survivor philippines: cris wins individual immunity challenge

this week's immunity challenge will surely test the top 5 castaways endurance. in this challenge, the castaways will stand on a plank on top of springs. initially, all castaways will hold on to 2 ropes attached to a frame around the plank. they need to balance themselves and avoid falling off. after 30 minutes, one hand on the rope will be removed. after another 30 minutes, they will free both hands. after another 30 minutes, they need to lift one foot from the plank. the last person on the plank wins immunity.

all 5 castaways were pretty much even in the first hour of the competition. after one hour, fatigue from standing for an hour starts to set in. all boys decided to lean on the frame and both girls decided to sit on the plank. the boys are now fighting back aches and the girls are fighting numbness on their butt. after approximately one hour and 20 minutes, zita lost her concentration and fell off the plank.

after 1 hour and 30minutes, when it was time to release one foot from the plank, rob fell off and was eliminated. on his interview, he said that he threw the challenge since he observed that charisse was very comfortable with her position and jc and cris would definitely last long. it was a wise decision to just watch since he feels comfortable with his alliance.

no one of the three remaining survivors budged after 4 hours on the plank and it was already dark in the area. fatigue is really setting in. switching to a more comfortable position, charisse lost her balance and fell off the plank after staying for 4 hours and 10 minutes. it was a battle between the 2 former naak members. jc was offering something to cris through some hand signals. jc then stepped down from the plank and gave cris immunity.

this is the first individual immunity win for cris. of the 5 remining castaways, only rob has no individual immunity win. the immunity made cris's 2 votes due to the black pearl curse useless. all plans to vote him out will also be cancelled. who will be voted out next with all these developments and the surprise tribal council which was held on the same night of the challenge?

pinoy fear factor: phoemela barranda eliminated in tercera ronda de eliminacion

phoemela barranda became the third participante to go home to the reality show pinoy fear factor. phem was eliminated after the third challenge in the tercera ronda de eliminacion or third round of elimination. the challenge was titled bicicleta atraves de vidrios.

in this challenge, the participantes need to ride a bicycle and pass through 5 evenly spaced 6 mm thick glass and break them. the participante with the least number of broken glass will be eliminated. in case of ties, the on with the shorter distance that the bicycle traveled (basis is the back wheel) will be eliminated.

being the bottom 3 in the previous challenge, jose, jommy and phem are the only ones competing in this challenge, the others are already sfe. first to try the stunt was jommy. he easily breaks the first glass but failed to break the second glass. he sets the bar low and the 2 other contestants only needs to break 2 glasses to be safe.

fresh from being bitten twice by snakes in the previous challenge, jose tried the challenge after jommy. having severe back pains as result of the snake bites, jose poured all his energy and managed to finish and break all 5 glasses before falling off his bike. he is now safe.

the last one to try was phem. phem already admitted that she is not good at biking and she has not practiced it. she started slowly and bumped into the first glass straigh on, failing to break it. since she failed to break any glass, phem was eliminated from the competition.

her elimination came after her first try of the second stunt, having gained immunity in the first stunt of the first 2 rounds of elimination. in her exit interview, she said that her greatest disappointment was that she failed to beat fellow participante jommy, who is perceived to be very arrogant. she also wanted a better ending to his stint in the show because she was really disappointed that she failed to break any of the glass in the stunt.

shall we dance: comedians make up second batch, dennis padilla eliminated on first week

after joseph bitangcol qualified to the finals, another batch was revealed sunday in tv 5's dance reality show, shall we dance, search for the next dance superstar. four comedians took the dance challenge and are now up against each other. the second batch includes dennis padilla, candy pangilinan, jinky oda and chokoleit.

as expected, their numbers were injected with funny scenes and good pinch of humor but the judges seem to see the lack of basic ballroom steps and expect more of the dancing the next time. but all were unanimous that all four pairs did well in their projection.

chokoleit topped the night with a score of 8.67. candy pangilinan took second place with a far 7.67 score. jinky oda was given a grade of 7.50 and dennis padilla got the lowest score of 7.50. most were shock to learn that they were immediately eliminated since last batch, the first episode was a non-elimination episode. dennis accepted his fate lightly and vowed to enroll in ballroom dancing classes and continue dancing.

survivor philippines: kaye and marlon in showbiz central, kiko and nikki in all star k

it was survivor cast off galore again in gma 7 last sunday.

