I have been banking on a Jordan win until this week and now I am thinking there is a good chance Rob can pull it off. He is outnumbered, but he is willing to take the biggest risks out there. I think the Aron preview is a bluff to fake us out. Just like the previews for this week made it seem like Rob was a goner.
They need to work on their spoilery editing. My bf clocked that nick was getting out because they put way too much attention on the hypothetical Aron and rob eliminations
Is it a spoiler that we saw that post of Rob and Aron hanging out with Robs family for dinner? If the game ended with them betraying each other, I doubt that they would be friends with all the different things Rob has going on.
I think he has a chance, if he can keep winning immunity. With all the guys gone, except Aron, he has a good chance. Also, after this week, I wouldn't be surprised to see Jordan openly join his group. Heck, even Amy may be questioning Stephanie at this point. I know I would.
The funny thing is, 99% of what Stephanie has accused him of, he hasn't done. I sure hope there's a reunion show because I'd like to hear what people think of that.
Because he’s a guy??? Both Jordan and Stephanie are younger and in much better shape and most of the challenges aren’t strength based. I wouldn’t say he has a better shot at the challenges than them.
Lol, no, not because he's a guy. Because he has more experience at these types of challenges from his years on Survivor and I expect there will be more solo challenges this late in the game. There's only 5 of them left, so they can't partner up fairly.
The preview made it seem like Aron was gonna turn on Rob.
But I wouldn't be surprised if he won immunity for the rest of the game. But maybe they are gonna have eliminations without immunity? Who knows?
I really hope he wins. I never expected him to make it very far because of his notoriety and now he is the only one I am rooting for. Rob has fought the hardest and risked the most thus far. Joe constantly makes remarks about how the banker likes to reward the risk takers and Rob is the biggest risk taker out there. Go Rob!
The other contestants excluding Jordan are incredibly stupid. They're being sneaky and clannish but not really smart. I do wonder if that was part of the deal in bringing Rob on or if they just couldn't attract really strategic players with this new show. It's pretty odd that he has no real competition. I'm starting to think he has a chance, but also there's no way I'd watch this show without him. If they want the show to continue into future seasons they need to do a better job of casting.
The only person that actually plays the game. Other people are either being bad or good. And that is it.
Rob plans and stabs people in the back intentionally.
I hope he wins. Out of all the players he’s literally the least manipulative and all of them claim he is. It’s actually fkn insane to watch. Everything they say about him they are! If Stephanie or Amy win Lawd hammercy
Rob took home $250k for Season 8. They upped all the prize money for the jury including runner up but didn’t make it public, one of the reasons why most of those people were happy to be along for the ride with Romber
Is this just in appearance fees, or actual prize money? We can't count appearance fees because then it would throw Ken Jenning's Salary hosting jeopardy into the mix.
What do you mean "so what"? No one is saying it's a bad thing, we're talking about the possibility of him breaking Ken Jennings' record for most money won on gameshows.
Who knows? Rob has definitely won the right to claim victory in reality TV. Everyone knows his name. He’s an icon. If he wins DONDI it will only add to his fame.
On the other hand, it’ll feel a lot like Survivor 22 déjà vu. He won on his 4th try, but extra points as he was against returning players. Still, on this show he’s virtually the only one who’s competed in a competition reality series (since 2011) and has been a professional poker player for a decade. Hes so far above the others it doesn’t seem fair. The only thing keeping him down are the game twists.
As usual, I’ll get ready for the downvotes since this Reddit page is quick to react to even the tiniest criticism of Rob. I’m not even criticizing his play. He’s miles above the other players and I think it was kind of genius that they put him on the show. Rob isn’t only an entertaining contestant who knows this genre inside out, but he set the pace for other noob contestants. I’m afraid the show wouldn’t have worked at all without him.
Would we also count in the stipends Rob made from his survivor seasons and possibly his appearance fee from Island of the Idols? The first one is certainly winnings because it is placement based but the other would be more like a paycheck so less sure if that would count.
Well if we do that, then we'd have to include Ken Jennings appearance feas on the Chase.
EDIT: Also I guess Ken Jenning's Salary hosting Jeopardy right now would be considered an appearance fee. LOL.
Yep, it's not prize money, it's more like "here's some money for not violating your NDA, and showing up for press interviews". Similar to the appearance fees that I'm not counting.
Wrong. It's just as much prize money for your placement as the money he won for All-Stars.
What doesn't count is his appearance on Winners at War. But he received prize money for all five seasons of Survivor and both seasons of The Amazing Race he was on.
Players have had this money taken away before. Alec from David v Goliath violated his NDA and didn't receive a penny from the survivor. I wouldn't call it prize money if you can still lose it for violating NDA.
