It's been a long day today. I went from cleaning to cooking to collapsing to collecting Kristin. Kristin is going to Philadelphia tomorrow. She is singing in the school chorus and they are participating in the Thanksgiving Parade. Yay!
TB will pick her up in the afternoon. We've got 14 people coming to dinner. It should be great!
Survivor is one of my don't-miss shows. Survivor 7 is taking place in the Pearl Islands, off the west coast of Panama. It's a lovely place!
My favorite's been voted off already. That was Rupert, a tall grizzly bear of a man who is surprisingly gentle and caring. He looks a lot like the actor who plays Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies. Rupert was voted off last week, to my deep sorrow.
I am really appalled by what happened on the show this evening. I've been hearing for weeks about "the grandmother of all lies", something outrageous that totally fools everyone. This evening, I saw what it was and saw who told it and it really turned my stomach.
This one castaway, Jon ... he calls himself Jonny Fairplay ... has been an obnoxious, devious SOB from the get-go. When he is not being nasty, he's stabbing someone in the back.
Tonight's reward challenge was the opportunity to spend 24 hours with a loved one from home. So everyone had fiances, boyfriends, husbands, and a mom ... and then Jonny Fairplay's loved one shows up. It's a guy, a good friend I guess. And Jon says, "Where's my grandmother?"
After a moment, his friend says, "I'm sorry, man, she's dead."
Everyone is shocked. Jon looks grieved and seems to cry.
I knew right away that was the big lie. That SOB! What a scum suck thing to do! First of all, his dear grandmother is not dead and it's a real jinxy thing to do, to lie and say she is. Okay, so my supersticiousness comes out.
As it turned out, the other castaways "threw" the challenge so that Jon could hear the sad details of grandma's passing.
I mean, did it not occur to anyone that IF grandma died, someone in the family would have called producer Mark Burnett? I guess not. So all these others passed up what could have been a wonderful visit with their loved ones so Jon could have a night with his friend.
Know what they did? Jon was laughing and snickering and saying his friend turned in a great performance. Grandma is alive and kicking and probably watching The Jerry Springer Show.
The host on the show, Jeff Probst, says the lie was "brilliant". So I guess that means they're not going to address the issue. The end justifies the means? Ugh.
I wouldn't be able to tell such a terrible lie, not even for a million dollars. I see rumors now that Jon's got a lot of regret for telling this lie. Wait until the other castaways find out (which they will, tonight). I'd also like to know what Grandma thinks of the whole thing.
A million dollars just isn't worth that much to me. Again, ugh ugh ugh!
Posted by Cassie at November 26, 2003 09:40 PM