SURVIVOR Host: There are lots of great questions, so let's get begin! If you're just joining us, we're chatting live with Survivor Janet Koth. We'll get to as many of your questions as we can. Let's get started! Hey Janet! How's it going?
Janet: I'm doing just great!

ScottSisk: Janet, did you try to convince people to not vote you off, or did you prefer to leave rather than stay?
Janet: No, I definitely made a last-ditch effort to stay. It wasn't shown on the show, but I'd gone to Christy, and she and I made an alliance, and we had talked to JoAnna trying to get her into our alliance. The problem was that we also needed Jeanne in our alliance and she was the one that accused me of bringing in the granola bar. The other four ladies had already made their alliance, so the best I could do was hope it'd go down to a tie.

Lauren: Why do you think Jeanne targeted you for being the owner of the granola bar. Did you not get along with her?
Janet: I have no idea why Jeanne targeted me for the granola bar! I absolutely did not do it. Unfortunately, people didn't know me enough to realize that it's not in my character to cheat. You'll have to ask Jeanne someday why she chose to target me. As far as how we got along, I thought we got along fine. Perhaps she wanted to be the only mother figure out there.

Smurfit: You said you were happy to be going home. Who do you think the weakest link was?
Janet: I guess that depends on how you define the weakest. Clearly, I was physically weak, but so were women half my age. Mentally, I think we were all pretty strong.

ahoahoong: How bad was it for the second day that you were there? You looked so tired. What was the worst thing about being out there?
Janet: That environment was so much more brutal than any of us anticipated. It was 123 degrees with 95% humidity. We hardly had anything to drink, there was nothing to eat and we couldn't sleep at night because we had scorpions and tarantulas falling all over us. So by Day Two my body was so depleted just from lack of sleep and dehydration. If you add to that the scenario that six of the eight of us were all cycling together (and I don't mean bikes) that was just an additional factor we didn't need. Y'know, PMS and machetes are a dangerous combination. I almost pulled out my machete a couple of times, and it wasn't to kill an Anaconda.

TheMusicMan: Janet, what is your favorite Star Wars movie and why? Thank you!
Janet: I guess it would have to be the original, and it's because Star Wars absolutely opened up your mind to all kinds of futuristic fantasies.

dionne: Who would you have taken out first with your machete?
Janet: [laughs] That would have been a toss up between and Deena and Jeanne. Hopefully I could have gotten them both with one swipe.

mandyky: Hi Janet, sad to see you go so soon. In your words, describe the celebration the Amazon Womens' team had when you all beat the men. Great job on that!
Janet: That was such a charge to our batteries. After that victory, I really started to feel better and feel like we could do it, we could win. Up until that point, we all felt like we were doing so poorly at just simply existing out there. But the Challenges were a different story. We needed that win more than anything.

mandyky: OK, Janet, I want your side of it. Do you know whose granola bar that was? First thing came to my mind was a Mark Burnett trick.
Janet: I must admit that crossed my mind too. However, I'm told that there was so much drama between the two camps that nothing needed to be added to the scenario. As far as who I think brought it in and planted it, I have my suspicions, but I have absolutely no proof. People, of course, want to know who I think it is that smuggled it in, but without proof I would be stooping to their level, because they blamed me without any proof. I play fair and others don't. It's as simple as that.

cAro: Janet, don't you think that the shelter should have been built since day one?
Janet: Absolutely. It's not that we didn't know how to build the shelter; the problem was we didn't have the physical capability to chop down all the trees that were required. In order for it to have been fair, they should have given the women a chainsaw. Either that or cut down the trees for both teams and let us start at that point.

brandon: Janet, what did you think about the confrontations between Christy and JoAnna?
Janet: I like them both very much. However, they're both strong women who are very direct in their approaches. If something is on either one's mind, it's put out there. You don't have to worry about them talking behind your back because they'll tell you exactly what they're thinking. When you put two women like that together, sometimes sparks will fly, but at least it's out there and everybody can deal with it and there's no backstabbing.

Quiksilver: Didn't you think it was rude of JoAnna to put her face in Christy's face when lip reading is her only means of communication?
Janet: Sure, I think that was probably a knee-jerk reaction. I think JoAnna simply got caught up in the moment. I don't think she really looked at Christy as somebody with a disability, and that's basically what Christy wanted from her: to be looked at just like everybody else.

Addicted2Survivor: Do you think that Christy was excluded?
Janet: I got that impression, yeah. I do want to point out though, if it didn't make it on TV, that I was not one of those that excluded her. She and I formed a close relationship, and she even cried when I told her that I thought I'd be sent packing.

Wangsta: Who is your favortie Survivor on the men's tribe?
Janet: I gotta tell ya', I'm still waiting to be impressed!

