Celebrity Survivor
Australian Celebrity Survivor: Vanuatu | |
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Winner | Guy Leech |
Presented by | Ian "Dicko" Dickson |
No. of episodes | 13 |
No. of days | 25 |
No. of castaways | 12 |
Production | |
Location(s) | Éfaté Island, Vanuatu |
Filming dates | May – June 2006 |
Release | |
Original release |
17 August 2006 – 2 November 2006 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by |
Australian Survivor: Whaler's Way (on the Nine Network) |
Followed by |
Season 3 (on the Ten Network) |
Australian Celebrity Survivor: Vanuatu (also known as Australian Celebrity Survivor or simply Celebrity Survivor) is the second season of Australian Survivor. Based on the popular reality game show show Survivor, Celebrity Survivor screened on the Seven Network in 2006. The new series joined the many celebrity-oriented reality programs already in their lineup, such as It Takes Two and Dancing with the Stars. It was hosted by Ian "Dicko" Dickson. Guy Leech, the eventual "Sole Celebrity Survivor" of the show, donated A$100,000 to the charity of his choice, Ride Aid Inc, with the other contestants' charities receiving A$5000 each.
Although better received than the Nine Network's 2002 season, Celebrity Survivor was still only a modest success in the ratings and was not renewed by the Seven Network. A third Australian Survivor (whether civilian or celebrity edition) did not materialise until 10 years later when Network Ten picked up the rights for a third season to air in 2016.
Production
While the Nine Network currently hold the rights to screen the U.S. version of Survivor, after the failure of their 2002 local Survivor project Australian Survivor, the Seven Network found a loophole in their contract and obtained the rights to produce Celebrity Survivor (as Castaway Television views it as a different format from the regular civilian format).[1][2] Castaway Television, which produced Australian Survivor, was again involved in the production of this second Australian version Survivor. The show was filmed on Éfaté Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. The series was filmed over twenty-five days, or three weeks, from late May to early June 2006, with promotional advertising beginning in July. From promos and footage shown on the Seven Network, it appeared that Celebrity Survivor borrowed many elements from the U.S. version's ninth season, Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire. The one-hour show was rated PG (parental guidance recommended) and aired at 8:30pm on Thursday nights on the Seven Network. The executive producer of Celebrity Survivor is David Mason, who also produces other shows on the Seven Network, such as Medical Emergency and The Mole.
Promotion
Before the series began, Dickson and a few of the Celebrity Survivor contestants appeared on the Seven Network's breakfast news show, Sunrise, to promote the series. This paralleled what occurs in the American version, when the show is promoted on The Early Show, CBS' own breakfast news program, and what happened during the Nine Network's Australian Survivor venture, when the series was featured on the early morning show, Today, as well as A Current Affair. Contestants, Amber Petty and Nicolle Dickson, also appeared in television commercials for Olay Total Effects, which were broadcast during the series.
Contestants
There were twelve contestants overall, divided into two tribes, Moso and Kakula . After five contestants were eliminated, the tribes were combined, or merged, to form one tribe, Tanna . Five contestants made up the jury, who ultimately decided who would win the game.
Contestant | Original Tribe | Switched Tribes | Merged Tribe | Finish | Total Votes |
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Kym Johnson Professional Dancer |
1st Voted Out Day 3 |
6 | |||
Benjamin Wynn Ex-S.A.S. Soldier |
2nd Voted Out Day 5 |
5 | |||
Fiona Horne Singer |
3rd Voted Out Day 7 |
3 | |||
Amber Petty Entertainment Reporter |
4th Voted Out Day 9 |
3 | |||
Wayne Gardner Motorcycle Racer |
5th Voted Out Day 11 |
3 | |||
Guy Leech Returned to game - Day 20 |
6th Voted Out Day 13 |
5 | |||
Elton Flatley Rugby Union Footballer |
7th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 15 |
4 | |||
Justin Melvey Returned to game - Day 20 |
8th Voted Out Day 17 |
4 | |||
Gabrielle Richens Model/TV Presenter |
9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 19 |
4 | |||
David Oldfield Politician |
10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 21 |
7 | |||
Nicolle Dickson Actress |
11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 23 |
6 | |||
Imogen Bailey Actress/Model |
12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 24 |
4 | |||
Justin Melvey Actor |
Runner-Up Day 25 |
6 | |||
Guy Leech Surf Lifesaving Champion |
Sole Survivor Day 25 |
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- The Total Votes is the number of votes a castaway has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.
Season Summary
Episode | Challenge Winner(s)[3] | Eliminated | Finish | ||
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No. | Original air date | Reward | Immunity | ||
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17 August, 2006 | Day 3 | |||
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24 August, 2006 | Day 5 | |||
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31 August, 2006 | Day 7 | |||
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7 September, 2006 | Day 9 | |||
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14 September, 2006 | Day 11 | |||
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21 September, 2006 | [Elton, Gabrielle] |
Day 13 | ||
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28 September, 2006 | Gabrielle, Imogen |
Day 15 | ||
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5 October, 2006 | [Imogen] |
[Nicolle] |
Day 17 | |
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12 October, 2006 | Day 19 | |||
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19 October, 2006 | Returned |
3rd jury member Day 21 | ||
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26 October, 2006 | [Imogen, Justin] |
4th jury member Day 23 | ||
2 November, 2006 | 5th jury member Day 24 | ||||
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Day 25 | |||||
Day 25 |
^1 Imogen won immunity, but gave it Nicolle at tribal council.
