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Richard Hatch, congratulations.

Thank you.

You clean up nice. You look a lot different than the guy we saw on the

island. Are you a lot different than the guy we got to know on the island?

I'm not sure who you think I was on the island, to tell you the truth. But I

don't think I'm much different than that person.

We saw one poll that said, of the final four, who would you least like to see

win? And your total was equal to that of the other three.

Does that make this a bittersweet victory?

Not for me. I think the press made more out of my kind of being evil than

people. The mail I'm getting is really supportive.

People are...

positive and say, go get them and we wanted you.

So I think it might be just the press.

Kelly, close but no cigar.

How often do you think about what could have been?

Every day.

So much for it only hurts for a little while, right? It was hard not to notice

at the end of the program that you didn't have a hug or a handshake for

Sue.

Still hurt?

I'm over it.

You're over it? Yeah, life goes on. It was a mean game, so a lot of mean

things. And you found out how mean it was? I'm over it.

Oh, yeah. I told her.

I told her.

I told her.

She may hit you before the hour's over. You never know. You never know. Good

evening and welcome.

I'm Brian Gumbel. These are the 16 castaways that we've gotten to know over

the last 13 weeks.

Tonight marks the very first time they've gathered together off that

island in the South China Sea.

So consider the next hour a new tribal council, one loaded with fun and

consisting of a much larger tribe. For an addition of the castaways, we have

assembled an audience of family, friends, and fans. And tonight, we'll

hear from them and from you through exclusive scientific polling being

conducted right now while we're on the air. Tonight, there are no alliances, no

immunity, no rules.

No deep thoughts about survivors' cosmic relevance or what it all meant.

Only the stories the castaways haven't been able to tell, questions they

haven't been able to answer, and issues they haven't been able to resolve until

tonight. We think you want to hear what they have to say to each other and to

you. And you will right after this.

As we begin tonight, I think we can assume now that everyone is familiar

with Susan Hawke, Rudy Bosch, Kelly Wigglesworth, and Richard Hatch, all of

whom made it to the final four. But since our other castaways spent less

time before the cameras, some introductions might be in order. You

might recall that Sonya Christopher and her ukulele were the first to leave the

island.

Followed in order by Bebe Anderson, attorney Stacey Stillman.

biochemist Ramona Gray, our Bible-toting proud virgin Dirk Bean,

the free-spirited Joel Klug, and Gretchen Cordy.

And then there are those castaways who may be more familiar to many of us. They

stayed on the island longer and played a critical role as the jury. Greg Bulis,

coconut phone man.

Jenna Lewis, Jervis Never Nervous Peterson, America's sweetheart

Colleen Haskell.

President, doctor, the alphabetically inclined Sean Knicks.

Thanks, Bob.

That's all right. You said it was the least objectionable. Is that really what

it came down to?

I felt that he deserved it. You know, he was a great, he organized and engineered

the alliance. He's Darth Gator. That's what we've been calling him. I think he

did a fantastic job. He's the puppeteer of the whole alliance that you see

sitting on the couch before you.

Colleen admitted that she changed her vote.

Did any of the other, any of the rest of you, were you swayed by anything you

heard that night? The numbers.

Pure and simple.

Was that the number deal?

Did he get it right? Was the number seven?

No, it was number nine.

It was nine.

It was close, though. Everybody picked seven. So if Kelly would have said nine,

she'd be 900 grand richer.

Ooh.

Who knew?

Who knew?

Well, you know.

Susan. Hmm.

You proud of that speech?

Yeah, I was pissed at the time.

Yeah, I never regret what I say.

But, yeah,

it's over with.

At the time, it worked for me, Brian.

No, that's okay. Yeah, it's cool. I'm just wondering what happened, because

when you got voted off, you were all smiles, and you were like, you know

what? That's good. I want it to be in the final four, and I did.

Got it right there. And then you came back like an hour and a half later. It's

like zing, pow, bang.

Well, yeah, when it ended up being Kelly and Rich.

