Richard Hatch Sent to Oklahoma Prison

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Millionaire and reality TV show winner Richard Hatch will not get his wish to serve out his 4 year prison sentence at a cushy prison "camp" in sunny Florida. Instead, the "Survivor" winner has been sent to a federal prison in Oklahoma to serve out a portion of his 51-month sentence for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million prize he won on the first season of Survivor.

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Survivor's Stephenie LaGrossa Gets Married

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Survivor star Stephenie Lagrossa lost on Palau and Guatemala but she's finally outlasted her longtime hold-out boyfriend. Steph and her high-school history teacher groom, Michael Ward, 33, were wed over the weekend in a special beach-themed ceremony. "We're huge beach people," she told People magazine. "He loves to surf. I love the beach. We wanted to definitely have something on the beach."

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Shows Like 'CSI' And 'Survivor' Hit iTunes

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Good news for ‘CSI’ and ‘Survivor’ fans. You’ll now be able to download your favourite shows from Apple’s iTunes Music Store.

It will cost you $1.99 to watch an episode of the hit TV shows, which can be downloaded to view either on your computer or iPod.

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Richard Hatch Gets New Survivor Gig - 4 Years in Jail

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Former "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of the show, was sentenced to 51 months in jail Tuesday, for failing to pay taxes. The 45-year-old reality show winner, who hated to wear clothes and was nicknamed the "naked fat guy" by talk show host David Letterman when the show aired a few years ago, was convicted in January of not paying income tax on his $1 million Survivor prize, as well as other earnings. Richard, the tribe has spoken.

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Aras is Sole Survivor in Panama

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Aras Baskauskas, the good-looking, single, yoga instructor hottie from Santa Monica, won the $1 million prize on “Survivor: Panama – Exile Island” Sunday night after the jury of cast-offs decided they hated Aras less than they hated Danielle DiLorenzo, who had earlier been the sole vote to eliminate heavy-favorite Terry Deitz. Danielle's only chance was to pick Aras for the final two hoping she might squeeze past in the jury voting which came down to a popularity contest, as always.

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Danni Boatwright Wins Survivor Guatemala

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Sports radio host Danni Boatwright beat out Stephenie LaGrossa on "Survivor: Guatemala, The Maya Empire" Sunday night, winning the $1 million prize and the praise of the other survivor contestants on the 11th edition of the reality show.

Danni, a former Miss USA contestant, outlasted and outcharmed Stephenie, a veteran of "Survivor: Palau" series, to win the grueling 39-day challenge. Despite all the physical and mental challenges, it all came down to which woman was better liked. In the end, Steph, 25, had just made too many enemies in her efforts to win the game.

An enemy like former bud Judd Sergeant who was still wild-eye with simmering rage when he told Steph at the final jury tribal council, "Your strategy was just to backstab," as she and Danni defended their actions and how they played the game to the jury.

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Cindy Pimps Her Ride Right Off Survivor Guatemala

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The zookeeper Cindy Hall fell to the "curse of the car" and became the latest survivor to be backstabbed and betrayed by the tribe, after she had too much to say about her good fortune.

The vote seemed pre-ordained early in the show when Cindy came back from the tribal council where Judd was voted off, and was pissed that she had not gotten the memo. Overall, though, the remaining survivors were pleased to see Judd go and a much friendlier atmosphere settled over the camp.

In the reward challenge, the survivors faced a course they had pretty much seen before. They raced across balance beam, untied knots, and broke tiles. Cindy and Steph were the most agile competitors and made it to the final two but Cindy proved a might quicker slapping her clay tile Mayan puzzle together to win the challenge - and a new car!

Then -- gasp! -- a shocker, as FOUR MORE CARS are driven hell-bent out of the jungle to the surprise of the players. Host Jeff Probst then gave Cindy the option of keeping the 2006 Pontiac Torrent she had won in the challenge, or give hers up so the four remaining contestants could each have a new Pontiac. The others are thrilled and look to Cindy eagerly. Jeff reminds her several times that in 9 seasons of Survivor the car winner has never gone on to win the game and called it the "curse of the car." Cindy says that since nothing in the game was guaranteed, she would keep what she had won. She then invited Stephenie to join her in the reward - driving to an archeological site where they ate barbeque.

