Oona out of PDA

Fresh from their “backbiting issue”, the scholars all had to be at their best at PDA’s 4th Expulsion Night! In order to help them showcase their talents better, all of the scholars had to do a solo performance last night. Host Toni Gonzaga introduced this week’s Jury of Three which was composed of music industry insiders, Leah Navarro, Jimmy Antiporda, and Vernie Varga. The four on-probation scholars, Yeng, Oona, Kristoff and Davey had to draw lots to help determine the order of their performances. Starting off the night’s performances were this week’s Star Scholars, Eman and Panky. PDA’s class clown Eman impressed the judges with his rocking rendition of “Daliri” wherein juror Leah Navarro praised him for having improved a lot in a span of only a week. Meanwhile, Panky showed off the rocker in her through the song “Hard to Handle”. As for what juror Vernie Varga thought of Panky’s performance? “Maganda ang boses mo, alam mo ang ginagawa mo on stage, very good!”

The first on probation scholar that performed last night was Yeng who did a soulful rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I will always love you”. While the audience loved Yeng’s performance of such a tricky song, juror Jimmy Antiporda had something different in mind, “madaming pwedeng iimprove sa high notes mo, i-fine tune nalang.” Next up was a love song medley from Iya, Michelle and Joan. Juror Leah Navarro thought all three girls did a great job with their respective numbers particularly Joan who did a wonderful rendition of Celine Dion’s “It’s all coming back to me now”. As for Iya and Michelle, Ms. Navarro gave both of them some advice on how to do better next time. Following that beautiful medley was probationary student Oona who, according to juror Vernie Varga was, “driven at gusto niya ang ginagawa niya.”

The 3rd probationary student who performed last night was Kristoff who sang Bryan McKnight’s “Win”. Juror Jimmy Antiporda liked Kristoff’s attitude and thought his song was “uplifting”, and even though he thinks Kristoff should still work on his high notes, Mr. Antiporda didn’t hesitate to offer to help Kristoff with his career in the future. “I’d be happy to give you a song,” he said. Rounding up the list of last night’s nominated scholars was Davey who definitely impressed juror Leah Navarro. According to her, Davey surely improved a lot and made the right choice of sticking to his comfort zone. The next group of scholars who performed was Chai, Irish, Jay-R, Ronnie, and Rosita who each had a chance at showing the audience their vocal prowess. Juror Vernie Varga thought Chai and Ronnie will have a bright future in the recording industry while Jay-R seemed fit to become the next showbiz heartthrob, and she was simply speechless with Irish’s performance. As for Rosita? Ms. Varga was definitely impressed with her “fighting spirit”.

Before Toni announced this week’s texters’ choice, RJ, Yvan, and Chad serenaded the audience with their medley. Juror Jimmy Antiporda enjoyed the 3 scholars’ performances even though they still had to work on their pitch a bit. The audience’s anticipation grew as Toni announced this week’s texters’ choice, Kristoff who got a whopping 47.63% of the total number of text votes. Following that was the teachers’ announcement of who they want to stay in the Academy. Yeng couldn’t contain her emotion when Headmaster Jim said that they chose to save her from expulsion. This left Oona and Davey who relied on their classmates’ votes. After a close fight, it soon became clear that majority of the remaining students chose Davey to stay in the Academy which left Oona as the 3rd scholar to get booted out!