Long time early on in the game, me and Kelly were, I told Kelly, let's stomp

him. Let's just, I wanted to beat him. Just beat Rich.

I didn't want the million dollars because you get a million bucks and you

got a lot of leeches that come out from under the leaves.

If I'm going to make a million bucks, I'd rather work for it.

And I'm not real Miss Nice like Kelly's nice.

You know, I talk to people and play to people, but I don't go out of my way to,

you know, kiss their backside. So I thought, oh, the two of us, and then we

get down to the end and we can burn rich.

It would have probably worked.

Yeah, but then we had the tip, you know, and then Kelly was, like, doing that

lopsided thing. Didn't you make the speech?

And then it was like, okay, Kelly, you're not in the alliance. You're in

the alliance. Okay, you tell them you're not in the alliance, but you...

You are.

Don't lie to me and tell me that you told them, you know... But didn't you

think the speech was a little harsh?

It might have been, but, hey, that's the way I am.

I can take it. If you want to give me one, have at me, because... No, I'm not

going to pick a fight with you.

I don't recommend it, probably.

No, it's the same way.

Kel, in retrospect, do you think about, hey, I should have gone at it with

Rudy instead of Rich?

no what i had originally thought when the vote when we voted for these two i

thought okay you know i'm gonna stick my vote again i'll stick with rich and

it'll be a tie and then they can fight it out and have a tie and then whoever

is there is there and that was my initial thought was to do that and i

probably should have stuck with that because i knew I knew Sue was going to

be bitter. I knew she was, and I told Rich all that last day. So you haven't

second-guessed yourself.

I mean, you had the chance to go head-to-head with Rich or with Rudy. And

I was going to keep my vote for Rich and, you know, the vote for Sue, and

then they could decide the tiebreaker between the two of them, and then, you

know, nobody would have voted them off because that is what would have

happened. Right. But she told me she wasn't going to let me get down to the

three, and so I couldn't let her. She did. On the final day, she talked.

quite a bit about anticipating and trying to think about what it was going

to be like when asked questions or talked to by people.

And she knew something was coming, honey.

Oh, yeah, we all knew something was coming.

This place reacted like a Super Bowl during that speech, I'm telling you.

Rudy, what were you thinking when you let the poll go?

I, uh, I must have fell asleep or something.

I mean, you know...

Poor Marge. I mean, she's sitting up there.

Hi, Mrs. Bosch.

When you got home, did she turn to you and go, Rudy!

Not her, the kids.

My kids are probably all... All three girls turned and said... Yeah, I think

they're all sitting at Jillian's tonight and, uh... I don't know what.

Probably under the table.

You know that last tribal council?

You sat there saying, I need oxygen, right? I need air.

Somebody talk to me. I mean, was that at once the best and worst part of being on

the island of tribal councils?

The last council, when we were sitting and waiting for the votes and stuff? But

throughout. I mean, when anybody got... I think his perspective is a little

skewed. It was probably the best moment of his life, you know? For the rest of

us, I think that in the jury box, it was kind of a downer. No doubt about it.

He's the only one that doesn't know what it's like to be an Orthodox. Yeah, it

sucks. But, for example, I know that, for example, Colleen and Jervis told me

before that they expected it when they got it. But I also know that Ramona and

Dirk, you guys said you were shocked, that you were stunned.

And Joel.

When it comes out of left field, I mean, this is like my family, you know? And

then it comes out of left field, and you get the boot, and it's just like, whoa,

you know?

And then Gretchen. Oh, man. It was hard.

Jenna.

Jenna was crying.

The reason Joel won, he was a male chauvinist.

Come on, now.

It was the cow. He said the cow.

You said the cow thing. I just stood there and said, hey, whatever, man.

I am not a chauvinist. I would not say anything to a chauvinist. Okay, Jerb,

how about that?

Come on, throw it out there, man. The truth is this. I said the comment that

Joel lives and breathes it.

I cannot believe you're doing that right now.