During the commercial, I wondered if I would keep the Pontiac or give it up and concluded it would be more fun to give the 4 cars away, because I don't believe the others would have been inclined to vote Cindy off if she had given them each a car. She had the power to make them indebted to her and she didn't do it. She could have handed out four keys to her buds with a dark warning: "Vote me out and I will HUNT YOU DOWN one by one and KEY YOUR CAR. That's right, baby, a big ol' scratch down the side of your bling Pontiac!" But that's just me.

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Survivor Episode 12: "I Hope You Get Bit by a Crocodile. Scumbags!"

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Juddy! Juddy! Juddy! You big ol' lyar! Telling everybody you don't lie then sporting that dumb look on your face when all your fibs are revealed. Judd is the latest tribal member to be kicked off of "Survivor: Guatemala" as he fell into the trap of showing up clueless at Tribal Council.

Danni has been panicked that she had a bull-eye on her back, which she did, and she knew it, but instead of moping around like Lydia, Danni went after it. The girl showed some balls in launching a plan to turn the others onto Judd, who had been assuming all along that he would easily make it to the final two.

At the reward auction where each survivor is given $500 cash to bid on blind items, Danni wisely bids on a sealed envelope containing a hint that would help her at the next immunity challenge. The other rewards included beef jerky and a Philly Cheese sandwich, but the sweet reward is the opportunity to have a loved one spend the night at the camp. Judd borrows money from Cindy and wins the reward. He's allowed to pick two other members to share the love and he picks Cindy and Steph.

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Survivor Guatemala: Hogaboom is Cut from the Team

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Gary Hogeboom, the ex-Cowboys/Colts/Cardinals quarterback of the 80s era was the latest tribal member to be sacrificed in the jungles of Guatemala as the delicious back-stabbing, bitchfest intensifies.

At the reward challenge, Jeff quizzes the tribe members about the details of Mayan culture. Each time a player answered correctly they got to smash another contestant's hanging pot in order to eliminate them from the challenge. Last person with a pot to piss in at the end won. Cindy is the victor and picks Rafe to join her at dinner and for a massage.

Cut to Rafe who tells viewers that he is like, "a really touchy person," who doesn't like to be touched but he was so surprised that, when he hugged Cindy under the waterfall, it was all warm and fuzzy and the touch of a female was truly not icky after all. Or words to that effect.

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Survivor Guatemala recap: "Now THAT's How You Vote Somebody Out!"

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I can't believe paranoid Jamie made such a big deal about everyone being against him, and he was trying to like get Cindy mad at Gary, and she's totally like, "Why are you getting mad at me for not being mad at Gary?" And Jamie was like, "That's not what I said." And everyone's like, "Did too." And Jamie is like "Gary, you called me a liar." And Gary's like, "Did not. You don't hear very well."

So Judd tells Jamie to chill and Jamie's like "Okay, but I want Gary to know I'm mad just like he's mad." And Gary's like "Who's mad?" And Judd concludes that Jamie is crazy. And Jamie says Gary's going to vote Cindy off which is a crazy lie. And then Steph is like "Jamie drives me nuts."

And Lydia was feeling bad for falling down in the mud and goes, "It was all my fault, you guys. I slowed you down." Duh. Rub it in. But no one dogs Lydia for them losing out on an appearance in the Folgers French Roast commercial. (Holy Product Placement!)

The rewarded team are wisked away in the heli ride and go to a private estate for showers, skinny dipping, dinner, and pajama party, and then they get a "best part of waking up is Folger's in your cup" kind of morning. And then they get four videotapes of loved one back home and they like get all warm and fuzzy and Steph's like, "Only two more weeks!" to Gary when he shows emotion.

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