Boston Rob, notorious for being a reality show bad boy, has turned his bad boy image into a career.  Reported to be injured in the new Survivor, Heroes vs Villains, Rob Mariano has had several gigs on TV and gave a run at starting his own reality show. He and his wife, Amber Brkich even had a show made about their wedding!

Boston Rob’s TV accomplishments include two stints on The Amazing Race as well as a few poker shows.  This survivor has taken what was laid out before him and run with it as much as he possibly could.  Mariano was also a co-host of the six-week Sci Fi series Sci Fi Investigates. The show investigates subjects such as Bigfoot, Mothman, Paranormal Hotspots, Roswell, The Afterlife and Voodoo.

I doubt that this poker pro wanna be is getting huge money but it sure seems that he is able to continue to feed his family as they moved from Pensacola Florida to Las Vegas, Nevada so Boston Rob could become Vegas Rob.
Between their two appearances on The Amazing Race the couple filmed a 10-episode show for the Fox Reality Channel, Rob and Amber: Against the Odds in 2006, which aired the following year. Set in Las Vegas, the program follows Mariano’s attempts to become a professional poker player and features professional player Daniel Negreanu tutoring him. The series ended abruptly after Rob and Amber Mariano accepted the offer to appear on The Amazing Race: All-Stars.

So we have an ordinary guy that does his best to get people to hate him and turns his ability to be disliked into a career.  Good work if you can get it and Boston Rob has used what he had in order to develop a brand and turn himself into a business.

Not the business model taught in Harvard but that kind of thinking out of the box is working well for him.

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