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Richard Hatch, congratulations.

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. 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.

A lot of mean things. And you found out how mean it was. I'm over it.

Oh, yeah. I told her to stop.

This is true that God was all about the kids.

The game was over with. She may hit you before the hour is 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

last 13 weeks.

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

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 to 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 rule, 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

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

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

it to the final four. But since our other castaways spent less time before

cameras, some introductions might be in order. You might recall that Sonia

Christopher and her ukulele were the first to leave the island.

Followed in order by Bebe Anderson, attorney Stacy 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 at the jury. Greg Bulis,

poking his own man.

Jenna Lewis,

Jervis Never Nervous Peterson, America's sweetheart Colleen Haskell.

The alphabetically inclined Sean Pinnick.

Thanks, bud. 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 Gaidar. That's what we've been calling

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.

Was that the number deal?

Did he get it right? Was the number seven?

No, it was number nine.

It was close.

Everybody takes seven. So if Kelly would have said nine, she'd be 900 grand

richer.

Who knew?

Who knew?

Susan.

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

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. I wanted to beat him. Just beat Rich.

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

lot of leeches that come out from underneath.

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

And I'm not.

Real nice, like Kelly, 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.

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

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

You are.

Don't lie to me and tell me that you told him, 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 I do. No, I'm

going to pick a fight with you.

I don't recommend it, probably.

No, I know 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 going to stick my vote again. I'll stick with

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

with that because I knew.

I knew Sue was going to be bitter. I knew she was, and I told Rich all that

night. 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

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.

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.

I'm a sposh.

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... 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 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

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 older. Yeah, it sucks. But, for example, I know that,

example, Colleen and Jervis told me before that they expected it when they

it. But I also know that Ramona and Dirk, you guys said you were shocked,

you were stunned.

And Joel.

Yeah, it's like when it comes out of left field, I mean, this is like my

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. That's hard.

Jenna.

Jenna was crying. The reason Joel won, he was a male chauvinist.

Come on, now. He is not. Come on. It was the cow. He said the cow thing, man.

This dude said the cow thing. I just stood there and said, hey, whatever,

am not a chauvinist.

Anything you're showing is fake. 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.

Tonya 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

of humiliating. But it gave you a bigger platform.

Right? Bibi, 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.

I regretted it. But, you know, that's the way the game is. You make an

decision and you regret it.

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

Throughout the week, We heard some of your comments about homosexuals. Didn't

like them in a homosexual way.

Queers, etc., etc.

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

about the sexual orientation of individuals.

Nah.

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

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.

These giant insects.

And I forced myself to live off of the dirty bath water and whatever hair

I could collect from the tree.

Thank you, Brian.

Thank you very much. Thank you. I didn't like that. I didn't pick them, Sean.

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.

You know, go ahead.

Rudy, Rudy, comment.

I mean, he comes from a different generation, but he is a kind and gentle

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

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

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

ship in Hong Kong after the war?

Nine months. Nine months.

Was that harder than this?

Yeah.

Was the company better?

I was there with a guy named John Kennedy.

And when Kennedy made president, I checked.

Because if it was the same guy, I would have been the vice president.

Correct 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 Ramona described it as the smell of what? Hot garbage?

I mean, we were all funky.

And after about three or four days, You know, we were sweating, we were working,

we were tracing 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?

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

stank. Right. I don't recollect any odor either.

I don't recollect ever. Besides Sean's odor. Yeah.

Greg was pretty smelly. We weren't eating junk food, so nobody stunk. So

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. Yeah. This question is for everybody. I was just

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

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

Love rice.

Nice.

Can't get enough rice.

Actually, the first thing I had was, uh, I had shrimp.

I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Jenna, blow for me. Sean, did

pizza? It was all about pizza for me.

Derv and I hit Pizza Hut in Kodakin, Alabama. Who lost the most weight on the

island? How much? Are you kidding?

How much? Uh, 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.

A lion.

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.

Because we're over here. 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

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

like, ugh, you know, like, just battle. And, yeah, it was just, man.

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

your tribe weren't really into toggy -like.

What does gender have to do with it? It's age group, I think. I think we're

younger. We kind of were hanging out, and we went there for a situation that

a little bit different, I think, maybe, than theirs.

Right away when they got there, they were very corporate, very structured.

And if you look at our younger generation, we're just all kind of doing

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. Phoebe

was happy about that.

Matthew,

you're sitting there disagreeing. Why?

No, I disagree. I think, you know, you're either the type of person who

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

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

alliance, they'd be dead, and I felt that, and I think I mentioned it to

Gretchen early on.

