Alexis Lete was simply inches away from going into the ultimate temple of the season on Deal or No Deal Island. And after watching David Genat accomplish that and stroll away $5.8 million richer, she is aware of precisely who she holds accountable for her slender miss of that large second.
All all through DONDI Season 2, Lete held her personal towards a few of the greatest names in actuality tv, outlasting each Parvati Shallow and Will “Dr. Will” Kirby to advance to the finale. She did so by being athletic and competent within the challenges and never making enemies among the many different contestants. So she was particularly stunned when the ultimate problem got here right down to basically a jury sport, through which her destiny rested within the palms of her former castmates, and one among them determined to show towards her in favor of David, who’d truly despatched them dwelling.
So who’s the particular person chargeable for Alexis Lete narrowly lacking her likelihood on the large temple? And what else does she need us to find out about her time on Deal or No Deal Island. TV Insider caught up with Alexis Lete to seek out out!
Congratulations on making it up to now. It’s obtained to be bittersweet, although, proper?
Alexis Lete: Bitter undoubtedly. I’ve been feeling the bitter somewhat bit greater than candy. I feel proper after the present, I felt the candy, however after watching the earlier week of the best way that folks informed me how they acted within the ultimate problem after which truly seeing their actions not match up with their phrases, I’m feeling fairly bitter proper now.’
Is there anybody particularly that you just type of blame for that state of affairs?
Phillip [Solomon].
What occurred between you guys?
I want I knew. And that’s what breaks my coronary heart. To go on a present like this and bond with somebody and spend nights with them and spend susceptible moments with them and share a lot about your life and to come back to the finale and you’ve got your self that’s been nothing however good to them, helped them experience with you to the top, been pleased for them for his or her $75k, even risked your sport so they might get that $75k, after which for them to assist the one who’s already gained a present and assist the one who despatched them dwelling, has been actually laborious for me to wrap my head round and has actually been mentally robust to grasp why somebody that within the second I beloved would betray me like that.
Did you not get an opportunity on the temple whenever you all had been collectively once more to confront him and discover out?
He informed me — properly, I’m upset in regards to the few issues he mentioned once we had been on the bus driving again. I assumed it was Dickon [Wong], and I used to be like, “Dickson, you screwed me over.” And I used to be driving on the bus with Phillip and Dickson again to the resort the place all people stays once they get voted out, and Dickson’s like, “What do you imply? It wasn’t me.” And I used to be like, “What do you imply? Ih, who was it?” And I used to be like, “Properly, okay, I do know La Shell [Wooten] gave me the medium case,” which I suspected that, however like, “Who… how did…” I used to be like, “Wait, Philip, what did you give David?” He’s like, “Oh, I gave him the very best,” and I simply, my coronary heart simply sunk into my a**. And I mentioned, “Why would you do this?” And he was like, “Properly, I figured perhaps he would select a distinct case if I provided him one.” I appeared again on the footage [and he] says, “This case is yours.” It wasn’t like, “Select one.” It wasn’t, “This or that this case is yours,” and afterwards I stored going like, “I don’t perceive, my head can’t wrap round this,” and he informed me, he mentioned, “You’re fairly, you’ll be good.” And I feel that’s additionally one thing that’s haunted me all through this entire course of of somebody who got here on the present speaking about their vulnerability, speaking about not judging folks, speaking about we by no means know what individuals are going by means of, to evaluate my exterior of your fairly considering my life is ideal, was a very large blow to who I’m, every part I’ve overcome and all of the struggles in my life. And for me, that’s fairly low.
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About Dickson, are you guys okay now? He informed me he texts you generally.
I like Dickson as an individual. Will we stay shut and hang around? No, however none of us on the present actually stay shut. If I used to be in his metropolis, I’d for positive hit him up and go to dinner and play pickleball. I feel he’s a very nice particular person, and I had a stunning time with him on the island. I like nerdy folks. I like the underdogs, so Dickson was a enjoyable particular person to have on the present.
I used to be somewhat stunned that Parvati agreed that will help you, regardless that she was clearly very workforce David. Did you understand it in actual time that she was slowing you down somewhat bit through the bridge problem?
No, no, she actually wasn’t. She helped me, and I feel I keep in mind at temple, Joe was like, “Oh, Parvati slowed you down.” No, she didn’t. I don’t know why they put that within the edit in the event that they did, however she actually helped me — genuinely she wasn’t having any dangerous blood with me, and I used to be stunned, and I assumed larger of her due to that as a result of I didn’t screw her over within the sport. I didn’t misinform her. I didn’t backstab her. I didn’t do something that actually damage her sport or damage her as an individual. So to me it made sense of, yeah, she’d helped me as a result of I did nothing to harm her sport or damage her. If something, she had folks rallying round me to harm me.