How many we got?

How many we got?

One, two, three.

go there right now.

Sonia and Bebe, you were the first ones to get bounced.

You went a lot farther than any of us.

But was there any embarrassment attendant to that?

So much anticipation and as soon as you get there, you're out of there?

You know, when you're on the island, it doesn't seem, I mean, it happened for a

reason and it was just my tribe there and Jeff and it was okay.

But then you come back home and 40 million people are watching you get

voted off. It's sort of humiliating.

But it gave you a bigger platform.

Yes. Right?

Bebe, did it feel that awful?

You know, when I helped engineer my own demise, I felt pretty stupid later on.

Probably one of the worst decisions I've ever made.

That's all right. I regretted it. But, you know, that's the way the game is.

You make an impulsive decision, and you regret it.

Let me close out this segment with a question to you.

Um, Rudy, um, throughout the weeks, we heard some of your comments about

homosexuals, didn't like them in a homosexual way, queers, et cetera, et

cetera. And yet, in the final analysis, you wound up voting for a gay guy who

you believed in and who you trusted.

I'm curious if the experience on the island changed any of your

preconceptions about the sexual orientation of individuals.

Nah.

He didn't want it, Brian.

It's not true. He set up an alliance, and I gave him my word, and my word is

good.

The reason I called him queer... The

reason I called him queer is so all my good SEAL Team buddies will know what

I'm talking about.

When we come back, I'll get to it when we come back. When we come back, more

from the castaways. And later, we'll hear what you have to say as we get the

results of a special poll that we're conducting tonight.

All that and a few surprises, too, when Survivor the Reunion returns right after

this.

Was that talent or what?

See? How could you ignore talent like that? And they selected you. I know.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. And they selected you. It's their own fault.

Absolutely. Man, you know what? Hey, Rudy, is this true what I hear, that you

applied actually to be on Survivor 2?

Yeah. You wanted to do it again?

Until he wins.

I'm going to keep trying until I win.

Go ahead, Rich.

Rudy's comments, I mean, he comes from a different generation, but he is a kind

and gentle and honest and amazing man who I feel really close to. We have a

great relationship.

Not that close.

And the comments you hear are good-hearted.

The words that you hear often sound as if they're

un-PC, if you will. But that's not what's in his heart. He also gave, we

should note, he's too shy and too modest to admit it, he's a legitimate hero who

gave 45 years of service to his country.

And Rudy...

I was reading about some of your adventures.

Is this true that you and four other guys spent 18 months on a decommissioned

ship in Hong Kong after the war?

Nine months. Nine months.

Was that harder than this?

Yeah.

Was the company better?

Uh, I was there with a guy named John Kennedy, and, uh...

When Kennedy made president, I checked, because if it was the same guy, I would

have been the vice president.

It was a crook from way back. We can assume it wasn't. You know, speaking of

the physical rigors there, Ramona, talk to me about the smell on the island. The

reason I ask is because I... Ramona described it as the smell of what? Hot

garbage?

Yes. I mean...

We were all funky.

And after about three or four days, you know, we were sweating, we're working,

we're traipsing through the jungle.

We just all stank. And so, yeah, it was hot garbage.

It was disgusting.

Gretchen, how long did it take to get over the self-consciousness of the way

you smelled?

A couple of days. You know what? Because we all smelled bad. I don't remember it.

I honestly didn't. I mean, we were swimming all the time, so I don't...

We all stank. Right.

I don't recollect any odor either. I don't recollect ever. Besides Sean's

odor. Greg is pretty smelly. We weren't eating junk food, so nobody stunk.

So nobody stunk. There wasn't any hot garbage. Not in our camp.

Let's take a question from the audience. We've got a young lady up here who's

anxious to ask something. Yes. This question is for everybody. I was just

curious as to what was the first thing that you ate once you got off the

island, and if any of you are ever going to eat rice again.

Love rice.

Nice. I know, I still eat rice. Can't get enough rice.

