KUALA LUMPUR: TV host Baki Zainal is thrilled that one of his videos that he has submitted for the GoPro Million Dollar Challenge has been selected as one of the 56 winners worldwide.
In recent Instagram, the 38-year-old celebrity wrote: “So last night they GoPro did a global preview of the GoPro Million Dollar Challenge video for this year and I am so so stoked and super grateful that one of my clips got in!! There’s so many peeps I wanna thank ...”
“Dang it sounds like a Grammy Award Speech but heck thank you everybody!!! It’s proven!! If I can do it ! So can you,” he said in the caption.
It was reported that the 56 videos selected to win a total cash prize of US$1 million (RM4.85 million), was among more than 40,000 entries from 104 countries received by the contest organiser.
Each winner will receive cash prize of US$22,222 (RM90,800.94).
Many of his fans and followers congratulated Baki on winning and said that the video showing him having a splashing good time at a theme park in Penang may attract more tourists, especially extreme sports lovers, to the country.