RUSSELL HANTZ: 'Survivor' VILLAIN Lies About Dead Dog, Sabotages Own Team

PEOPLE TV Watch:

If you've been watching CBS at all over the past week, you've seen commercials promoting Russell as the "biggest villain in Survivor history." He handily captures the title in just one episode. Jonny Fairplay must be pissed!

On the first day at the beach, Russell sets up what he calls the "dumb-ass girl alliance" -- a series of separate secret alliances with Ashley ("the dumb short-haired blond"), Natalie ("the even dumber long-haired blond"), and Marisa (who he almost generously just calls "the dark-haired girl"); empties the tribe's water bottles; burns Jaison's socks; and makes up a tearjerker story about losing his dog in Hurricane Katrina.

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Comments

[VOTER]

10:26 AM on 09/20/2009

Expect the Unexpected ---- BB takes over Survivor

Soon Russell will become a regular panelist on The View with former
Survivor, E.H.

[raker]

10:18 PM on 09/19/2009

I didn't know T!t Island was still on TV. God, that show stinks. It was fun when it seemed to be cast with real people.

[joemike127]

10:13 PM on 09/19/2009

I didnt know Joe the Plumber has a twin.

[VOTER]

10:21 AM on 09/20/2009

LOL

A very distant RICH Twin ..........­..........

[redhead61]

05:25 PM on 09/20/2009

....for being rich he sure has a dirty underwear issue. He is downright gross.

[doctorj2u]

08:42 PM on 09/19/2009

What is new here? A hateful Texan using the tragedy in New Orleans as a tool for their own agenda. I have been listening to the same story for the last 4 years. Same old same old.

[edlat47]

12:47 PM on 09/24/2009

Well it was those hateful Texans who took in the survivors of Katrina. And we have been regretting it for 4 years. The crazy thing is they keep saying they want to go home--but how do build below sea level and expect it not to happen again. Get over Katrina--t­he Texans hit by Ike have rebuilt and aren't still whining and it has only been a year.

[balancedsolution]

05:42 AM on 09/19/2009

thought this show got cancelled a few years back.

[jalowe1957]

04:08 AM on 09/19/2009

Russell makes Jonny Fairplay and Richard Hatch look like candidates for sainthood in comparison­.

Wouldn't it be poetic justice if he gets voted off early on?

[wadenelson1]

04:35 PM on 09/20/2009

He will. He, dumbazz that he is, will reveal that the Katrina story is a fabricatio­n to someone he THINKS is an ally.

I'll put $5 on it.

[sizogee]

01:50 AM on 09/19/2009

Why is anti-socia­l behavior considered "entertain­ment" these days? I get so tired of what could be good reality shows getting bogged down into bickering and fighting.

[duxguts]

01:06 AM on 09/19/2009

Is she a rocket scientist?

[brahdog]

12:42 AM on 09/19/2009

does it make me kookhead lib when i think, "oilman, that fits. prolly a con"

[Mabo]

02:49 PM on 09/19/2009

yes

[brahdog]

11:31 PM on 09/19/2009

thought so

[cassandra63200]

12:25 AM on 09/19/2009

He wants his 15 min. of shame.

[NeoconGal]

11:28 PM on 09/18/2009

I have never watched a single episode of Survivor and after reading this I never will.

[brahdog]

12:43 AM on 09/19/2009

it's actually a lot of fun. even cons watch it. our villain russell for example.

[vascopyjama]

01:36 AM on 09/19/2009

Maybe you could come and read the scriptures with me. We can figure out the plot together.

[ChristineMarie]

11:22 PM on 09/18/2009

I've watched every season of Survivor..­..all eighteen, and have enjoyed the show. This season, because of the mean, oilman....­.I may not watch. He is too creepy and dumping everyones water and burning your teamates socks should be against the rules....i­t totally destroys the game. If he is not voted out by the next week, which I doubt will happen, since he is manipulati­ng everyone right now.......­..........­...I'll quit watching.

Sooooooooo­ooo....you producers of Survivor, beware....­the ratings may take a dump. I realize that the 19th season is probably already finished and you can't change what has happened..­...but there is enough bad behaviour in this country of ours right now....and many of us aren't going to want to watch it on Survivor.

Shame on you for promoting this man and his behavior!!­!

[Scoot2711]

11:41 AM on 09/19/2009

I agree; I'm a huge fan of Survivor, but this slimy guy is a real turn-off. He is repulsive in every sense of the word. It's one thing to be a schemer, but it's another to be the kind of sociopath that he is.

[gorgol]

09:01 PM on 09/18/2009

Is this guy a sociopath?­??

[treat2day]

09:52 PM on 09/18/2009

He is from Texas!

nuff said.....

[Palemoon]

07:50 PM on 09/18/2009

Such is the sad commentary of our pathetic society, thinking that a show like Survivor is in any way a measure of someones ability to survive. Here you have a show in which people are being trained to stab each other in the back in order to get ahead. No doubt, this show is tatamount to being porn for capitalist­s.

Anyone who wants to watch a REAL survival show needs to watch the show on Discovery channel with the group of post-apoca­lypse survivors who have to find some way of making do with what they can find and make for themselves­. In that, you find that the group of infinitely more powerful than the individual ever can be.

[wadenelson1]

08:59 PM on 09/18/2009

>porn for capitalist­s.

FAVED!

I often wonder how bad things will have to get in America before we start trying to help our neighbors, even strangers once again. Before business is seen as an opportunit­y to serve others by applying our unique skills and talents, rather than a chance to overcharge them.

[treat2day]

09:56 PM on 09/18/2009

Free Market---c­reated greed in America. Charities lost revenue and communitie­s lost charities. Now the country needs these services but CAPITALISM is the road block.

Where is the LOVE?

[sagebrush5]

07:25 PM on 09/18/2009

Wealthy oil men have been "raising hell" since oil was discovered­.
I for one will be glad when they no longer have the option to plunder the world...
or terrorize the poor suckers (us) who depend on their gushing gold.