Yeah. Actually, the first thing I had was a... I had shrimp.

I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Jen had a bowl for me. Sean,

did you have pizza? It was all about pizza for me.

Derv and I hit Pizza Hut in Kodakinabalu. Who lost the most weight

on the island?

How much? Are you kidding?

How much?

Maybe 34 pounds, I think. And I lost 100 before I got there.

Wow.

Wow. Oh, man.

I needed it.

It's a nice look, Rich.

Thank you.

Who gained all their weight back already?

Let me talk a little bit about what some of you think is a

dirty word.

Alliance.

I know.

Dirty word, Kelly? Why'd you feel so bad about it?

Because it, I don't know, it made the game not fun anymore.

It was just sort of like, okay, stand up in line and leave whenever everybody

decides for you to.

Yeah.

Well, you know.

No, for real, though, I look back at the first show, and it's like, man, that was

fun. We're jumping off the boat. We're working as a team. It's all innocent.

And then you get to, like, the last couple shows, you know, and you're just

like, ugh.

You know, it's like just battle. Too nasty. And, yeah, it was just, man.

Joel, I read you said something very interesting. You said that the Gen Xers

in your tribe weren't really into toggy-like.

Alliances, what does what does gender have? I mean, what does generation have

to do with it? It's age group I think you think we're younger we kind of were

hanging out and we went there for a situation that was a little bit

different I think maybe than theirs right away when they got there. They're

very Corporate very structured and if you look at our younger generation,

we're just all kind of doing our own thing We don't want to follow a certain

path and that's how we're kind of doing things and that's what we did there's

nothing wrong with that baby was happy about that yeah you're sitting there

disagreeing why no i disagree i think you know you're either the type of

person who gets sucked in emotionally or you're the type of person who can

separate yourself and rich and i even talked about this and he Going into it,

thought, I'm not getting emotionally involved.

And perhaps that's why he didn't do well when he was asked about everybody's

families and what they were wearing and stuff, because he was able to separate

himself. I can meet someone for five minutes and not be able to emotionally

separate myself from them. But it was still a game, though. I think the

alliance was appropriate.

You thought it was fair?

Absolutely. I suspected that if the Pagong tribe didn't establish some kind

of alliance, they'd be dead.

I felt that, and I think I mentioned it to Gretchen early on, but... But on the

other hand, B.B., you said you could never lie about it. Well, that's all

part of it. No, but I think you can belong to the Lions and not lie about

it. I think if someone asks you if you belong to the Lions, you just say, sure,

so what?

Yeah, they went a step farther than we were going to do. We were going to have

our team hold together, but he just went a step farther. He was a little smarter.

I just think we had a nicer... You know who I lied to?

I lied to Jeff Probst, the host.

That's who I lied to. Also to Susan.

Yeah. I mean, he was.

Susan, you were a bad liar, too. A terrible liar.

Oh, it looked awful.

I even told these guys. I mean, you looked right at him and went, you looked

right at him and went, no, no.

It was bad. It was bad.

So I was so glad to have that.

Listen,

I needed the alliance to stay alive.

And I knew it was gone. We have another question up here. Yes, young lady.

This question's for the whole group. How do you feel now that you've seen the

show on television?

Love the show. Great show.

A lot of what you see out there... I'm sorry, Jen. A lot of what you see out

there is very manufactured.

I mean, while my, you know, lightheartedness and whatever you want

to say about my intellect is a close approximation of the real thing,

everyone here, including myself, is a lot deeper character than anything that

you saw on television. Does anyone think they were depicted in a fashion that was

either unfair or inaccurate?

Not myself, but I think Greg was.

Oh, I would agree with that. Yeah. He's very intelligent, and, you know, he's

not like a goofball on a coconut phone.

Sean is actually very intelligent.

Sean is not goofy? He's very intelligent.

Thank you very much. You know, he said the show is manufactured. I don't want

people to get the wrong idea because I think they really did a good job at

depicting the sequence and the process pretty accurately.

