Secret Movie star Renovation is returning within the 2023 TV season for the third spherical of episodes, and there must be simply as many feel-good moments from well-known faces this time round as within the earlier two seasons. Rob Mariano – higher identified to Survivor and The Incredible Race followers as “Boston Rob” – is again as the house enchancment contractor who helps the celebrities assist those that are most necessary to them. Season 3 kicks off on August 4 with two back-to-back episodes on CBS, which can reunite Mariano with The Incredible Race host Phil Keoghan and group up him with Hearth Nation star Max Thieriot.
Boston Rob Mariano, who was initially a visitor on the present in Season 1, spoke with CinemaBlend forward of Secret Movie star Renovation‘s third season, and he opened up about working with the 2 celebs!
Boston Rob was a well-known face on CBS even earlier than he joined Secret Movie star Renovation as a contractor for Season 2, as he’s a Survivor legend after a number of seasons of that present and appeared in two seasons of The Incredible Race. Followers can see him reunite with Phil Keoghan on a really completely different present with the Season 3 premiere. Once I spoke with Mariano about what’s in retailer, he previewed what it was wish to work with Keoghan and who the Incredible Race host wished to assist:
It was superior. Phil and I actually did not have a lot of a relationship outdoors of The Incredible Race from doing it two occasions, however I at all times revered Phil from watching the best way he carried out himself as a number of the race. I look as much as him, after which seeing what he is carried out with Powerful as Nails. He has that journey and that spirit that I really feel I relate to so much. So attending to work with him again in a spot the place he grew up on the island of Antigua and to spend the time getting our palms soiled and doing the work, you actually get to see these celebrities [and] what they’re actually product of, and I gotta inform you, Phil is the man that simply goes above and past on a regular basis.
Loads of folks get their palms soiled on The Incredible Race, however Secret Movie star Renovation is the present that can get Phil Keoghan in motion as a substitute of internet hosting. Boston Rob solely had reward for the tv persona, as Season 3 gave them the chance to affix forces in a means that they by no means might when he was competing on Keoghan’s present. Mariano went on to explain what the Incredible Race icon wished to do along with his probability to assist any person:
He’s a real, heartfelt good dude, and he did the renovation for his neighbor Lotte who lived in Antigua when he was a boy subsequent to him, and what was cool about that renovation was that it wasn’t a private renovation only for her. She was a volunteer on the native hospice, so when Phil approached her and informed her they wish to do one thing for her, instantly she says ‘Not for me. Let’s do it for the neighborhood at giant.’ And we ended up renovating the hospice in Antigua, in order that it is gonna assist all these different folks which can be going via this actually tough a part of life. It is simply superior to see somebody like Phil, and within the those who he associates with giving again in this sort of means. So it was an honor to get to work with him once more.
Not solely did Phil Keoghan return to his roots in Antigua with the assets of Secret Movie star Renovation, however the group will renovate a hospice for a volunteer. Speak about a feel-good approach to begin a season! As any followers who watched earlier episodes on CBS or streamed by way of Paramount+ subscription know, this present has a knack for tugging on the heartstrings. Boston Rob Mariano went on to share that he and Keoghan have “frolicked a number of occasions” since working the renovation, together with taking part in tennis and figuring out.
The second episode of the back-to-back premiere occasion strikes on from a CBS actuality host to a CBS scripted star, with Max Thieriot – previously of SEAL Staff earlier than transferring on to star in and government produce Hearth Nation – selecting his personal pal to assist with Secret Movie star Renovation. In keeping with Rob Mariano, Thieriot determined to assist the person who really impressed the story of Hearth Nation. The contractor shared:
Max was nice. He is nice on Hearth Nation, however we really went to Northern California up by Occidental close to Bodega Bay, simply north of San Francisco, and a pal of his that he grew up with, Josh, is an precise firefighter… That is the man that impressed the present, so to get to spend time with Max up there – Josh has a younger household, a spouse, and he is a fireman, he has a meat-cutting enterprise. He is obtained so much happening. So he is useful and he began to, [as] you’ll be able to inform within the renovation, he began to do all these completely different tasks round this home, however I believe he simply ran out of time and he wanted any person to assist him to complete.
We are able to solely hope that Max Thieriot’s pal’s life is way much less dramatic than what the Hearth Nation characters undergo, even when he’s the inspiration for the present! Thieriot’s episode of the house renovation present sounds fairly completely different from Phil Keoghan’s, however no much less heartwarming. Mariano went on to share a part of what stood out from the expertise with the SEAL Staff alum:
What was actually cool was Max not solely acknowledged that, however as soon as we obtained there, we obtained [Josh] to the end line in order that now he can spend that point along with his household and his mates and he would not must at all times hold engaged on these aspect tasks.
Luckily, you do not have an excessive amount of longer to attend to see how Phil Keoghan and Max Thieriot went the additional mile to assist these necessary to them, with the help of Rob Mariano, inside designer Sabrina Soto, and host Nischelle Turner. The 2-episode premiere of Secret Movie star Renovation will start on Friday, August 4 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. Following the double dose of renovation on premiere night time, one new episode will air per week within the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Fridays.