the two latest cast offs, marlon carmen and kaye alipio first guested in gma 7's showbiz talkshow, showbiz central. kaye confirmed that she had already talked with kiko regarding the incidence where they decided to vote against him. they are okay now. marlon, on the other hand, answered the issue on his detractors. he said that he is not bothered by them, because if they don't like him, he also does not like them. kaye was also asked on what she thinks of marlon, she quickly answered that marlon is really the opposite of what we saw on tv. she also revealed that among the cast aways, marlon is the only one that she trusts and he is the only one that knows her secrets.

in primetime, castoffs nikki and kiko joined in all star k! the one million peso videoke challenge. for their bonifacio day episode, they featured contestants who are tagged as palaban which includes inspector corpus of the lie detector test in showbiz central, dj mo twister, carlene aguilar, gay activist dan and starstruck alumni rhea nakpil. kiko lasted until the fourth round and nikki was the last one eliminated. carlene aguilar went on to win the episode. other castoffs that has joined the show was chev, gigit, nina and patani.

survivor philippines: marlon guests in kapuso mo jessica soho

the so-called "bad boy of primetime television" marlon carmen guested in gma 7's saturday magazine show, kapuso mo, jessica soho and reveals somethings about himself. the show showed his family and his high school, which seems to be a normal person as compared to what we have seen in survivor philippines in which he really played the villain.

jessica soho even accompanied him in a mall where people had mixed rections when they saw him. some approached him with a smile, and some even took photos with him. some said that he was great in the show. but there was this one lady that oipenly shouted that he hated marlon.

on the second part of the segment, marlon revealed somethings about himself that we still don't know. he was a cancer survivor. he also got a collection of deadly weapons, majority of which are swords. that is why he was comfortable during the spear throwing challenge. some of his relatives even call him mcguyver, after a popular tv show in the 80's and early 90's that was great in making gadgets.

he also now owns a shawarma business with his brother. the stalls has pictures of marlon on its tarpaulins. during the airing of the show, some would even go there and punch his pictures. but as his brothers says, bad publicity is still publicity and told us that the business is really doing great.

pinoy fear factor: phem, jommy and jose are in danger of elimination

the second challenge in the tercera ronde de eliminacion or third round of elimination is called tanque con serpientes. in this challenge, the participantes needs to retrieve yellow rubber rings in the bottom of the tank. there are 100 black rubber rings and only 40 yellow rubber rings. in addition, eels were added to the tank. to make things harder, snakes of various sizes were also added to the tank. time limit is 5 minutes but you can call it quits anytime. the two male participantes and one female participante will be up for elimination, the others would be safe.

first up was jommy. jommy dived excellently and got lots of rubber rings from the tank. aspiring chef was next. he said that he was not an excellent diver and swimmer. he got into a slow start and got some rubber rings but he got bitten on the back by one snake which made him panic a bit but he continued the challenge. he dived a couple of more times and was again bitten by another snake. this prompted him to call it quits.

phem was up next and also said that she is not a good swimmer and she has fear of snakes. she dived into the pool and tried the stunt but was so afraid and called it quits immediately. marion was up next. just like jommy, he made the stunt look easy and got so many rubber rings. surprisingly, savanah did well in this challenge. she had a difficult time at the start but still managed to get it going in the end and did not quit. rj was the last one to do the challenge. he did it quick and got so many rubber rings. when he thought he had enough he called it quits already.

all of the participantes complain not only of the hard stunt but also of the stinging cold.

in the end, marion and rj got the most number of yellow rubber rings, with 8 yellow rubber rings a piece. this sent the two other boys, jommy (who got 7 yellow rubber rings) and jose (who failed to get any rubber rings) to the third challenge. for the girls, savanah got 2 yellow rubber rings while phem got none. so the 3 challengers that would face off in the third challenge and are up for elimination are jommy, jose and phem.

survivor philippines: zita wins individual reward challenge

after 33 days, the castaways sees someone from home in the fourth individual reward challenge of survivor philippines. this week's challenge is a pair challenge, and their partners are someone from home. for zita, it is his son-in-law leo. for cris, it is his mother aida. for rob and charisse, it is their dads bobot and chito respectively. and for jc, it is his girlfriend alu. all of them became emotional after seeing their loved ones.

in this challenges, the survivors will be tied on the waist by a garterized rope and they will be blindfolded. they need to get 15 flags of their assigned colors and give them to their loved one who are standing on an elevated platform. their loved ones will be their guide and they will give the castaways directions on where their flags are. the loved one will also hang the flag on a rope. first to collect and hang 15 flags wins the reward.