Did you guys have any clue who the banker was, and what was your response whenever you discovered?
I assumed it was — who’s that blonde woman who does Challenge Runway? … I assumed it was Heidi Klum. I used to be so assured… All through being on the island — they didn’t present it on the present — however they gave us clues. We had a giant supply of bathing fits the place we did a runway stroll, and we had a complete unfold of meals, which was the meals from the originality that Chrissy Teigen comes from, and in order that gave it away that it was Chrissy Teigen. And I used to be excited as a result of I wish to be a Sports activities Illustrated mannequin sooner or later, and if I had the chance to play the banker, I used to be like, “I’m gonna speak to her about it. I’m gonna see if we are able to take the images collectively, like Sports activities Illustrated swim.” I used to be tremendous excited as a result of I noticed it as a chance to advance my profession and begin transferring in direction of my subsequent dream.
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How laborious was it for you when you had been within the temple to look at David play? He took so many dangers.
It wasn’t laborious to look at. It was a thrill to look at. It was so enjoyable, and also you go on the present with all these totally different folks and all these totally different personalities, and, sure, some folks annoy you. Sure, you don’t like some folks, however on the finish of the day, it’s like a household. It’s like, that is my large brother that annoys the sh** out of me, or that is my sister that I wish to pull her hair, and to see David go up there, it was actually enjoyable to see him problem himself time after time once more to succeed in these new instances. And it was enjoyable for us, too, as a result of like we had been making bets behind the scenes like, “Oh if this occurs we’re gonna do that after,” “if this occurs we’re getting pictures right here on the membership.” So it was such a thrill to be part of and such an superior second and expertise of sport present historical past interval. The truth that we obtained to sit down there and be part of the biggest profitable in sport present historical past is one thing that’s actually thrilling.
He’s the brand new Ken Jennings. How do you are feeling about realizing the winningest particular person in sport present historical past?
Yeah, I’m gonna ask him to purchase me a Rolex, so I feel he may. I imply, he’s obtained like $5 million now, so you’ll assume that lower than 1% of the cash he has, he would have the ability to spend on the runner-up, contemplating I obtained nothing.
You informed Parvati Shallow in that final problem that you just wished her to go the “Black Widow” torch, and once I talked to her, she mentioned she’s achieved with actuality tv, no less than in entrance of the display. Are there any reveals that you just’re considering you may wish to be part of subsequent?
Sure, I’m so thrilled. I didn’t understand that you possibly can make a profession out of this, however after the present, Parvati and David had been gracious sufficient to type of give me a rundown and speak about their experiences, and that is what they do for work, for a residing, and to me that it simply obtained me so excited as a result of I had the most effective time of my life. Not exaggerating in any respect, the most effective time of my entire 28 years on this planet was once I was on the island for Deal. I feel The Traitors is one thing that’s so enjoyable. I like the outfits. I like the model. Please glam me up in a plaid skirt and somewhat beret. I additionally assume The Problem is one thing that I might be enticed to do due to my bodily skills. I’m nonetheless younger, I’m nonetheless agile, I’m nonetheless lifting weights, and I actually wish to problem myself bodily, not simply mentally. After which Superb Race is one thing that I might like to do in a while. I grew up watching it with my mother and pa and dreaming of touring the world. I grew up in southern Indiana, which is the place I at the moment stay proper now, and I at all times wish to see what else is on the market, and I like how that present explores and celebrates different cultures.
With The Traitors, how would you do this, as a result of your large factor is taking part in with integrity?
I’ve to be a Pilot Pete. Yeah, I must be a Pilot Pete or Dylan Efron. If Alan [Cumming] got here and tapped my shoulder to be a traitor, I’d be like, “Oh no!” However I’m an actress, so I may do it, and I must look within the mirror and morally be like, “It’s okay, Lete, it’s only a sport, it’s not actual life.” After which day-after-day I’d have to return and identical to sulk for a second.
Was there something that we didn’t get to see of you, or something that perhaps we don’t find out about you that you just want had come by means of?
I used to be not at all times the beautiful, outgoing woman — at all times outgoing, however not at all times the beautiful one. And I talked with Philip about it and CK about being picked on once I was youthful for the best way I appeared and being somewhat bit totally different than folks and by no means feeling like I actually belonged wherever. And I feel it’s vital to know that simply since you see somebody’s exterior, you see the best way somebody seems on social media, it’s not at all times how it’s behind the doorways. You don’t know what they’ve been by means of. You don’t know what they’ve gone by means of to get to the place they’re at, and I’m actually grateful for the struggles that I confronted in my previous as a result of I feel it’s made me in a position to be a model of the human that I wish to be that’s in a position to see folks not simply of the place they’re at proper now, however the experiences that occurred earlier than the particular person I’m proper now.