^2 Guy, Elton, Justin and Gabrielle competed in a challenge to re-enter the game. Guy and Justin won the challenge, making Elton and Gabrielle the first 2 members of the jury.
^3 After the Tribal Council ended in deadlock, Justin and Nicole faced a Jury tiebreaker vote. The Jury voted out Nicole.
Episodes
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
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14 | 1 | "Episode 1" | 17 August, 2006 |
Nine of the twelve Celebrity cast members begun the season meeting Dicko on a yacht. They were divided into two tribes based on their gender (Kalula for the men and Moso for the women) and were then transported to their designated tribe beaches by local Vanuatuan tribes. Upon arriving at their beach, the Moso tribe was initially surprised that they were give absolutely no camping equipment or tents. Kym especially expressed her shock that they had to build their own shelter, and mentioned that she had never before been camping. Over at the Kakula tribe, Guy, David and Wayne immediately started to make plans to build their shelter before they ran out of daylight. Shortly after both tribes began setting up camp, both tribes were surprised with an additional tribe member. Justin arrived on a boat and became a part of the all female Moso tribe, and Gabrielle arrived and joined the male Kakula tribe. Both brought with them, saucepans, flint and machetes.
At Kakula, Imogen was annoyed by Fiona whom she thought had taken on a boisterous leader role, while Fiona talked to Amber in the jungle and told her that she wanted to vote out Imogen first because she was their weakest link in challenges.
Before tribal council, Fiona approached Justin and asked him if he was thinking of voting Imogen also to which he agreed. Kym was also struggling with the elements and stated that she didn't want to vote anybody out. Eventually Kym was voted out in a unanimous vote, also voting for herself. | |||
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
15 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 24 August, 2006 |
Waking up on Day four, the Moso tribe was suffering from being starved and fatigued, especially Imogen who felt dizzy when she left the shelter and vomited. While over at Kakula life was quite the opposite, having a plentiful food source and even making their own toothbrushes thanks to the expertise of Ben, all tribe members were well fed.
Moso enjoyed their fruit and appreciated the kind gesture from Kakula, while Fiona refused to eat any of the fruit and stated that she was fine living solely off the food they had themselves acquired. She also ranted that they were doing well enough and that they didn't need any handouts. Later on in the jungle while hunting for food, Fiona and Nicolle agreed that they would vote for Imogen if they lost the next immunity challenge, while over at Kakula Wayne and Gabrielle spoke about possibly voting off Ben as he was the last person to join their team.
Before heading to their first tribal council, Wayne, Guy, Elton and Gabrielle were hesitant to vote out Ben, because he was their number one source of survival. They considered turning on each other and Wayne later approached Guy and asked him if voting out Gabrielle was a possibility. In the end, Ben was voted out in a unanimous vote. | |||
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
16 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 31 August, 2006 |
Waking up on day six, Fiona discovered fruit flies through the tribes fruit bag and said to the rest of the tribe that they should have listened to her, and they wouldn't have fruit flies. Amber, just waking up confronted Fiona and the two had a small disagreement, Fiona continued to rub everyone on the tribe the wrong way throughout the day. Heading into the reward challenge, Justin and Gabrielle (the last two cast members to arrive on day one) were assigned to designated mats, Gabrielle to Kakula and Justin to Moso. Gabrielle selected a male first, with Justin selecting a female first and alternating until two new tribes formed.
With Imogen and Nicolle, and David and Elton in the minority on their new tribes, alliances and scenarios immediately began to form in the new tribes, with tribal lines holding strong. When arriving at their new camp, Imogen heard Guy and Wayne saying that the would use them for information and then get rid of them.
Elton and David targeted Fiona for her weakness and annoyance, and Fiona and Justin targeted David for making them lose the immunity challenge. Amber was a swing vote and unsure of who to vote with, however in the end she decided to betray her original Moso alliance and voted with the former Kakula, voting Fiona out of the game. | |||
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
17 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 7 September, 2006 |
On day eight at Kakula camp Wayne and Guy began to become suspicious of Gabrielle becoming closer with Imogen and Nicolle, fearing that they would form an all girls alliance and they would be the next two to go.
At Kakula, talked continued regarding Gabrielle's loyalty to Guy and Wayne. Nicolle and Imogen were hopeful that Gabrielle would flip and vote with them, while Wayne became more confident that she wouldn't, assuming that they would physically struggle in the future challenges without any brawn.
