"Survivor" Champ Spits Venom at Snake Eater

Posted Jul 18th 2007 11:17AM by TMZ Staff

Jenna Morasca -- the winner of "Survivor: Amazon" -- is biting the CBS hand that fed her, after a wannabe contestant skinned and bit into a live snake during auditions for the next "Survivor. " Jenna screamed for cops to throw the snake-chomper in the slammer!

Morasca, through The Humane Society, thrashed "Survivor," saying that it's "billed as a reality show, but sadly, cruelty to animals is a reality that occurs every day. I hope local authorities fully investigate this case, and I hope the man who did this gets to experience the reality of jail time."

The Bakersfield Californian first reported that a man from Tehachapi skinned and ate a live snake for his audition, and gave his name only as Rusty Shackleford, a common pseudonym used on "King of the Hill."

"Survivor" has been littered with live animals killed and eaten, including a live chicken in "Survivor: Vanuatu," and a wild pig hunted and killed in the "Australian Outback" edition.

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1. So what kind of snake was it?

Posted at 12:11PM on Jul 18th 2007 by Kristi

2. wow!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:13PM on Jul 18th 2007 by rig

3. If it's the show I saw, it was a blk/wht poisonous water snake. It was minding it's own business when he killed it. He said " He didn't want to take a chance ".

Posted at 12:33PM on Jul 18th 2007 by Rachel

4. if the tree hugging dog kissers had thier way we would all be eating tofu and and dancing to the earth mother with pastel dresses

Posted at 12:37PM on Jul 18th 2007 by andrew

5. It was a rattle snake, it happened at the auditions in Bakersfield this past Saturday. If you go to bakersfield.com, you can see a short clip from the audition.

Posted at 12:42PM on Jul 18th 2007 by Debbie

6. What a pathetic attempt to get some press...but TMZ printed so I guess it worked

Posted at 1:47PM on Jul 18th 2007 by notfamous...yet

7. DIDN,T SHE GET NAKED FOR FOOD CORRECT ME IF AM WRONG?

Posted at 3:46PM on Jul 18th 2007 by max

8. Jeez Whitney

How sensitive are you?

amazing you cant see Andrew's point in the slightest.

You must eat Tofu and hug trees to have such a snippy little comeback like that.

He's right, everyone is too damn sensitive, thats what his point was.

And you reaffirmed it by whining about him calling out all those overly sensitive babies.

you even dropped the F-Bomb.

I bet your Yoga class loved the story when you told them

"I totally got this meat eater back today in a reply to a blog posting"

here's a question for you.

do you have an leather shoes???

I thought so...

Posted at 3:47PM on Jul 18th 2007 by The Goggler

9. I just think its wrong. Was there a real reason to kill the snake? Was anybody in grave danger? If so, then by all means its not a problem but if not, then it morally wrong. That's my opinion.

Posted at 5:53PM on Jul 18th 2007 by jenny

10. A "live" chicken, pig, and snake killed and then eaten??? OH THE HORROR! *rolling eyes*

Posted at 6:03PM on Jul 18th 2007 by MEGABITE

11. so, this took place outside? it is funny to say "skinned and bit into a live snake" when it couldn't have survived being skinned. anyhoo, killing animals in the wild, even on a tv show, is not the same, and in fact better than eating animals that suffered in factory farms. but i can see why she took issue with that psycho audition--good for her! dude was missing the point. call people hippies all you want but animal cruelty is illegal because humans can't be trusted to do any better. see "Amores Perros," or just read the Michal Vick dogfighting story. species-ists!

Posted at 2:00AM on Jul 19th 2007 by puravida

12. That looks like a picture of Adrienne Curry

Posted at 9:37AM on Jul 19th 2007 by Amber

13. I agree with Amber. That's definitely Adrienne Curry NOT Jenna Morasca.

Posted at 2:51PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Nicole