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Why MTV's "The Challenge" Stars Keep Coming Back
The biggest situation for The Challenge? Finding caller stars.
When the amusement archetypal premiered successful 1998, MTV simply brought unneurotic formed members from 2 of its astir fashionable franchises—The Real World and Road Rules—to assemble an all-star world TV cast. But with those shows nary longer airing (the past Real World aired successful 2017 and Road Rules veered disconnected people 2007), The Challenge has had to evolve, archetypal by pulling successful Challengers from the network's different shows, including Are You the One?, then opening up the casting excavation to different franchises. Now, determination are much Big Brother alums competing than veterans from The Real World, with The Challenge besides discovering talent from planetary bid arsenic well. But not each newcomer is capable to marque the modulation from their archetypal amusement to the T.J. Lavin-hosted game, present successful its 38th season. For each Kaycee Clark oregon Devin Walker, there's a Nam Vo or Berna Canbeldek. Who? Exactly.
So, what makes for a bully prospective Challenger? Casting lead Skye Topic antecedently revealed to E! News what she looks for successful a rookie.
"A large portion of it is however they popular successful the interrogation sitdowns," Topic explained successful a 2021 interview. "I'll bash them pre-production and sometimes you'll spot idiosyncratic popular connected their amusement and past you're like, 'Oh, is this idiosyncratic a Challenger?' You'll recognize possibly they're not."
A cardinal constituent Topic's squad is looking for is versatility, successful summation to conscionable being bully TV.
"You person to person a beauteous governmental caput to play our crippled well," she explained, "because it's not conscionable astir tin they standard a beam supra the h2o for 20 minutes, but tin they bash that and past get backmost to the location and commencement navigating however I support myself retired of elimination? That portion is arsenic arsenic difficult."
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While scouting, Topic said the casting unit is "not truly looking astatine thing specific," and that they "scour done each the shows, we'll spot who popped and past sometimes I'll scour done idiosyncratic I thought was bully and spot who they're friends with. A batch of these world amusement contestants are friends with each other."
In the existent season, veterans were capable to bring successful their important other, person oregon household subordinate arsenic their partner, acknowledgment to the Ride oregon Dies theme. The existent variation besides brought rookies from German bid The Mole and Prince Charming entered the mix. Basically, nary 1 is disconnected limits. Which got america thinking: Of everyone successful the world TV oeuvre, who would we emotion to see go head-to-head with Johnny Bananas successful a Hall Brawl oregon beryllium the latest idiosyncratic to hook up with Faysal "Fessy" Shafaat?
The answer, it turns out, is not brief. We dove heavy to assemble a line-up of 21 world TV stars we would emotion to spot vie connected The Challenge. Hope to spot you ever truthful soon:
Taylor Hale and Joseph Abdin
Taylor Hale and Joseph Abdin
OG Show: Big Brother
Why: Taylor, the victor of the CBS world series' 24th play (and recipient of America's Favorite Houseguest vote!), and Joseph enterained the thought of starting a shomance arsenic a strategy during their clip successful the house, lone to extremity up falling for each different for real. We can't deliberation of a amended mode to trial their emotion than by embarking connected different world TV contention together, particularly fixed however Big Brother alums person fared on The Challenge successful caller seasons.
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Greg Grippo, Victoria Fuller and Johnny DePhillipo
OG Show: Bachelor successful Paradise
Why: Um, due to the fact that we unrecorded for drama?! The Challenge is ever astatine its champion erstwhile the interpersonal relationships interaction the crippled and is determination a dynamic much analyzable than that of this trio? (Quick recap for those not successful the know: Johnny and Victoria agreed to everlastingly connected BIP's formation lone to interruption up a abbreviated clip later…just earlier Victoria decided to effort things with pal Greg.) Just ideate Johnny's look whenever helium would spot his erstwhile fiancee and her caller fellow canoodling successful the communal kitchen.
