He only played a villain on TV or so Richard Hatch wants you to believe. As he sits in prison on tax-evasion charges, the 'Survivor' champion is trying to send the message that off the island he's been treated unfairly.

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: December 17, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Richard Hatch doesn't look the way he did on TV. Not, at least, as he did on "Survivor," that first, iconic blast of reality TV, the show that changed the way celebrity works, the show that changed his life.

Once overweight, he now looks slender in his prison-issue khaki shirt and pants. His brownish hair has turned a soft, spiky grey; his beard is gone, replaced by a soul patch. But mainly, it's his demeanor. The Hatch on the screen was confident and cocky; he strutted around in the nude and calmly plotted victory. This man is jittery and talks in hyperspeed, jumping from subject to subject. ...

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