StarStruck (season 6)


The sixth season of StarStruck premiered on September 7, 2015. The council was formed with Joey de Leon, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, and Jennylyn Mercado also part of the panel. While serving as a host, Dingdong Dantes also sits as a council for this season.
The show is hosted by Dingdong Dantes will reprise his role as the host, In March 2015, Megan Young served as co-host. The segment hosts are StarStruck graduates Mark Herras, Miguel Tanfelix, Kris Bernal, and Rocco Nacino. They serve as journey hosts, who are tasked to join the hopefuls as they go through every phase of the competition.

Auditions

In the last quarter of 2014, GMA Network announced that the distribution of the application form will be on September 6 and 7 and would be distributed nationwide through various malls. For this season, the age limit is set from 15 years old to 20 years old. There was a live coverage of the said event during Startalk on September 6 and at Sunday All Stars on September 7. The said event was called as "StarStruck Weekend". The first 500 registrants in Metro Manila were accommodated on September 7 for the auditions kick off and was shown the previews in Sunday All Stars.
The following dates and key cities for the auditions are as follows:
Casting Dates Key Cities
September 8–12Metro Manila
September 15–19Metro Manila
September 22–26Metro Manila
September 29–30Metro Manila
October 3Metro Manila
October 6–11Metro Manila
September 13–14Dagupan and Batangas
September 20–21Cebu and Bacolod
September 21–22Naga
September 27–29Pampanga
October 11–12Iloilo
October 18–19Davao

Overview

The sixth season of StarStruck after five and a half years of hiatus, GMA Network formally announced the return of their reality-based talent show. Auditions for the new season started on the day it was launched on September 7, 2014. GMA Network's variety program, Sunday All Stars, where the hosts invited teenagers from 15–20 years old to audition for the new StarStruck season. Much of the auditions were held at the GMA Network's headquarters and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.
The pilot episode was aired on September 7, 2015. Like the first two seasons, StarStruck is shown only weekdays having Mondays to Thursdays will be tests and Fridays would be the elimination night. The show held its Final Judgment on December 19, 2015 at the GMA Network Studio 6 and Studio 7.
The initial cut of Top 35 was reduced to two groups, by which they call Dream 14 and Believe 14. The ones Too 28 was again reduced to Top 22 And again to Top 18 until they formed the new Final 14 titled: is the Ultimate Final 14 finalists. However, the twist is that every week, one of the Final 14 may have to say goodbye until only four remain. Those who were eliminated were dubbed as "StarStruck avengers".
The final four survivors will vie for the coveted "Ultimate Male Survivor" and "Ultimate Female Survivor" titles, each of them has received pesos in each cash, a house and lot from Camella Homes worth, 5-year exclusive GMA contract. The "First Prince" and "First Princess" title, each of them has received pesos each. The StarStruck avengers also received exclusive contracts from the network.
It also featured a new title in StarStruck history, Dream 14 and Believe 14, the Final 14 coveted to Ultimate Final 14 in the second week.

The survivors

The Bootcamp

After the nationwide auditions, the Top 35 hopefuls were selected to advance to the next round of the competition. Their names were revealed during the August 20, 2015 episode of Eat Bulaga!
In this phase, they faced different stages in order to determine if they will move on and be part of the next round of the competition.
The first stage was the Talent Showcase round wherein they presented to the judges the talents they are most comfortable at. The next stage is the Workshops wherein they were tested and criticized by different coaches. Resident acting coach Gina Alajar once again led the acting workshop for the semifinalists. Christian Bautista and Prof. Jai Sabas-Aracama sit as the singing mentors, while another resident mentor, Douglas Nierras, trained the semifinalists in dancing. After workshop stage is the Screen test. The final stage for the semifinal round is the Director's Night wherein the Top 35 semifinalists faced different well-known directors of the industry to give their opinions and critiques and deliberate who would advance to the next round.

The Door Elimination

One of the new twists added in season 6 is the introduction of The Door. Upon crossing The Door, the hopefuls would determine whether or not they will still continue on with their StarStruck journey. When a contestant touches a hand-shaped portal, s/he will hear one of three things:
As an exciting twist to the show, Dingdong Dantes announced during the first live episode last September 11, 2015 that for the sixth season, instead of having just the traditional Final 14, there will be two sets of 14 hopefuls who will compete in various challenges. The hopefuls who will standout and survive these challenges will be part of the Ultimate Final 14.
The first twelve finalists whose names were announced during the first four episodes and the two finalists who were announced during the first live episode compose the first group which is dubbed as the Dream 14. The second set of 14 hopefuls, who were initially expected to be eliminated, compose the group called Believe 14.

