I did not see this posted elsewhere. EPMB apparently takes his secrets very seriously.

Loose Lips Sink "Survivor" Ship

By Joal Ryan

An ex-Survivor has been felled by a paper cut.

Survivor: Thailand contestant Helen Glover lost her columnist gig with a Rhode Island newspaper this week after CBS warned the former jungle dweller that she was blabbing too much about behind-the-scenes life on the hit reality series.

The Providence Journal reported that its powers-that-be opted to off Glover rather than have the network take a first pass at her articles.

"What CBS wants is the right to edit the work of a person writing for the Journal. We find that arrangement unacceptable," executive editor Joel Rawson said in his newspaper Wednesday.

Glover, who placed fourth on Thailand, began freelancing a column for the Journal on Jan. 31. It offered running commentary and predictions on the show's latest incarnation, Survivor: All-Stars, which premiered Feb. 1.

Per the paper, Glover's March 11 submission prompted an e-mail from a CBS lawyer. Communicating directly with Glover, the legal eagle told the 48-year-old that she had violated her Survivor confidentiality agreement by describing post-game procedures for castoffs.

"When you are voted off, you go to a base camp, of sorts, behind the scenes and far away from the game," Glover wrote in the paper. "... receive a meal, shower, room and a visit from the staff psychiatrist."

Glover went on to note that the show's psychiatrist checks in with ex-players--some of whom leave the game angry or depressed, she said--even after they return to the real world, "as many people have trouble adjusting to the normal routine of life again."

Glover responded to the CBS e-mail by submitting a column that was to run this past Wednesday to the network before her newspaper bosses got a look. CBS told the Journal it didn't order Glover to do so; Glover told the paper she sure wasn't acting on "a suggestion."

The ex-player said it was never her intention to "ruin" the show via her column.

"I love Survivor and the people who play the game," Glover said in the Journal. "...I tried to be so careful not to divulge anything that would be a secret."

CBS and Survivor producers take their secrets seriously. In 2001, the network sued original Survivor cast member Stacey Stillman for $5 million, alleging she'd broken her confidentially agreement by filing a lawsuit claiming the game was rigged.

Per the Journal, players are bound by signed agreements to hold their tongues for three years. Glover's keeps hers in check into 2005.

While CBS doesn't want insider info spilled, it hasn't stopped insider takes from being shared. Columns by ex-Survivors have popped up everywhere including in the pages of the National Enquirer where Thailand champ Brian Heidik (news) pens one.

I do not see what big secret she revealed.