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Yeah but Deena wasn't exactly giving away filming secrets. "This is why Matt lost" is a lot different than "This is why Survivor had to re-shoot my boot episode three times." There is some stuff that SEG seems not to have a problem with.

There's an interview I did with Chris (Vanuatu) about a year ago where he talked about some very dicey behind-the-scenes stuff with me. I was surprised he went that far. At the time, I just chalked it him to him never reading the internet and not really giving a shit. You can find it in the Sucks archives somewhere if you look around. Most Survivors would never have told me things like Vanuatu was the first season where they let the jurors mingle and freely talk about the vote, because that was the first season where the producers started to get lazy. From a production standpoint, that's the sort of thing that CBS/SEG doesn't really seem to be happy about.

Although you know what? I suspect we will be getting a lot more Nicole Delma-type behind the scenes revelations coming our way in the next year or so. I think a lot of Survivors have been dying to test the waters on this subject, but they have nervous about it because they were too busy playing the "team player" card in regards to All-Stars 2. I think a lot of Survivors were trying to kiss-ass to SEG because that was the best/only way they were ever going to get cast on Micronesia. You play by their rules, and you're in. You show that you're disloyal, and you're dead. That seems to be the main way SEG picks favorites when it comes to All-Stars. It's not about who the fans want to see, it is who plays by the rules and who SEG wants to reward.

Now that All-Stars 2 is over, I think there will be a lot less toeing the line when it comes to Survivor alumni and the CBS legal machine. I think we will see more tell-all exposes. But that's just my theory. We'll see. It doesn't help that so many Survivor alums have entertainment career aspirations. Hey, maybe that's why Survivor casts so many mactors these days. Maybe they are just easier than "regular people" to control afterwards...


P.S. A Survivor alum once told me in an interview about how he had been threatened during the later stages of the application process. Mark Burnett came right out one day and said that if any of the information in this guy's bio was false or made up, then this guy would never work in Hollywood again. Burnett would see he was blacklisted personally. See, mactors are easy to control. That makes them excellent casting choices. :)