Sister: 'Survivor' winner jailed for TV interview

Posted August 18, 2009 11:00 pm

Associated Press

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The sister of "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch says she thinks her brother was sent back to jail because he granted an interview to NBC's "Today" show.

Kristin Hatch told "Today" on Wednesday that when a sheriff's deputy came to bring her brother to the Barnstable County Jail in Massachusetts on Tuesday, she overheard him say that Hatch was being jailed because "he did an interview."

Hatch is staying at his sister's Newport, R.I. house while on home confinement.

Hatch's lawyer said Wednesday she still had not been given an explanation as to why he was arrested.

A federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman couldn't immediately be reached Wednesday.

Hatch was convicted in 2006 for not paying taxes on the $1 million prize he won on the CBS reality show's first season.

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