Before heading to tribal council, the Moso tribe was in disorganization, Amber was worried and sure that she would be next voted out for flipping on her alliance the previous tribal council, although Justin promised his loyalty to her but was paranoid that she would vote with Elton and David resulting in him being blindsided. Elton and David remained strong and Justin decided to vote with them, voting out Amber in a unanimous vote. | |||
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
18 | 5 | "Episode 5" | 14 September, 2006 |
Torrential rain awoke a sleeping Kakula tribe on night 9 and they were forced to wake and fix their shelter to avoid being wet. The next day Gabrielle stated that she felt sorry for the Moso tribe because they didn't have a very strong shelter to which Wayne told her that if she felt so sorry for them, she could go over and join them. Guy showed concern as Gabrielle was a swing vote and her run-ins with Wayne could cause her to flip and vote with Nicolle and Imogen.
At Kakula tribe before tribal, Imogen and Nicolle approached Gabrielle and attempted to cement an all girls alliance with Gabrielle with Wayne as their target, while Wayne and Guy were confident that Gabrielle would stick with them and vote out Imogen. Gabrielle was torn between joining her original alliance or siding with the women. In the end, she betrayed Guy and Wayne, helping Imogen and Nicolle take out Wayne. | |||
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
19 | 6 | "Episode 6" | 21 September, 2006 |
Kakula awoke to tree mail on day twelve informing them that they had ten minutes to take everything they could fit onto a canoe and to head to the Moso camp. While Moso were cooking breakfast, David looked up and realized a group of canoes arriving, confirming a merge. The remaining Moso tribe were instantly shocked when they realized that Gabrielle had flipped, and voted out Wayne.
On the newly merged Tanna tribe, while Gabrielle, Elton and Guy were enjoying reward, David went for a walk with Imogen and proposed to her that he and Elton who were tightly aligned join her and Nicolle and make a strong alliance of four.
Talk immediately began surrounding who would be ousted at the first merge tribal council. Nicolle, Gabrielle and Justin discussed voting out Guy because he was the biggest physical threat left. Wiith David winning immunity, Guy and Elton knew that it would be either of them being voted out. In the end Guy was voted out with a vote of 5-2. | |||
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
20 | 7 | "Episode 7" | 28 September, 2006 |
Talk started to arise around the Tanna camp about Gabrielle's lack of work ethic. While all of the other members of the tribe regularly worked around camp and maintaining the fire, Gabrielle just sat around which caused Nicolle to mention that she would talk to Gabrielle about the issue.
When David. Imogen and Gabrielle returned from their reward the next morning, David was not impressed to discover that in his absence Justin had stepped up and cooked David's signature "Island Porridge" and also broken one of his pots. Elton and David also discussed their hopes that the four majority would flip on each other, otherwise it would be one of them being voted out next.
Before tribal, Elton was confident that he would be voted out at tribal, due to him being the most obvious physical threat. David approached Nicolle and proposed that they could vote out Gabrielle for being lazy around camp. Nicolle suggested that Imogen would vote with her, as would Elton, however she was not sure which way she would vote. In the end Nicolle stuck strong and never approached anyone else about the possibility of voting for Gabrielle, instead voting Elton out with a majority of votes. | |||
No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
21 | 8 | "Episode 8" | 5 October, 2006 |
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No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
22 | 9 | "Episode 9" | 12 October, 2006 |
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No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
23 | 10 | "Episode 10" | 19 October, 2006 |
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No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
24 | 11 | "Episode 11" | 26 October, 2006 |
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No. in series | Episode # | Title | Original air date |
25 | 12 | "Episode 12" | 2 November, 2006 |
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Elimination Notes
- Justin: After unsuccessfully trying to bribe others to affect their voting strategies, everyone turned on Justin and voted him out. (4-1)
- Gabrielle: When David won immunity, the women had to turn on each other. David decided to help Imogen and Nicolle vote out Gabrielle, as he realized that there were too few people left and too many days, so he wanted to get on their good side. (3-1)
- David: Guy and Justin convinced Imogen and Nicolle to help vote out David. David was bitter about being voted out, but focused his anger at Imogen and Nicolle for betraying him. (4-1)
- Nicolle: The two alliances clashed at tribal council, with Justin and Nicolle receiving two votes each. When they went to tribal countback, they were still deadlocked with six votes each. The jury then voted, all three jury members voting for Nicolle. (2-2, Jury: 3-0)
- Imogen: Justin decided that he wanted to bring his original alliance partner Guy to the final two, and thus voted out Imogen. (1-0)
- Justin: Although praised for being a good player, Justin was criticized for his "bribery scandal" and lost out by one vote. He was voted for by Nicolle and Imogen. (2-3)
- Guy: Guy was viewed as a great physical and mental player. He was voted for by Elton, Gabrielle, and David. (3-2)
Voting history
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- ↑ The Tribal Council vote resulted in a tie. Per the rules, a Tribal Council countback was called.
- ↑ As the Coutback ended in deadlock (with both Justin and Nicole receiving 4 previous votes), the Jury (Elton, Gabrielle and David) voted in order to break the deadlock.
- 1 2 Guy and Imogen were not eligible to vote as the only eligible players they could vote for were each other.
References
- ↑ "Celebs to survive on 7". Herald Sun. 2006-05-29. Retrieved 2006-08-31.
- ↑ http://www.castawaytelevision.com/celebrity_survivor_format/
- ↑ Bindley, David (March 20, 2010). "Survivor: The Complete Challenge Guide (1st ed.)" (PDF). Retrieved December 16, 2010.