'Survivor's Zeke Smith Proposes to 'Superstore' Actor Nico Santos at GLAAD Media Awards 2022

[celja]

Zeke Smith and Nico Santos got engaged during the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards! https://t.co/51CQegDHMV
- JustJared.com (@JustJared) April 3, 2022
Two-time Survivor contestant Zeke Smith and Superstore actor Nico Santos got engaged last night at the GLAAD Media Awards

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[therearewords]

Waited for the pictures to load if 'Zeke' is a male or female name because you just can't know with Americans, and GLAAD is way too supportive of straight people.

Good for the both of them.

[emmanium]

It's short for Ezekiel.

He was on Survivor and if I remember correctly, he was outed as trans by another contestant some years ago. It was really shitty so I'm glad to see him thriving!

[therearewords]

Ezekiel is a solid name, being outed isn't.

[emmanium]

Yep!

[muffintiem]

He was outed by a cis gay man--it was so horrific to watch, and even at the reunion, his apology was shit

[emmanium]

Yeah, I vaguely remember that. I watched it back then and was horrified.

[peddlestools]

It was a relief to see everyone else horrified by the outing but they also could have completely edited it out? Idk

[pikapika217]

IIRC they worked with Zeke on/about that and he told them to leave it in.

[peddlestools]

If they consulted him and gave him the option to edit it out or keep it in, then that was the right thing to do

[pikapika217]

Yep, he did -

https://ew.com/tv/2017/05/04/survivor-zeke-smith-game-changers-cbs-transgender/

"What do you think about the people that are saying CBS should not have aired what happened? There are a lot of people with a lot of different opinions about that, but ultimately your take is the one that matters.I’ve always wanted this to air. And I think it’s also important to say that I didn’t go on national television unprepared for the world to know that I am trans, and was ready should that part of my life become part of my Survivor story. It never crossed my mind that it shouldn’t air and I certainly never asked for it not to air. I’ve always felt as Jeff Probst has felt and CBS has felt that this could be a great…. It’s like, there was a moment of darkness, but that it was important for the world to see how my tribemates reacted and how Probst reacted. They so quickly and adamantly rebuffed Varner’s actions. It was just a

[cassismagic]

[blorpz]

he has terrible instincts, but i honestly do believe he wants to do the right thing

i know in season 1 somebody talked about being gay at tribal council and they took it out at their request

[veggie]

i have never watched a single episode of survivor, but this almost made me cry

[weighty_ghost]

wasn't johnathan (was that who it was) voted out in large part because of that? like, they didnt even actually vote? its hard to edit around that

[helyanwe89]

It was Jeff Varner, not Jonathan

[weighty_ghost]

I knew it was a J name but my internet was being a dick and not loading