Editing Survivor: Marquesas (section)

==Controversy==
===Purple rock tie-breaker===
Paschal's elimination at the final four sparked controversy in the game of ''Survivor''. Starting in ''Marquesas'', if the tribe could not reach a unanimous decision as to who should be voted off within an allotted time, contestants who did not have immunity would pull different colored rocks from a sack. Whoever chose the odd-colored rock (in this case, purple) would be eliminated. The contestants receiving the most votes (in this situation, Kathy and Neleh) also become immune. However, at this Tribal Council, Neleh and Kathy were also forced to choose rocks where they should have been immune, which in theory would have eliminated Paschal by default. Though Paschal chose the purple rock and was eliminated anyway, it is speculated that the fire-making challenge (which would involve only Neleh and Kathy) should have been used in this case and that production was in error by using the rock drawing tiebreaker as there were four contestants remaining. This theory was supported by host Jeff Probst, when he later admitted that using the purple rock tiebreaker was a mistake at this point in the game, because the formula behind it was impossible to apply fairly with only four players left.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://ew.com/article/2005/02/08/jeff-probst-survivor-seasons-i-loved-and-hated/ | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | title=The Host Has Spoken | access-date=July 2, 2007 | archive-date=August 30, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830083714/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1024612_3,00.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

Following ''Marquesas'', the drawing of rocks to break a tie would not occur again for more than eleven years, when in the twenty-seventh season, ''[[Survivor: Blood vs. Water]]'', Katie Collins drew the odd-colored rock at the final six tribal council and went to [[Survivor (franchise)#Redemption Island|Redemption Island]] (as the twist was in play). The odd-colored rock in this draw was white while the others were black. The rock draw also appeared in the thirty-third season, ''[[Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X]]''. A tied vote at the final ten resulted in Jessica Lewis being eliminated after drawing the sole black rock (with the other rocks being white). Probst stated in an interview during ''Blood vs. Water'' that the tiebreaker has been used so scarcely that they did not take the consistency of the colors into account.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/12/12/survivor-blood-vs-water-jeff-probst-episode-13/ | title = 'Survivor: Blood vs. Water': Jeff Probst breaks down the penultimate episode | first = Dalton | last= Ross | date  =December 12, 2013 | access-date = December 12, 2013 | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] }}</ref>

===Rob Mariano===
During his time on the show, then-25-year-old construction worker [[Rob Mariano]] made several [[Homophobia|homophobic]] and [[Misogyny|misogynistic]] remarks about fellow contestants, even going so far as to [[Outing|out]] one competitor as a gay man. According to Mariano, then-35-year-old fishing boat captain Zoe Zanidakis, whom he deemed insufficiently feminine, was "the toughest guy on the island." In reference to then-36-year-old registered nurse John Carroll, a [[gay]] man, Mariano stated, "When I first saw John I thought he was a big-time queer... I won't be sleeping next to him tonight." Also in reference to Carroll, he said, "We have eight guys and one girl on the island. I think her name is John."<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Winds Twist |series=Survivor |date=March 20, 2002 |network=CBS |season=4 |number=49}}</ref>

After an argument about voting strategy, Mariano asked Carroll "Are you gay dude?" to which Carroll responded "Hey, don't ask me that... Yeah I am." He expressed discomfort over the public outing later in an on-camera interview: "It was very passive aggressive like a throwaway comment, 'Hey, are you gay?', but you know, hey, … I've been out for a long time, so I said 'Yeah', you know I am. I said thanks for outing me, you know."<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Underdogs |series=Survivor |date=April 4, 2002 |network=CBS |season=4 |number=51}}</ref>

Nevertheless, Mariano would frequently be invited to participate in subsequent [[CBS]] productions throughout the years that followed, eventually winning the million-dollar prize on his [[Survivor: Redemption Island|fourth ''Survivor'' appearance]] and later going on to be featured as a "mentor" and "''Survivor'' icon" in the show's [[Survivor: Island of the Idols|thirty-ninth season]]. Shortly after he was eliminated on the show, Mariano addressed the incident in an interview, saying "I actually talked to him right after I outed him on the show. The reason I asked him if he was gay wasn't to bring him out on national TV; it was to see if he would be honest with me."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shaw |first=Jessica |date=April 15, 2002 |title=Boston Rob tells why he outed John on TV |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/04/15/boston-rob-tells-why-he-outed-john-tv/ |access-date=2024-06-13 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> Neither Mariano, ''Survivor'', nor CBS have ever since publicly addressed the comments or apologized for his behavior on the show.