The Ultimate Final 14

When the Ultimate Final 14 was chosen, they are assigned to different challenges every week that will hone their acting, singing, and dancing abilities. Every Friday, one is meant to leave the competition until there were just six others who are left. From ultimate final six, there will be two of them who will be eliminated and after the elimination the two; the ultimate final four will be revealed.
The Ultimate Final 4 will be battling with each other on the Final Judgment. People will choose who they want to win the competition by text voting. 40% of the result will come from the text votes and the remaining 60% is from the Judges.
NameAgeHometownTeamExitedResults
Migo Adecer15BacolodBelieve 14December 19, 2015Ultimate Male Survivor
Klea Pineda16Caloocan CityDream 14December 19, 2015Ultimate Female Survivor
Elyson De Dios16CebuDream 14December 19, 2015First Prince
Ayra Mariano17BulacanDream 14December 19, 2015First Princess
Jay Arcilla19LagunaBelieve 14December 11, 2015Avenger
Arra San Agustin20CaviteBelieve 14December 11, 2015Avenger
Liezel Lopez18Olongapo CityDream 14November 27, 2015Avenger
Avery Paraiso21AntipoloDream 14November 27, 2015Avenger
Analyn Barro18BacolodDream 14November 20, 2015Avenger
Kevin Sagra20South CotabatoDream 14November 13, 2015Avenger
James Teng17BulacanBelieve 14November 6, 2015Avenger
Koreen Medina20LagunaDream 14October 30, 2015Avenger
Joemarie Nielsen21TarlacDream 14October 23, 2015Avenger
Princess Guevarra16CaviteBelieve 14October 16, 2015Avenger
Chat Bornea20CebuBelieve 14October 2, 2015Finalist
Nikki Co19ManilaBelieve 14October 2, 2015Finalist
Beatriz Imperial16RizalBelieve 14October 2, 2015Finalist
Camille Torres18Dumaguete CityBelieve 14October 2, 2015Finalist
Mariam Al-Alawi18ManilaDream 14September 25, 2015Finalist
Carl Cervantes20RizalDream 14September 25, 2015Finalist
Faith da Silva15LagunaBelieve 14September 25, 2015Finalist
Kyle Vergara18Las PiñasDream 14September 25, 2015Finalist
Prince Clemente20CaviteBelieve 14September 18, 2015Finalist
Allysa de Real19Las PiñasBelieve 14September 18, 2015Finalist
Marion Garcia18PampangaDream 14September 18, 2015Finalist
Arjan Jimenez19Quezon CityBelieve 14September 18, 2015Finalist
April Scott20TaguigDream 14September 18, 2015Finalist
Claire Vande16CebuBelieve 14September 18, 2015Finalist
Rojean delos Reyes19BulacanThe DoorSeptember 10, 2015Finalist
Rachel Dimaculangan17BatangasThe DoorSeptember 9, 2015Finalist
Frederick Fructuoso16ParañaqueThe DoorSeptember 8, 2015Finalist
Alicia Lacap15Quezon CityThe DoorSeptember 7, 2015Finalist
Kyle Manalo20Quezon CityThe DoorSeptember 9, 2015Finalist
Jefferlyn Serrano20MarikinaThe DoorSeptember 7, 2015Finalist
Karessa Toring20CebuThe DoorSeptember 8, 2015Finalist

