Yam Yam Arocho: 5 Things To Know About The ‘Survivor’ Finalist Who’s Making History

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Image Credit: Robert Voets/CBS Yam Yam Arocho is 1 of 5 finalists heading into the ‘Survivor’ play 44 finale. He’s the archetypal ‘Survivor’ subordinate who lives successful Puerto Rico. He is simply a salon owner.

Yam Yam Arocho has been a standout quality and awesome crippled subordinate connected Survivor 44. The 36-year-old has controlled the 2nd fractional of the crippled with his Tika allies Carolyn Wiger and Carson Garrett. Yam Yam has made it to the finale, and if helium reaches the Final 3, his endearing beingness communicative and his crippled resume could unafraid him the $1 cardinal prize. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Yam Yam.

Yam Yam (Photo: Robert Voets/CBS)

Yam Yam is from Puerto Rico.

Yam Yam is from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, but helium present lives successful San Juan. Yam Yam has made Survivor history arsenic the archetypal contestant to reside successful Puerto Rico. He’s besides the archetypal contestant to unrecorded successful a U.S. territory astatine the clip of filming.

He survived Hurricane Maria.

Yam Yam was surviving successful Puerto Rico erstwhile Hurricane Maria struck successful 2017. He talked astir that harrowing acquisition successful his pre-game interrogation with Parade. “I had to woody with the scarcity of resources that everybody was suffering. And moving a concern of 25+ radical being that young. I was astir 31 astatine that time,” helium said. “People older than maine were looking astatine maine similar I was gonna springiness them the answers and springiness them the anticipation of, “Are we gonna beryllium okay? Is everything gonna beryllium fine?’ ”

He owns a salon.

Yam Yam owns the salon Miranda Beauty successful Puerto Rico. The concern is located successful Condado, a suburb successful San Juan. Yam Yam promotes his salon connected his Instagram.

Yam Yam connected ‘Survivor’ (Photo: Robert Voets/CBS)

He’s gay.

Yam Yam is an retired and arrogant cheery man. He’s really 1 of six queer contestants connected play 44 of Survivor. The others are Frannie Marin, Josh Wilder, Claire Rafson, Carolyn Wiger, and Matthew Grinstead-Mayle.

He’s married.

Yam Yam shows disconnected his husband, Karim Saenz, connected his Instagram each the time! The mates tied the knot connected March 22, 2021 successful San Juan. On their 1st anniversary, Yam Yam shared an Instagram tribute to Karim. He wrote, “Thank you for allowing america to unrecorded unneurotic each these days and turn from each experience, conversation, laugher, and tear.”

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