Now that the world knows who won a whopping $4.56 million on B次元官网网址淪quid Game: The Challenge,B次元官网网址� Surrey resident Darylle Johnson is keen to talk about her time on the British reality-competition show.
The popular Netflix series, based on the South Korean drama B次元官网网址淪quid Game,B次元官网网址� was filmed in London last January, nearly a year ago.
Crowned champion on Wednesday, Dec. 6, American contestant Mai Whelan, 55, pockets the biggest cash prize in reality-TV history.
Johnson, a Guildford-area designer of , says she enjoyed her time playing kid-friendly games as one of the 456 B次元官网网址淪quidB次元官网网址� contestants, including a handful of fellow Canadians.
She was player #273.
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To become a contestant she endured six months of interviews with show producers.
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Before Johnson was eliminated in the third episode, she was a lieutenant in a life-size version of the Battleship board game.
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She says itB次元官网网址檚 been a strange few weeks of having people ask questions about her time on B次元官网网址淪quid Game: The Challenge,B次元官网网址� a 10-episode series that debuted in November.
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She continued.
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So, would she do another reality-TV game show?
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