StarStruck (Season 4)

StarStruck (Season 4)
StarStruck: The Next Level
Format	Interactive Reality television show
Starring	Hosts: Dingdong Dantes Jolina Magdangal Raymond Gutierrez Judges: Lorna Tolentino Louie Ignacio Douglas Quijano
Country of origin	Philippines
No. of episodes	91 episodes (Season 4)
Production
Running time	30-60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	GMA Network
Original run	December 4, 2006 – March 18, 2007
External links
StarStruck Website

The fourth season of StarStruck (or also known as StarStruck: The Next Level) premiered on December 4, 2006. The council was formed with Lorna Tolentino, Louie Ignacio, and Douglas Quijano representing it. Quijano replaced Joey De Leon. The show was co-hosted by Dingdong Dantes, Jolina Magdangal, and Raymond Gutierrez.

Overview

The return of StarStruck was formally announced on 3 September 2006, now titled StarStruck: The Next Level (aka StarStruck 4), a new and improved edition of the popular show. Hosted by the same hosts as Season 3 and headed by The Council members' Lorna Tolentino, Louie Ignacio, and Douglas Quijano, the show had its pilot episode on December 4, 2006.

In the fourth year of the reality-talent search, the age bracket for star wannabes was adjusted from 15-18 in previous batches to 16-21, a milestone in StarStruck History.

Unlike the previous batches which launched 14, this batch were trimmed down to twenty, dubbed as the Top 20. Also, four winners will be picked this year — Ultimate Sweetheart, Ultimate Hunk, and Ultimate Loveteam.

Just like in previous seasons, voting is via the internet and mobile phones and this constitutes 50% of the total scores of the survivors.

The Avengers Strike Back Twist

This is a twist in StarStruck: The Next Level. The twist is that the Avengers (losing contestants) of the fourth season will be the competitors of the Survivors in the one week challenges. The Avengers competing with the Survivors are Chad Burden, Chariz Solomon, Dex Quindoza, Hazel Uy, Jan Manual, Jean de Castro, Lizzy Pecson, Lui Perez, Renee Lascuna, and Rich Asuncion. On the first day of the Avengers challenge, two were eliminated since there were ten Avengers and only eight Survivors. Those that were eliminated were Jean de Castro and Renee Lascuna.

At the end of the "Survivor Vs. Avenger" week, four out of the eight avengers were eliminated and the other four were chosen to compete in the "Danger 8" challenge week. The four that were eliminated were Chad Burden, Chariz Solomon, Hazel Uy, and Lui Perez. The four that were chosen for the next weeks challenge were Dex Quindoza, Jan Manual, Lizzy Pecson, and Rich Asuncion.

The Danger 8 Twist

At the end of the "Survivor Vs. Avenger" week, four Avengers out of the eight were chosen to continue competing in the show to have the right to join the remaining Survivors. From the eight Survivors, Mart Escudero and Jesi Corcuera were eliminated and were asked to join the Avenger group to compete for the two Survivor spots available that will complete the Danger 8. The avenger group consists of Dex Quindoza, Jan Manual, Jesi Corcuera, Lizzy Pecson, Mart Escudero, and Rich Asuncion.

Voting for the remaining Survivors was temporarily closed and were opened for the six competing Avengers.

At the end of the week, Mart Escudero and Rich Asuncion were chosen for the two remaining Survivor spots and thus completed the Danger 8. The Danger 8 now consists of Aljur Abrenica, Jewel Mische, Kris Bernal, Mart Escudero, Paulo Avelino, Prince Stefan, Rich Asuncion, and Stef Prescott.

Prizes

All four winners received one million pesos each and exclusive GMA Network contracts worth two million pesos each, Belgian Waffle franchises worth 250 thousand pesos each, P50,000 gift certificates to Calayan, and scholarships to Informatics.

The winners will be included in the youth-oriented show Boys Nxt Door except Jewel Mische. The Ultimate Hunk and Ultimate Sweetheart will be part of a separate GMA teledrama.

The Ultimate Loveteam will be introduced in a Regal Films movie with Judy Ann Santos, and Dennis Trillo which is Mag-ingat Ka sa Kulam.

Final Judgment

StarStruck fans filled the Marikina Sports Complex to capacity to witness the show's Final Judgment, which was hosted by Dingdong Dantes, Jolina Magdangal, and Raymond Gutierrez. A filled Marikina Sports Park was witness to the much-awaited event. Aside from being the Final Judgment, it was a celebration of the highly successful artista search and involved special performances from 59 StarStruck alumni.^[1]

The Council—composed of (from left) Louie Ignacio, Lorna Tolentino, and Douglas Quijano—was joined by GMA-7's senior vice-president for entertainment-TV Wilma Galvante and GMA Films president Anette Gozon-Abrogar (both not pictured) for the Final Judgment night.^[2]

Other awards honored that night were Jan Manual for Dats Entertaining Award, Dex Quindoza for Male with the Most Dramatic Exit, Stef Prescott for Female With the Most Dramatic Exit, and Jesi Corcuera for the Best Taktak Award.^[3]

Prince Stefan and Rich Asuncion were named as The First Prince and Princess respectively. Kris Bernal and Mart Escudero were named as the Ultimate Loveteam while Aljur Abrenica and Jewel Mische were hailed as the Ultimate Hunk and Ultimate Sweetheart respectively. Both were also granted management contracts by GMA Network.^[1]

During the show, the hosts announced the text votes received by each StarStruck Survivor. Prince Stefan got 193,503, Aljur Abrenica got 280,084 votes while Mart Escudero got 267,703 votes from the audience. As for the Female Survivors, Kris Bernal got 177,600 votes, Rich Asuncion got 151,981 votes while Jewel Mische received 157,618 votes. Thus, Kris Bernal and Aljur Abrenica received the Texter's Choice awards giving them both commercial endorsements for BNY.^[4] Jewel Mische will also received a modelling contract with the DutchMill Yogurt Drink because she wins the title Ultimate Sweetheart.

Before the top winners were named, Regine Velasquez sang "This is the Moment" for the remaining six contenders, while pretaped played on a big screen of them thanking their supporters.^[5]

The Final Judgement only gained a rating of 24.1%, relatively high as the finale finished very late, reaching until 1:15 the following morning, but the ratings that they gained that very night was more than enough to beat their rival show that very night.

The 4th. Final Judgement's theme is based on the Disney channel's phenomenal made for TV film, "High School Musical".

Signature Dances and Songs

There are signature dances and songs made in each batch. With this batch, their signature dances and songs are:

• Fergalicious
• Mosquito Dance
• Chicken Noodle Soup
• El Ninyo (Jewel Mische's solo dance number with the Manoeuvres)
• Itaktak Mo (Jesi Corcuera, SS4 Avenger, won the title of "Itaktak Queen Award" at the StatrStruck Final Judgment Night)

Elimination chart

The week ending February 11 includes The Avengers Strike Back Twist while the week ending February 25 includes The Danger 8 Twist. In the Avengers Strike Back twist, all avengers from the top 20 returned (except for Kiko Junio and Dave Valentino) where 4 will be chosen for the Danger 8 Twist.

Out of all the Avengers who didn't make it in the Final 14, Lizzy Pecson is the only one who advanced in the Danger 8 Twist. However, she failed to advance in this round.

     The contestant advanced in the competition as part of either aforementioned twists.
     The contestant did not advance in the competition as part of either aforementioned twists.
     The contestant did not participate in the aforementioned twists.

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