Richard Hatch is calling out Survivor, including its longtime host Jeff Probst.
The Season 1 winner opened up in an interview with TooFab about his reality TV experience. “Life has always been about opportunity.
And I’ve really been intrigued by trying different things and exploring. I’ve had a really, really interesting life. It was sidetracked awfully, horribly by what happened after Survivor,” he said. Keep reading to find out more… If you didn’t know, Richard was convicted of tax evasion after failing to report approximately $1.4 million in income, including his $1 million winnings from Survivor in 2000.
He was sentenced to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release. After being released in 2009, he was ordered to refile his 2000 and 2001 taxes, but went back to prison for an additional nine months for not doing so. “I have no idea where I stand with the franchise, but there are the folks behind … Mark Burnett and Jeff Probst, for example, who have acted incredibly irresponsibly with respect to not engaging with me and not correcting their own kind of mistakes that could have prevented my family and life from being devastated,” he said. “Do I hold a grudge?
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