the reward for the challenge is an overnight stay and tour in bangkok, thailand.

it was a pretty even match up until the final several minutes. since the castaways were tied in the waist, they had difficulty reaching the flags that are far from the platform. towards the end, it was a close match between zita, jc and cris; leaving charisse and rob on the tail end. it was surprising that rob got the least number of flags. in the end, it was zita who got the 15 flags first and was declared the winner.

zita also has an option to choose another castaway that would accompany them to bangkok. zita chose cris, who wanted it badly. so the ones going to bangkok are zita & leo and cris & aida. she also needs to choose a castaway that would have his loved one stay overnight at camp and experience camp life. he chose jc, and alu would spend the night at chalam camp.

will zita's choice to get cris be advantageous to her? or will charisse grab the chance to strategize with jc and rob to last long in the game?

survivor philippines: why kaye lost

kaye is one of the typical survivor beauties that can use her charms to go far in the game. being a lingerie model, kaye possesses a great body and a beautiful face to match. she also had a strong alliance with the other former naak members that carried her until after the merge. but with all of these, she was still voted out in the 11th tribal council.

so why did kaye lose?

first, kaye has been a non-factor in the individual challenges. kaye is the only female castaway that did not win an individual challenge and the only castaway in the final 6 with no challenge win. immunity is definitely an assurance of lasting long in the game and she never got one.

second, she dependended much on her naak alliance. she was not playing the game to the fullest up[ until the time that they voted out kiko. she was following what the naak boys were saying to her without an assurance that they would stick with her until the end. i think she had her strategy played too late in the game. she still needed marlon's convincing power to make her realize that she is on a disadvantage in her alliance.

third, she did not fully commit to her strategy. she succeeded in voting out kiko in the 8th tribal council. during that time, zita and jc was definitely next in line if she stuck with the jarakay tribe. but in the next tribal council, she again joined naak's alliance and voted out vern. if they chose to vote out zita or jc in that tribal council, it would be a different scenario and they would move to the power position in the tribe.

fourth, her credibility was definitely an issue after voting out kiko, and it never went away in naak's mind. until just before her being voted out, jc and rob really don't trust her and in this game, you should always know who trusts you and who you can trust.

if i were to choose the main reason why she was voted out, it would definitely be her lack of commitment to her strategy and playing it late and her credibility issue. if she only voted out zita or jc in the 9th tribal council, she can definitely in power at this stage of the game. but she played the game well, she thinks a lot, but she played the game too late.

survivor philippines: kaye is the 5th member of the jury

kaye alipio, the lingerie model from laguna, became the 5th jury member when she was voted out in the 11th tribal council in the first season of survivor philippines. the 20-year old calamba city native was voted out after a 4 - 2 vote in the tribal council, with 4 votes going to kaye and 2 votes going to charisse but 1 vote for charisse was cancelled due to the white pearl given to her by marlon in the last tribal council.

after she was voted out, paolo made her choose between giving a white pearl or a black pearl to a tribemate. kaye chose the black pearl and gave it to cris. the black pearl would guarantee 1 vote for him in the next tribal council but if he loses the pearl, he will have 2 votes guaranteed. during the tribal council, paolo also asked cris to never wear women's clothing again at the tribal council since tribal council is a serious matter. after the tribal council, cris threw away the black pearl that would guarantee him 2 votes in the next tribal council.

in her exit interview, kaye said that she expected that she was really indanger in that tribal council. she had no hard feelings regarding the decision of the tribe and she loves each and everyone of them.

pinoy fear factor: 4 participantes already safe, savanah faces cold bath consequence

in the first round of the tercera ronda de eliminacion or third round of elimination, the participantes faced a new challenge, auto rezbalacidos. in this challenge, the participantes starts from the driver seat with the car hanging several feet above ground with sprinklers giving off artificial rain. on the signal, the partcipante will go out of the car, proceed to the front and get the plate number. he will then move up the car, put the plate number inside the car and proceed to the back. he will get the key inserted on the keyhole on the trunk, get inside the driver's seat and start the car. time ends after they press the red button beside the car start key hole.

the current record for this challenge was set in fear factor hungary with a time of 3 minutes and 7 seconds. the 2 males and 2 females with the fastest time will be exempted for the next challenges. the one with the slowest time will have a consequence.

