Survivor Premiere Not Good For Reem Daly Of Ashburn

ASHBURN, VA—Wednesday was the 38th season premiere of the CBS reality show Survivor and its new subtitle, "Edge of Extinction." Fiji is the setting for the latest version. Alas for Ashburn resident Reem Daly, she lasted all of one episode. But there's a catch. Daly will remain on the show, albeit not in the way she probably envisioned.

Here's how her exit went down, as described by The Hollywood Reporter: "The closing moments of the 38th Survivor premiere centered on Virginia's very own Reem Daly, voted out in a tense Tribal Council after a series of personality clashes. Like hundreds of other players in Survivor history, Reem walked away from executive producer and host Jeff Probst down the long and lonely path of elimination. Unlike those players, at the end of the path, Reem came face to face with an unprecedented choice: Leave the game forever, or continue onward for an enigmatic second chance.

"As one would expect, Reem chose to embrace the new opportunity, only to arrive by boat at Extinction Island, the desolate wasteland where she and other eliminated players will come to call home."

So there you go. In a cast assessment before the premier, John Powell of GlobalTV.com had this to say about Daly: "She is honest to a fault which can be a great quality in life but not the Survivor game. I see her as taking on the mom role as long as she has the ability to relax and not be controlling."

In case you never at least stumbled onto the series since its 2000 premiere, Survivor gathers a group of folks in a selected faraway, desolate locale and narrows the field each week through a vote of the participants' peers. Whoever is left standing at the end is declared the winner.

Before the premiere, theburn.com conducted a Q&A with Daly, 46, who works in sales and has a son at Rock Ridge High School and twin daughters at Stone Hill Middle School.