The hit reality TV show Survivor: Island of the Idols was rocked with an 'inappropriate touching' scandal among contestants in this week's bombshell episode.

In Wednesday's dramatic show, MBA student Kellee Kim, 29, accused Hollywood talent manager Dan Spilo, 48, of sexual harassment saying he rested his head on her knee, brushed a lock of her hair with his hand, and placed his arm around her waist.

Two other female contestants Missy Byrd and Elizabeth Beisel also came forward to accuse Spilo of inappropriate touching.

However, their claims unraveled by the end of the episode when Byrd and Beisel confessed they made up their claims against Spilo as a part of their game strategy in the race for the $1million prize.

Survivor contestant Kellee Kim, 29, accused opponent Dan Spilo, 48, of sexual harassment and unwanted touching during Wednesday's episode

Two other female contestants Missy Byrd and Elizabeth Beisel also came forward to accuse Spilo of inappropriate touching. However, those the latter claims unraveled by the end of the episode when Byrd and Beisel confessed they made up their claims against Spilo in a bid to stay in the game

When the two women told Kim they were victims of Spilo's unwanted touching, she burst into tears.

'It’s super upsetting because it’s like you can’t do anything about it,' Kim said as per the Washington Post. 'There are always consequences for standing up. This happens in real life, in work settings, in school. You can’t say anything because it’s going to affect your upward trajectory. It’s going to affect how people look at you.'

Kim first revealed she felt uncomfortable about Spilo in the season’s first episode where the two had a one-on-one talk on the beach and Kim asked him to keep his hands to himself.

Though receptive at the time to her wishes, by Wednesday’s episode Kim made it seem like Spilo continued to violate her personal space.

'This isn’t just one person, it’s a pattern. It takes five people to be like, "Man, the way I’m feeling about this is actually real. It’s not in my head. I’m not overreacting to it." It’s like, no, he literally has done this to five different women in this game. That sucks. That totally, totally sucks,' she said during Wednesday's episode.

Kim, empowered by her castmates’ allegations against Spilo, went to producers with her concerns.

Show officials then addressed the unwanted touching off camera with all the contestants and Dan received an official warning for his behavior.

However, at the end of the episode, when it came time for cast members to vote someone off the island, Kim was given the boot.

Beisel and Byrd who came to her with exaggerated allegations voted for her to be knocked off. They hatched their plan to take the target off themselves to stay in the game.

Beisel even admitted she didn’t feel comfortable with her embellished allegations again Spilo but said if she 'can play up that card in whatever way possible, I’ll do it.'

Kim, empowered by her castmates’ allegations against Spilo, went to producers with her concerns. However, at the end of the episode, Kim was voted off the island

After the episode aired Kim tweeted that she's 'hurting and very sad'

'Honestly, I’ve felt safe this entire time and if I had felt uncomfortable I would have said, "Please stop,"' she said according to People Magazine.

During the episode Spilo was able to apologize for his actions during the Tribal Council.

'I work in an industry in which the #MeToo movement was formed and allowed — thank God — to blossom and become powerful and strong. My personal feeling is if anyone ever felt for a second uncomfortable about anything I’ve ever done, I’m horrified about that and I’m terribly sorry,' he said.

'If that person was Kellee — if Kellee ever felt that in the freezing cold rain, or in tight shelters… or in all the ways we have to crawl around and through each other in this game — if I ever did anything that ever even remotely made her feel uncomfortable, it horrifies me, and I am terribly sorry'

'True, untrue, it doesn’t matter what I feel. It doesn’t matter whether I’m aware of it. It doesn’t matter whether I ever sensed it. It doesn’t matter whether I knew it happened or it didn’t happen. If someone feels it, it’s their truth.

Wednesday's episode at first led to applause on social media for airing the allegations of sexual harassment

During Wednesday's episode of Survivor, producers revealed they met with players individually after Kim reported Spilo's alleged misconduct and cautioned them about personal boundaries

The show said producers met with Dan Spilo privately and issued him a warning for his behavior of alleged inappropriate touching

By the end of the episode watchers were furious that Kim was booted out. Former contestant Eliza Orling tweeted 'I'm out after tonight. This felt...really gross'

'I have a wife, I have been married for 21 years, I have two boys, I have a big business, I have lots of employees. I think what upset everybody here is that this has somehow turned into gameplay,' he added.

Spilo is a Hollywood talent manager and executive producer. This fall a show he executive produced called Sunnyside was cancelled on NBC.

The shocking episode was a commentary on the #MeToo movement sweeping the media world.

'Survivor is a microcosm for our real world. Situations just like this one are playing out in offices and bars and colleges across the country and the world,' Executive producer and host Jeff Probst said to the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday.

'It’s new territory, and it’s offering us a chance to continue to examine how men and women treat each other and to learn how to respect each other,' he added.

'There is no denying that [Spilo] made some of the women, like Kellee, uncomfortable, and he needed to address it. But understandably, he also wanted to defend against other accusations that were not true and were simply gameplay.' Probst concluded.

At first the show was praised for its candid coverage of Kim’s allegations.

'If Moonves was still at CBS, this would’ve never happened. He would’ve shoved it in forever unseen footage. I see progress. #Survivor,' one viewer tweeted.

'Survivor is a microcosm for our real world. Situations just like this one are playing out in offices and bars and colleges across the country and the world,' Executive producer and host Jeff Probst said on the episode's sexual harassment scandal

But as the show unfolded and Kim was booted off the island, the viewer opinions soured.

'We all watched the episode, the producers even got involved and talked to Dan. These people are pissing me off,' one Twitter user said.

Former contestant Eliza Orlins, who competed in the show in 2004 and 2008, condemned the show's handling of the scandal as 'gross'.

'I’ve loved #survivor for so many years. Almost 20, in fact. And, for the first time ever, I think I’m going to stop watching the show. I’m done with this season. I have friends on season 40 so I’ll pick it back then, but honestly, I’m out after tonight. This felt...really gross,' she said.

In Survivor, which has aired since 2000, contestants are stranded on beaches and forced to survive for 39 days in the wilderness and compete against each other in challenges. In each episode players vote contestants off the island and off the show. When the cast dwindles down to two r three remaining players, previously cast-out competitors vote for who will win the game’s cash prize.

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