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Exclusive Interview: Yau-Man Chan, 4th place finisher on Survivor (Interview Conducted by Oscar Dahl)

Yau-Man Chan will go down as one of the most beloved Survivors in the series long history. It is impossble to discuss Yau with any Survivor fan and not end up postulating on the little man from Borneo’s greatness. Yau-Man came into Survivor: Fiji as an afterthought. No one expected much from him, but he was formidable in every aspect of the contest. He won more challenges than anyone else, found the immunity idol, and was simply smarter than the rest of the field. The only reason Yau didn’t win was the fact Dreamz reneged on his immunity deal with Yau. Nonetheless, Yau-Man will go down in Survivor lore as one of the game’s best players. Earlier in the week, Yau-Man stopped by to speak with us about his time on the show.

Below you will find both the written transcript and full mp3 audio of the interview.

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/SurvivorYauMan.mp3

Before we get into anything from last night can we talk a little bit about how you found yourself on the show, how you got cast? More… »

Los Angeles Times
The long-running CBS reality show isn’t immune to the networks’ general malaise.

Eating bugs, stabbing fish with a makeshift spear and tropical island backstabbing appear to be losing their appeal for “Survivor” fans.

The long-running CBS game isn’t immune to the general malaise affecting network TV this spring, as only 13.6 million people watched Sunday as California advertising executive Earl Cole unanimously won the Fiji edition, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That’s down 17% from the 16.4 million people who watched the end of the previous edition in December. Last spring’s finale had 17.1 million viewers, Nielsen said.

It illustrates how long it has been since the first “Survivor” in the summer of 2000 electrified fans and drew 51.6 million people to its conclusion. The latest game was the 14th “Survivor” edition.

CBS notes, however, that “Survivor” consistently wins its time slot against a hot new hit, ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” and NBC’s “My Name Is Earl.” More… »

How did you feel about the outcome? Talk about it here.

Boo tries to get them to vote off Dreamz instead of him, but when Yau Man wins the immunity challenge, Boo goes home.

The final immunity, with only 4 people in it, is won by Dreamz. He swears that he will give the necklace to Yau Man, but when the tribal council comes, he betrays his promise. Earl is surprised and torn, but votes for Yau Man and Yau goes home. The final three is Earl, Cassandra and Dreamz, with the jury picking one of them.

The final tribal council has every vote for Earl. The first time in Survivor history that the vote is unanimous.

During the reunion show, Dreamz claims that he was thinking everything through and made every decision on purpose. He said then that he never intended to give Yau the necklace.

At the end of the show, Earl wished his mom a Happy Mother’s day and gave her half his money.

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Only 36 days ago, there were 19 Survivors and tonight we are down to the final five. Jeff takes us on a review of the events leading up to the present, including Dreamz’s outspoken and strategic role in the events that lead up to this night of the finale. With Yao Man using his immunity idol and narrowly avoiding banishment, he realizes that his safety net is gone. He says that tribal council was brutal and it was a good thing to use it. Earl says that no one knows for certain that he has the other idol and when Yao Man says that he might have to borrow the idol, Earl says that he might have to keep it for himself because they know that he knows they don’t trust him.

Cassandra says that this is the time in the game when you have to start playing for yourself. When she brings up that Yao might have the second idol, Earl tells her that he doesn’t think he does because he hasn’t been walking around. He also tells her that he gave Yao his word and that is something he won’t break. More… »

Season Finale on SUNDAY at 7:00pm

Hutchinson Leader by Jorge Sosa

“Survivor: Fiji” will mark a couple of milestones Sunday night. It will be the 200th “Survivor” episode and it will see the return of contestant Gary “Papa Smurf” Stritesky, a Silver Lake native. More… »

This season just keeps getting better and better. Last night’s Tribal Council was almost as good at the one 3 weeks ago when the tables turned the first time. This throws everything into complete chaos. I think Yau Man just might win this thing.

I’m looking forward to the SUNDAY NIGHT FINALE!

The Daily Advertiser - www.theadvertiser.com - Lafayette, LA

In life, a slip of the tongue rarely costs you a shot at $1 million. On Survivor, it can happen quite easily.

It did this week.