The Weekly Artista Tests

Guest directors, Mark A. Reyes and Louie Ignacio challenges The Final 14, grouped by couples, to act in a short romance-drama with guest comedians and actors from Bubble Gang. The assigned couples are also challenged to perform in a romantic music video.
Director Mark Dela Cruz and veteran actress, Jaclyn Jose of MariMar, were tasked to test the versatility of the StarStruck survivors in a dramatic short film. The assigned couples had the same script and scenario but all with a different ending. In the end, Dela Cruz chose Liezel Lopez and Joemarie Nielsen as his Best Performers, while he named Analyn Barro and Migo Adecer as the Best Pair. Jaclyn Jose, on the other hand chose Migo Adecer and Liezel Lopez as her Best Performers, while Arra San Agustin and Jay Arcilla got the praises of the veteran actress, and named them as the Best Pair as well. Jaclyn Jose is amazed at those men's bodies especially Jay Arcilla's Topless body. Veteran director, Joel Lamangan tested their acting skills. The finalists were first asked to introduce themselves in a creative manner and was then instructed to act according to his direct action. In the end, at the show's elimination night, it was revealed that Liezel Lopez was jointly chosen by the council, acting mentors and directors as the best performing survivor for this week.
For this week's challenge, the remaining survivors will face another acting test with StarStruck graduates from past seasons. Directed by film and television director, Neal Del Rosario. The first group was composed of Liezel Lopez, Arra San Agustin, and Jay Arcilla with LJ Reyes, Katrina Halili, and Mike Tan. Their group was assigned to do a short provocative drama play. The second group was composed of Ayra Mariano, Kevin Sagra, and Migo Adecer with Ryza Cenon, Kevin Santos, and Diva Montelaba. Their group was assigned to do a short comedy play. The next group which composed of Klea Pineda, Avery Paraiso, Analyn Barro, and Joemarie Nielsen with Nadine Samonte and Jade Lopez were assigned to do a short heavy-family drama play. And the last group composed of Elyson De Dios, James Teng, and Koreen Medina with Enzo Pineda, Jackie Rice, and Jade Lopez for the second time were assigned to do a short comedy-horror play. At the end of each episodes, it was announced that the guest director and former StarStruck graduates will have a special power to automatically make one survivor part of this week's bottom group. As a result, they chose Jay Arcilla, Kevin Sagra, Joemarie Nielsen, and Elyson De Dios. However, Kevin Sagra was automatically saved in the results show and it went to James Teng instead.
The finalists were tasked to know the responsibilities and difficulties as an actor or actress by assigning them to appear as minor roles in GMA-7's television shows. The first three finalists to perform are Migo, Klea, and Avery. Migo Adecer and Klea Pineda were tasked to guest in the top-rating afternoon soap, The Half Sisters while Avery Paraiso was tasked to guest in Bubble Gang. The next three were Ayra, Kevin, and Jay. Ayra Mariano was assigned to guest in the sitcom, Pepito Manaloto. Like Ayra, Kevin Sagra was also assigned in a sitcom. But unlike her, Sagra guest in Ismol Family. Jay Arcilla had a special appearance in the afternoon soap, Buena Familia where he played the role of Marco, Edwin's friend. In day three, Liezel Lopez and James Teng guest in Destiny Rose as they were both assigned in the said show. Elyson De Dios also guest in Pepito Manaloto like his partner, Ayra Mariano but not the same set. In its Thursday episode, Arra San Agustin had a special appearance in a primetime series which is My Faithful Husband where she played the role of Ana. Analyn Barro and Koreen Medina guest as hosts in iBilib with Chris Tiu, Moymoy Palaboy, and Solenn Heussaff. They were also challenged by their fellow finalists through a new segment, StarStruck Time Out. In "Isang Tanong, Isang Tanong", One of the 14 finalists were free to ask different questions from their companions. In "Hugot", One of the finalists were free to say what they want to say with their fellow finalists. In "Push Mo 'to ah!", The survivors should do something they hate to overcome their fears. And last, The "May alam ako sa 'yo", They should let their close friend reveal something about them the audience didn't know.
