Rob “Boston Rob” Mariano doesn’t assume any of his fellow Survivor alums can match what he’s been in a position to accomplish on Deal or No Deal Island.
“I feel they’re all going to have a tough time now that I’ve type of set the tone,” Mariano, 48, solely advised Us Weekly on Friday, April 19, whereas selling the inaugural season of Deal or No Deal Island. “I feel anyone that goes on the market now could be going to have a very massive uphill battle as a result of they’d be loopy to not do away with them immediately.”
The previous Survivor winner entered the banker’s island with an enormous goal on his again as he joined 12 extra gamers on the brand new NBC competitors sequence. The one different notable title within the solid was Claudia Jordan, who bought her begin as a Deal or No Deal Mannequin.
“I knew that my popularity was going to precede me and I used to be going to have a goal on me,” Mariano defined to Us. “However what I did was attempt to present that I used to be all the time going to be a goal and there’ll be a time to get me out later at first.”
Mariano, who has a whole lot of expertise taking part in island-themed exhibits, shared that his mindset going into the sport was to persuade his fellow rivals that he could possibly be an asset to them as they labored on rising the prize complete early on.
“I can assist to construct the pot. I’m good on the challenges you should utilize me for now,” he mirrored. “It’s not like I’m not going to be somebody that you simply guys need to take out every time.”
Though how Mariano in the end festivals within the sport has but to be revealed, he’s been a frontrunner within the competitors as he’s received immunity 4 occasions because the sequence premiered in February.
Nonetheless, Mariano didn’t notice that the competition additionally included a little bit of luck, which he bought a style of when he performed a sport of Deal or No Deal early within the season. In Mariano’s faceoff towards the banker, he instantly knocked off most of the massive worth circumstances. Whereas it wasn’t trying good on the time, Mariano realized he had a greater probability of creating a superb deal and staying within the sport.
“In order that’s actually one of many conundrums of the present that I feel the viewers won’t see the larger image, and that’s that from the place of an individual enjoying the sport, it truly behooves me to knock out the massive circumstances as a result of it permits me to have a greater odds and higher alternative to remain within the sport since you need to make a superb deal,” he mentioned to Us. “On the similar time, the individuals [who] are sitting there watching the sport need to see the case get constructed. So it’s a bit of little bit of, I don’t need to say a battle of curiosity, however while you’re enjoying the sport, I don’t care how massive I construct the pot, so long as I get to remain within the sport and play for it.”
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Mariano’s expertise towards the banker paid off, and he encourages future Deal or No Deal Island gamers to observe his lead.
“I all the time wished to have my destiny in my very own fingers, and as soon as I noticed [there are] conditions that you may get your self into on this sport the place successfully you wouldn’t have your destiny in your personal fingers per se,” he shared. “In the event you’re sitting within the center and someone else was enjoying the banker, they may doubtlessly take you out since you didn’t have immunity. So what I did was I attempted to keep away from these conditions in any respect prices, and I feel anyone else enjoying this sport needs to be perceptive of their place.”
Deal or No Deal Island airs on NBC Mondays at 10 p.m. EST.
