{"id":313439,"date":"2026-02-27T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/313439\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:44:11","slug":"a-day-on-the-farm-with-rob-rausch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/313439\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day on the Farm With Rob Rausch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then, roughly a year and a half later, he returned to the public eye with The Traitors season four, and experienced something rare in the reality TV world: a redemption arc. Right off the bat, he played the game with ease and skill so impressive that he completely regained hearts and minds. Love Island watchers were reminded of how fun to watch he really is, and those unfamiliar were introduced to him as the unassuming, sweet, Southern snake wrangler who\u2019s simultaneously outsmarting and charming everyone in the room\u2014including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/jeff-probst-survivor-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Survivor<\/a> winners, Real Housewives, and Olympic gold medalists. He was someone impossible not to root for week after week, whose victories on the show feel so personal that viewers are rooting for a Traitor to win the show that\u2019s all about weeding out Traitors.<\/p>\n<p>The way he\u2019s been portrayed on The Traitors is the \u201cmost dramatic version\u201d of himself, he says, but it\u2019s still him. As for Love Island\u2014he never watched his season back, so he couldn\u2019t say. Still, despite all the online vitriol that he faced following that season, he doesn\u2019t regret going on the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinancially, it changed my life enough that I was like, \u2018Okay, yeah, that doesn\u2019t really fucking matter.\u2019 At the end of the day, I have to constantly remind myself, especially lately, that I don\u2019t really care,\u201d he says. \u201cIf it ever got really bad, I would literally fall off the face of the earth, and it wouldn\u2019t bother me at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Clothing Hat Child Person Head Face and Coat\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2602-GQ-RobertRausch-021.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On the farm, it\u2019s easy to see why Rausch wouldn\u2019t mind falling off the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>I get glimpses, throughout the afternoon, of the idyllic countryside life that he grew up with. \u201cI would drag my brother out to the middle of the woods, and we\u2019d build forts and boats,\u201d Rausch says. \u201cWe built all kinds of stuff right out there. I mean, that\u2019s all we had to do. We lived on a farm. We didn\u2019t have fucking Wi-Fi. We\u2019d go get some nails and go to town, make some shit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then, roughly a year and a half later, he returned to the public eye with The Traitors season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[18951,1503,146,85,46,5098,17326,6612,411,5101],"class_list":["post-313439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-affiliate-disabled","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-onecolumn","tag-profiles","tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","tag-tv","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}