I mean, CBS, Mark Burnett, and Craig Peligian, those people put together a

program. You got the million, Rich. You don't need to do this. Amazing.

You got the million.

Coming up, we're going to talk about romance on the island, what did and

didn't happen.

And Jeff Probst joins us from Australia with the first look at what lies in

store for the next survivor cast list. That's right after this.

But in my years growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, I've learned many

different survival techniques.

For instance, hunting for firewood.

I've seen that since I made it.

My mom was so disappointed with that film. She didn't like it so much. It's

the only thing she wouldn't copy.

This whole thing.

After that, they put you on the island with this?

I mean, I'm good with the shotgun.

Imagine what the people who are applying for the second one are thinking. They've

seen yours. They've seen Sean's. I mean, my goodness.

We're going to have some fruitcake.

Let's go back for another question. Yes, ma'am.

Yes, my question is for Colleen and Greg.

Was there a budding romance going on between you two while you were on the

island? And is there something going on now?

Ooh!

A two-part question. I've talked about it enough, and so I'm going to pass the

buck.

Well, uh... Actually, I want it back.

Nothing happened.

and I was covering for another relationship going on.

That's all I'm gonna say. That's all I'm gonna say.

Okay, pick a number.

Pick a number.

How would you characterize the relationship on the island with Colleen?

With Colleen?

Yeah. It was excellent. We had a great time together, and it wouldn't have been

the same at all. We both played...

really well together and inspired each other to have a great time.

Well, whose idea was it to tease the audience and leave everyone thinking

that maybe something happened?

We were there to make a TV show. I mean, we were there. Is that to say it was

your idea?

Sex and violence.

They wanted it. They got it.

So it was your idea.

I wouldn't say it was either person's idea. We just had fun. It was all a

joke. I mean, when people ask you questions, you know what they want, so

give them the answer.

It's more interesting. What about the second part of the lady's question? What

about since the island?

Are you going to tell the truth this time?

I live in Miami. He lives in Colorado.

So what?

They don't have planes in either place? You know what you're telling us?

I mean, I'm 23.

Did I miss something? She's trying to say no, there isn't at this point.

I mean, you know, young, have fun, see lots of people. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

look, there are a lot of people who thought strange things. They thought

Sean, Jenna.

See, now, we did have sex.

Okay, we made an agreement not to talk about that.

That's sarcastic. I mean, really, I do think we should talk a little bit about,

um... Joel and Jervis's.

Oh, my God, they're out.

Well, now, wait a second, though. I did read that Richard... Richard said that

on the day before, Colleen was complaining about him walking around

buck-necked. Absolutely. That Colleen and Jervis and Greg had been sitting

around the fire necking. Lying around on top of each other.

True.

Yeah. Sauce clothes.

Sauce clothing?

Clothing? Sauce clothing?

Other languages.

It's raining, you're drying off, but I'm not going to play that game. Like, you

were naked, too. You know what I mean? Oh!

Oh!

You were naked?

I mean, yeah, I was.

Not like that, though. Not like that. What was the deal there, Richard?

Um, nudity is just something I'm comfortable with. I mean, and it's a

deserted island, 110 degrees in the middle of the South China Sea.

A few people on the camera crew, and I've got to say, hey, Chris.

I forgot to say hi to my son.

It didn't bother you? It might have offended some folks?

Um, when it did offend some people, I immediately put my clothes back on. It

was my birthday. I'd intended to spend the entire day nude.

Yeah, absolutely. It was your birthday. We intended to kick you off the island.

Absolutely. They tried.

But my intention isn't to offend. It was just to be comfortable. And actually,

the Tagi team had plenty of time to get used to that.

And once we combined, it changed a little bit. So I had no trouble putting

clothing on most of the time. Being from Tagi, I would think that you'd be more

in the alliance thing. And I think that was everybody's problem, was that you

were alone and naked. Like, naked.

Where Jervis and I were purely trying to, Come to the bottom of an age-old

myth, and Colleen was judging.

