“We simply had our nineteenth wedding ceremony anniversary final week, which is sort of loopy to assume that it has been that lengthy, however clearly you realize life is busy.”
There’s no Survivor participant extra iconic than “Boston” Rob Mariano, and there’s no Survivor couple extra memorable than him and Amber Brkich. Rob and Amber fell in love on nationwide tv when competing in Survivor: All-Stars, throughout which Rob took a villainous strategy that finally misplaced him the jury votes.
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Rob proposed to Amber through the Survivor finale earlier than Amber solidified the win. Again then, there have been months between filming and discovering out who the winner was, and in that point, Rob and Amber developed their relationship past the island to the purpose of getting engaged. Whereas they stored their wedding ceremony non-public, Rob and Amber Get Married aired in a while CBS, proving how massive of a deal their marriage was to the followers. Rob spoke solely with Distractify about the place they’re now.
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Now, Rob and Amber are dad and mom to 4 daughters.
Watching Rob on Deal or No Deal Island and different exhibits, he positively has girl-dad power. He even jokes about his prize winnings going to Lululemon and different developments that his daughters love. Their eldest daughter, Lucia, was born in 2009, which makes her virtually 15 years previous and the following, Carina, is 13 years previous.
“We have now 4 daughters, two youngsters, so it is sort of wild, between faculty and sports activities and every part else that goes together with it,” Rob stated of being a dad or mum with Amber whereas making an attempt to steadiness time for themselves.
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“Now the youngsters are sufficiently old. They’re watching Deal or No Deal Island and so they’re into it. They’re excited to observe it. After we have been on Survivor and stuff, they have been actually younger in order that they’d watch however they did not actually perceive. They usually’re on the age now the place I like to tease them too, which is at all times at all times good for highschool woman drama.”
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Many people don’t miss our personal “highschool woman drama,” however we are able to positively relate to having a dad who liked to tease us. Though we wager it will’ve been far more enjoyable if our dads have been massive actuality stars! Apparently, although, that’s not the case for Rob and Amber’s ladies. “I do not assume they care a lot about their dad on actuality TV,” Rob laughed. “They’re extra within the different contestants and the host and the fashions and that sort of stuff.”
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Boston Rob shared how his relationship with Amber has modified over time.
When Rob and Amber first met on Survivor, they have been of their mid-to-late-twenties. Now, they’re of their mid-to-late 40s and so they’re dad and mom, so clearly, loads has modified. “We simply had our nineteenth wedding ceremony anniversary final week, which is sort of loopy to assume that it has been that lengthy, however clearly you realize life is busy.”
“Similar to on the island, life now could be a bit of little bit of a balancing act. However we attempt to find time for ourselves. We only in the near past went to Mexico for a good friend’s wedding ceremony. It is completely different levels, similar to every part. And it is good.”
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It’s been over 20 years since Rob and Amber fell in love, and from the sounds of it, they’re nonetheless going robust. They final competed collectively on Survivor: Winners at Warfare, throughout which their youngsters truly got here out to go to throughout a really distinctive household go to. Whereas Rob seemingly wouldn’t play Survivor once more — he stated the goal on him is simply too massive to make it value it now — we’d all like to see him and Amber be part of forces for one thing else sooner or later, which he appears open to.
For now, we are able to catch Rob Mondays at 10 p.m. EST on Deal or No Deal Island on NBC.