> All they have is rice (which is most likely moldy) to eat, they don't have hot water, they live in >the outdoors and they don't have any changes of clothing You need to take that with a BIG grain of salt. This is a big production. The tribes don't live far from the resort where the production staff live. And you can bet that if one actor ruins his underwear, the production staff will bring him a new pair. Consider toilets, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste. And females probably have access to some tampons if necessary. They may not have a running water toilet, but they most probably have some sort of portable toilet that is placed so the cameras never show it. Watching the show is interesting not because of what you see, but because of all that goes on in the background that they don't want you to see, or all the product placement ads that are part of the program. And the logistics are mind boggling. Consider all those games the actors have to play. They need to build those, test them to make sure they are possible to do and not too dangerous, and worse of all, they need to have alternate games in case one of the team is decimated. There was one season where one team was down to 1 contestant. If they had planned some games that needed more than 1 contestant, such a game would have had to have been changed ASAP. Remember that the actors all sign contracts that prohibit them from discussing the real production stuff (behind the scenes etc) that isn't aired on the show. And in terms of revealing stuff, one of the most revealing was a few season ago. Some "geek" who had lied about his mother dying. At one point at night in front of some fire, he is wearing a speedo, and you could not only clearly see he was circumcised, but that he wasn't completely flaccid either !!!! This week's episode where they blurred the underwear bulge was either a teaser (nothing to hide, but by blurring it, it makes people talk), or perhaps the shape of his glans was just too visible. Or perhaps the fly provided a peek inside whenever a leg was in a certain position while he walked. Remember Survivor Australia: Was it really luck that there was a cameraman in the camp (even though the tribe was away for some game/chalenge) when the rain started to fall and the torrent took away the one box of rice left, with the cameram men filming it as it floated down the river until it magically got stuck in some branches and the "survivor crew" rescued it and brought it back to the tribe ? It is very true that the actors are not living comfortably. Their food is limited, but I think that they do have bare essentials behind the scenes. Consider this season, was WATER mentioned ? Don't see them working to get drinking water.