After Parvati Shallow won Survivor: Micronesia many years ago, she recently competed in and won Australian Survivor v The World. In response to that impressive accomplishment from Shallow, some fans felt she sealed her Survivor legacy as a two-time winner.
After the world saw Shallow won, her status as a two-time winner came up on "On Fire with Jeff Probst: The Official Survivor Podcast," when the co-host and former Sole Survivor Jeremy Collins was asked if he thinks she is a two-time winner.
Never afraid to speak his mind, Collins has had some brutal Survivor takes on the podcast. Still, many listeners were surprised that Collins argued that Shallow has won Survivor one and a half times in his view.
"In my Survivor world, I say she has one and a half wins," Collins said. "It's a good win. Australian Survivor's a good win, but it's not the same as Survivor U.S. It's not the same."
Collins' comments created a backlash against him, with many observers alleging that his take was misogynistic. Shallow herself responded to Collins and Jeff Probst debating her second win with the following Instagram comment. "A couple of straight men trying to discredit a woman… get a new move, boys."
Other Survivor legends who called out Collins' take included Kelley Wentworth, Eliza Orlins, and Tyson Apostol. The two-time winner Sandra Diaz-Twine argued during an appearance on Carolyn Wiger's podcast that Shallow is a two-time winner while also saying she understands Collins' comments. "At the end of the day, a Survivor win is a Survivor win."
Jeremy Collins defends arguing Parvati Shallow isn't a two-time Survivor winner
After Collins made his controversial comments on the podcast, he remained silent on the scandal for days. On Nov. 5, 2025, all of that changed when Collins broke his silence by posting an Instagram video.
In the opening moments of his Instagram video, Collins stated that he'd allowed the scandal to continue long enough. "All right, I let it go long enough."
From there, Collins summarized the comments that he'd made about Shallow's two-time winner status while pointing out that when he made the controversial comments, he also paid tribute to what Parvati accomplished. More notably, Collins spoke about how wild he feels the reactions to his comments have been.
“I said, ‘It's a good win. She did her thing, but it's not the same game.’ So I said, ‘She's one and a half.’ And the internet went crazy. They're saying, I'm misogynistic and I shouldn't have won my season. And they throw out math problems about, oh, so is this a 2.3 time winner because it's only 26 days? And I said, I didn't even give any days. I didn't even say, my reasoning isn't even because of the days. You know what I mean? I mean, that's part of it, but I didn't even say anything about it. So the internet just went wild with it.”
After speaking about the reactions to his comments, Collins went into greater detail about why he wouldn't call Shallow a two-time winner. To be specific, Collins explained why he feels that there are many ways that American Survivor and Australian Survivor are too different to be considered the same game.
Most notably, Collins spoke about the fact that the Australian Survivor season that Shallow won was filmed over 16 days, which is significantly less than any season of American Survivor.
“It's just a different game. That's all I'm saying. It's a different game. So relax with that. All right. She did her thing. I'm not taking anything away from Parv. She did her thing. Fine. I think the game is different. I lost 30 pounds on Survivor. You know what I mean? 30 pounds each time. I'm not losing 30 pounds on Australian Survivor in the 16 days when you're getting food and you're getting rice, you're getting beans, you're getting fruit. That's not happening. You know what I'm saying? So it's a whole different game. Yeah, sure. The Survivor part of it is the mental and strategy part. Yeah, that's the Survivor. But the whole thing, it's a different game. So that's all I'm saying. It's a different game.”
Finally, Collins told fans to stop bugging him about the controversy, before taking that back and pledging that he won't be bothered too much if the backlash continues.
"Lay off of me. Leave me alone. Or don't. I don't care. Listen, I've played Survivor and won, and people say I should have lost. I've played Survivor and lost, and people say I should have won. Listen, I really like the winning, and people say I lost a lot more than the other way around. So say what you want. You know what I mean? But I'm just telling you my opinion in my Survivor world is that. All right. So does that clear it up for everybody? I hope it does."
You can listen to Collins on the On Fire with Jeff Probst podcast on Wednesdays after new episodes of Survivor 49.