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- Jonny Fairplay’s Latest Scheme
  
  A post about Survivor by Trace Sharp on February 9th, '08
  
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- “Fairplay went to what is affectionately known as Loser's Lounge and waited around until the merge before he got to jet set around the world. I wish that his teammates or Probst had called him out on this, but they didn't.”
  
  Let’s be very clear. Reality Television, as we say in the south, ain’t always reality.
  
  Glad that we got that out of the way.
  
  In following up to the post I wrote on Thursday about the preview of Survivor Micronesia: Fans vs. Favorites, the season will be filled with uber fans of the show battling it out with “favs” that were on other seasons but didn’t win the $1 million dollar booty.
  
  And, alas, we got to see the biggest villain in Survivor history return in one Jonny Fairplay who really has made a career of trying his best to get attention and make a living in reality television.
  
  For fans of the show, we were introduced to the loudmouth in the opening moments that was recognizable to viewers. It was the Fairplay we knew. Snarking with host Jeff Probst, scheming with two sets of already divided favorites, this was the Fairplay that we have seen quite a bit of over the last four years.
  
  But in an event that you could see play out in his eyes, we saw him shift and try to prove his worth as a kindler, gentler Fairplay. And it happened as he was gathering wood with Amanda. You could see in his eyes that he didn’t want to be gathering water, scavenging for food, hauling water and playing the game of Survivor.
  
  You could see it cooking like a bad batch of meth in a 1973 Winnebago.
  
  So the weeping starts and the “throwing” one for the team with Fairplay sadly bringing up that he couldn’t get his girlfriend and his unborn daughter, Piper, “screwing with this head.” He was impassioned about that he needed to be with them, that he was a more mature man. That he was, in fact, a good guy.
  
  And he was “voted” out but in reality he quit, smiling as the votes came in and even giving his nemesis Probst a goodbye hug.
  
  Guys, he didn’t go home. According to Dalton Ross at Entertainment Weekly, Fairplay went to what is affectionately known as Loser’s Lounge and waited around until the merge before he got to jet set around the world. I wish that his teammates or Probst had called him out on this, but they didn’t.
  
  The reality is that Fairplay didn’t want to do what had to be done to outwit, outlast and outplay. Let’s take a look at Fairplay for a moment. He brawled with other reality television actor Danny Bonaduce less than a year ago, he defecated on a bed in Kill Reality and was tossed from that show, he was tossed for disrupting another reality show called “Inked” by disrupting the show’s filming …
  
  Should I go on?
  
  It’s not a big issue other than the fact that what is edited for reality television doesn’t always show the entire picture. And that Z-lister Fairplay did something he’s known for:
  
  He scammed the viewers again.
  
  I wonder if his grandmother that he said had died on Survivor: Cook Islands was watching this latest Fairplayism. I’m guessing she did.
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