Post by Cecilia Mansilla on Jul 14, 2009 3:18:09 GMT -5
Don't know if this old news but it was posted relatively late last night on TV.com I think and I didn't know about it! Found it on the main page of the CBS website.
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Winner of Survivor's first million-dollar prize legally prohibited from participating in Survivor reunion show.
Probst has a tax exemption for being extra awesome.
The 20th cycle of Survivor is doing something special to commemorate the series' tenth year on the air -- it's putting together a sort of All-Star game. CBS will be recruiting past contestants to put each others' torches out, so bringing on the first winner of the show is a logical choice. There's just one problem: he's a convicted criminal. [/u]
Richard Hatch, one of reality television's first polarizing (and naked) figures, was convicted of tax evasion for failing to give the government a cut of the one million dollars he won on the first edition of Survivor. He served three years in jail and is currently finishing out his sentence under house arrest in Rhode Island.
CBS invited Hatch to participate in the upcoming edition, which is set to film in Samoa, and Hatch asked a federal judge to lift his punishment so he could join in on the fun. He promised to use any money won during the show to help pay tax penalties and insisted he wouldn't run off and avoid his legal obligations in a foreign country.
The judge's response to Hatch's request: Nope!
Federal judge William Smith dropped the hammer on Friday, according to Reuters, thus destroying viewers' dreams of watching Hatch and season 18's Coach try to out-slay each other. Way to be a damper, Smith!
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Winner of Survivor's first million-dollar prize legally prohibited from participating in Survivor reunion show.
Probst has a tax exemption for being extra awesome.
The 20th cycle of Survivor is doing something special to commemorate the series' tenth year on the air -- it's putting together a sort of All-Star game. CBS will be recruiting past contestants to put each others' torches out, so bringing on the first winner of the show is a logical choice. There's just one problem: he's a convicted criminal. [/u]
Richard Hatch, one of reality television's first polarizing (and naked) figures, was convicted of tax evasion for failing to give the government a cut of the one million dollars he won on the first edition of Survivor. He served three years in jail and is currently finishing out his sentence under house arrest in Rhode Island.
CBS invited Hatch to participate in the upcoming edition, which is set to film in Samoa, and Hatch asked a federal judge to lift his punishment so he could join in on the fun. He promised to use any money won during the show to help pay tax penalties and insisted he wouldn't run off and avoid his legal obligations in a foreign country.
The judge's response to Hatch's request: Nope!
Federal judge William Smith dropped the hammer on Friday, according to Reuters, thus destroying viewers' dreams of watching Hatch and season 18's Coach try to out-slay each other. Way to be a damper, Smith!