We work together.

There are a couple people me.

Let's get another question.

Yes. What's your question?

So what was it like eating the bugs, the live worms?

Jervis should answer that. Jervis.

Jervis. Stacey.

Jervis.

Everybody just said, why not show my poker face?

That was my poker face.

That was your poker face? Oh, yeah.

I want to play with you.

That was the worst thing I've ever done in my life. What, Stacey got it done?

I didn't think it was that bad. Yeah, look what happened to her, though. They

put her off.

Jervis, you had a real hard time with it. And the minute Stacey got her two

down, you wasted no time in ejecting. Oh, yeah, I spit them out.

Yeah.

The idea was to take them, throw them in my mouth, chew two times, and swallow.

When I went to swallow them, they crawled across my mouth.

Yeah.

Stacey, what was your take on it? How did you devour them?

You know, I just really wanted to kick his butt.

And I knew I was in a precarious position in my group, and I knew that

winning that for them might save me a little longer.

We've already had the handshake here between Susan and Kelly.

Let me bring back some other infamous pairings, can we say?

Stacey and Rudy.

Sitting next to each other.

Yeah, Rudy and I are great friends now, actually.

You know, we talked about this today.

I got a T-shirt on that says, Rudy loves Stacey.

Good friend, my dear.

Yeah.

Another good pairing didn't get along real well. Joel and Bebe.

Ooh, Bebe?

No. We love each other. Oh, buddy. You didn't show it. Now you do.

You know what I think is? I think that...

You know, what, 150 years from now, I'll be just like Phoebe.

Oh!

I can't even comment on that, because he's so young, you'll never make it.

Phoebe, I know that you, uh, you rationalized washing your clothes in

the... Sure. But what if Joel had done that?

How would you have reacted?

I think he did, only I think he went over at the water hole.

But, you know, we all wash our clothes in our drinking water, if you stop and

think about it.

You know?

Don't you drink the water that... In their drinking water?

I mean, before you drink.

We had a lot of drinking water.

I'm not going to win this argument. I wouldn't win again.

That's okay.

We'll go to another question. Yes, sir.

Good evening. While you were on the island, you were with a lot of crew

members. What was that like not having any privacy?

What was it like not having any privacy? That's what I was trying to get to. It

wasn't a plug. If you picture what you saw us doing, imagine the people behind

the scenes, the cameramen and women, the sound people in the torrential rains all

24 hours a day following us around. They were absolutely, utterly amazing.

Unbelievable crew.

Did you not you do not have any privacy or did you just at some point? Just

start to look at them as like who need plants like trees Everywhere I mean one

time actually Pagan snuck away to the mobile Even

though

we knew that they were videotaping is 24-7 I I was confident that I took mark

the executive directors word that he wasn't going to show anything You know,

us going to the bathroom or maybe naked if we didn't want to.

Nothing embarrassing then. I mean, because his vision was going to be that

this was a family show.

So I felt confident. The only embarrassing thing they show is that

little dance Rich did on the beach.

What was that?

I have no idea. I don't even remember doing it until I saw it. It was a

fruity, fresh and fruity dance.

I mean, we've got the tape again. I mean, check this dance off. What do we

call that?

I have no idea.

Automatic reaction.

Hey, you know what? It was natural. It was real. It was inspiring.

Unplanned. Hey, let's go to another question. Yes, ma'am.

My question is for Jenna.

Jenna, one of the saddest moments on the show is when you didn't get your

videotape. Do you regret leaving your daughters behind for 39 days?

No, I don't. I regret my mom not getting the tape out.

I made the conscious decision to leave them.

I was just sad because I didn't get my video.

Everybody had to leave behind loved ones. I left my two little daughters who

were sitting right over there. But they came out unscarred from it, and they had

a great time with Nana in the process.

Before we leave this section, which we kind of called Friends and Enemies,

Rudy, I'm going to end with you again because I'm familiar with some tough

comments you had about these folks.

Don't call me. I won't call you.

