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Zeke Smith accepts GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program At GLAAD's Rising Stars Luncheon at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on May 4th, Zeke Smith accepted the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program on behalf of Survivor: Game Changers, and delivered inspirational remarks to an audience of LGBTQ young people and influencers. Smith Was Surprised to Find Himself As a Role Model But He’s So Proud Now I feel for him and I’ll do whatever I can in the future to help him if he’ll let me … I feel like now the healing can begin, not only for me but hopefully for Zeke and hopefully for trans people across the world,” said Varner at the time. Varner told “Entertainment Tonight” at the time that he was so sorry for what he did to Smith and wanted to make it right if he could. “He was like, ‘We’re not gonna promote it, we’re not gonna sensationalize it, I’m gonna go to bat for you.’ He kept every single one of those promises.”Īs for Varner, not only was he unanimously voted off of “Survivor” that fateful night at Tribal Council, but after the episode aired, he lost his job at a North Carolina real estate agency. “The day after I got voted out, I was on the phone with Jeff Probst and he made a handful of promises to me about how my outing was going to be handled,” said Smith. Smith said it was terrifying to think about being aired on national television, but host Jeff Probst stepped up and reassured him that the show would handle it respectfully. “In all of the ways that I had gamed out how I would potentially talk about being trans, it was never being so dramatically outed at Tribal Council.” When it happened at Tribal Council, Smith admitted that it left him reeling - “I was checked out for about 45 minutes to an hour ,” said Smith. 'Survivor' Castaway Zeke Smith Explains Why He Wanted CBS to Air Controversial Tribal Council More from Entertainment Tonight: bit.ly/1xTQtvw Jeff Varner outed Smith as transgender on Wednesday night's episode of 'Survivor: Game Changers.'