“I think that everyone wants to seem like they’re playing nice, but I think there’s going to be lines drawn. And, there’s going to be division amongst the tight-knit alliance,” Stacy said at tribal council. “Because I don’t think that it’s all going to be a vote one way or the other. I think it’s going to be split.”

She might has well have said, “We’re all voting for Yau-Man. Better pull out that hidden immunity idol that we all know you have.” More… »

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Episode Overview: Big risk could equal big reward for Yau-Man as he makes a series of game-changing decisions on Survivor:Fiji.

Episode Highlights:

* Boo is starting to feel like there is a target on his back…but so does Yau-Man.
* Yau-Man makes a crazy-like-a-fox proposition to Dreamz.
* The hidden immunity idols continue to impact the face of the game.

Kenward “Boo” Bernis is being crafty. He clears a secret path to the watering hole so that he can eavesdrop on any of the other Survivor: Fiji tribe members who might be conspiring against him.

Good plan, but his time away from the camp gives them time to conspire in the comfort of home. Earl Cole talks to the others about ensuring that Boo is out next. More… »

JAM Television By JOHN POWELL — JAM Showbiz

Although they might not know it, ‘Survivor’ fans witnessed the most significant happening of the ‘Fiji’ series on last night’s episode.

Absent from the ‘Cook Islands’ edition, the Car Challenge returned with a vengeance. The startling outcome is sure to have a direct effect on not only how the game plays itself out but how the Fiji jury votes and why.

Facing off against Boo and Stacy in an axe hurling competition, Yau-Man won the gas-guzzling product placement but stopped short of accepting the prize. More… »

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The episode opens with only six remaining survivors. In a conversation recollecting the events of the night at tribal council, Cassandra discusses that they had planned for Boo to go, but the game changes.

The following morning they wake up to receive tree mail that tells them they have a reward challenge coming up and speculation runs rampant that this is the challenge for the car. Dreamz dreams what it would be like to have a vehicle, saying that not only did he not own one, but he didn’t even have a driver’s license. It was easier that way he said, not having that in his pocket every day to remind him that he didn’t even own a car.

Jeff calls them to the challenge and tells them that they are going to be roped together in two teams of three. They would have to maneuver over a see saw like balance beam as a team and then crawl through a jungle gym type apparatus and finally dig an implement out of the sand to release a rope tied to precious cargo. He has the tarp pulled off a large surprise, a Ford Super pickup filled with a huge crate of school supplies that the winning team will deliver to a local school. More… »

Tonight is the last Thursday night episode.

Find out who wins in 3 days!

One Survivor surprises everyone when they attempt to use their Reward as a bargaining chip, the tribe is left in a state of shock when one Survivor reveals their decision of who to send to Exile Island and one Survivor creates a hidden path to eavesdrop on conversations, while back at camp, others plot to take him out of the game.

TV Guide - Hardcopy 5.7.07 Issue

Survivor: Fiji began with controversy when the Moto tribe won the luxury beach while the Ravu tribe had virtually nothing.

So, it is only fitting that the Survivor: Fiji Finale will end in the same way it began, with major controversy. We’ll get to that in a moment.

First a quick recap. As of April 26 (I can’t play spoiler for those of you reading this before May 3), we’re down to our Final Seven: Alex, Boo, Cassandra, Dreamz, Earl, Stacy and Yau-Man.

Now, as the game enters the “every person for himself” phase, Yau-Man and Earl seem to have the most solid alliance, which puts them in a very good position, and it appears that Earl is calling the shots.

Thanks to Mookie’s snooping (and, subsequently, being voted off for it), everybody knows that Yau-Man has one of the immunity idols. This could put him in a vulnerable spot because the longer he’s allowed to hold onto it, the safer he becomes. This won’t sit well with the others, especially considering how likable Yau-Man is and how hard it would be to defeat him at the final vote. I can tell you that at least one more idol gets played at Tribal Council, and it will have an impact. Plus, there is still another hidden idol somewhere at camp and its discovery could dramatically change the power structure. More… »

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With only seven left, the campers return to their island to discuss what went wrong that Alex, their target, was still there and Mookie was not. Earl wonders why the group didn’t think that the split vote might backfire on them, as it did. Alex feels that they are all stressing out and are not in agreement. Stacy asks him what is going on and he says that his best bet is to lay low. He says that the decision to vote for Mookie is the reason he is still there and he double checks to make sure he is.

