“I’m an adrenaline junkie. I like journey, touring, so I used to be like, verify, verify, verify,” says Large Brother 19 winner Josh Martinez of why he signed on for Vacation spot X. Within the new globetrotting actuality competitors, 10 gamers traverse Europe in a blacked-out bus. The purpose: Work out the place they’re every week. They disembark at not-so-famous sights and do challenges the place they win clues to their location. “It has drama, blowups, me calling folks out and spiraling on a bus. It has romance and hookups and a lot gameplay from the soar. It’s fully totally different from what you’ve seen. It’s chaotic, however so good,” guarantees Martinez.
NBC ran a sneak peek after the Kentucky Derby of the primary 20 minutes of the sequence, hosted by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, most well-known as Negan on The Strolling Useless franchise. Martinez calls the actor, who’s doing his first internet hosting gig, “an absolute stud and gem of a human, very real, very variety.”
Alongside for the trip are two different actuality vets, JaNa Craig (Love Island) and Peter Weber (The Bachelor, The Traitors). On the finish of every episode, unfortunate contestants enter the Map Room and place their X on the map to point the place they suppose they’re. The furthest from the precise location is shipped packing. The last word winner leaves with $250,000.
Martinez says it was the toughest recreation he’s ever performed. “I lived in a home for 102 days on Large Brother. I’ve lived in a bunker in Prague filming The Problem. However I’ve by no means been remoted and caught on the bus with 9 strangers. I assumed I might adapt. However because the time went on, it bought tougher. You’re fully remoted with blacked out home windows, your thoughts is spiraling. You’re on the street 9, 10, 12 hours. Three days in, I misplaced my thoughts. This was the toughest. Sleeping in that little bunk at evening, showering in the identical bathe, I felt trapped.”
Martinez did have a bus crush, newcomer to the truth present biz, Ally Bross. “The very first thing I see after I take off my goggles is that this lovely blue-eyed brunette. Not solely was I attracted, however I used to be like, that is going to be an excellent ally.”
Watch the video above for extra from Martinez about which contestants posed the best risk, why he’d prefer to strive The Traitors however not Survivor, and which of his actuality present buddies would thrive on Vacation spot X.
Vacation spot X, Premiere, Tuesday, Could 27, 10/9c, NBC
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