“Survivor” Richard Hatch Whines on TODAY Show (VIDEO)

By Amanda Pendolino on October 27th, 2009

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“Survivor” winner Richard Hatch is riding his 15 minutes of fame like it’s a freaking tsunami. First he won the ridiculous reality show, and then he refused to pay taxes on his winnings (and was subsequently sent to prison). This morning on the TODAY Show, he told Matt Lauer that in August he was taken from his sister’s apartment in his boxers and held in solitary confinement for 30 days after supposedly granting interviews without permission.

“They’ve been trying to muzzle me for three and a half years,” he said. I can’t say I blame them. What does he have to say? That he got lucky on a reality show, got famous for no reason, and then tried to cheat his taxes? Are we supposed to break out the tissues for this ridiculous sob story? At the same time, 30 days of solitary confinement seems like a steep punishment for doing an interview, considering some celebrities get two days in jail for DUIs and such. What do you guys think?

Hatch said of the confinement: “It was bad. This was the worst time of my time in prison. It’s bad enough being innocent and imprisoned, but to be in solitary confinement for no reason, without anyone telling me how long I’d be there, without anyone talking about why I was in solitary confinement, was very difficult.”

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