The Robfather also reveals that he didn’t know about the opening game twist.
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Boston Rob Marianohas dealt with reality TV team dysfunction plenty of times before from his days onSurvivor.
But that was merely basic training for what he experienced this season onThe Traitors.
Boston Rob Mariano on ‘The Traitors’.Credit:Euan Cherry/Peacock
Boston Rob and fellow TraitorsDanielle ReyesandCarolyn Wigerseemingly could not agree on anything in the turret.
What does Boston Rob make of all that Traitors dysfunction?
Does he feel that coming into the game late helped do him in?
Ciara Miller and Boston Rob Mariano on ‘The Traitors’.Euan Cherry/Peacock
I stand by it.
I feel like it was the right decision.
Look at it from the beginning, right?
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, Rob Mariano, Dolores Catania, and Danielle Reyes on ‘The Traitors’.Euan Cherry/Peacock
The way the game started, they didn’t let me in.
They didn’t want me.
I get it, I’m me.
Boston Rob Mariano on ‘The Traitors’.Euan Cherry/Peacock
I wasn’t aware of the twist before I got there.
I was like, “What’s that?”
They’re like, “We’re not telling you.”
Wes Bergmann and Boston Rob Mariano on ‘The Traitors’.Euan Cherry/Peacock
Now they already said no, and now you’re forcing me on ‘em.
Then all of a sudden I show up in the turret.
I even went along with it.
Boston Rob Mariano on ‘The Traitors’.Euan Cherry/Peacock
Ilet ‘em kill Jeremy.
I didn’t want them to kill Jeremy, but I didn’t stop them.
And then once I get Bob the Drag Queen banished, now there’s no trust at all.
Danielle is wary of me, Carolyn’s wary of me.
I said it’s a sshow and that’s what it was.
You mentioned the cages, and the three people in the cages are already all out of the game.
Do you think you all were at a disadvantage starting the game late in that fashion?
It’s so hard.
I’m not going to sit here and cry about it.
It’s hard, but I’m not crying about it.
I actually feel like I do better when the pressure’s on.
Did it feel that way to you as things started to snowball?
I mean, it was hard.
I could tell right away that Danielle wasn’t going to work with me.
I think the one strength I have more than anything else is my self-awareness.
I mean I have ideas, but we were never on the same page ever.
It’s a different kind of show.
It’s very produced and it’s very fast.
Their filming schedule is tight.
It’s 6 a.m. until 2, 3 o’clock in the morning.
It’s not a lot of time for sleep and everything else.
Tony called you a sellout for piling on him at the Roundtable.
What do you make of that?
Tony had his feelings hurt.
Tony was gone before I even got there.
That one day before I got there, it was already going in that direction.
I didn’t have much of a choice.
I was going to keep my mouth shut.
Bob Harper kind of pushed me.
He was like, “Rob, what do you think?”
And at that point I was like, “Man, what are my options here?”
I was like, “Well, it looks like he’s going anyway.”
So the path of least resistance is just pig-pile on him.
So I felt like that was the right thing to do.
Who impressed you the most as a game player in there?
Maybe someone you didn’t expect.
He’s pretty astute.
He’s paying attention.
They didn’t show it, but in the statute challenge, me and Chrishell andNikkiworked really well together.
Obviously, last week with Ciara.
So made some new friends, which is surprising.
Did you have any familiarity with any of those Bravo people at all?
Carolyn, I knew of.Britney, I knew of.
Danielle, not really.
Tell me what you saw from her in the game.
Bad Traitor I stand by it.
And bad all around probably me being a little bitter in the moment.
I don’t think she’s a bad person, I’ll tell you that.
But the game-player and the Traitor part was worse than it even showed.
Why they didn’t show that, I don’t know.
But yeah, and the overacting.
Because I don’t think she really understood the implication of what Bob did.
I think for the most part they edit the show the way it is.
I think they do a good job with showing what they show.
The level of player was so good.
Bob the Drag Queen was so good.
He’s a really smart guy.Weswas really smart.
Derrick was really smart.
Of course Tony’s a killer, Jeremy all these guys and girls in the place.
Deal with No Deal Island After Showis going on right now.
That’s doing good.
I don’t know, dude.
It’s like, I want to get in on the action too!
Kind of like a player-coach.
