Boston Rob Mariano to host Deal or No Deal Island After Show

Boston Rob Mariano may not have won season 1 of Deal or No Deal Island, but the reality TV legend is heading back to the Banker's island for season 2.

While Rob will not be competing alongside fellow Survivor legends Parvati Shallow and David Genet on the second season of the NBC hybrid adventure-competition-program-meets-game-show (which premieres Jan. 7), he will still be mixing it up with all the new contestants as the host of the franchise's official after-show. The Robfather will be hosting the appropriately titled Deal or No Deal Island After Show with Boston Rob, which will be available to stream on Peacock, NBC's YouTube channel, and NBC.com every Wednesday following new episodes of DONDI on Tuesday night.

That's not the only place where the Survivor icon will be appearing in early 2025, as Mariano will also be competing on season 3 of The Traitors on Peacock. In an announcement about his new hosting duties, NBC wrote that "Each week Rob will sit down with eliminated players to break down gameplay, talk drama on the island and share never-before-seen footage from the show."

Boston Rob's run on season 1 of DONDI ended in controversy in the final-four excursion, when he was assessed a three-minute time penalty for walking over and looking at Amy McCoy's number puzzle answer. It is a move that is allowed on Survivor, but host  Joe Manganiello specifically instructed all the players before the excursion to not look at each other's boards during the challenge. 

"I mean, it's brutal," Mariano told Entertainment Weekly about the penalty when the episode first aired. "No shade, I definitely looked at the other person's puzzle, and that's it. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and make an excuse."

But in general, the player enjoyed his time in the game. "I feel like based on what I had to work with, I did the best I could, and I got really lucky in a lot of spots," he said. "And overall, just a spectacular experience. A lot of fun."

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Now Mariano will have a chance to critique the games of the new contestants — a cast that not only includes Parvati and David from Survivor and Australian Survivor, but Big Brother legend Dr. Will Kirby as well, and if the thought of a Boston Rob and Dr. Will sit-down interview does not sound enticing, then you clearly have not watched enough reality competition shows from the early 2000s.

Check out a preview video of Mariano's after-show above, where he informs one mystery player, "You made some massive, I don't want to call them mistakes, egregiously bad decisions." Yep, sounds like Rob.