So...Was Survivor's Denise Lying?

About her job , or just mislead?


Anyone else see her on CBS early show with the school?

I think she plain out lied. I was sooo happy for her when I heard that Mark burnett gave her 50K and now I just saw her on the early show and she is clearly lying...Well she lied, b/c she nows admits she was not in the "lunch lady" position before taping began on Survivor.....she ACCEPTED this job with THOSE hrs...IMO, she should NOT get ANY money and I bet she doesnt....

School superintendent says ‘Survivor’ “lunch lady” lied | TV Biz | Hollywood Insider | EW.com by Mike Bruno

Millions sat with their jaws agape waiting to hear who would win $100,000 as Survivor China’s most popular contestant on the series’ reunion show Sunday night (it was James) — but perhaps none was more agape than Nancy T. Lane’s. Lane is the superintendent of the Douglas Public Schools in Douglas, Mass., and she says that her employee, “lunch lady” contestant Denise Martin, lied on Sunday’s live broadcast when she stated that she was not given her job back as a cafeteria worker upon her return from taping the reality show and instead was made to “clean the toilets” as a janitor working night shifts. At the end of the show, host Jeff Probst gave Martin $50,000 on behalf of producer Mark Burnett to help get her life back on track.

“Yeah, I watched my own jaw drop when she said that, because it’s absolutely not true,” Lane told Hollywood Insider. Lane released a statement on Monday, on the Douglas Public School District website, explaining that Martin was actually promoted to the position as custodian –- a promotion Lane claims Martin asked for herself. Reached for comment, CBS responded: “The comments made by Ms. Martin on the program were compelling and sympathetic. If these statements were misleading or false, we hope that she will take immediate and public steps to clarify her remarks.”

Lane’s statement says that “Martin held a full-time position as a custodian prior to her participation in the series, and she returned to this same position upon her return from China.” The statement continues, “Although Mrs. Martin was a cafeteria employee prior to her selection as a contestant, she asked to be considered for a promotion to full-time custodian, and was promoted to this position on March 30, 2007. This promotion came with additional benefits and a higher salary. Following her leave, she then returned to this same position.” Martin has held the new position since August, when she returned from taping the show, up until last week, when she traveled to California for the live Survivor broadcast, according to Lane.

“I can empathize, having been a working mother,” Lane said. “It’s tough to work those night shifts. But she took the job; that’s the job she took leave from [to do Survivor]. If she wants to go back to the day shift, she should apply when one comes open.”

Lane says she spoke with Martin on the telephone on Monday afternoon and that the show’s fourth-place finisher was apologetic, but that “she did not explain why she said that to my satisfaction,” Lane explained. “It’s difficult to grasp. We did nothing but encourage her. She took leave for almost three months, she was given additional times off when ever she needed it. Now she says this on national TV…. Douglas is a nice little town. Everybody was rooting for her, the local paper was bending over backwards with positive articles. Then to have it end this way. Talk about a letdown.”

Martin was still in California on Monday, but Lane says her job is waiting for her when she comes back home on Friday. “I told her, ‘I think we have a few things to go over,’” Lane says. “I might have a few things I’d like to talk about.”

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WOW..talk about spinning a story Denise!!!

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Wow, and to think I felt so bad for her!

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Sooo wrong! She totally set herself up to be voted off - she practiced her sob story on Amanda.....

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did the finally happen alread?

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that makes me rip roaring mad!!! Hope they take their 50K back

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Awesome - nice lie....What a stupid azz.....

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I figured she was exaggerating. If you work in the school system you would know when you leave you may be guaranteed A JOB when you come back but not your old job. THAT is what I thought happened.

But her having the job beforehand as a janitor, wow, Denise I am upset with you for lying!

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I'm torn on this because the minute she gave her whole "my like *****" speech to Amanda I kind of stopped liking her... I thought it was tacky to broadcast that. And she made a comment about having nothing to go back to but her family. I looked at DH and was like

I don't know - it seems a little put on to me... like she's very eager to win money and get away from her life and she tells the whole world how sad her life is. Seems like a pity party to me...

Her town and school must be

Yikes! What a thing to go home to!

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I'm torn on this because the minute she gave her whole "my like *****" speech to Amanda I kind of stopped liking her... I thought it was tacky to broadcast that. And she made a comment about having nothing to go back to but her family. I looked at DH and was like

I don't know - it seems a little put on to me... like she's very eager to win money and get away from her life and she tells the whole world how sad her life is. Seems like a pity party to me...

Her town and school must be

Yikes! What a thing to go home to!