[6] In Borneo (2000), he came out as gay onscreen,[7][a] notoriously went nude on his birthday,[9] and used resources to catch edible sea creatures underwater.
[10] Moreover, he defended,[10] formed, and led an alliance with his remaining Tagi tribe members who seemed unable to win individually.
[11][12] As four players remained in the season finale, Hatch, Rudy Boesch, and Sue Hawk plotted to vote Kelly Wiglesworth out, but the plan was no longer feasible when Wiglesworth won an Individual Immunity challenge called "Fallen Comrades", a trivia quiz mini-game about eliminated contestants.
[12] As one of three remaining players, Hatch strategically dropped out of the season's final Immunity challenge, leaving Boesch and Wiglesworth to compete against each other.
[13] Fourth-placed Sue Hawk infamously called Kelly a "rat" and Richard a "snake" in the final Council.
[15] Against the runner-up Wiglesworth, Hatch earned the "Sole Survivor" title and won $1 million and a Pontiac Aztek SUV by a 4–3 jury vote of the final Tribal Council.
Hatch's victory was controversial at the time since Greg's decisive vote seemed to be cast due to the result of a "pick-a-number" question, but Greg has stated that he had always intended to vote for Richard and his question was his way to poke fun at the serious nature of the Final Tribal Council.
[c] Before his elimination, Hatch was involved in an incident with another former Borneo player Sue Hawk, who reappeared in the same season as part of the Chapera tribe.
Hawk later claimed that, during one of tribal immunity challenges, which was a balance beam mini-game,[18] Hatch's genitals touched her as he passed her by on the course.
[20] In post-Borneo era, Hatch made guest appearances as himself on "One Wong Move" (2000) from Becker[21] and, alongside Sue Hawk, "Penetration Island" (2002) from Son of the Beach.
[22] In Becker, Hatch visits the titular character's office for his severe stomachache and makes references to his Survivor gameplay, like eating bizarre things.
[5] Hatch also wrote his 2000 book 101 Survival Secrets: How to Make $1 Million, Lose 100 pounds and Live Happily Ever After.
[6] According to a November 2000 interview, he lost more than 100 pounds within the past two years up to Borneo and then, after the filming was completed, having his excess inelastic tissue removed from his abdomen via resection surgery on May 9, 2000.
[6] Hatch appeared alongside three other Survivor players—Hawk, Jenna Lewis and Gervase Peterson—in Hollywood Squares on the week of September 25, 2000.
[38][43][44] After the All-Stars filming, Hatch dated an Argentine tourist director Emiliano Cabral, whose age was twenty-eight in early 2004.
[38] A property purchased by Hatch in Sydney, Nova Scotia, following his Survivor win was included in a tax sale during a public auction in 2013.