Lee Sang-min: "Decided to join 'Blood Game X' after just one word from my wife after 12 years... 'I can't stand seeing you drink'" [Interview ②]

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Lee Sang-min (53), a broadcaster formerly with the group Rolla, shared his wife's reaction to his participation in "Blood Game X."

On the afternoon of the 21st, Lee held an interview with StarNews at the Wave building located in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. He discussed this topic while appearing on "Blood Game X," an OTT Wave original brain survival variety show that premiered on the 3rd last year. In the 2021 season of "Blood Game 1," Lee served as MC, but in the new season, he participated as a player.

Notably, Lee took on another brain survival variety challenge for the first time in 12 years since the conclusion of tvN's "The Genius: Rule Breaker" (hereinafter "Genius 2") in 2014, drawing viewers' attention.

On this day, Lee said, "Although I appeared on a survival variety show after a long break, my mindset remained the same as before: 'Let's enjoy the game,' whether it succeeds or fails. Since I am older than other participants, I believed that if I focused too much on broadcasting angles, it would be a negative for me. When I felt I couldn't fully show my true self, I thought I might become a player who gets excluded with people asking, 'Who is this guy?' So I decided to focus even more on playing my own game."

He continued, "However, I always believe that every program must have a sense of presence. This time too, I thought, 'Lee Sang-min's presence must be clear.' I planted a unique sense of presence in each episode. As a result, many scenes showed me drunk."

When asked about his wife's reaction, Lee revealed with a laugh, "I'm not good at drinking alcohol. Even one can of beer makes my face turn bright red. So my wife asked why I was drinking so much and said she found it hard to watch."

Lee then added, "My wife is someone extremely precious to me. When I received the offer to appear on 'Blood Game X' last November and was pondering alone, she told me, 'If you're thinking this hard about it, doesn't that mean you don't want to go?' Since my wife loves survival shows so much, her opinion helped me make a decision this time. She even praised me for doing well."

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