{"id":653029,"date":"2026-05-19T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:24:08","slug":"original-survivor-winner-richard-hatch-claims-he-wasnt-invited-to-season-50-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653029\/","title":{"rendered":"Original ‘Survivor’ winner Richard Hatch claims he wasn’t invited to Season 50 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original \u201cSurvivor\u201d winner Richard Hatch claimed he wasn\u2019t invited to the Season 50<\/a> live finale airing Wednesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cCBS Mornings lied this morning saying all Survivor winners were invited to [the] Season 50 finale!\u201d Hatch, 65, wrote on X<\/a> on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI\u2019m the Original Winner, and I WAS NOT INVITED!\u201d<\/p>\n

CBS told Page Six in a statement, \u201cAll winners were invited to the Survivor 50 finale to celebrate the show\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Hatch claimed in a post on X (seen above) that he wasn\u2019t invited to the \u201cSurvivor 50\u201d live finale airing Wednesday. @HatchRichard\/X<\/p>\n

Hatch (seen above at the \u201cSurvivor\u201d Season 1 reunion in August 2000) tweeted, \u201cI\u2019m the Original Winner, and I WAS NOT INVITED!\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n

The three-hour \u201cSurvivor 50\u201d finale will see the final five contestants \u2014 Aubry Bracco,<\/a> Rizo Velovic<\/a>, Jonathan Young, Tiffany Ervin and Joe Hunter<\/a> \u2014 battle it out for the $2 million prize. It will be followed by the show\u2019s first live reunion<\/a> since Season 39 in 2019.<\/p>\n

The milestone season\u00a0features several winners<\/a>\u00a0from previous years, though Hatch isn\u2019t a contestant.<\/p>\n

Hatch also wasn\u2019t cast in Season 40, \u201cSurvivor: Winners at War,\u201d<\/a> in 2020, which featured all former champions of the show.<\/p>\n

But CBS told Page Six in a statement, \u201cAll winners were invited to the Survivor 50 finale to celebrate the show\u2019s legacy\u201d (Hatch is seen above on \u201cSurvivor: All-Stars\u201d in 2004). CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hatch (pictured above on the show) won \u201cSurvivor\u201d Season 1 in 2000 and returned for \u201cSurvivor: All-Stars,\u201d where he sparked controversy for rubbing up against another contestant while naked. Monty Brinton\/CBS<\/p>\n

At the time, host Jeff Probst said he \u201cdidn\u2019t feel comfortable\u201d having Hatch on \u201cWinners at War.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven his history on our show, it did not seem appropriate,\u201d Probst told Us Weekly<\/a>. \u201cWe were in a different time and different culture back then and we would never let him run a challenge naked now. Looking back on it, it just didn\u2019t seem to fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hatch famously won the first season that aired in the summer of 2000. <\/p>\n

Hatch was later excluded from the \u201cSurvivor\u201d Season 40 cast, as Jeff Probst (pictured above on \u201cSurvivor 50\u201d) said he \u201cdidn\u2019t feel comfortable\u201d having Hatch on the season. Robert Voets\/CBS<\/p>\n

Probst (pictured above) added that it \u201cdid not seem appropriate\u201d to cast Hatch on Season 40. Robert Voets\/CBS<\/p>\n

He returned for \u201cSurvivor: All-Stars\u201d in 2004, where he sparked controversy for rubbing up against fellow contestant Sue Hawk while he was naked during a challenge. Hatch was voted out later that episode, while Hawk quit the game the next day due to being so distraught over the incident.<\/p>\n

In 2006, Hatch was found guilty of two counts of tax evasion for allegedly not paying taxing on the $1 million he won from the show. <\/p>\n

He was sentenced to 51 months in jail followed by three years of supervised release. After he still refused to pay the taxes, he was\u00a0sent back to prison\u00a0in 2011.<\/p>\n

Hatch (pictured above on \u201cSurvivor: All-Stars\u201d) went to jail in 2006 for not paying his taxes on the $1 million he won from the show. CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In March, Hatch (seen above during the \u201cSurvivor\u201d Season 1 finale) was ordered to pay $3.3 million in taxes on his winnings from the show. Monty Brinton\/CBS<\/p>\n

In March, a Rhode Island judge ordered Hatch to pay $3.3 million in taxes,<\/a> which ballooned from the original amount he owed for his winnings due to interest, according to People<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The reality star reportedly filed a notice of appeal and confirmed he will be representing himself in court.<\/p>\n

The \u201cSurvivor 50\u201d finale and live reunion airs Wednesday at 8 pm ET on CBS. <\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original \u201cSurvivor\u201d winner Richard Hatch claimed he wasn\u2019t invited to the Season 50 live finale airing Wednesday. \u201cCBS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[991,236,88,2355,92,24812],"class_list":["post-653029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cbs","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-survivor","tag-tv","tag-virtual-reali-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}