For some stars of The Problem, feeling like 1,000,000 bucks means greater than pocketing it. 

“Pleasure is a hell of a factor,” Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio mused in an unique interview with E! Information’ Francesca Amiker. “Having the ability to elevate that trophy and having the ability to say you received, to me, goes rather a lot additional than the cash on the finish.”

Not that he hasn’t appreciated the roughly $1.1 million he is earned from his franchise-best seven wins. 

“That is clearly good,” The Actual World: Key West alum acknowledged. “However folks do not perceive how completely mind-numbingly troublesome this present is, not simply from a bodily standpoint, however from a psychological standpoint, an emotional standpoint. There must be a component of luck each single season, as a result of there isn’t any means you make it to a remaining with out some luck falling in your favor.”

Noting the obstacles rivals need to face even earlier than operating host T.J. Lavin‘s notoriously brutal finals, Johnny continued, “Having the ability to hoist that trophy up on the finish, it is one of the troublesome issues you are able to do on Earth. So to not say that cash is not nice, however the satisfaction of profitable is rather more gratifying.”