Australian singer Sia has continued her long-held custom as the newest US season of Survivor got here to an finish this week, stunning her favorite contestants with huge money prizes.
The season 44 finale of the long-running actuality present aired yesterday, with – spoiler alert, for many who haven’t watched but – contestant Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho taking out the million-dollar prize.
But Chandelier singer Sia wished to reward her favourites from the season, so she gave an enormous $US100,000 ($A153,000) to second runner-up Carolyn Wiger, and $US15,000 ($A23,000) apiece to 3rd and fourth runners-up Carson Garrett and Lauren Harpe.
You’d hate to be the season’s runner-up Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, who was overwhelmed by “Yam Yam” to the last word prize and likewise didn’t make Sia’s favourites checklist.
This definitely is not the primary time Adelaide-born Sia, 47, has splashed the money on her favorite TV present.
The custom started again in 2016, when Sia shocked one of many US Survivor contestants at that season’s finale with presents of $US50,000 ($A76,000) for himself and one other $50,000 for an animal charity of his selection.
Taking to the stage through the stay finale, Sia – in her trademark wig disguise – defined that she was moved by contestant Tai Trang’s kindness to animals all through the season.
The custom continued since then, and final 12 months she gave three contestants a mixed complete of $US200,000 ($A306,000).
This 12 months, Sia even shocked certainly one of her recipients, Lauren Harpe, by hopping on the road throughout an interview with outlet PopCrave to announce her money present.
“I’m sorry to interrupt, I just wanted to say that I love you, Lauren, and I wanted to tell you that you’re awesome, and I really felt the struggle for you and your kids and stuff,” Sia stated in the video.
“I wanted to give you not the biggest prize, but I wanted to give you $15 grand just to say, ‘I love you’ and, ‘Keep going.’”
Sia’s no stranger to public acts of kindness – throughout Thanksgiving season in 2019, she was filmed in a Walmart in Palm Springs, California, choosing up the tab for numerous consumers’ vacation grocery purchases.
One eyewitness revealed that Sia instructed these she was serving to that her title was “CiCi” and she’d recently won the lottery.
And in her personal life, the singer has spoken in the past about having adopted two 18-year-old boys in 2019.
“They were ageing out of the foster care system. Yeah, and I love them,” she said of her two adult sons.
Sia enjoyed some good fortune of her own earlier this month, marrying partner Dan Bernard in an intimate ceremony at the home of designers Dolce and Gabbana, in Portofino, Italy.
Originally published as Sia shocks Survivor contestants with huge cash gift
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