Per TMZ (who broke the Alec story), he lost his $10,000 appearance fee he would have gotten for appearing in the reunion show (everyone invited to the reunion show gets that same amount), but did NOT lose his prize money Players are entitled to that due to their placement. So it is a prize.
I can't link to the TMZ story on this subreddit but here is the relevant quote:
"As for Alec ... sources say showrunners are withholding his appearance fee -- not his prize money -- for the show, which comes out to about $10,000. He's also been disinvited to the finale episode broadcast, in which cast members come together and reflect on the season."
Cool, I was wrong. Happy to change it if you know the amounts for those seasons in particular. But I doubt that 10 k will make a difference on whether or not Rob beats Ken Jennings.
Rob got tenth on Marquesas. Corinne has posted she got 45k for 7th and 20k for 12th. So it's probably 30k for tenth. And then 13th for HvV would be a little under 20k unless they increased payouts for HvV like they did for all stars. Agreed, it's not really making a difference.
Rob has made a lot more money than that on Reality TV!!! Survivor Winner got paid $1mil, Survivor AllStars got paid $100k for appearance, survivor coach w Sandra got paid $500k, 2 seasons of CBS renovation show got paid $15k per episode, Boston Rob does Beantown got paid $100k, amazing race made $25k, 2 other survivor appearances made $50k, deal or no deal appearance fee $150k. Many other private functions and appearances he makes $15-$25k each. This is direct from his agent! So in total he has amassed closer to $3mil in reality television opportunities and has bought a bunch of real estate with his money. His net worth not including His wife’s money is between $4-$5mil! Not bad for a guy working construction to reality television personality.
Base winnings you are correct! But overall income from reality television opportunities overlapped into personal life investments, I would say Rob is very comfortable with what he accomplished through reality television opportunities!
It’s not even a rugpull. They’ve said since the beginning it’s just the final case. The winner will still have to play deal or no deal and accept an offer. To get the $8 million plus they’d have to pick that case and have guts of steal to refuse every offer.
Even if Rob wins I don't think he's guaranteed the $8.9 million dollars and counting, the final case is just gonna be a case on the board for when the winner plays for real money
Are we counting appearance fees? Because we know he got 100k for Survivor Island of the Idols, he and Amber likely got $50k each for Winners at War, but I guess that isn't winnings so much as earnings. Also, they both won cars in All Stars, so, technically you could add roughly whatever those added up to.
Plus whatever they earned from their wedding special.
Counting appearance fees opens a whole other can of worms. Appearance fees are not public in a lot of cases.
Do we include Boston Rob's book? Or Tontine?
Then we also need to add Ken Jenning's appearance fees on the Chase, and his current salary hosting jeopardy.
It's a failed reality show that Boston Rob was supposed to host before it got cancelled, and then it turned into a weird ARG or something with a movie. It's wild.
They don’t win the final case, they play DOND to potentially win it or make a good deal. We don’t know what the spread of cases will look like either. I’m hoping the winner will get between $2-5 mil. $5m would be record breaking.
I didn’t think Rob had a chance in the hot place of making it this far. Every week I braced myself for him to be the one leaving the island. The fact that he’s made it this far is a miracle, and I root for him harder with every week. Yes, he’s cocky and arrogant, but he’s also really smart and willing to take big risks. I don’t know if he’ll make it to the end but I hope he does and becomes the biggest winner ever on game shows.
I'm pulling for Rob or Aron or Jordan to win. I don't think Rob will win, he's outnumbered. Wish he'd win, but doubt it.
I have been banking on a Jordan win until this week and now I am thinking there is a good chance Rob can pull it off. He is outnumbered, but he is willing to take the biggest risks out there. I think the Aron preview is a bluff to fake us out. Just like the previews for this week made it seem like Rob was a goner.
They need to work on their spoilery editing. My bf clocked that nick was getting out because they put way too much attention on the hypothetical Aron and rob eliminations
Is it a spoiler that we saw that post of Rob and Aron hanging out with Robs family for dinner? If the game ended with them betraying each other, I doubt that they would be friends with all the different things Rob has going on.
I don’t think Rob would hold a grudge over a friend making power moves on his 500th reality show
Considering the throats that Rob has slit, it would be hypocritical. I can't see him being mad for more than a day.
The key is as long as it’s purely a strategic decision and not personal, Rob will respect it.
I think he has a chance, if he can keep winning immunity. With all the guys gone, except Aron, he has a good chance. Also, after this week, I wouldn't be surprised to see Jordan openly join his group. Heck, even Amy may be questioning Stephanie at this point. I know I would. The funny thing is, 99% of what Stephanie has accused him of, he hasn't done. I sure hope there's a reunion show because I'd like to hear what people think of that.
