Survivor has formally reached the tip of an period, with the Sia Prize coming to an in depth.
Jeff Probst, the host of the long-running CBS sequence, revealed on social media Friday that the pop star will not be awarding cash to her favourite Survivor gamers every season.
“After eight years, 14 seasons, 19 gamers and over $1,000,000 awarded, Survivor is formally bringing the Sia Prize to a triumphant finish!” he wrote on his Instagram Story. “Over the numerous years, Sia has introduced a lot pleasure to so many gamers and it was all the time straight from her coronary heart.”
Probst added, “So it’s with great gratitude and admiration to Sia that we bring to a halt some of the distinctive relationships a TV present might ever have with a pop star of Sia’s international wattage. I’m actually honored for Survivor to have this one in every of a form affiliation with Sia. She’s within the Survivor Corridor Of Fame of Superfans!”
The “Chandelier” artist started her custom with the fact competitors present in 2016 through the season 32 finale for Survivor: Kaôh Rōng — Brains vs. Brawn vs. Magnificence.
“I nonetheless vividly keep in mind the day Sia stood up within the viewers through the dwell finale … and made her means onstage,” Probst recalled of the second. “She was so taken by Tai [Trang]’s dedication to defending a hen from being eaten that she awarded him $50,000 of her personal cash.”
The host continued in his submit, “Tai was shocked, the viewers was shocked, I used to be shocked! What was occurring? Sia was onstage in her wig handing out cash to a Survivor participant!? That was the start of what grew to become affectionately generally known as ‘The Sia Prize.’”
The singer-songwriter went on to award 18 extra gamers with varied quantities of cash, together with seven gamers who obtained $100,000 every.
The Sia Prize shouldn’t be formally affiliated with the Survivor franchise, because the present’s winner wins a $1 million prize.