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A contestant on the “reality” TV show  Survivor  lost his new job selling real estate after a  10-month-old episode  aired in which he exposed a rival as being a female-to-male transgender person. Former contestant Jeff Varner , a one-time newscaster with Fox and CBS affiliates, was fired from his new job as a Greensboro, North Carolina , realtor last week after the show was broadcast. It showed Varner, a three-time contestant, outing Zeke Smith, a member of his team or “tribe,” as a biological female. His motivation was obvious. In each episode of the show, filmed on the island in the South Pacific Fiji chain, all contestants vote one person off the island and out of the competition for the end-of-season prize of $1 million. Believing himself to be the next to go, Varner said to show host Jeff Probst , “There is deception here. Deceptions on levels, Jeff, that these guys don’t even understand.” He then turned to Smith and asked,“Why haven’t you t...

Pop star Katy Perry told a national entertainment magazine she is praying for Americans to accept same-sex “marriage.” The singer, who was raised by religious parents and tried her hand at Gospel music before recording “ I Kissed a Girl ,”  told  the widely distributed  Parade  magazine she celebrated after  President Barack Obama declared his support for homosexual nuptials . “I was really happy; I probably went down to West Hollywood and had a shot” of alcohol, she said. Katy Perry dresses as former Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury , who died of AIDS . She acknowledged, “I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.”  “My viewpoint on all these things – equality for women, the choice to love anyone you want – hopefully, we will look back at this moment and think like we do now concerning [other] civil rights issues,” she said. “We’ll just shake our heads in disbelief, saying, ‘Thank God we’ve evolved.’ That would ...