Survivor contestants are saying see ya to a little bit of prize cash from pop singer/songwriter Sia.
Simply two days after Survivor’s forty sixth season ended, host Jeff Probst introduced that the Sia Prize has come to an finish. Sia will now not award cash to her favourite gamers each season.
On Might 24, Probst introduced the tip of her largesse on Instagram. Sia reposted it.
“After eight years, 14 seasons, 19 gamers, and over $1,000,000 awarded, Survivor is formally bringing the Sia Prize to a triumphant finish!”
Sia reposted Probst’s assertion on her Instagram Story, including animated hearts.
“Over the various years, Sia has introduced a lot pleasure to so many gamers and it was at all times straight from her coronary heart,” Probst mentioned.
“So it’s with great gratitude and admiration to Sia that we bring to a standstill one of the distinctive relationships a TV present may ever have with a pop star of Sia’s international wattage,” Probst added.
Sia began her custom in 2016 after on the thirty second season’s reside finale for Survivor: Kaôh Rōng — Brains vs. Brawn vs. Magnificence.
“I nonetheless vividly keep in mind the day Sia stood up within the viewers in the course of the reside finale … and made her means onstage,” Probst recalled. “She was so taken by Tai [Trang]’s dedication to defending a rooster from being eaten that she awarded him $50,000 of her personal cash.”
“Tai was shocked,” Probst mentioned. “The viewers was shocked, I used to be shocked! What was taking place? Sia was onstage in her wig handing out cash to a Survivor participant!?”
The singer has since gifted 18 extra gamers with varied quantities of cash, together with seven gamers who every acquired $100,000: Rick Devens (season 38), Elaine Stott (39), Janet Carbin (39), Drea Wheeler (42), Jesse Lopez (43), Carolyn Wiger (44) and Katurah Topps (45).
The opposite 11 contestants who have been awarded cash have been Donathan Hurley (36), Davie Rickenbacker (37), Aurora McCreary (38), Joe Anglim (38), Jamal Shipman (39), Owen Knight (43), Ryan Medrano (43), Lauren Harpe (44), Carson Garrett (44), Jake O’ Kane (45) and Kaleb Gebrewold (45).
“I’m actually honored for Survivor to have this one in every of a sort affiliation with Sia,” Probst mentioned. “She’s within the Survivor Corridor Of Fame of Superfans!”
The Sia Prize will not be formally affiliated with the long-running CBS program. The winner of Survivor wins a $1 million prize.