it was a great stunt for the participantes. five of the remaining 6 males beat the current record. manuel, elmer, rj, marion and jommy did it below 3 minutes. only savanah failed to finish the task. jommy got a penalty since the plate number fell to the ground and phem had 2 penalties for using the metal wire that suspends the car.

the final times for the challengers are as follows:

manuel and marion are the fastest among the males. among the females, it was lj and janna who posted the fastest times. all of them are already safe. it was savanah who are the least successful in the challenge and earns a consequence.

as a consequence, savanah needs to take a bath in front of the other participantes using cold water. she needs to choose a male participante that would help her. she can't choose anyone but the other participantes was pushing for jose to help her. in the end, ryan assigned jose to assist her. back at camp, savanah executed the task with ease. it was jose that was nervous and even admitted at staring ata savanah's chest.

survivor philippines: jc wins 5th individual immunity challenge

this week's immunity challenge is a 4 stage challenge. in the first stage, the survivors will climb up a wall then swing into a cargo net. they eed to cross to the other end of the cargo net and get a flag and run to a mat. first four castaway to step on the mat with a flag advances to the next round.

on the second stage, survivor will swim to floating bamboos. they need to cross over each bundle of bamboos. on the last bamboo, they need to get a yellow flag and return to the shore using the same process, crossing over each bamboo bundle. first three castaway to step on the mat advances to the third round.

on the third round, castaway will dig 6 colored planks in a sandpit. first two castaway to dig all six planks and raise a flag advances to the last round, in the 4th stage, the castaway needs to match each plank to a step on the ladder. when all the planks are matched, he will climb the ladder and get the elephant on top of the ladder. first to get the lephant wins immunity.

it was a very physical challenge. on the first stage, jc got the early lead, followed by cris. charisse and kaye had a hard time climbing up the wall. jc finished the first round first, followed by cris, then zita. rob was the last one to qualify, eliminating charisse and kaye in this challenge.

the second round was a pretty much even round for all. all four reached the bamboos at almost the same time but they had difficulty detaching the flags in the last bamboo bundle. jc stepped on the mat first, followed closely by zita and cris qualified last. rob simply gave up when cris started swimming back to shore.

in the sandpit, all 3 remaining challengers had a hard time finding the planks. jc got a white plank first, then zita found a yellow one, leaving cris to find violet ones. to make things worse, cris got a big wound from the first round, making it so hard to dig. jc was the first one to complete all six planks and never looked back from that point on. he easily matched the planks and got the elephant, and win immunity.

it was jc's 2nd straight individual immunity challenge win. he will be safe from elimination in the next tribal council.

survivor philippines: live chat with vern and marlon transcript

this is the transcript of the live chat with vern and marlon a while ago. these are the questions they answered through typing since i did not have the opportunity to watch thru webcam.

live chat with vern

jambeuz: hi musta naman ang pag stay mu sa island?

VERNDOMINGO: ok naman bonggang-bongga

criswilann: hui vern how are you? are youplanning to became an artist?

VERNDOMINGO: yeah sana m abigyan ng magandangbreak ng kapuso gma7

sonia: last tribal council,bgo pamatanggal si marlon,bat parangang taray ng dating mo,ni hindika ngumingiti,may galit ka pa basa mga natitirang casts away?

VERNDOMINGO: actually wala na drama effe ctlang un

killerkamote: hey vern! grabe im just socurious. pano pag meron ang mgagirls?

VERNDOMINGO: they provide us sanitarynapkin isa sa mga legal na stuffsa island

ohmski: sino namimiss mo sa island?

VERNDOMINGO: mamim iss ko ung mga caastawaychallenges at nga staff na dikami pinapansin kht na anungchika

s_3_c_r_3_t_1_c_s_0_7: galit ka ba kay ate charise ka cbingay mu sa kanya ung blackpearl

VERNDOMINGO: di akjo galit sa kanya nawindanglang ako nung binigay na sakinung black pearl

rainirific: grabe ang angas mo kagabi ah,astig ka talaga

VERNDOMINGO: minsan hehe boyish ng konti

charming_liv: Charisse said na "mukha kadaw tanga dahil nag model- modelka pa sa Tribal Council"and Kaye said "masama kadaw makatingin", they werethinking that you're justbitter.. what can you say abouttheir comments/reactions?

VERNDOMINGO: inggit lang sya kikay kasinatalbugan ko ang kaqgandahannya hahah

girl_interrupted: anong pinakamahirap na challegepara sa'yo?

