SPOILER ALERT! This story incorporates particulars from the season 2 finale of Deal or No Deal Island.
Host Joe Manganiello wasn’t kidding when he teased that Tuesday’s finale of the NBC present can be “unbelievable.”
As he instructed Deadline in an earlier interview, “the one that wins winds up breaking the all-time tv recreation present report for cash received.”
That particular person is former Australian Survivor victor David Genat.
The truth veteran shattered data by profitable $5.8 million, the most important money prize ever awarded in community tv historical past. Competing for a closing case price $12,232,001, Genat received after a season-long journey that noticed him maintain his Survivor expertise hidden from his fellow gamers.
Genat is a two-time veteran of Survivor Australia and a winner of an all-star season.
The finale additionally featured former Deal or No Deal case mannequin Chrissy Teigen as this season’s new Banker. Teigen took over the position from government producer Howie Mandel for the ultimate Temple ceremony.
In Deal or No Deal Island, briefcases are hidden round an island with greater than $200 million in prize cash cut up between them. In every episode, gamers compete in challenges to safe the briefcases that can be utilized in that evening’s recreation of Deal or No Deal. The participant who snags the highest-value case beneficial properties immunity and will get to decide on a fellow participant to enter The Temple.
The chosen competitor should then play a basic recreation of Deal or No Deal. If the participant makes a nasty deal, she or he is straight away eradicated. If the participant makes a great deal, the ability is of their fingers and she or he will get to pick who to eradicate.
The winnings from every recreation of Deal or No Deal are added to a bunch pot that grows to an exponential worth all through the season. The final participant standing faces the Banker to probably win the most important prize in Deal or No Deal historical past.
Season two of Deal or No Deal Island has averaged greater than 20 million viewers throughout all platforms.
