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Vietnam-born Mai Whelan triumphs in Squid Game: The Challenge, winning a record-breaking USD 4.56 million. Despite her victory, delayed payments and US taxes might reduce her earnings to USD 2.8 million. Netflix's reality hit renews for a second season, promising another intense battle among 456 contestants for the same prize.
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'Squid Game: The Challenge' Player 016/Sam Lantz tells EW why he felt he 'needed to step up' in the finale and what he thinks about the way the game ended.
The winner of reality competition Squid Game: The Challenge said she wants to use the multi-million dollar jackpot to help educate children and take care of the elderly.
Jimmy Fallon is the host of The Tonight Show on NBC, but Thursday’s show might as well have been one of those cable shopping shows where products that exist, but don’t need to are pitched to the audience. Specifically, Fallon welcomed the finalists of Netflix's Squid Games: The Challenge and took the occasion to have one of those finalists—Sam Lantz— hype his “gender-inclusive beard care.” Fallon observed that “I can't help but notice, but you have a beautiful beard. You're going into the beard, kind of, business.”
Sam Lantz aka Player 016 is one of two gay contestants who've made it to the final of Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge.