Jesse Tuke

2022 - 11 - 2

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Celebrity Treasure Island: Jesse Tuke reigns supreme as season 6 ... (Stuff.co.nz)

After beating out 19 other competitors across 27 days, Tuke came out on top in the ultimate challenge over dancer Elvis Lopeti and actress Courtenay Louise.

Chisholm gives the contestants the go – or “tīmata”, as they say – and Tuke takes off at lightning speed with Louise hot on his tail. He’s challenged to dig a hole under a pole in the sand to get to his screwdriver, which is an interesting choice considering Lopeti faced the same challenge earlier in the season and failed. Lopeti faces another aversion as tries to obtain a screwdriver . Lopeti was once again left disheartened after being told a compass, which he doesn’t possess, was necessary in locating the treasure. When all the celebrations are said and then, Louise and Lopeti bury Tuke in the sand and run with the treasure. Louise and Tuke are onto the final challenge, a puzzle, and yet again they’re both equipped with a very helpful clue, assembling pieces together to create a compass that will lead them to the treasure. As Tuke and Louise get started on the challenge, with Tuke again having a head start from another clue he received earlier in the game, Lopeti was challenged to an aversion to win a compass. The two friends-to-enemies are trying to build their rope bridge and while Tuke has a strong lead, Louise is coming in for the kill. As Lopeti struggles along, Tuke unlocks a box (cue a groan from Louise), then Louise unlocks a box, and the two race to the next stage, where they’re challenged to use the sticks they found in the boxes to free some ropes, tie them up, create a bridge, and use a screwdriver (which both contestants luckily have) to unlock yet another box to receive a spade. Louise got a bit choked up as she told the cameras how much the prize money would benefit her charity, and you could her desire to destroy Tuke burning in her eyes. Lopeti and Louise were understandably upset after hearing Tuke’s revelation, with Lopeti saying he was “pissed off” and fiercely vowing to keep pushing in the competition. After a long time of standing still and staring at the sand, Marshall let the rope slip, allowing Louise to advance in the game, though she was brought to tears during her post-match confessional as she revealed how much winning meant to her in light of

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But I know the ocean is failing and we can and need to be doing a heck of a lot more. I love the ocean and I think as Kiwis we have such a special connection to it. In a nail-biting end to the game, Jesse went head-to-head with Courtenay Louise and Elvis Lopeti in a treasure hunt truly unlike any other.

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While Louise is still struggling with the puzzle, Tuke uses his prior knowledge and spots his landmarks. Louise is next, “I see him going up the hill, I need to be on his heels,” she tells the confession cam running after Tuke. Tuke and Louise make it through the net challenge but Tuke gets through first - of course. “Well done Jesse, you stupid silly man,” Lopeti says while watching Tuke throw the $100k in the air. “You beauty,” he says as he realises he has won Treasure Island. Thankfully, his friend and former castaway, Dylan Schmidt, left him a super sneaky clue that tells him how to put together the puzzle. I’m at the puzzle, he’s at the puzzle. The sports commentator lets up though and he’s off. I’ve never related more to the dancer. Marshall is going home, “I’m proud of myself for doing this and getting this far,” she says. Elvis Lopeti tells Jesse Tuke, “As much as I wanted to throw that challenge, I couldn’t. But I’m done with the niceties.

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Some say it was his game play that got him to the final, others say it was the monolith that helped him, but I say it was all down to the face zinc. Courtenay tried to get more women into the top three, she realised Jesse was the traitor who buried the treasure and she had to carry the hopes and dreams of the other women in the competition. He spent the week sleeping on his web of lies, and even though Jesse’s conscience got the better of him and he admitted to Courtenay and Elvis that he was the traitor, it made no difference. In the end, Jesse Tuke made it look simple: you had to run really fast and hope the treasure was exactly where you left it. Making Elvis do two additional challenges in lieu of having any clues basically ruled him out of the competition as soon as it began, but full credit to him for refusing to give up and for reaching his goal of getting to the end and enjoying all the nice food. In a perfect world, Nana Susan would have found the treasure and then followed through on her promise to suck Dylan’s Schmidt’s toes, but that will have to remain a dream in the CTI vault of my heart.

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And that’s what this is about” – he motions to a bottle of his gin – “reaching people.” It’s not the best in the world, but it’s equal to the best in the world.” “It was very, very loud voices who managed to rally together,” he says of backlash to the planned end of Concert in 2020. “I am there doing the blending, I come up with the varieties, I design the labels,” he explains. “It’s like me [saying] my gin’s the cheapest gin in the world and I’m selling it from a shop in the middle of the desert. He proudly has “an opinion on everything”, and our conversation is littered with tangents on topics as divergent as US politics to the “unbridled wankery” of RNZ Concert. “Those that can and want to be are still involved [in the media] and those that can’t have set up their own little networks in the middle of nowhere,” says Henry. He did his best to remember the spot – “I pretty much had to place my bets on a sand dune that I hoped was still going to be there” – and started to feverishly dig. After a complaint was laid following Henry’s claim that homosexuality was “unnatural”, TVNZ told the Broadcasting Standards Authority that Henry was “well-known for his tone and this type of banter”. Part of the Henry effect was that while he had a knack for getting answers out of interviewees, he also had a reputation for unpredictable and often “offensive” on-air remarks (Henry famously thanked the TVNZ legal team during a TV awards acceptance speech in 2010). “I don’t think I am a massively cunning person,” he told The Spinoff on a Northland beach back in February. A slice of lemon – which I brought with me after my host emailed to say he could only find onions in his pantry – bobs in the glass.

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But the brothers made sure to have a big celebration last night along with the Live Ocean crew, something Tuke says was “really special”. but Tuke says out of everyone, it was his bromance bud, Dylan Schmidt who got the worst edit. It really gets me going.” “Anything to do with sun protection. Despite the show being filmed earlier this year, Tuke admits he continued his traitorous streak and kept the secret from his brother the entire time. Not sure my partner would approve.”