Former `Survivor’ contestant buys home in Las Vegas
By HOLLY IVY DE VORE
REAL ESTATE WRITERScot Savage, a realty agent for Realty 500 Reiss Corp., is accustomed to getting referrals. So, when former “Survivor” contestant Susan Hawk, a truck driver from Wisconsin, and her husband, Tim, recently contacted Savage, he went with the flow and helped them find a new home in Las Vegas.

“Susan Hawk is the very first celebrity that I sold a house to. I picked her up at the hotel to look for a house, and we’ve been friends since. When she was in Las Vegas once for a convention, her husband even went on `The Price Is Right’ trip with my group,” Savage said.

“It’s hard to believe that I sold a house to Sue Hawk. When I was watching `Survivor,’ I really didn’t like her and was cheering for the Las Vegas girl, Kelly (Wiglesworth). But after meeting her, I’ve found out that Sue’s a very nice person and we’ve become friends.”

Savage represented the Hawks in their purchase of a resale home with a pool on a half-acre lot in the northwestern valley. The couple plans to make the four-bedroom, three-bath home their primary residence.

“We learned of Scot through one of his friends who recognized me when we were at a casino,” Susan Hawk said. “We started talking and told her that we wanted to move to Las Vegas, but were having trouble finding a house. She said that her neighbor, Scot, was a good real estate agent so we called him.”

Hawk said she could not be happier with her choice of realty agent.

“Scot was very professional and we enjoyed working with him,” she said. “After looking at about eight homes on one-acre lots, we decided to look at houses on half-acre lots. He went and looked at other listings for us and found the house that we eventually bought. My husband, who is also in real estate, and I think Scot’s real estate knowledge is excellent.”

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BEHINDS THE SCENES WITH ONE CONTESTANT WHO WAS TREATED LIKE DIRTBACKSTAGE ON WEAKEST LINK

TV’s queen of mean, Anne Robinson, viciously puts down contestants on The Weakest Link, but it’s all carefully crafted cruelty for the camera’s, contestant Scot Savage tells Star in an exclusive interview.  

In the first-ever behind-the-scenes account of the taping of the NBC hit, Savage, 37, reveals the show’s dirty little secrets.

“You’re encouraged to trash Anne,” admits Savage, who lives in Las vegas.  “And you’re supposed to slam fellow contestants once she dismisses you as ‘the weakest link.’” “They want fear, hostility, humiliation. And that’s what they get – even if it is all so stage-managed.”  But producers don’t want guest getting too hostile toward Robinson.  Players are warned to never look the host, 56, directly in the eyes, he says.

“Your basically fodder for the game show,” reveals the blonde bachelor, who owns an Internet clothing company, TyeDyeU.com.
“Anne can and does chew you up, then spit you out.”  Savage, who got axed halfway through “Link,” says he’ll never forget getting zinged by the host.  When he was asked, “In business, what woman has been the chief executive of Playboy International since 1988?” he replied: “Rosie O’Donnell.”  To which Robinson zapped him with: “Which village is missing its idiot?”

“I could hear the audience laughing.  I thought: ‘Wow, this babe makes Don Rickles seen like a pussycat,’” Savage says.

Right from the start the show’s atmosphere is scary, he admits.  The contestants are brought on stage 15 minutes before airtime and are left to stand there, nervously sweating.  The audience is dressed in all black and before you walk out on set, it’s about as much fun as a funeral,” he says. “A producer orders ‘Silence!’ and the eight contestants are left sweating as the floor man lectures the audience.” Then swirling lights fill the stage at NBC’s Burbank studios and, clad in black, Anne marches out, Savage reveals.  He says that the hairs on the back of his neck stood at attention when the frosty host barked: “This is The Weakest Link, and this is the last time you will see me smile.”

Savage says the audience was ordered not to clap for correct answers, but to cackle as loud as they could when the players goofed or if Robinson rattled someone’s cage.  During those instructions, one of his group started whimpering and was close to tears!  But Savage confesses that Robinson’s dominatrix-like demeanor turned him on.  After he was voted out, he was taken to the show’s rant and rave room to comment.  He says he told them: “She was the older woman I’ve always fantasized about.”

Although his remark was cut from the show that aired April 30, he’s convinced the ice maiden has a heart. “Before I left, she flashed me her trademark wink and a very sexy smile,” he says.  “At that point I only had one weakest link – my knees!”

PETER KENT