends who had gone to summer camp or had gone to private school or somewhere with somebody who was fancy in that way. And it was so aspirational to me. It was all I wanted.

I went to someone’s birthday party, and it was this spectacular sweet 16. I’m talking New York City loft with balloons to the ceiling and silver streamers coming all the way to the ground, kids definitely drinking and smoking cigarettes indoors. I met the birthday girl, and we were chatting with her and her closest friend, and I went to remove a smudge on her friend’s forehead. But it was definitely a birthmark or a freckle or something. And I remember just being so deeply mortified that I had tried to touch this person. What was I doing? Put your hands back! Get your hands back! I had probably had too many Mike’s Hard Lemonades beforehand or something.

I was definitely on bad behavior, but it came from such an earnest place of “I really want to be your friend and I want you to like me. And I have just done the thing that is the most offensive thing I could possibly do in this scenario.” I actually don’t remember if we stayed at the party. I don’t remember what happened the rest of the night. That is the core memory of this hoity-toity event that I went to: It was me touching some girl’s forehead.

Shauhin Davari

So I have a ton of dentist anxiety. I had a weird dental procedure that went awry and was gnarly. And so I go into my dentist’s office, they put the lead vest on you, and they take the X-rays while you’re sitting in the chair. And this very sweet older lady in her sixties puts the lead vest on me, takes the X-rays, and then she goes to take the lead vest off of me. And again, I had told her I had dental anxiety, so when she went to reach her hands around me to take the lead vest off from around my neck, I thought she was giving me a hug.

And so from the chair, I reached up and gave her a big old bear hug because I was just like, “Oh, it’s over, thank goodness.” And then all of a sudden from behind me, I hear the sound of the Velcro and I immediately start sweating. I realize that I have just hugged this poor woman who’s just trying to do her job. And she pulls away and has a big smile on her face, thankfully. But I felt like I wanted to change my name and move out of state at the time.

Kamilla Karthigesu

It’s pretty embarrassing, and it’s happened twice. I’ve diarrhead and puked at the same time. And each time, a different one made it into the toilet.

Kyle Fraser

This one particularly always haunts me. I played lacrosse in college, and I was a good defenseman. I can’t remember many games where somebody scored more than one or two goals on me, tops, out of my entire career from middle school to the end of college. This one game, this one Canadian guy just dropped seven goals on me in front of everybody. It happened to be the one game that season my family came and watched, and I was a captain on this team.

It was humiliating. I could not get over it for, I mean, years. I’m 30, I’m nine years removed from college and this is the thing I’m saying before I go on national television. Oh God! But yeah, that was really rough. I’d never had anything like that happen to me athletically ever. And people lose trust in you after stuff like that happens. So I really had to grind to get it back. To be clear, he was their best player and he went on to play in the pros for a little bit of time. But yeah, that was tough.

Chrissy Sarnowsky

I remember my first day at the firehouse and the guys were cooking because everybody pitches in the kitchen, and I’m the new girl and I was a paramedic. I wasn’t a firefighter at the time. And I said, “Can I help out, guys?” And they said, “Sure, go frost the cake.” And I said, “Okay.” So I grabbed the frosting and I’m sitting frosting the cake and they come up and they go, “What the f— are you doing?” I go, “I’m frosting!” It was a bundt cake and I was frosting the wrong side of the cake. So it was like, here’s the new girl that doesn’t even know how to frost a cake. I got 26 years on since then and it still haunts me to this day.

David Kinne

I was in college and I was working nights. I think I was working from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., and then obviously had class in the morning. And there’s this English class — I loved the teacher to death, but the class itself was rather boring and I was notorious for falling asleep in class. I went and had a conversation with her and I said, “Hey, I’m so sorry. I work nights till 3:00 a.m., it has nothing to do with you. I want to be here. I have to be here. I’m sorry.” And so this went on and eventually she kind of just learned to leave me and eventually I would wake up and nod off.