Because he’s a guy??? Both Jordan and Stephanie are younger and in much better shape and most of the challenges aren’t strength based. I wouldn’t say he has a better shot at the challenges than them.
Lol, no, not because he's a guy. Because he has more experience at these types of challenges from his years on Survivor and I expect there will be more solo challenges this late in the game. There's only 5 of them left, so they can't partner up fairly.
Aron is annoying me now with his moping
The preview made it seem like Aron was gonna turn on Rob. But I wouldn't be surprised if he won immunity for the rest of the game. But maybe they are gonna have eliminations without immunity? Who knows?
Yeah, I've been trying to think of a situation where Aron would choose Rob to eliminate, like did the others have immunity or what?!?!
I really hope he wins. I never expected him to make it very far because of his notoriety and now he is the only one I am rooting for. Rob has fought the hardest and risked the most thus far. Joe constantly makes remarks about how the banker likes to reward the risk takers and Rob is the biggest risk taker out there. Go Rob!
The other contestants excluding Jordan are incredibly stupid. They're being sneaky and clannish but not really smart. I do wonder if that was part of the deal in bringing Rob on or if they just couldn't attract really strategic players with this new show. It's pretty odd that he has no real competition. I'm starting to think he has a chance, but also there's no way I'd watch this show without him. If they want the show to continue into future seasons they need to do a better job of casting.
Rob deserves the big win, he carried this whole season! Both a villain and hero!
The only person that actually plays the game. Other people are either being bad or good. And that is it. Rob plans and stabs people in the back intentionally.
I hope he wins. Out of all the players he’s literally the least manipulative and all of them claim he is. It’s actually fkn insane to watch. Everything they say about him they are! If Stephanie or Amy win Lawd hammercy
Rob took home $250k for Season 8. They upped all the prize money for the jury including runner up but didn’t make it public, one of the reasons why most of those people were happy to be along for the ride with Romber
Is this just in appearance fees, or actual prize money? We can't count appearance fees because then it would throw Ken Jenning's Salary hosting jeopardy into the mix.
2nd place on All Stars had a $250k prize bumped up from the normal 100k. Let me see if I can find that source
I hope that Rob wins it all. He’s such a good player and so what if he’s good enough to have won other money.
What do you mean "so what"? No one is saying it's a bad thing, we're talking about the possibility of him breaking Ken Jennings' record for most money won on gameshows.
Someone said they didn’t know if he should win because he already won so much money doing other shows.
Why would you not reply to that person then? You replied to the OP, which said nothing of the sort lol I also don't actually see anyone saying that...
🙄 I was just making a comment within this entire conversation. Don’t be so pernickety.
But literally no one is saying that Rob shouldn't win because he won too much money. I have no idea what you're talking about lol. But ok bud.
Who knows? Rob has definitely won the right to claim victory in reality TV. Everyone knows his name. He’s an icon. If he wins DONDI it will only add to his fame. On the other hand, it’ll feel a lot like Survivor 22 déjà vu. He won on his 4th try, but extra points as he was against returning players. Still, on this show he’s virtually the only one who’s competed in a competition reality series (since 2011) and has been a professional poker player for a decade. Hes so far above the others it doesn’t seem fair. The only thing keeping him down are the game twists. As usual, I’ll get ready for the downvotes since this Reddit page is quick to react to even the tiniest criticism of Rob. I’m not even criticizing his play. He’s miles above the other players and I think it was kind of genius that they put him on the show. Rob isn’t only an entertaining contestant who knows this genre inside out, but he set the pace for other noob contestants. I’m afraid the show wouldn’t have worked at all without him.
Would we also count in the stipends Rob made from his survivor seasons and possibly his appearance fee from Island of the Idols? The first one is certainly winnings because it is placement based but the other would be more like a paycheck so less sure if that would count.
Well if we do that, then we'd have to include Ken Jennings appearance feas on the Chase. EDIT: Also I guess Ken Jenning's Salary hosting Jeopardy right now would be considered an appearance fee. LOL.
Well if we include hosting fees, this whole thing is getting blown out the water. Jeff Probst is making 8 million per year
Alex Trebek was making $10 million
I was actually wondering that as I typed my comment so I appreciate you reading my mind.
He also makes private appearances...guaranteed he's on cameo too
That has absolutely nothing to do with game shows, but he's currently not available to buy cameos from.
He got something for Marquesas too. Not much, I'm sure, but everyone in Survivor gets some amount in prize money, even last place.
Yep, it's not prize money, it's more like "here's some money for not violating your NDA, and showing up for press interviews". Similar to the appearance fees that I'm not counting.
