Russell Ellis, from Virginia, joined the cast of Survive the Raft. It is a brand-new show which premiered on 30 July 2023. Nine strangers from various backgrounds will join the Acali II for 21 days in the two-hour episode. As three different teams, they will complete a variety of tasks to raise the overall reward pool.
Each week, the nine players have the option of evicting a member of their own team, replacing that person with another contestant, or keeping them on the show. At the end of the season, the team with the lowest overall score will receive the prize money, which will be distributed equally among the team members.
Learn all about Ruseell in this article below. Here are a few things about his age, job, wife, and family.
Russell Ellis On Survive The Raft
Survive The Raft is a new reality show that places nine Americans of diverse races, geographic areas, and religious and political beliefs on a 60-foot-by-40-foot barge on the Pacific Ocean near the Pearl Islands of Panama. The goal is to see if the participants will behave cooperatively or competitively in the face of physical, mental, and monetary challenges. Newcomers join when some get eliminated.
Survive The Raft re-creates anthropologist Santiago Genovés’ controversial 1973 study of whether internationally diverse people would work together to survive at sea. The show is hosted by former Green Beret and NFL pro-Nate Boyer.
Russell, a father of five children who grew up as a mountain boy in North Carolina, now resides in Stafford. He sleeps with one eye open and is a superb interrogator who understands how to play the game. He learned various winter and hot terrain survival tactics during his stint in the military. Ellis is skilled in both hunting and fishing having a Souther background, but his time in the military also taught him survival techniques to withstand extremely cold, hot, windy, or wet terrains.
As for the other cast members they are named CJ Duffie, Elliot Capella, Jonathan Dade, Lashanna Lintamo, Maddie Witt, Merissa Underwood, Tara Colucci, and Summer Homayed.
Russell Ellis Age
At the time of filming the show, Russell Ellis was 38 years old.
Russell Ellis Family
Russell Ellis shared that he was raised by a racist family in North Carolina. He grew up in a neighborhood where a Confederate flag was posted in his front yard. On the flag, at the bottom of it, it said the South will rise again.
When he was 9 or 10, Russell asked what the flag meant. His dad told him, “Son listen, it’s not going to be long before it’s illegal to be White in this country. It’s going to be illegal to be a Christian in this country. It’s going to be illegal to be a heterosexual White male in this country.”
While appearing in an interview on the channel Change The Narrative with JD Fuller, Russell mentioned his “dad’s wife” (as he doesn’t call her step-mom). He added in the interview that his parents had divorced when he was three years old.
According to Russell both of his parents were racists. Surprisingly, his mom remarried a Black man. For Russell’s dad, his mom’s marriage was shocking. His paternal grandparents used to tell his father, “Well, she left you for the ‘N-word’.”
Then his dad got custody of Russell and he didn’t see his mom until he was 10 after his mom went to court and got the visitation rights of him. However, at the time he hated his mother partly for “abandoning” him and partly for the reason that he was told “god doesn’t approve the interracial marriage.”
Russell’s mom had three children from her second marriage. He got to meet his siblings during the second visitation which he wasn’t expecting as he had made some racist remarks during the first visitation. These visitations changed him as he grew close to his mom and dad.
And, he started arguing with his dad. At the age of 15, he confronted his dad about the N-word and even got into a physical altercation.
Russell Ellis Job
Russell Ellis was in the military but he is no longer serving the country. While you may not find much about Russell, he is huge on social media. How huge, you ask?
Russell has 4.8 million followers on TikTok. His TikTok is named (@teatok_tea_eo). His content draws in an insane amount of views and none of them ever misses. One of his most recent TikTok (Great Tiktok Chicken War of 2023) has 10 million views and 1.4 million likes.
His Instagram flaunts 250K followers. Furthermore, he also started a YouTube channel called Jolly, The Tea Guy. The channel has 31.5K subscribers.
Russell also got to be on TEDx Talks at TEDxSUNYGeneseo. He was raised in the mountains of North Carolina where racism was “so casual it was culture”. Now he is a “reformed racist” who aims to teach other white people how to deconstruct their own racism. Listen to this powerful speech in which he talks about his childhood, the cycle of white supremacy, and what white people can do to “BREAK THE CYCLE”.
At the age of 15, he became an advocate for unlearning, relearning, and being an advocate for social justice, civil, justice, and racism.
Russell Ellis Wife
Russell Ellis who shared a lot in public hasn’t posted anything about his wife yet. He is a dad to five children whom he has yet to share on his socials.
Russell Ellis Height
Russell Ellis’s height measures above 6 feet.
Related FAQs
Where Is Russell Ellis From?
Russell Ellis is currently residing in Stafford, Virginia.
When Is Russell Ellis Birthday?
Unfortunately, Russell Ellis’s birthday is not available.
Is Russell Ellis On Instagram And Facebook?
Yes, Russell Ellis is on Instagram (@jolly_good_ginger) but we were unable to track his Facebook profile.