These are not people I'd pick as friends.

Change your mind?

Uh, not really. I like...

And he means

that in a really kind way.

I know.

It's just honest. I, uh, you know, I hang around with military guys that

don't swear and all that stuff, and, uh... Problem is, you can't get rid of

us.

That's right.

We'll always be hounding you now. Come to your house for Christmas.

Yep.

I wouldn't doubt that.

Hey, look, while we've been on the air, we've been conducting a scientific poll

to find out what you and other viewers think about who won and who didn't. The

first results are in. We're going to check them out when we come back. Right.

The Marianne Meek, born on a farm.

Well, could do no harm. But honestly, don't I have a little charm?

Oh, my God!

What the hell was that?

Oh, my God!

Who was that?

Were there any other lines to the poem that we missed?

What, that? Were there any other lines to that poem that we missed?

Yeah, that was just a little bit of me.

We like the hairdo, then, too.

It was pretty interesting. Oh, you liked that? Yeah, it was interesting.

Hey, look, we,

as noted, we ran a couple of poll questions this evening, and so we're

going to share the results with some folks of the 25-plus million who watched

you on a somewhat regular basis. Let's go to the first question. Did the right

person win tonight?

Only 31% said yes.

Did I do that?

Doesn't cost you anything. Yeah, I know.

Second question.

Who would you have voted for?

45% went for Rudy.

42% went to Kelly.

Richard, 11%. Susan, 2%. Cool.

Did the winner play fair?

How are you guessing this one broke down, Rich? Oh, no idea.

No idea. I imagine people think I didn't, but I truly believe...

I played as fair and ethically as I could have. Take a look at the numbers.

61% think you played fair.

Awesome.

And lastly, this goes back to the question we were talking about about

alliances and why some people felt skittish about it and the like. The

question was, for the $1 million, would you do what the winner did to win?

And almost half.

That's amazing. Walk around naked.

If that's what was required.

I think that if you'd asked those people, and you say, if I guaranteed you

$1 million, that you'd have about 95% of them would do exactly what Richard did.

Well, you know what? We've got to hand it to Rich. I mean, up front, he said,

I'm going to win the million.

The paycheck's already written.

You were certain of it. I played cocky in my interview tape and in walking into

CBS's interview. I said, what are you waiting for? I know you're going to pick

me. What you don't know is I'm going to win the million. And what you need to

know for next year is I'm going to host the next show.

So I just played cocky. And they picked me. And I'm not hosting the next show.

And yet the woman to your right is the only castaway that never got one single

ouster vote.

Not one.

Not a one.

And then could she win immunity.

Let me talk about fame a little bit.

For how many of you has this show changed your career path, your

aspirations?

Sean? All of us. All of us. For what, Ryan? For what you want to do with your

life.

I'm pretty happy. I wouldn't want to live it over.

You know, I might not be as lucky as I am now. I'm pretty happy.

Mm-hmm. Change the future. I wouldn't want anything any different. I think all

of us are just... Everything's changed a little bit in how what the success we

can get out of life and any aspect that we choose, that it's just helped us a

little bit.

And... But you're moving to L.A. to look for some opportunities, yeah?

Yeah, I didn't mention that. I was in L.A. I mean, Jenna moved out to the

coast to take advantage of some opportunities, correct?

No, I was going to move there a year ago. Oh, okay.

Sean, you're coming up on Guiding Light.

PB and Stacey have been in ads.

Ramona's writing for E.T., right? Entertainment Weekly, I'm sorry. E.W.?

Brian, I'd like to surf, and if anyone wants to pay me to surf, put that out

there.

So... Hey, look, there is one person missing from this reunion, a man so

familiar that he's almost been like the 17th cast away. I'm talking, of course,

about the show's host.

Not Richard Hatch, Jeff Probst.

Jeff has been in Australia, site of the next Survivor Challenge, which is set to

air early next year, right after the Super Bowl. Tonight, he's got the first

look at what 16 new Survivor entrants will have to outwit and outlast in the

Outback.