And so one day it was so bad that I fell asleep and I woke up and I didn’t recognize anyone else in the class. She had started the next class! I was in the far end of the room, so I had to stand up awkwardly grab my stuff. And she shut down the whole class while this happened, obviously trying to make a point or embarrass me, of course. And I had to walk silently out of the room in front of everybody knowing that they all knew that I was asleep in my chair that whole time as they came in.

Star Toomey

It was a high school basketball game, and it was the game before the final. So basically, we needed to win this game. We were playing a team called Mountain View, and it was crazy because they had a celebrity guest come out, Keri Hilson. Apparently, she played basketball and she was friends with the coach. So she came, but she only came to see Mountain View and talked to Mountain View team. She didn’t come to see us and talk to us and give us any cool little feedback, which is fine because once again, her loyalty was with them.

So I wore extension braids in my hair. I’m playing, I’m into it, and the next thing I know, I look down and there’s my braid on the floor. My braid is on the floor, literally tracks of it, maybe at least two braids. So I have to pick my braid up, because everybody saw the braid fall, and I have to pick it up, put it in my shoe and act like it was not on the floor. Keri Hilson is right there! The braid is literally there! And nobody else is on the court but me because it’s my braid.

My teammates saw me pick it up and they made fun of me. And it’s funny because I think that happened my sophomore year of high school, so the fact that it still haunts me to this day lets you know that it was pretty embarrassing. I would hate for my hair to fall out again while I’m on the show. So I’m just going to keep everything fingers crossed that we’re good to go.

Kevin Leung

The most embarrassing story is probably when I was in high school and I went on one of my first dates. It was a movie date, and the girl said, “Hey, pick a movie to watch.” And there was King Kong, which I really wanted to watch, and there’s another movie called Memoirs of a Geisha, and in my head I was like, “What the heck is a Geisha?” And I thought it was either a car or a fight scene. So I was like, “Okay, that sounds good. I don’t know what a memoir means either, but let’s just try it.”

I went inside and we watched it and I was like, “What is going on?” It was not what I expected. I was cringing the entire time. And then she wanted to hold hands and I was like, “Don’t touch me. This is weird. I don’t want this to happen.” And the next day she’s like, “You want to watch a movie again?” I was like, “No, it’s either going to be King Kong or I don’t want to watch any movie ever again.” Actually, to this day. I’m like: What the heck is a Geisha? I don’t know.

Mary Zheng

It embarrasses me when I’m with a new guy, boyfriend guy that I’m talking to and I accidentally fart. It’s f—ing mortifying. I mean, eventually with every guy I am going to fart at some point, but the first time is always so embarrassing. The first few times I’m hanging out with a guy, my desire to go number two just POOF! — evaporates. There are too many nerves. I can’t do it.

Cedrek McFadden

I’m a physician, and so I was between cases one day and I’d gone to the restroom. I came out of the restroom, and I walked back into the OR and a nurse stopped me and she pointed to a piece of tissue that was hanging out of the back of my scrub pants. And she was very gracious, and fortunately there were only one or two nurses in the room and she just said, “Turn around, you have something here.” And we took care of that situation. So I had walked from the restroom to that room, and there you have it.

Bianca Roses

I really can’t think of a moment where I was just bright red, embarrassed out of my mind. 1) Probably because I have a terrible memory. And 2) I just don’t get embarrassed easily. It’s just something about me. I own everything that happens. And if it was embarrassing in the moment, I probably was like, “Yeah, I s— my pants or whatever.” Can I get back to you after the show? I’m sure something will happen in the next 26 days where I’m very embarrassed.

Justin Pioppi

It was probably second or third grade, and my mother was working the front, my father was working the pizza station, and my aunt was in the kitchen. So I’m just trying to do everything I can to help them. I was always in there as a kid growing up, so I just wanted to emulate the hard work that they put in. So I’m running back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I was asking my aunt something while I was running to see my father and I slammed into the side of the pizza bench. I got this little shiner here, if you can see that. It’s kind of faded a little bit.

But I was on the ground with my head — like 98 stitches in the middle of dinner rush and my parents had to just stop everything they were doing and they took me in, which I’m grateful for. But we have since sliced the side off the pizza bench so it’s now dull. No one will ever hit it again.

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