Betong is new Celebrity Sole Survivor

MANILA, Philippines - After 36 days of severe challenges, comedian-host castaway Albert “Betong” Sumaya Jr. is now P3M richer after he was named Celebrity Sole Survivor last Friday night during the live grand finale of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

Held live at the GMA Network Studios, Betong emerged as this season’s winner after four out of seven jury members cast their votes in his favor.  He won against Stef Prescott and Mara Yokohama.

Betong was introduced in the recently-concluded season of Survivor Philippines with his partner Maey Bautista. Known as the Comic Duo, their tandem even made it to the final five together with castaways Stef, Mara, and KC Montero. In an unexpected turn of events, Maey and KC were voted off leaving behind Betong, Mara and Stef to compete for the title and the cash prize.

During their last night in the Survivor island, the jury — consisted of Chuckie Dreyfus, Arthur Solinap, John Odulio, Gino dela Peña, Arnold Aninion, Maey and KC — cast their votes in favor of the castaway they think deserving of the title of Celebrity Sole Survivor.

Host Richard Gutierrez read the votes cast by the jury. Betong received four votes while Mara had two votes, and one vote for Stef.

The grand finale of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown #SurvivorPHfinale became a trending topic on Twitter.

Also present in the finale were other castaways Geneva Cruz, Jackie Forster, Ellen Adarna, Filo Cucueco, Aifha Medina, Alyssa Alano, Maria Isabel Lopez, Isabel Granada and Carlo Gonzalez.

- Source The Philippine Star

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Albert 'Betong' Sumaya wins Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown

Albert 'Betong' Sumaya - Celebrity Sole Survivor

-By FRJimenez, GMA News


Si Albert "Betong" Sumaya ang nagwagi sa titulong Celebrity Sole Survivor at nag-uwi ng P3 milyong premyo sa Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown nitong Biyernes.

Nakalaban ni Betong sa titulong Sole Celebrity Survivor sa ika-apat na season ng Survivor Philippines sina Mara Lopez Yokohama at Stef Prescott.

Ang pitong Jury Members na pumili ng nanalong Sole Celebrity Survivor ay sina Chuckie Dreyfus, Arthur Solinap, John Odulio, Gino dela Peña, Arnold Aninion, Maey Bautista, at ang huling napatalsik sa isla na si KC Montero.

Sa finale ng Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown na ipinalabas sa GMA 7, at pinangunahan ng host na si Richard Gutierrez, lumitaw na apat na boto ang nakuha ni Betong kontra sa dalawang boto ni Mara at isa kay Stef.

Ang mga castaways ay 36 na araw na nagtagisan ng lakas at nagpautakan sa isang isla sa Palawan.

Ang unang tinanghal na Celebrity Sole Survivor ay ng Brazilian-Japanese model turned actor na si Akihiro Sato sa 3rd season ng Survivor Philippines at nagsilbing unang Celebrity Showdown.

The last 3 castaways standing

Mara Yokohama, Stef Prescott and Betong Sumaya: One of them will be the next Sole Survivor

-By By Jerry Donato (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines - Everyone has his own choice of Akihiro Sato’s successor as Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown airs its season finale tonight. With KC Montero’s unexpected exit last Monday, Kapuso televiewers are in for a surprise — and a shocker with the results. This only validates that Survivor Philippines is a game of mental and social strategy and not a game of physical strength. Each day could be anybody’s ballgame. Juan dela Cruz can’t simply rely on his gut feel or make an intelligent guess until the votes are read and the winner is named.

But if we ask the Top 3 Stef Prescott, Albert “Betong” Sumaya and Mara Yokohama to pick the Sole Survivor among themselves, Betong is it.

“If I have to choose, Mara knows, it’s Kuya Betong,” says Stef. “I know he really does need (the money). For me, we have proven a lot. It doesn’t mean if you have won Survivor, you are the best. With this competition, we’ve all gotten stuff. We’ve all been seen on TV for the same amount of days; the exposure is still the same. At this point of the game, it’s hard to think of them (the other remaining castaways) as competition because they’ve really grown on you. They are all very close to me and they all have a special place (in me).”

“I will also choose Kuya Albert,” agrees Mara. “From Day One, (the castaways) have expressed how much he needs (the money). Actually, it’s not for him. It’s for the people around him.”

For Betong, his choice is Stef because “I know and I understand what it is like to be a breadwinner. I was touched when I learned that she’s helping her aunt and her family depends on her and how her aunt is grateful to her.”

If money were not the basis in deciding the winner, Stef would surely have a different list of Top 3.

“Looking at it game-wise and being a viewer, it’s not fair. It’s unfair that Mara, me and Betong are in the Top 3,” she shares. “KC, Gino (dela Peña) and Carlo (Gonzalez) should be there if we are talking about strategy or who played the game. It should be the three of them (in the finals).”

According to Mara, winning P3M is just a bonus. “We are all after the title of Sole Survivor. For me, (getting the) title is a big deal… If I choose someone who deserves to win for the title and not for the money, it will be Stef. She was bitten by a snake and she played the game.” But Mara is also quick to say that the cash prize “will change your life.”

On hindsight, Stef says that being able to adjust to people and being a follower will help a castaway stay long in the island. Stef never has had a single decision in all Tribal councils. This is true since she has no solid alliances. Even the person she considers a friend had turned back on her. That makes her Survivor Philippines journey doubly challenging.

“They were all exceeded,” replies Stef when asked if the reality show met her expectations of the game. “What you are expecting is not how it is… It is always worst than what you are expecting.”

“Everything that happens (in Survivor) is not staged,” adds Betong. “(People behind it can’t say) let’s have rain to make (the castaways) struggle. Lahat ng nangyari doon ay hindi mo inaasahan. We don’t have a sense of time and we don’t know what’s happening (outside the island).”

With the strongest contenders out on the Palawan island and the surprise Top 3, Stef concludes, “it just proves that Survivor (Philippines) is a game of chance. You can’t really tell who will stay long in the game.”