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Big Brotherwas on life-support.
Season 2 ofBig Brotherwas as wildly entertaining as the first installment was painfully boring.
And the most entertaining among that season 2 cast was a brash 28-year-old physician namedWill Kirby.
Dr. Will Kirby on “Deal or No Deal Island”.Credit:Monty Brinton/NBC
Dr. Will became enemy No.
(They did not.)
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Break it down for me: How is this game similar to or different fromBig Brother?
Dr. Will Kirby on “Deal or No Deal Island”.Monty Brinton/NBC
There’s what you could call the kinetic dynamic or athletic quotient.
So the social aspect of the game really isn’t imperative until near the very end.
The producers did a phenomenal job layering in social at the very end, which I love.
Dr. Will Kirby and David Genat on “Deal or No Deal Island”.Monty Brinton/NBC
Strategy is important, but only to the extent that it can help you get immunity.
It can’t really, so it’s hard to strategize.
And the other component is the athletic component.
Dr. Will Kirby on “Deal or No Deal Island”.Monty Brinton/NBC
So the athletic component, you have to have some command of that in this game in particular.
Lets talk about that a little more.
How would you describe your gameplay this season?
So I wanted to come in as a reality show villain.
But I’m a very different person than when I played 25 years ago.
There’s words and there’s actions.
I had a highest level of integrity of rectitude, of morals, of ethics.
And I think I accomplished that.
Who else fromBig Brotherwould do well on this show?
Big Brotheris an enigma because the skillset ofBig Brotherdoesn’t translate to any other show.
And we have seen that over and over and over.Big Brotherpeople go onThe Amazing Raceand do poorly.
I mean, there are people who areBig Brotherlegends who have lost 10 shows at this point.
So it’s really, really difficult to extrapolate theBig Brotherskillset and bring it into other shows.
And conversely, there’s people who can just go from one show to another seamlessly.
And that’sBoston Rob, that’sParvati.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Deal or No Deal Islandairs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