Soon, 16 new strangers will volunteer to be stranded here, in the Australian

Outback. This is a land so vast, so remote, that large portions of it aren't

even charted certainly majestic stunning vistas all sorts of exotic wildlife but

39 days in this environment is going to be harsh the temperatures will be

scorching and unlike borneo the trees here provide very little shade no relief

from the heat not to mention the fact that there are all sorts of deadly

creepers scampering about it's going to be a tough environment but there is hope

the aboriginals have survived out here for centuries

simply by learning to adapt.

And as a result, they're able to live in harmony with a land that is really

unlike any other place on earth. How will the 16 survivors fare in this

environment? Who knows?

The bigger question, how will they fare with each other? Because as we have

seen, surviving each other, surviving the social politics is what this game is

all about. And this time, the delicious but dreaded tribal council will take

place high atop.

A beautiful waterfall where each week the tribes will come, cast their

ballots, and then boot somebody off the island. The landscape may have changed,

but the test remains the same.

Outwit, outplay, outlast to be the sole survivor. The first time was great.

Can't wait to do it again. I'll see you in the Outback.

I think it was Sonya who said that this game is really about surviving the vote.

Is that what it is, you think?

Well, I think so. I have said that I forgot the outwit part of it. I had a

very idealized notion that we should go there with teamwork and the ultimate

survivor would rise to the top and we would support them. Eh, not.

And if that's what it had been, if it had just been about surviving in the

wilds... Who would have won?

Greg. Greg.

We're getting a lot of Gretchen's over here. I can see if we would have stuck

together, I think she would have definitely won. There's no doubt.

Just from, you know, who's going to vote against her. I think Gretchen would

have. Well, she taught survival for, what, six years at the Air Force?

There's no doubt.

Yeah. I think Greg.

I think Greg has a natural instinct for it. Joel's also very capable. So are Sue

and Kelly.

I was a big fish out of one another. They did a great job casting all 16 of

them. They did do a great job casting. There's no doubt about that. We're going

to come back with some final words from the castaways. We'll do that after this.

Was that your thesis of brown close very close it was a partnership with my

sister she really she made it what it was

We've heard about that partnership. Yeah.

Tell her thanks for us, will you?

Before we came on the air, Rich came up to me and he said he wanted to do

something before we got away. So, Rich, why don't you go ahead and do it?

Just really quickly, the poll that you saw the people take, and they talked

about who ought to win, and they picked Rudy.

And Kelly and I had a chance to be there at the end and close the camp.

And these were a couple of things that were left in camp that I think Marge and

Rudy would like. And one is the sign that said, Rowdy Rudy's Diner.

And I want Marge to have it. And the other is the clue that we got for the

immunity challenge that Rudy won.

Hey, Rich.

I started with you. I'm going to end with you.

You said on the air that the million would change your life.

How's it going to? What are you going to do?

There are a couple of things I've wanted to do. One main thing is to start an

outdoor adventure program for troubled teens, something like I went on when I

was 18 years old. And it's a goal that I've had for a long time.

It's really nice.

It's really nice.

You're a deserving winner. Thank you.

You're a very deserving winner. You played the game. You played it tough.

I had fun. You played it upright. You played it smart.

And you deserve big congratulations, as do all of you.

Thank you.

And so it is time now for us to end the special tribal council, only this time

there are no votes to cast, no torches to snuff out. The 16 people on this

stage tonight began as strangers, but now millions of us know them on a first

-name basis.

Whether you view their efforts as some deep-seated microcosm of society or

nothing more than a television game, there is no denying their impact.

These castaways will be appearing in advertisements like this one out just

this week.

as well as on magazine covers and in newspapers for some time to come.

Tomorrow morning, some even will be joining me on the early show.

So we'll see you then.

On behalf of these 16 now familiar individuals, I'm Bryant Gumbel, thanking

you for being a part of this reunion.

Once again, the tribe has spoken.

Good night.