Yau-Man Chan Biography
Yau-Man Chan is a table tennis player, technology executive, and reality television contestant from Malaysia. He finished fourth in the reality television series Survivor: Fiji. He returned to the show Survivor: Micronesia, where he was eliminated as the third contestant. He was born in Hong Kong to ethnic Chinese parents and raised in Malaysia’s Kota Kinabalu.
How old is Yau-Man Chan? – Age
He is 70 years old as of 26 August 2022. He was born in 1952 in Hong Kong.
Yau-Man Chan Wife
Chan is married to Jennifer Chan, with whom he has two children. He currently lives in Martinez, California. Chan is agnostic.
Yau-Man Chan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Yau-Man Chan Fiji
Chan was a contestant on the reality show Survivor: Fiji. He came in fourth place and was the last person voted out. At the end of the season, he served on the jury and voted for Earl Cole to win the game and a million dollars. He was an unusual Survivor contestant who achieved great success through his understanding and application of basic physics. This was clear from the very first episode. He was the only one who could open a box of supplies the tribe received despite the repeated efforts of much more muscular contestants. While others used brute force to open the box, Chan simply dropped it on its corner onto a rock, which opened it immediately. He was also able to beat younger, fitter, and theoretically stronger players in challenges this way.
Chan also used his intelligence to locate the Hidden Immunity Idol. While Cole kept the tribe at bay, Chan discovered the turtle-shaped idol. He immediately created a false idol and planted it where he discovered the true idol. This way, if anyone discovered the location of the idol, they would not suspect that he had discovered it. He made the false idol out of half a coconut shell and painted it with a face. In addition, he painted the letters “I.I.” for Immunity Idol.
Chan was involved in one of the biggest Survivor controversies when he offered a deal to fellow contestant Andria “Dreamz” Herd. The agreement was contingent on Chan and Herd both making it to the Final Four and Herd winning individual immunity at that point in the game. However, Herd broke the agreement, and Chan was voted out. The jury members revealed during the post-finale reunion that Chan could have won with six out of nine votes if he had made it to the Final Three. Chan has stated that he bears no resentment toward Herd for taking the risk, as it was his decision.
Yau-Man Chan Survivor
Chan was announced as one of the Favorites returning for Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites, the 16th season of Survivor, which premiered on February 7, 2008. He formed a loose alliance with fellow favorites Jonathan Penner, Ami Cusack, and Eliza Orlins on the first episode of the show. During that episode, Chan joined the rest of his tribe in voting Jonny Fairplay off the island.
The Favorites lost the immunity challenge, as seen in Episode Three, and Chan was targeted by Survivor: Panama favorite Cirie Fields, the swing vote for the two alliances (the other consisting of Amanda Kimmel, Ozzy Lusth, Parvati Shallow and James Clement). Fields chose him because of his reputation as a smart player, and she was concerned about what would happen if he discovered the Hidden Immunity Idol again. Despite Penner’s efforts to persuade Fields to join their alliance, Chan was voted off the island as the third person by a vote of 6-2-1, despite an attempt to target Shallow.
Additional footage released on the official Survivor website, however, revealed a different side to these events. Fields, who was one of the first people to visit Exile Island this season, had shared all of the clues she had gathered to the location of the Hidden Immunity Idol with Chan, with the understanding that the two of them would share the idol in the same way that Chan and Earl Cole did in Survivor: Fiji. Following this information exchange, Chan proposed to the tribe that if they won the next reward challenge, Penner would be sent instead of the tribe’s previous procedure of drawing lots to determine which of their own number went to Exile Island.
Fields deduced from this that Chan had given Penner the clues she had just shared and that the two men were in an alliance that excluded her. Fields’ decision to fire Chan was influenced by this conclusion as well. Penner’s post-elimination interviews have revealed a similar story.
Yau-Man Chan Interview
Chan began work on a pilot for The Skeptologists, a skeptical reality show, in April 2008. Brian Dunning (of the Skeptoid podcast) and producer Ryan Johnson created the pilot (American Dragster). The show was supposed to be a reality TV show that looked into the paranormal and fringe science from a skeptical scientific standpoint.
Steven Novella, another Skeptics cast member, hosts the podcast The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, on which Chan appears in the April 12, 2008 episode. On May 29, 2011, Chan delivered a lecture titled “The Reality of Reality TV” at the 2nd annual SkeptiCalCon event in Berkeley, California.