Parvati Shallow on ‘The Traitors’ season 2.Photo:Euan Cherry/PEACOCK via Getty
Euan Cherry/PEACOCK via Getty
Parvati Shallowthrived onSurvivor, competing four times and winningSurvivor Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites— but that doesn’t mean she ever got used to life without creature comforts.
Fortunately the reality star was provided those as she competed onThe Traitorsseason 2. Shallow, 41, tells PEOPLE that filmingTraitorsin a castle in the Scottish Highlands felt like an indulgence compared to scavenging for her own food and shelter onSurvivor.
“I couldn’t be more excited to be wearing clothes, different colors for different days,” Shallow says in a joint interview withBig Brother’s Janelle Pierzina. “More than just one old pair of underwear for 39 days. I’m so jazzed.”
Shallow jokingly calls filmingThe Traitorsliving a “life of luxury.”
“There’s warm showers. There’s a bed. They’re feeding us,” she continues. “They’re like, ‘Would you like a sparkling water?’ I’m like, ‘What? I’m used to eating on the ground with my hands.’ This is so nice.”
Pierzina, 43, liked having her own room. “I was like, ‘I’m just glad I have a place to sleep that’s private,’” the four-timeBig Brotherhousemate says. “Privacy. I am like, you mean I don’t have to walk home? I’m not being filmed 24 hours? I have privacy? Like, oh, my God.”
Shallow also felt excited about meetingTraitorscastmatePeppermintfromRuPaul’s Drag Race.
“I loveDrag Race,so I was really pumped to see Peppermint,” she says. “I was like, ‘I hope they put someone fromDrag Raceon the show.’ I’ve just been grilling her for like, ‘How do you do this? How do you know how to sew your clothes? How do you do the performance? Can I do it?’ “
Janelle Perzina on ‘The Traitors’ season 2.Euan Cherry/PEACOCK via Getty
Meanwhile, Pierzina got starstruck being introduced toTraitorshostAlan Cumming. “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunionis one of my favorite movies,” she says. “I am a total ‘90s girl, sothat epic dancethat they do is still in my mind. I’m a huge fan of Alan.”
Pierzina doesn’t think her and Shallow’s competition backgrounds necessarily lend themselves to success onThe Traitors.
“There’s people here that are just to play the game. They don’t care about the money,” Pierzina says of the $250,000 grand prize. “Those are gamers. Just because we come fromBig Brother,Survivordoesn’t mean that we have a leg up. There’s people here that just came to play, period.”
Shallow actually considered herself to be a little rusty going intoThe Traitors.
‘The Traitors’ host Alan Cumming with the season 2 cast.Euan Cherry/PEACOCK
Euan Cherry/PEACOCK
“InSurvivor, it’s like you create alliances and then you keep yourself safe with your alliances,” Shallow explains. “Here, it’s like you can’t really create alliances because you don’t know who the traitors are.”
Though Shallow and Pierzina had alums from their shows —Sandra Diaz-TwineandDan Gheesling— joining them onThe Traitors, they didn’t necessarily consider them automatic allies.
“Sandra and I did not get along, at all,” Shallow says.
Pierzina didn’t want to bring her grudge with Gheesling, 40, toThe Traitors.
“Dan’s the reason I was not ever on that show again,” she says of Gheesling being partially responsible for herBig Brother 14elimination. “I’m not going to bring that into this.”
Ultimately Pierzina, like Shallow, welcomed the challenge of navigating a new type of reality show. “I think it’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do something that’s completely different than I’ve ever done,” the realtor says. “I think it’s a crazy cool privilege to hang out with people and figure out how we’re going to interact with each other. It’s just freaking awesome.”
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The Traitorsseason 2 premieres Friday on Peacock.
source: people.com