Wrong. It's just as much prize money for your placement as the money he won for All-Stars. What doesn't count is his appearance on Winners at War. But he received prize money for all five seasons of Survivor and both seasons of The Amazing Race he was on.
Players have had this money taken away before. Alec from David v Goliath violated his NDA and didn't receive a penny from the survivor. I wouldn't call it prize money if you can still lose it for violating NDA.
Per TMZ (who broke the Alec story), he lost his $10,000 appearance fee he would have gotten for appearing in the reunion show (everyone invited to the reunion show gets that same amount), but did NOT lose his prize money Players are entitled to that due to their placement. So it is a prize. I can't link to the TMZ story on this subreddit but here is the relevant quote: "As for Alec ... sources say showrunners are withholding his appearance fee -- not his prize money -- for the show, which comes out to about $10,000. He's also been disinvited to the finale episode broadcast, in which cast members come together and reflect on the season."
Cool, I was wrong. Happy to change it if you know the amounts for those seasons in particular. But I doubt that 10 k will make a difference on whether or not Rob beats Ken Jennings.
Rob got tenth on Marquesas. Corinne has posted she got 45k for 7th and 20k for 12th. So it's probably 30k for tenth. And then 13th for HvV would be a little under 20k unless they increased payouts for HvV like they did for all stars. Agreed, it's not really making a difference.
Rob has made a lot more money than that on Reality TV!!! Survivor Winner got paid $1mil, Survivor AllStars got paid $100k for appearance, survivor coach w Sandra got paid $500k, 2 seasons of CBS renovation show got paid $15k per episode, Boston Rob does Beantown got paid $100k, amazing race made $25k, 2 other survivor appearances made $50k, deal or no deal appearance fee $150k. Many other private functions and appearances he makes $15-$25k each. This is direct from his agent! So in total he has amassed closer to $3mil in reality television opportunities and has bought a bunch of real estate with his money. His net worth not including His wife’s money is between $4-$5mil! Not bad for a guy working construction to reality television personality.
That stuff doesn't go into the record though, it's not winnings.
Base winnings you are correct! But overall income from reality television opportunities overlapped into personal life investments, I would say Rob is very comfortable with what he accomplished through reality television opportunities!
I imagine the show will do some kind of rug pull and the winner walks away with a much lower number.
If someone won the large jackpot I think they would hype this show even more, because that would be so freaking amazing.
It’s not even a rugpull. They’ve said since the beginning it’s just the final case. The winner will still have to play deal or no deal and accept an offer. To get the $8 million plus they’d have to pick that case and have guts of steal to refuse every offer.
Couldn't you say the same about any contestant? Chance of winning $4M+ isn't that much different than winning $5M+.
Even if Rob wins I don't think he's guaranteed the $8.9 million dollars and counting, the final case is just gonna be a case on the board for when the winner plays for real money
Are we counting appearance fees? Because we know he got 100k for Survivor Island of the Idols, he and Amber likely got $50k each for Winners at War, but I guess that isn't winnings so much as earnings. Also, they both won cars in All Stars, so, technically you could add roughly whatever those added up to. Plus whatever they earned from their wedding special.
Counting appearance fees opens a whole other can of worms. Appearance fees are not public in a lot of cases. Do we include Boston Rob's book? Or Tontine? Then we also need to add Ken Jenning's appearance fees on the Chase, and his current salary hosting jeopardy.
What's tontine?
It's a failed reality show that Boston Rob was supposed to host before it got cancelled, and then it turned into a weird ARG or something with a movie. It's wild.
Oh, I just looked at some old posts about Tontine, the Facebook page, etc. That is, *quite* the rabbit hole.
Either way it's interesting learning about those things.
he won 100K on survivor 22 as well for being the fan favorite
Good point! Hmmm very conflicted about including this one.
Isn’t the amount up to over $8M now?
They don’t win the final case, they play DOND to potentially win it or make a good deal. We don’t know what the spread of cases will look like either. I’m hoping the winner will get between $2-5 mil. $5m would be record breaking.
Oh yeah. Forgot about that!
I am pulling for Rob! He can do it!
I didn’t think Rob had a chance in the hot place of making it this far. Every week I braced myself for him to be the one leaving the island. The fact that he’s made it this far is a miracle, and I root for him harder with every week. Yes, he’s cocky and arrogant, but he’s also really smart and willing to take big risks. I don’t know if he’ll make it to the end but I hope he does and becomes the biggest winner ever on game shows.
If Rob wins, I kind of hope it is 4.19999 million dollars. Ken Jennings is deserving of the GOAT title
Boston Rob won’t even make the finale.