Two decades after becoming the first “Survivor” winner, Hatch talks the toll being an openly gay reality star took and why he’s returning to the spotlight in “House of Villains.”
. The CBS competition series birthed the reality TV craze with its blockbuster premiere season in 2000, seizing the zeitgeist, turning its Average Joe contestants into the biggest celebrities of the summer, and bushwhacking the path for countless reality series and stars to follow.’s first million-dollar winner. He was the kind of TV presence Americans hadn’t seen before.
As was his way 24 years ago, he is cuttingly witty and candid about it all. Plus, after surviving all he went through, he has some strong opinions about the new generation of reality stars., compared to Season 2. I don’t know if I've ever seen people interact like this. It’s a little over the top.SurvivorMetastasized! What a great word. Oh my god, I agree. The difference, I think, is what you saw me do originally was play a game.
No, not at all. I thought I was going to come home to a hero’s welcome. I thought I was the MVP. I thought people were going to be so happy with how I played, and they were going to recognize it and reward it. They had no idea. The people I was playing with didn’t understand the rules of the game. The viewers didn’t understand. The press didn’t understand. Rosie O’Donnell gave me a box of rice when she gave everybody else a car. They didn’t get it.
Did you see her face? “Oh, me too!” We went on to talk afterwards, and the bonding wasn’t so much the tax issues as it was over how broken the system is, and that we did not do what they claimed we did. I mean, her husband did. I didn’t. But that’s just true. Our system doesn’t function the way it should.
Well, it devastated my life, frankly. I didn’t anticipate it. It’s the reason I was prosecuted. I could go into details, but you wouldn’t care now, about the homophobia and the prospective jurors writing “homo,” “a queer,” and “a f--,” and the judge refusing to even let us question jurors about it. I mean, it was crazy that that happened.
Very, very complicated, yeah. You know, I’m a pretty reasonable, rational guy, I think. I’m healthy, I’m educated, etc. But boy, oh boy. Life took a turn as a result of being not just gay, but an out, unapologetic gay atheist. It really changed the trajectory of my life in a really large way., when the world was that way. But now I look at it the same way I did then, which is that it’s an opportunity.
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