survivor philippines palau: premieres in philippine tv on august 17

last year breakthrough hit in philippine reality television, survivor philippines will launch its second season, survivor philippines palau on monday, august 17 in gma 7. this season, survivor will go to palau, the same location where the us version's 10th (survivor palau) and 16th (survivor micronesia) was filmed.

the new set of 16 castaways are:

> louie ang (24, pasig) - an IT professional and is dubbed as "the chickboy"
> mika batchelor (25, palawan) - "the sexy chef" who is a chef and restaurateur in palawan
> cris bolado (39, quezon) - dubbed as the "gentle giant;" the oldest among the men but definitely the most recognizable one, a former basketball player who has played in the PBA
> echo caceres (20, bicol) - "the spicy bicolana," a call center agent and her family's breadwinner from albay
> amanda coolley van cooll (25, mindoro) – “probinsyanang tisay,”
> charles fernandez (21, dagupan) – a general labor construction worker in alaska
> justine ferrer (29, caloocan) – “the beauty queen,” worked as a singer in Japan before but now owns a buy and sell business and managed a baby ultrsound company
> jef gaitan (22, laguna) – “the girl next door,” a model who stopped school since 18 to focus on her career
> carol gementiza (45, iloilo) – “istriktong guro,” the oldest among the castaways, and a public school teacher for more than 20 years
> marvin keifer (18, cagayan de oro) – “the ultimate crush,” the youngest among the castaways; he is swiss – filipino and is a backpacker and environmentalist; had tv exposure before through qtv 11’s hired where he won to be a model of a designer jeans company
> tara jane macias (19, cebu) – “taray queen,” an english tutor and is said to be the sister of season 1 castaway, chev macias
> vlad nesas (24, las pinas) – “the metrosexual,” an industrial design major, varsity swimmer and model
> troy perez (27, manila) – “the mentalist,” a biology major, works ina bank and is a magician
> shaun rodriguez (31, zambales) – “the hot dad,” a PR staff in Manila’s city council office, has experienced bankruptcy when his investment was lost due to the closure of a mining company he invested in
> maya segovia (32, batangas) – “the lady pilot,” a military officer and a pilot of the philippine air force; considers herself a man trapped in a woman’s body
> sadatsugu suzuki (21, tondo) – “japinoy hunk,” grew up in japan for 18 years but stayed pinoy and now studies criminology in emilio aguinaldo college

the castaways will be divided into 2 tribes namely, koror and airai which are also tribe names in the us versions that were shot in the same location (koror in survivor palau and airai in survivor micronesia). more twists will definitely be introduced this season.

so, who will be the second pinoy sole survivor? watch so you will know.

source: http://blogs.gmanews.tv/survivor-philippines/

survivor philippines: naak wins week 5 immunity challenge

survivor philippines' fifth immunity challenge was the same challenge used as the immunity challenge in episode 3 of survivor palau. please see screencaps below:

it was also used as the immunity challenge in episode 2 of survivor cook islands:

the challenge involves 6 cast aways per tribe, each person carrying a bag at 10 pounds each. each tribe would start at opposite ends of the round playing field. they would traverse the perimeter of the round fence. when a tribe gets to the last person of the other tribe, that member would be out of the game. she would pass her bag to the other member of the tribe and goto an enclosure in the middle of the playing field. the tribe that could eliminate all the other tribe's member will win immunity.

at the start of the challenge, it was evident that it was nikki who is jarakay's weakest link and it was kaye in naak. jarakay decided to let go of nikki and nikki was out of the race. they also let go of charisse in the next round. what they did not realize was that the weight gets heavier everytime a cast away is out of the game, which eventually slowed jarakay down. naak never lost its advantage and eventually won the challenge, winning it by a sweep: 6-0.

this is naak's 2nd win out of 5 immunity challenge. this is the first back to back challenge won by naak, after winning the reward challenge last monday. on the other hand, this is jarakay's first back to back loss and they will go to tribal council on friday to eliminate another member. this would be the first time that naak would have the advantage in terms of numbers.