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Survivors Snuff Stacey--Again
While the rest of the country is anticipating Thursday night's Outback showdown between Colby, Keith and Tina, a bunch of contestants from the first round of Survivor have been convened in a legal tribal council.
Stillman filed a lawsuit in February against the producers of CBS' hit reality-television show alleging Survivor mastermind Mark Burnett talked two of Stillman's Tagi tribesmates into voting her off the island. Now, in a court counterpunch, Burnett and company have asked six former castaways how they really felt about Stillman.
The results? Let's just say Stacey wasn't going to voted most popular in the Survivor yearbook.
"I prayed that once the trip to the island was over, I would not have to be around her any longer," winner Richard Hatch said in papers filed Monday by the show's lawyers.
Stillman, the third contestant booted off Pulau Tiga, says in her lawsuit that fellow castaways Sean Kenniff and Dirk Been were approached by Burnett, who urged them to vote off Stillman so 72-year-old Rudy Boesch (who represents CBS' key oldster demographic) could stay.
While Kenniff admits he and Been did talk to Burnett, he says in his deposition, "I was not intimidated, coerced or manipulated into voting for a particular person."
CBS denies the show was rigged, and in response, hit Stillman with a $5 million countersuit, saying that Stillman breached a confidentiality agreement when she made her accusations.
All in all it doesn't look too good for Stillman, unless Bible boy Been's deposition (in which he may or may not implicate Burnett) is unsealed. A judge in Los Angeles will decide if Been's testimony should be made public and even if the case should continue at all. Been previously told The New York Times that "Burnett himself doesn't call it reality TV. He calls it reality drama. You can take what you want from that."
Stillman's lawyer, Donald A. Yates, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that most of the other tribesmates' declarations are irrelevant, even if one of them supports her contention that votes were changed after the alleged Burnett-tampering.
This Survivor nail-biter will continue at a May 17 hearing in Los Angeles.
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