Survivor season 49 contestant Jake Latimer missed out on the birth of his firstborn son to stay on the show.

“I gave [my wife] the option for me to bow out,” Latimer, 36, told Entertainment Weekly in an interview conducted in April but published on Tuesday, September 9. “I said, ‘This is our child. You’re here alone.’ She’s Australian, so she doesn’t have anyone up in Canada.”

Latimer’s wife apparently had no issues with him continuing to compete on the new season, which is set to premiere later this month.

“She says, ‘No, you go out. This is your dream, go do it, and whatever money you make is mine,’” he recalled.

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Survivor host Jeff Probst was aware of Latimer’s predicament but told EW that no special treatme

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