Guest Director, Maryo J. de los Reyes challenges The Last 11 finalists to act in a short horror play. In its Thursday episode, Vaness del Moral had a guest appearance as Joyce, The antagonist for the last two finalists. In this week, they also introduce another StarStruck Time Out segment, "Lagot". In this new segment, each finalist would search for a negative or positive comment of the watchers and read it with their reactions.
Guest Director, Gina Alajar challenges the top 10 finalists to perform a short play of a kissing scene with StarStruck Ultimate Survivor Aljur Abrenica for the girls and Kylie Padilla for the boys. The next one, also directed by Gina Alajar was "Kiss flicks presents: True Love Stories". Kapuso online send their true love stories through StarStrucks official Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. The contestants were tasked to perform it with Tita Emotera as the host. Those stories include "Love Radar", "Mr. And Ms. Doughnut", "Mr. Yoso", "Cutie P.I", and "The Kiss Bet". They also introduce here a new set of Loveteams, KevLyn, MigLea, and AveZel.
The nine finalists were challenged to perform a comedy short film with guest actors and comedians Manilyn Reynes and Pekto. They are grouped in groups of 3. Elyson De Dios, Arra San Agustin, and Liezel Lopez on the first day, Migo Adecer, Klea Pineda, and Jay Arcilla on the second, and Ayra Mariano, Avery Paraiso, and Analyn Barro on the third. On Thursday, they were also challenged to perform a short skit in Bubble Gang mentored by Michael V. and director Uro dela Cruz. After the performance, Uro dela Cruz chose Liezel Lopez, Klea Pineda, and Ayra Mariano as his choice of winners.
The remaining 8 survivors were tasked to had an immersion inside the market and the dumpsite. Arra San Agustin, Jay Arcilla, Ayra Mariano, and Elyson De Dios act in the market with the title, "Taguan ng Feelings" with Veteran actress, Jean Garcia. The second group consist of Klea Pineda, Migo Adecer, Liezel Lopez, and Avery Paraiso act in the dump site titled, "Scavengers" with actor Gabby Eigenmann. In this week's StarStruck Time Out, Coach Cynthia from Sunday PinaSaya had a guest appearance. Coach Cynthia taught the finalists about her over acting skills.
Guest Director Real Florido, were assigned to Direct The Final 6 survivors composed of Migo Adecer, Jay Arcilla, Elyson De Dios, Ayra Mariano, Klea Pineda, and Arra San Agustin were assigned to work with the StarStruck avengers in a drama-romantic-comedy anthology where the viewers are free to choose what ending they want to be played via Twitter and Facebook. This serves as the fourteen hopefuls' longest series wherein they are all complete. The loveteam AySon star in "Love Begins", MigLea in "Love Ends" and JayRa in "Love Again" with veteran actress, Snooky Serna. In this point, the avengers come back to vote their Ultimate Final 4 via The Destinator. Each survivors got 4 points, but according to the host, it was just an opinion by the avengers who cannot affect their votes. It was also revealed this week that the avengers will not return in the competition as wildcards.
Guest Director, Bb. Joyce Bernal challenges the remaining survivors with the theme, Family Drama. This mini series is entitled "TAHANAN" which stars the final 6 with the two veteran actors, Glydel Mercado and Christopher de Leon as their parents. In this week, the final 6 come back to The Door by which it will determine to whom the final 4 title will be given. The mechanics in this stage is the same as what the top 35 experienced.
In this week, there will be StarStruck Saturday, And it was revealed that the Saturday episode would be The Final Judgment. In its Weekday episodes, the Ultimate Final 4 survivors would have a homecoming. And after that, the council will ask some of the hardest questions to them. An "Ultimate Male Survivor" and "Ultimate Female Survivor" were received pesos each, a house and lot from Camella Homes worth, 5-year exclusive GMA contract, and will join the cast of the upcoming telefantasya, Encantadia. While "First Prince" and "First Princess" received pesos.

