UPDATE: Survivor's lunch lady gets ... served? (Eh, that works)

Consider us shocked — shocked! — to learn that someone might not have been entirely truthful on Survivor. But Massachusetts lunch lady Denise Martin, who finished fourth on Survivor: China, apologized for claiming during Sunday’s series finale that she had been knocked down to the rank of janitor. When the prodigiously bemulleted contestant told folks that the school “didn’t give me my job back,” producer Mark Burnett surprised her with $50,000 worth of cheer-up money. Turns out Martin had actually been promoted, at her own request, to the janitor’s job — which has more benefits and higher pay — in late March, said Nancy Lane, the superintendent of Martin’s school district. “It was not my intention to be misleading,” Martin said, according to the Associated Press. But she was a little squirrelly on whether she’d still take the money and run if it was offered to her. “I had no idea I was going to be awarded that,” she said. “I did not do this for myself, I’ve done this for my family, I’ve done this for my town.” She’s a hero! Hail to the lunch lady, the lunch lady man!

***UPDATE!!!***

Apparently Martin has decided to donate the money to the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Good for her.

(Photo: Associated Press)