Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant)

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Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant) : biography

April 8, 1961 –

Richard Hatch (born April 8, 1961) is a former American reality television contestant and a convicted felon. He won the competition on the first season of the CBS reality series Survivor. He was a contestant on a subsequent season of Survivor, and on one season of The Apprentice.

TV Guide included him in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.Bretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt; (March 25, 2013). "Baddies to the Bone: The 60 nastiest villains of all time". TV Guide. pp. 14 – 15.

Other appearances

  • Hatch appeared on an all-reality show edition of the short lived game show Dog Eat Dog. He lost his challenge and was placed in the show’s "dog pound".
  • In August 2005, Hatch was a contestant of Battle of the Network Reality Stars in which his team lost in the finals.
  • He also appeared on the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (hosted by Eddie McGuire). He didn’t do the (11 x 12) and got his fourth question wrong, becoming the first person in Australian Millionaire history to go home with A$0.
  • In an issue of Entertainment Weekly, Mark Burnett said that if Hatch was not under house arrest, he would have been invited for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.

He had a cameo as a patient in the Becker episode "One Wong Move" where Ted Danson’s character received him as a patient, discussing the bizarre eating habits of the people on the television show, and mentioning that he didn’t mind if he had to take his clothes off.

He appeared as himself (and naked) in the 2006 film Another Gay Movie.

He also appeared on the fourth celebrity edition of The Apprentice.

Pre-Survivor

Prior to his first Survivor appearance, Hatch was a corporate trainer, residing in Newport, Rhode Island. He spent five years in the United States Army. He did not graduate, but two of his years in the Army were spent as a part of the United States Military Academy’s Class of 1986.

Survivor

Survivor: Borneo

Hatch competed in Survivor: Borneo, the first edition of the show in the United States. He competed with the Tagi tribe, and quickly aligned himself with former Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch. His preference of playing naked, repeated later on Survivor: All-Stars, resulted in a contentious incident with fellow Borneo and All-Star competitor Susan Hawk.

Once Sonja Christopher and Stacey Stillman were eliminated from the Tagi tribe, Hatch and Boesch formed a voting alliance with the two remaining female members of the tribe, Hawk and Kelly Wiglesworth. This left Dirk Been and Sean Kenniff more vulnerable to being "voted off the island." Been was voted off, as was Pagong tribe member Joel Klug.

With each tribe down to five members, the tribes merged, as Ratanna. Kenniff was the only remaining former Tagi who was not a part of Hatch’s four-contestant alliance (Hatch, Bosch, Hawk and Wiglesworth).

In the next vote, Hatch’s group voted against Gretchen Cordy, and the remaining votes split, with Kenniff using an "alphabet strategy." Greg Buis was next to go, receiving Kenniff’s vote, the votes of Hatch’s alliance, and the vote of Jenna Lewis. Lewis received the remaining three votes.

As the alliance continued to target the former Pagong, Lewis and Gervase Peterson were eliminated next.

Due to a rift in the relationship between Hawk and Wiglesworth, Wiglesworth became the new target of the now three-way alliance among Hawk, Boesch and Hatch. Wiglesworth had opted out of the alliance, a move Hawk considered cowardly and simply a way to show off to the jury, thinking this assured her of winning. When Wiglesworth won immunity, Colleen Haskell was voted off. When Wiglesworth won immunity again, the three-way alliance voted out Kenniff.

Down to four contestants, Wiglesworth won immunity yet again, ensuring that one of the alliance would be voted out. In a two–two tie, Hatch and Hawk were both in danger of elimination. On a revote, Wiglesworth opted to eliminate Hawk, cementing the end of their friendship. At the Final Three immunity challenge, Hatch eliminated himself early, trusting both Wiglesworth and Boesch to take him to the Final Two regardless, and not wanting to go back on his word to Boesch, if he himself won. When Wiglesworth won immunity, she voted out Boesch, making him the final member of the jury.http://articles.nydailynews.com/2000-08-24/news/18157016_1_kelly-wiglesworth-richard-hatch-two-evils