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 alliance and not

lie about it. I think if someone asks you if you belong to the alliance, you

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 didn't think we had a nicer team. You know who I lied to?

I lied to Jeff Probe, the host.

That's who I lied to. Oh, so did Susan.

Yeah. He was.

Susan, you were a bad liar, too. A terrible liar. Oh, it was awful.

I mean, you looked right at him and went, oh, I lied to him. You looked

him and went, no.

No.

It was bad. It was bad.

So I was glad to have that.

Listen, I needed the alliance to stay alive. We have another question up here.

Yes, young lady.

This question is 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 is very manufactured.

I mean, while my lightheartedness and...

whatever you want to say about my intellect, you know, is a close

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.

Sean is actually very intelligent.

Sean is not goofy.

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 Belligian. 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.

Firewood down on the ground!

That was good!

That was good!

That's the first time 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

only thing she wouldn't copy.

The whole thing. Huh?

After that, they put you on the island. Yeah, well, I mean, I'm good with a

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, so I'm going to pass the buck.

Well.

Actually, I want it back.

Nothing happened.

Nothing happened. I was covering for another relationship going on.

That's all I'm going to say. That's all I'm going to say.

Okay. Pick a number.

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

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 what they said

was your idea?

Sex and violence.

They won 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

I mean, when people ask you questions, you know what they want, so give them

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

question? What about since the island?

No. Are you going to tell the truth this time?

I live in Miami. He lives in Colorado.

So what?

They don't have planes?

Do 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.

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

a lot of people who thought strange things they thought sean jenna see now

did have sex okay i

mean really i do think we should talk a little bit about um

joel and jervis

Now, wait a second, though. I did read that Richard said that on the day

Colleen was complaining about him walking around buck naked. Absolutely.

Colleen and Jervis and Greg had been sitting around the fire naked.

Lying around on top of each other.

True?

Yeah. Sounds close.

Sounds close?

Clothing? Sounds 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.

You're not like that, though.

What was the deal there, Richard?

Nudity is just something I'm comfortable with. I mean, and it's a deserted

island, 110 degrees in the middle of the South.

Deserted?

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 that it might have offended some folks?

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

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

Yeah, absolutely. It was your birthday and 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 Taghi 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 Taghi, 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 right.

We work together.

There are a couple people making it.

Let's get another question.

Yeah. What's your question?

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

Jervis should answer that. Jervis.

Jervis. Jervis. Jervis.

Jervis.

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.

Yeah.

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.

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

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 Stacy.

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. You're so young, you'll never make it.

I know that you rationalized washing your clothes in the water. Sure.

But what if Joel had done that?

How would you have reacted?

I think he did, only I think he went over to 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?

In the drinking water?

I mean, before you drink.

We have a lot of drinking water. I'm not going to win this argument. No, you're

not,

but 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

What was that like, not having any privacy?

And what were you 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

behind the scenes, the cameramen and women, the sound people in the

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

amazing.

Unbelievable.

Did you not have any privacy or did

you just at some point?

just start to look at them as, like, plants?

They were like trees.

They were everywhere.

I mean, one time, actually, Pagan snuck away to the mobile case.

But they found us, like, three minutes.

We thought we had him. We thought we totally fooled him. They'd still find

Even though we knew that they were videotaping us 24 -7, I was confident

took Mark, the executive director's word, that he wasn't going to show

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

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

fresh and fruity dance.

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

that?

I have no idea.

Automatic reaction.

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

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.

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,

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?

Not really.

And he means that in a really kind way. I know.

It's just odd.

You know, I hang around with military guys that don't swear and all that

The problem is you can't get rid of it.

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.

The

Mariana

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's 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

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?

It 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, Richard? 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. Let's 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

and why some people felt skittish about it. 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'd say, if I guaranteed

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.

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 one.

Let me talk about fame a little bit.

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

Sean? All of us. All of us.

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 just helps us a

little bit.

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.

You're coming up on Guiding Light, right?

Phoebe and Stacey have been in ads.

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

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

there.

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

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

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

is going to be harsh. The temperatures will be scorching. And unlike Borneo,

trees here provide very little shade, no relief from the heat. Not to mention

the fact that there are all sorts of deadly creatures 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

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, boop, 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 Sonia 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

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.

We're getting a lot of Gretchen's over here. I could 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?

no doubt.

I think Greg.

I think Greg has the natural instincts for it. Joel's also very capable. So are

Sue and Kelly.

I was a big fish out of one of them. 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 word.

from the Castaways. We'll do that after this.

But no games, you know.

I'm going to be myself.

Oh, my God.

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.

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

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

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

week. as well as on magazine cover 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

for being a part of this reunion.

Once again, the tribe has spoken.

Good night.