The third-place finisher also reveals one huge moment we didn’t see on TV.
The corporate banker and competitive poker player came for one thing and one only: the money.
And she would do whatever it took to win it.
Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Credit:Monty Brinton/NBC
Will Kirbyether sabotaged or initially declined to help speed the controversial contestant on her way.
What does CK have to say about that final excursion?
Does she have any regrets about her aggressive gameplay?
Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Monty Brinton/NBC
We spoke to the third-place finisher about all that and more.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s talk about the final excursion.
Seychelle makes you get on your knees and grovel.
Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Monty Brinton/NBC
Then says she is going to help you, but actually starts kind of sabotaging you andnothelping.
What did you make of that whole situation?
COURTNEY “CK” KIM:I think it’s on brand for Seychelle.
Parvati Shallow and Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Monty Brinton/NBC
Kind of just speaks volumes to the kind of person that she is.
Sorry she hates me so much, but what can I do about it?
Honestly, I kind of died laughing.
Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Monty Brinton/NBC
It was really funny.
I’m not going to lie.
I would do a lot of things for that much.
Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Monty Brinton/NBC
And Seychelle’s like… Again, funny.
I don’t have any malice towards her, so I’m just like, yeah, whatever.
It was also maybe too little, too late at that point.
Phillip Solomon and Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Monty Brinton/NBC
I mean, I appreciate it.
At the end of the day, some help is better than no help.
Dr. Will is Dr. Will.
Parvati Shallow, David Genat, and Courtney ‘CK’ Kim on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’.Monty Brinton/NBC
He cheated so much.
I’m just like, “You should not be talking to me about cheating or not cheating.
You use production in strategy the entire time, dude.”
Did you know that you were going to have the slowest time?
Did it kind of hit you halfway across that bridge?
That throwing challenge more than anything, that took forever.
And I still wonder, “Did Parvati really not [help me]?”
I saw that she helped Lete.
Me and Parvati worked together so well and we’re still such good friends.
I’m like, “Why didn’t she help me more?”
But I don’t know, maybe she was sabotaging, maybe she didn’t.
Maybe that’s a bone I need to pick with her later.
She told methat with both you and Lete, she wasn’t sabotaging but she wasn’t really helping.
Which is interesting to me.
I just think Parvati is more like a girl’s girl and she had a girl gang.
Phillip pointed out the highest case to take but you didn’t believe him.
But I guess she just really wanted David to win that bad.
And at the time, I trusted Parv.
I’ve worked this whole game with her, even though you guys can’t see it.
I’ve been working with Parv since episode 3.
We slept in the same room.
I trusted her, and I put it back and grabbed a different case.
Yeah, that’s a million-dollar question.
I would’ve questioned Parvati.
I would’ve asked her straight up, “What is going on with you and David?
Are you truly in love with him, or is there something else happening here?”
And depending on the answer she gave me would [dictate] her fate.
What do you make of how it played out on TV and the reaction there?
I don’t know.
I think it’s about the same.
I think people just blew it up more than it really was.
Again, it’s a random draw, so I just randomly redraw.
Nothing changes from the situation.
So then I grabbed one that I couldn’t see, which had to be a short name.
Instead, it’s at eye level and it’s kind of hard not to.
I think the most interesting thing, though, is how people react to it more than my castmates.
I even have a small bone to pick with you, Dalton Ross.
You’re not the first, CK.
Would you agree Rob and I both looked at something we shouldn’t have looked at?
I think it was “copying penalty,” if I remember.
So he knew what he was doing, but people give him a pass.
I looked at something I wasn’t supposed to look just raked through the coals.
Not on the same online grid.
And the context of the situations have both similarities and differences.
But I understand what you’re saying in terms of the discrepancies, CK.
Let’s talk about Phillip.
I just wanted to give you a chance to respond to that since he put that out there.
I think the most interesting thing is, why didn’t he just finish that sentence?
He was like, “I’ve never had this amount of money.
I really want this amount of money.”
So to me I was like, “It really seems like okay, you need it.”
I think that teachers are one of the most important jobs in the entire United States.
That is the most highly underpaid by a long shot, right?
The poverty level in North Carolina is $32,000.
Starting average salary in North Carolina for a teacher is $40,000.
So I think it’s a serious issue within our country.
Sometimes players butt heads in the game but then make up and are friendly outside of it.
What about with you and your castmates?
How are you with them now?
I think for the most part it’s similar to what was in the game.
She and I have had our ups and downs, but I really like Lete.
We were texting today.
I really like Will.
I talk toDavidevery now and then I still talk to Parv.
Parv and I are still good friends.La Shelland I are great friends.
We talk every single week.
It’s funny how much we hate each other on the show because I freakin' love Dickson.
I talk toMGevery now and then.
And then with Seychellle, we don’t talk, and Phillip, we don’t talk.
Any regrets about your aggressive gameplay?
I’m just a results-oriented kind of person.
I wanted to get to the end to give myself a chance.
I just didn’t know I was going to have a jury.
So yeah, next time I’ll play a little more sneaky, a little bit more manipulative.
I’m going to take notes out of Parvati’s book instead of notes out of Will’s book.
Finally, if you could go do another reality competition show, what would it be?
I guess the popular one isTraitors.
Because I’m not big enough forThe Challenge.I am too much of a prima donna to doSurvivor.
So it’s either that or this new showExtracted.
I just don’t know if I would be a Traitor or a Faithful, Dalton.
I’d like to see you as a Faithful.
If I were the producer, I’d put you on as a Faithful hunting the Traitors.
I think I would be a better Faithful.
It would be so hard for me to lie.
And because I do have such an aggressive gameplay like, I die for the Roundtables.
I wish I had Roundtables atDONDI.
I like confronting people and that’s what I would love, the Roundtables.
