"Survivor"

September 28, 2000

Rats? No showers? The razor he couldn't live without? Former castaway Dr. Sean answers questions about everything you ever wanted to know--and maybe some things you didn't!--about his "Survivor" experience. He also chats about his work as the new medical correspondent for "Extra."

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Warner Bros. Host: Welcome chatters! Today's chat is with "Extra TV's" newest medical correspondent Dr. Sean from "Survivor". We welcome Dr. Sean Kenniff, welcome and thank you for being here with us.

Survivor Sean: Oh, it's great to be here guys.

Warner Bros. Host: Playing "Survivor," if given the opportunity, would you do it again? If so, would you behave the same or differently, in any way?

Survivor Sean: I absolutely would do it again. I would not do anything differently. I think people actually misunderstood what I was trying to do out there in terms of my opposite strategy. Overall I feel I played the game well.

Baggy: In the episode where you won a night on a yacht, you mentioned that you owed Kelley a dinner. what was that all about?

Survivor Sean: Okay. During one of the prior contests, I had screwed something up for Kelly. That resulted in Colleen winning the barbeque, and Kelly coming in second place.

Warner Bros. Host: Back to the alphabet thing.

Sillyoldlady: Come on Sean, level with us, you had a strategy all along didn't you? That whole alphabet thing was nothing more that subterfuge wasn't it?

Survivor Sean: Absolutely. The way the alphabet strategy worked it was actually quite sophisticated. First of all, it would have been perceived as politically neutral were I to be lucky enough to make it to the final vote. It was imperative that I make each contestant aware how I was voting so they would know I am politically neutral; and furthermore contestants could protect themselves, mathematically, by stacking a vote on top of mine. Every vote that was stacked on top of my own dramatically reduced my risk of getting voted off the island. But it's even better than that. Furthermore, alphabetical order allowed me to vote for all of the Pagong people first (Colleen, Jenna, Gervase, Gretchen and Greg) and my team (Tagi) last. It made mathematical sense and it made political sense and because all the Pagong people came first, it made sense.

Warner Bros. Host: Do regret voting Jenna off that night?

Survivor Sean: Yes. Yeah. In my opinion the alliance should have voted off Gervase. They had the votes that were needed to vote Gervase off. There were only 8 of us left and they had 4 votes. So the most it could have been was a 4 on 3 votes. Gervase was a bigger threat. Kelly was voting with them. Kelly was a double agent.

Big Old Freak: Did you feel that you were represented accurately? Or was our eventual perception of you manufactured by producers and skewed?

Survivor Sean: I actually don't think the producers manufactured the personalities, more so by the spin doctors after the show, and by public opinion.

Billybob: Before entering the contest, how far did you think you would get?

Survivor Sean: I expected to last two or three shows. That was my goal. Just to show my colleagues that I did something different. I was there for so damned long I was beginning to have an inferiority complex.

Dinky: Did you exercise while you were on the island to keep up your muscled physique, or were you too exhausted?

Survivor Sean: Despite exhaustion, I did work out on the island. I actually built a jungle gym. But, seeing how people reacted to my bowling alley I am glad they did not televise the jungle gym.

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