Alex feels he is still on the chopping block and decides to go into Ninja mode, laying back and observing what is going on. He wants to listen and watch to see what is going on and stay under the radar. Dreamz thinks that honesty is the thing that keeps you in the game. Cassandra, Yao, Earl and Dreamz is Dreamz pick as the core four. Yao Man thinks that the core four for him are Cassandra, Stacey, Earl and Yao because they are the four that Yao sees as getting him the farthest in the game. The group really think that Alex and Boo are the next to go. More… »

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How did you get yourself cast on Survivor? Were you a fan of the show beforehand?

I have to admit, I didn’t really watch a lot of the show beforehand. I guess one of the casting people saw my profile up on Myspace and contacted me, and I tried out and I got in. I had just quit my job about a week before that, so I felt like life was taking me in interesting and new directions, so I just kind of went for it.

Did you come onto the island with a game plan?

Once I realized thatI might be in the running for this thing, I started to watch past seasons. I had a sense of what was in store for me, but I also knew that with Survivor it’s just completely unpredictable. There’s a general set of rules, but at any given moment they can just change everything up.

Did the Four Horsemen have a legitimate chance to be a strong alliance?
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Spoiler Alert at the bottom. Don’t read it if you don’t want to know.

Blogcritics.org Written by Kathy Scovill

Don’t get me wrong. I love my Tivo. It allows me to record more programming than I can comfortably watch in a week. I can save multiple episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for my three-year-old so he always has age-appropriate viewing choices. The ability to pause live television and fast forward through commercials has generally made family life more enjoyable.

But my Tivo has been acting up lately. What was once a cooperative technological tool that left me with the distinct impression that I was in control, has turned against me with behavior usually reserved for my desktop PC. And now, with a regrettable glance ahead at upcoming descriptions of my favorite shows (which include Grey’s Anatomy and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Inferno III), I realize that my Tivo may have just revealed the results of two weeks worth of highly anticipated position wrangling and an unlikely final three on Survivor: Fiji. But we’ll get back to that.

When I first plugged in my Tivo, it ran like a charm. I was able to set a “Season Pass” and record every episode of my favorite shows without having to remember what day of the week it was or what time it was on. It was like living in a time/space continuum where no matter what time it was, there was always something on that I wanted to watch. Sigh. More… »

mlive.com: NewsFlash

MALIBU, Calif. AP — “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett and “Angel” Roma Downey have tied the knot. The couple were married Saturday in a private ceremony at their home. The ceremony was officiated by Downeys “Touched by an Angel” co-star Della Reese, an ordained minister, the couples publicist, Jim Dowd, confirmed Monday.

“It was wonderful to have shared our big day with our family, Roma, myself, our children and our parents,” Burnett, 46, told People magazine in an interview. “It was so meaningful and so intimate.”

A small plane hired by Downey, 47, towed a banner that read: “…and they lived happily ever after.”

Burnetts sons from a previous marriage, James, 13, and Cameron, 10, were best man and ring bearer. Downeys daughter, Reilly, 10, from a previous marriage, was a bridesmaid.

The couple became engaged in November during a vacation to Mexico.

Downey starred in “Touched by an Angel” from 1994 to 2003.

TVGuide.com by Angel Cohn

Some guys have all the luck, and some guys just have none. That was the sitch for Survivor: Fiji’s Mookie Lee. The 25-year-old Chicagoan who got stuck with the losing tribe from the get-go did his best to change his fate by aligning with a group of strong guys, but then they went and betrayed him. Mookie at one point had the hidden immunity idol, but gave it up to save his “Four Horsemen” alliance, where it went to waste. What’s more, he was the only Bula Bula tribe mate that never got to live on the luxury beach. TVGuide.com caught up with Mookie after his ouster to get his take on his bad luck.

TVGuide.com: Did you know before watching it that your alliance mate Alex had voted for you?
Mookie Lee: At that time at tribal council, no, I did not know. Afterwards I figured it out.

TVGuide.com: What was your reaction?
Mookie: Initially I was kind of surprised, but [on] the show [last week] he mentioned that he was going to make his vote count, so I kind of understood.

TVGuide.com: Did you have an inkling that the rest of the tribe was going to split their votes between you and Alex? More… »