VERNDOMINGO: ung balacing na tumawid na myoil kami sa katawan

s_3_c_r_3_t_1_c_s_0_7: bat ka kya nla vi note out?

VERNDOMINGO: coz im stong daw

bgkqueen: hi vern, pagpapalit mo ba angkaranasan mo sa island kesa saolympics?

VERNDOMINGO: hindi kasi kakaiba ung xprnce kod2 22012 nalang babawiako

hayley: may boyfriend kb nGaun..?/?

VERNDOMINGO: nope pero mahabaq ang hair ko kcmarami ang nakapila at umaalidid

leilave18: Vern, you are kind of shy saisla, ganyan ba talaga si Vernin person?

VERNDOMINGO: shy type mminsa

diyeysiaquino: may time ba during your stay inthe island na naisip mo na gustomo nang umalis or mag-quit?

VERNDOMINGO: never ako ung tao na di bastabasta sumusuko

diyeysiaquino: nakapirma ka na ba ng contractwith gma artist center?

VERNDOMINGO: yeah i hv 2years contract witdem

vernatic: vern, dba nung nsa island p kauboth ni jace, my something diff.n ngyyri?? wat happened nungngkita kau ulit?? my gnun p dinba?? ung prang M.U?

VERNDOMINGO: di kami mu frnds lang kamiwalang ganung level

live chat with marlon

green2grin: hi marlon! ikaw daw ang"badboy of primetime" ano angmasasabi mo tungkol dito?

MARLONCARMEN: tawag lang nang pangagailanganun para maka survive

jomhane0205: how can you keep the bad imagesa harap ng camera.. (ano, justto survive?!) eh bakit naman ungmga kasama mong cast away, neversilang nagkaganyan pero theysurvive.. so mali strategy mo..anong masasabi mo dun?

MARLONCARMEN: ganun lang ang game wala kangmagagwa kung tinawag na angpagkakataong na magpakasama ka

marixar: natatakot ka ba ngayon nalumabas sa public?

MARLONCARMEN: hinde po me takot napapliwanaganko naman ang mga taong may galit

foxm32: Hey Marlon! Thanks for giving usgood entertainment. Wag kapapaepekto dun sa mga negativeand foul comments say o. For me,you played the game well, yougave us a good show, so kudos toyou. More power to you and yourGF and God Bless you.

MARLONCARMEN: thanks sobra ikaw ang unangnagsabi sakin nyan

sa_pusoko_kapuso: any message sa lahat ngsupporters ng SurvivorPhilippines?

MARLONCARMEN: thanks po sa

silicon: Marlon, what can you say aboutthe rumors that you werepurposely handpicked by GMA tomake the show more exciting.

MARLONCARMEN: dip po tutuo yan simpleng taolang ako.makikaita nyo me kahitsaan sa lansangan

charming_liv: Hi Marlon, how are you now?Don't worry hindi ako isa sa mgamay galit sa yo. Pano moipapaliwanag sa mga tao na ibaka sa totoong buhay kumpara sapinakita mo kung sino ka sagame?

MARLONCARMEN: nag lalaro lang po ako diko kayagawin sa tunay na buhay ang mgaginagawa ko sa isla.may takotdin po me

deeply: fr the start cnu ba talaga angpinaka less mong gus2 sa mgaCastaways.and y prang asar nasar ka k kiko noon?naniniwalaka ba n iba ka tlaga sa 22ongbuhay?

MARLONCARMEN: di ako galit kay kiko.sya langtalaga ang kinatatakutan ko kasisya ang may potensyal na makapagpa alis skin

nadji5220: what's your feeling when peoplecall you the BAD Boy of SurvivorPhilippines?

MARLONCARMEN: gusto ko.diko naman ginagawa yansa tunay na buhay

charming_liv: How did you feel na yung ibangtao hinuhusgahan ang buong mongpagkatao dahil sa pinakita mong"ugali" sa island?

MARLONCARMEN: ok lang di nila naiintindi hanang game.hehehehehe joke lang pook lang po darating ang orasmaiintindihan din nla angginagawa ko

tesay: marlon anung feeling mu nungalis k kagabi?

MARLONCARMEN: masaya dahil may food nahahahaha.toto un at tanggap kona kasi alam ko na bago me pumuta sa tribal alam ko na ako angtatamaan ng boto

vern answered 2 of my questions while marlon answered none. the live chat was quite short compared to the last live chat where kiko and jace participated and they answered more questions. paolo did not type his answers during the live chat.