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James Wearing A G-String?

On Wednesday night's "Survivor: Palau" history continued to be made.

For the first time ever, a tribe was sent to tribal council for the sixth episode in a row. Unfortunately for Alabama steelworker James Miller, the Ulong tribe unraveled faster than their knots.

It was Miller's Navy knot that was supposed to tighten up when pulled. But it didn't take long for the Koror tribe to loosen it and win immunity.

"Let me tell you something, that knot is supposed to tighten up like that," Miller told The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith. "Well, it's TV. It's drama, OK? They didn't show them folks trying to pull this thing apart, you know? They didn't."

It also looked as if Miller spent half the immunity challenge trying to keep his toga fastened. In his defense he said, "Jeff Probst, I'm telling you, he's a fibber.

"He talks a lot of stuff, but it wasn't three or four minutes because if you just sit there. I'm counting in my head. It was like 60 seconds, and it wasn't working so I gave up on it. He wasn't about four minutes. He's smoking crack. He needs to get off of it," Miller joked about the reality show host.

In another editing complaint, Miller said he wished viewers could have seen the way his tribe enjoyed the reward challenge: Pringles potato chips and Mai Tais.

He said, "They didn't show the part when I got drunk and showed off my G-string. I'm telling you. That would have made good TV."

Perhaps, Smith added, it will be released in the home video.

"They need to," the 33-year-old steelworker said. "The world would be laughing. I am telling you."

In retrospect, Miller said he does not think he did anything wrong in playing the game.

"I don't think I played the game wrong at all," he claimed. "I was trying to get rid of the people that were causing us problems. That were weak, you know?"

Ibrehem Rahman was one of them.

"Ibrehem is a big, strong dude. He's a good guy, but he's so tall that he's clumsy," Miller said.

So what caused his demise? He said it was Stephenie and it took him by surprise.

"I thought I had an alliance with her and she stabbed me in the back," Miller said referring to Stephenie LaGrossa's vote against him.

The tie-breaker vote at tribal council caught him completely by surprise.

"I'll tell you what," Miller told Smith. "I wasn't uneasy or scared because I'm pretty confident. I'm a tough dude, and I thought I'd be able to stay on the show a while, and I thought, she'd at least be low and take the rock."

But it didn't go that way. Even his friend Bobby Jon Drinkard voted him off.

"What the heck that boy was thinking," Miller said. "I don't talk bad about Bobby Jon. I never did on that show, and I can't believe what I've been watching."

Thinking that at the previous tribal council, Miller had voted for him, Drinkard believed LaGrossa's lie and voted for Miller.

"If I say I didn't vote for you, then believe me," Miller told Smith.

In all, he said he had a good experience while at Palau.

"I had a great time," he said. "I learned a lot. I didn't learn a lot about myself because I knew I could do this and all. What I learned is how to be a better person to my family."

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