For the second time, a gay man has come out on top on TV’s Survivor. Todd Herzog, 22, a longtime fan of the show, won the $1 million prize after 39 days of outwitting and outlasting the other contestants. Herzog—the youngest winner ever—won Survivor’s 15th season by garnering four votes from the seven-member jury, which consisted of players who were eliminated before the final three: Herzog, Courtney Yates and Amanda Kimmel.
Herzog, a flight attendant, was actually the second gay Mormon to compete on the show, following Survivor: Guatemala’s Rafe Judkins.
The first gay man to win it all was Richard Hatch. Hatch is currently serving time for failing to pay taxes on his winnings, or on the income he earned as co-host of a Boston radio show and rent on property he owned.
Source: windycitymediagroup.com