A Day on the Farm With Rob Rausch

Then, roughly a 12 months and a half later, he returned to the general public eye with The Traitors season 4, and skilled one thing uncommon within the actuality TV world: a redemption arc. Right off the bat, he performed the sport with ease and talent so spectacular that he utterly regained hearts and minds. Love Island watchers have been reminded of how enjoyable to look at he actually is, and people unfamiliar have been launched to him because the unassuming, candy, Southern snake wrangler who’s concurrently outsmarting and charming everybody within the room—together with Survivor winners, Real Housewives, and Olympic gold medalists. He was somebody unattainable to not root for week after week, whose victories on the present really feel so private that viewers are rooting for a Traitor to win the present that’s all about removing Traitors.

The approach he’s been portrayed on The Traitors is the “most dramatic version” of himself, he says, but it surely’s nonetheless him. As for Love Island—he by no means watched his season again, so he couldn’t say. Still, regardless of all the net vitriol that he confronted following that season, he doesn’t remorse happening the present.

“Financially, it changed my life enough that I was like, ‘Okay, yeah, that doesn’t really fucking matter.’ At the end of the day, I have to constantly remind myself, especially lately, that I don’t really care,” he says. “If it ever got really bad, I would literally fall off the face of the earth, and it wouldn’t bother me at all.”

On the farm, it’s straightforward to see why Rausch wouldn’t thoughts falling off the face of the earth.

I get glimpses, all through the afternoon, of the idyllic countryside life that he grew up with. “I would drag my brother out to the middle of the woods, and we’d build forts and boats,” Rausch says. “We built all kinds of stuff right out there. I mean, that’s all we had to do. We lived on a farm. We didn’t have fucking Wi-Fi. We’d go get some nails and go to town, make some shit.”