Dr. Will Kirby is saying goodbye to reality TV.
The Big Brother winner made it official after he was ousted from Deal or No Deal Island season 2 in the episode that aired Tuesday night, February 18.
“This is my official retirement from reality television,” he announced on the show after Survivor Australia legend David Genat eliminated him at the banker’s temple.
Dr. Will, 52, won Big Brother 2 and placed fourth on the first Big Brother All-Stars season in 2006. Though he continued to make guest appearances on Big Brother and even stopped by The Traitors to host a challenge in the second season of the Peacock hit, Deal or No Deal Island was Kirby’s first time competing in nearly 20 years.
Dr. Will placed eighth on Deal or No Deal Island, sowing chaos with his signature manipulative tactics and calculated gameplay from the moment he arrived in the season’s second episode. For him, that was enough.
Dr. Will” Kirby. Monty Brinton/NBC
“I mean it this time,” he told Entertainment Weekly in a story published Wednesday, February 19. “This is my last statement to the world. I’m the chief medical officer at Laser Away, the nation’s leading aesthetic dermatology group. I have a really healthy, normal family. I have some hobbies that I love, friends that I love, colleagues that I love and it’s time to pass the torch.”
Dr. Will has been a dermatologist since before his reality career began and even hired one of his Deal or No Deal Island enemies, Maria-Grace Cook, to work at his practice after the season wrapped.
His experience filming the NBC show introduced him to individuals he’d like to see represent the next era of great game players.
Big Brother season 2 winner Dr. Will Kirby is officially stepping down from his role as jury roundtable host on the CBS reality show. The doctor, 51, who hosted the show’s jury roundtable segment on and off since 2013, announced his exit on Wednesday, September 18. “I can confirm that I will not be serving […]
“I’m 51 years old, and you see people like [Alexis] Lete here,” he said. “You see people like Storm [Wilson]. There are people on the show who absolutely deserve to be the next generation of reality personalities.”
True to form, however, Dr. Will couldn’t help but take a shot at some of the other reality legends to play Deal or No Deal Island.
“While I respect Parvati [Shallow] immensely, and I respect Australian Dave, and I respect Boston Rob [Mariano], for me, personally, nothing is sadder than a reality person who doesn’t know when to hang it up,” he said.
Dr. Will made a similar comment last February when fellow Big Brother legends Janelle Pierzina and Dan Gheesling fell short on The Traitors.
“I think some Big Brother players went on The Traitors to show that they ‘still got it’ — only to realize that they actually ‘never had it,’” he told Entertainment Weekly. “It takes an extremely unique skill set to do well on these types of shows, and anyone can get lucky once, but it’s really hard to repeat that success, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t openly wonder if the Big Brother contestants who appeared have really hurt their reality television legacies because of their poor gameplay in this series.”
With his Deal or No Deal Island elimination, Dr. Will’s legacy is now cemented and open for critique.
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