The Season 1 winner revealed what it will take for him to return to Survivor for the present’s fiftieth season, earlier than sharing what he actually thinks of the present period of the present — which he nonetheless watches each week.
Richard Hatch is not ruling out a return to Survivor … even when he would not completely agree with the present state of the present.
TooFab spoke to the fact TV veteran following his elimination from MTV’s Home of Villains on Thursday, the place he shared what his future on actuality tv seems to be like, and what it will take for him to return for the Survivor‘s fiftieth season.
“Life has all the time been about alternative. And I’ve actually been intrigued by making an attempt various things and exploring. I’ve had a extremely, actually attention-grabbing life. It was sidetracked awfully, horribly by what occurred after Survivor,” he advised TooFab. “And that is a part of our system being damaged and greater than we are able to get into now — prejudice, et cetera, however I really like life. I really like me. I really like exploring alternative. And so there is not any telling the place you may see me subsequent.”
Hatch was convicted of tax evasion after failing to report roughly $1.4 million in earnings, together with his $1 million winnings from the primary season of Survivor in 2000. He was sentenced to 51 months in jail and three years of supervised launch. After his launch in 2009, he was ordered to refile his 2000 and 2001 taxes and pay what he owed, however he was returned to jail for an extra 9 months for not doing so.
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As for what it will take Hatch to return after his life was, as he put it, “sidetracked” by the present, the fact TV veteran stated he has just a few “affordable requests” that must wager met first.
“I don’t know the place I stand with the franchise, however there are the oldsters behind … Mark Burnett and Jeff Probst, for instance, who’ve acted extremely irresponsibly with respect to not participating with me and never correcting their very own form of errors that would have prevented my household and life from being devastated,” Hatch stated.
“Do I maintain a grudge? It isn’t a grudge. I simply really feel it is indicative of who they’re as folks. And it is too unhealthy that they are not somewhat extra accountable. They’re in positions of energy the place they may have made a distinction, could make a distinction, they usually select to not act. And I feel that is irresponsible. And I feel folks can can form of see that that is how they act, how little they care concerning the contributors that they interact on the present,” he continued.
Throughout his tax evasion trial, Hatch’s lawyer reportedly stated his shopper caught fellow contestants dishonest and the present’s producers agreed to pay his taxes if he gained. Burnett, nonetheless, testified Hatch’s contract with the present stipulated he was chargeable for taxes.
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“That does not have something to do, from my perspective, with the sport. I really like the sport. I’ve by no means missed an episode,” he clarified. “And so, you understand, there could be some issues that must occur had been they to name me. And I feel these could be easy and affordable requests. After which I’d play in the event that they did.”
The present period of the present has largely modified in format and elegance from Hatch’s day, with host Jeff Probst just lately saying Survivor not desires to solid “villains,” a time period many followers of the present have labeled Hatch. However the present’s shorter and altogether totally different gameplay, involving quite a few idols and benefits, solely does a disservice to the viewers, Hatch tells TooFab.
“I feel Jeff is especially chargeable for issues with the present, and I do not suppose he will get it. And his complete holier-than-thou method to this concept of no villains anymore is admittedly misguided,” Hatch maintained. “I’ve talked about that earlier than, but it surely’s simply … he would not perceive the sport. And I feel folks will hear me say that and suppose, ‘Oh, what an ego. He is a number.’ He does it effectively, however he isn’t conscious of what it takes to play the sport effectively and what is going on on. And I feel, frankly, he is simply not shiny sufficient to know why viewers are drawn to the present.”
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He continued, “And he misses it. He misses the boat in a giant, massive, massive means when he says issues like that and when he is made among the adjustments that he is made. And I really feel unhealthy just for viewers and for contributors who’re subjected to the adjustments he makes, as an alternative of his reaching out to really study what may very well be performed to make the present even higher and higher and higher, and serve each contributors and viewers in a means that may be, respectable.”
TooFab has reached out to Probst for remark.
Catch Home of Villains Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on E! and stream from the start on Peacock.
