Survivor winner Richard Hatch was arrested just hours after an exclusive interview for “The Today Show” in Newport, Rhode Island on Tuesday (August 18). Richard has been at his sister’s under house arrest after serving nearly four years in prison for tax evasion.

In the interview, Richard claims he spent all that time in prison because he is gay and that Survivor’s executive producers had told him they would pay the taxes on the $1 million prize.

Richard was taken to the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office in Bourne, Mass., but authorities haven’t disclosed the reason for the arrest. “We just don’t have the same kind of details on the federal inmates we book as we do with the regular city and county inmates,” explained Sheriff’s Office spokesman Roy Lyons. “It’s got to be that he violated some kind of condition. There’s no other reason this would have happened.”

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