Peter_Fitznuggly: Janet, do the producers encourage the women to get naked?
Janet: [laughs] Well, let's just put it this way, I think the producers are probably smiling from ear to ear with all the nudity that goes on. I don't know whether or not they encourage it, but they certainly don't discourage it.

jennbug: Why did you girls boil the buffs?
Janet: [laughs] Oh, that's another good question!! [Sigh] I don't know; you really got me on that one. I believe in the beginning everybody was pretty freaked out over all the little bugs and parasites that we were warned about.

missing_Janet: Hey Janet, you are a fine person, and I loved watching you on the show. How long does Jeff take sorting out those votes before he reads them at Tribal Council?
Janet: Actually, he was in there quite a while. I think part of the reason is to increase the tension of the situation for us.

AMAZenON: Janet, if Playboy comes calling, yes or no?
Janet: [laughs] I would refer Playboy to episodes 1 and 2 of "Janet the Jungle Frump."

CeLeRoN: Hey Janet! I just wanted to know what you thought about JoAnna's interpretation of the Immunity Idol?
Janet: I thought it a bit extreme, but I do know a lot of strong Christians who might have had a similar reaction. I think it really would have been funny if we had gone ahead and buried it just to see the look on Jeff Probst's face when we handed him back a muddy idol because we kept it buried at camp! [laughs]

FireyRedTU: Hey Janet, why is it that your tribe didn't try fishing with the net, since the men were shown using one?
Janet: Well, none of us had ever fished with a net, and one day in particular Heidi and Jenna and I tried to use the net and it just got all caught up in the logs and branches and anything else it could find, so basically it turned into more of a nuisance than anything.

Smurfit: We didn't see any alliances on the television. Have the women started to pair off yet?
Janet: Well, I think I stated before on my last day there I could tell an alliance was going on between Deena and Jenna, Heidi and Shawna. I got the definite impression that they were going to be voting as one. That's why I knew my only hope was to unify the other four, which became impossible when Jeanne blamed me for the granola bar.

leahsmom: Janet, Ho-Hos or Twinkies? The world needs to know.
Janet: Boy, that's a tough one!! Ho-Ho.

kiw: Great job out there, Janet. Were you all given any indication that this was going to be men vs. women tribes? Or did you just find out when Jeff split you all up?
Janet: We had no idea whatsoever! When he called out our names to go into the boat, I was next to the last, and I was sitting there thinking "Great, I'm going to be on a mostly guy team. I'm lovin' it!" and then the hammer fell. It was my idea of a nightmare. I think men and women work best together. I think they complement one another in their different gifts but I must say it does make for interesting television.

ScottSisk: Janet, while watching SURVIVOR: THE AMAZON on TV, did you see anything surprising that you didn't see while you were out there?
Janet: Well, of course the main thing that you don't see while you're out there is all the comments and backstabbing that people do to the camera. That always, I'm sure, comes as a surprise to everybody, because people can smile at your face and go slam your personality the next minute. It definitely is an eye-opening experience.

firegirl: Janet, you looked fabulous on THE EARLY SHOW this am!

TxCris: I loved your comment on telling ladies with a midlife crisis to get a new haircut!
Janet: [laughs] Well, thanks for the compliment! It's really not too hard to improve on the jungle frump look. I kept hoping that there would be hair and makeup Challenges, but there just weren't any! I'd have kicked some butt on those puppies!

Midlife is an interesting time; you get very bogged down with responsibilities, and your life tends to take on a very routine existence. Often, you're dealing with careers and teenagers, and you just simply forget to include an element of fun. My midlife crisis was the best ever. Granted, it was really tough, much tougher than I thought, but I got to take part in the best show on television, and I challenge any of my friends to have a midlife crisis more interesting than that!

laine: Hi Janet, do you feel those women were lazy or just exhausted?
Janet: Exhausted, absolutely. I think on TV it comes across as people lying around, but then I sure don't remember them that way. We all got up the moment the sun rose, and were busy doing something until the sun set. And then we tried to get much-needed sleep. It kind of irks me that they show the girls getting their hair braided, as if we were sitting around having a pajama party. That actually only took five minutes a day, and the rest of the time we were trying to survive! It was not a new age spa.

Justin: Who thought of the idea for your auditon [tape]?
Janet: That's totally me! I love the Matrix, and I knew that in a sea of 65,000 tapes I would have to come up with something both timely and unusual for a middle-aged audition tape. It just occured to me what would be funnier than having Matrix part 8, the Middle-Aged Years. With an out-of-shape Trinity still trying to hang in there! Most of my audition tape can be seen on CBS.com. Maybe with any luck I'll be able to get a couple tickets to the premiere of the next Matrix, because I can't wait for it!

Telaria: Janet, what did you think about the way the guys were obsessing over the girls?
Janet: I think they need to rename their tribe Testosterone Frenzy! That was pretty amazing, and shows what part of the body drives their tribe's strategies.

Kelly: Are you enjoying this chat, or did they make you do it?
Janet: [laughs] No, actually chopping down trees may not be my thing, but talking is!

PDXGrl: Did it really rain as much as we see, or can Mark Burnett edit the weather?
Janet: Mark Burnett is a sick and twisted genius, but even he has no control over the weather, and yes, it definitely rained that much! It was lovely. [laughs] I kept expecting to see the boys pull up in Noah's Ark.