...the week's most-watched prime-time program, according to Nielsen Media Research. The colorful pirate Rupert and Jon Dalton, who proved to be the show's most notorious villain since Richard Hatch won the game's first edition, helped make...

...to shrewd alliances to Machiavellian backstabbing. No outrageous falsehoods, like that of "Pearl Islands" castaway Jon Dalton, who, to win sympathy, lied about his grandmother's death. "I believed it when he said it," Probst laughs...