The Final Judgment

The Final Judgment for the sixth season dubbed StarStruck: The Final Judgment was held on December 19, 2015 on GMA Network's Studio 6 and Studio 7. On the said event, hosted by Dingdong Dantes. Megan Young was not attending as a co-host, because she serves as a host from Miss World 2015 pageant on the same date. The segment hosts are StarStruck graduates, Mark Herras, Miguel Tanfelix, Kris Bernal, and Rocco Nacino. The council was formed with Joey de Leon, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, and Jennylyn Mercado representing it.
An opening number consist of StarStruck graduates including Mark Herras, Jennylyn Mercado, Yasmien Kurdi, Mike Tan, Ryza Cenon, LJ Reyes, Aljur Abrenica, Kris Bernal, Steven Silva, Enzo Pineda, Diva Montelaba, Rocco Nacino, and Sef Cadayona from previous seasons and the StarStruck Kids graduates, Miguel Tanfelix, Ella Guevara, and Sandy Talag perform a dance number. They were joined by the Ultimate Final 14 and The StarStruck avengers performances were next to performing re-enacting their elimination week by week by singing and dancing.
The StarStruck avenger, Analyn Barro received P100,000 pesos each, was awarded by Palmolive after earning the highest number of votes from the viewers.
The Final 4 then perform their solo performances. Ayra Mariano sang Katy Perry's Part of Me, Klea Pineda sang Ariana Grande’s Break Free, Elyson De Dios performs a dance number, and Migo Adecer sang and dances by Jason Derulo’s Want to Want Me. Alden Richards sang Bryan White's God Gave Me You, followed by a dance number with the StarStruck avengers.
Before the final results, the StarStruck council member Regine Velasquez-Alcasid sang Miley Cyrus’s The Climb.
While the Ultimate Final 4 walks through the stage. Elyson De Dios and Ayra Mariano received P250,000 pesos each, were awarded by brand Manager of Lewis & Pearl, Ms. Valerie Tan as the sensational couple of this said product.
Come announcement time, Klea Pineda of Caloocan is the Ultimate Female Survivor and Migo Adecer of Bacolod is the Ultimate Male Survivor were proclaimed as the Ultimate Survivors received P1,000,000 pesos each, a House and Lot from Camella Homes worth P2,000,000, 5-year exclusive GMA contract, and will join the cast of the upcoming telefantasya, Encantadia.
While Ayra Mariano of Bulacan is the First Princess and Elyson De Dios of Cebu is the First Prince were proclaimed as the Runner-ups each of them received P200,000 pesos. The StarStruck avengers also received an exclusive contract from the network. During the Judgment Day, it was also announced that the Final 14 will be having our own show.
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  1. Liezel Lopez was automatically included in the bottom group for having the majority of the votes from her co-StarStruck finalists via The Destinator.
  2. Princess Guevarra was automatically included in the bottom group for having the majority of the votes from her co-StarStruck finalists via The Destinator.
  3. Jay Arcilla, Kevin Sagra, Joemarie Nielsen, and Elyson De Dios were jointly chosen by the guest director and StarStruck graduates to be automatically part of this week's bottom group. However, Sagra was automatically saved in the results show and it went to James Teng instead. Additionally, De Dios garnered the majority of the votes from her co-StarStruck finalists via The Destinator.
  4. Liezel Lopez and Arra San Agustin have the most votes from their co-StarStruck finalists via The Destinator. But in the results show, only Lopez was included in the bottom group.
  5. Liezel Lopez was automatically included in the bottom group for having the majority of the votes from her co-StarStruck finalists via The Destinator.
  6. Liezel Lopez and Migo Adecer have the most votes from their co-StarStruck finalists via The Destinator.
  7. Kevin Sagra was automatically eliminated after the StarStruck council chose to save Ayra Mariano.
  8. Elyson De Dios and Arra San Agustin have the most votes from their co-StarStruck finalists via The Destinator but when the last vote is on Liezel Lopez, she gave it to Elyson De Dios.

    Signature dances

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


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  1. Semifinals The six survivors were Eliminated from the first week. They are Prince Clemente, Claire Vande, Allysa de Real, Arjan Jimenez, April Scott, and Marion Garcia. The four survivors were Eliminated from the second week. They are Faith da Silva, Carl Cervantes, Mariam Al-Alawi, and Kyle Vergara. The four survivors were Eliminated from the third week to complete the Ultimate Final 14. They are Chat Bornea, Nikki Co, Beatriz Imperial, and Camille Torres.
  2. Migo Adecer on the award for best in singing; Klea Pineda for best in acting in girls category; Joemarie Nielsen for best in acting in boys category; Faith da Silva got the award for best in dancing. These winner were chosen by the mentor from the survivors' set of challenges.
  3. One of the council's powers is to choose a contestant to advance directly to the Ultimate Final 14. The council chose four contestants each to be in their consideration. Dingdong Dantes chose Klea Pineda; Jennylyn Mercado chose Avery Paraiso; Joey de Leon chose Ayra Mariano; Regine Velasquez chose Migo Adecer.
  4. It was a non-elimination week. The bottom group are Jay Arcilla, Liezel Lopez, Joemarie Nielsen, and Princess Guevarra was safe for the elimination on October 9, 2015.
  5. The council's powers are to choose a contestant to save from the elimination. The last bottom group are Kevin Sagra and Ayra Mariano. Kevin Sagra was automatically eliminated after the StarStruck council choose to save Ayra Mariano.
  6. It was a non-elimination week. No bottom group was announced, however, Jay Arcilla and Arra San Agustin were the last to be called safe. Scores for this week will be carried over until next week.
  7. The Ultimate Final 4 was chosen on December 11, 2015. And the last avengers are Arra San Agustin and Jay Arcilla. The first called to eliminated is Arra San Agustin and the second called is Jay Arcilla.