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Casey Johnson and Garrett Morosky
OG Show: FBoy Island
Why: If f--kboys were created successful a laboratory by bored scientists connected their luncheon interruption from doing important work, these bros from the HBO Max series—which was brutally cancelled aft conscionable 2 seasons, RIP!—would beryllium their prototypes. Self-aware, sarcastic and, okay, somewhat sinister, these self-defined atrocious boys were specified standouts successful play one, which ended with Garrett infamously choosing the wealth implicit his narration with Sarah, that they were brought backmost for the sophomore outing.
Like Nelson Thomas and Cory Wharton (a.k.a. "the Young Bucks") respective years ago, these 2 could decidedly shingle things up by entering the Challenge location unneurotic with a program to instrumentality retired the seasoned vets. And, of course, they'd astir apt beryllium DTF.
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Tamaris Sepulveda
OG Show: FBoy Island
Why: After Tamaris flipped the publication successful the play 2 finale by revealing herself to beryllium the show's archetypal F-girl erstwhile she chose the wealth implicit some of her suitors, we would emotion to spot the trouble—both successful the crippled and successful romanticist entanglements—she could disturbance up on The Challenge.
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Juliette Porter
OG Show: Siesta Key
Why: Not lone is she already MTV talent, the swimsuit decorator is besides conscionable bully TV, acknowledgment to her flare for the dramatic, comic one-liners and speedy reflex erstwhile it comes to flying disconnected the handle.
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Adam Collard
OG Show: Love Island UK
Why: Honestly, the OG bombshell is conscionable excessively damn blistery to not beryllium a changeless fig connected our TV screens. Two seasons successful the villa was conscionable not capable time! And, fixed his athleticism, Adam could airs a existent carnal threat. Did we notation he's hot?
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Indiyah Polack and Dami Hope
OG Show: Love Island UK
Why: Watching the highs and lows of Indiyah and Dami's courtship was 1 of the highlights of the ITV hit's eighth play and we inactive person chills reasoning of their icy speech during the recoupling. ("May the champion heartbreaker win!") So, we would emotion to spot however Indiyah and Dami, who are presently dating, would navigate the authorities of a precise antithetic house.
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Jonathan Young
OG Show: Survivor
Why: The play 43 castaway is, without a doubt, the astir physically ascendant rival to ever measurement ft connected Survivor. Come on, helium infamously won a situation for his people single-handedly, portion the different tribes couldn't adjacent decorativeness the contention arsenic a group! Jonathan would beryllium a large summation to genuinely trial immoderate of The Challenge's apical dogs physically, though we're not definite he'd beryllium capable to outwit with his governmental game.
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Ricard Foye
OG Show: Survivor
Why: From the infinitesimal helium appeared onscreen successful play 41, viewers knew Ricard was going to beryllium a unit to beryllium reckoned with successful Fiji. And that helium was, proving to beryllium 1 of the astir savage and strategical players successful the modern epoch of the crippled erstwhile helium brutally blindsided his fig 1 ally, Shan Smith. Plus, helium was besides a situation beast, had immoderate of the season's champion one-liners and has truly large hair.
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Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval
OG Show: Vanderpump Rules
Why: Forever a bundle deal, the Bravo stars and barroom owners would bring a consciousness of whimsy and much-needed witticisms to the table, that is erstwhile they aren't drinking their competitors underneath it.
Tyler Baltierra
OG Show: Teen Mom
Why: After 14 (!) years connected MTV, it would beryllium amusive to spot the fan-favorite, who has been documenting his awesome fittingness travel connected societal media for the past respective years, fto loose on the network's different deed series. And helium would articulation an elite radical of competitors who perpetually speech astir needing to triumph to acceptable a bully illustration for his children. (Yes, we are talking astir you, Cory Wharton!)
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Gabby Windey and Vinny Guadagnino
OG Show: Dancing With the Stars
Why: Sure, the reigning Bachelorette and the Jersey Shore prima decidedly person played up their are-they-or-aren't-they hostility connected societal media during and aft their clip connected the Disney+ competition, but, similar a guido erstwhile they are astir a tanning booth, we are powerless successful the look of their palpable heat.
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Lindsay Hubbard
OG Show: Summer House
Why: Oh, what we would springiness to spot idiosyncratic activate Lindsay earlier an elimination! Plus, the PR maven would beryllium a astonishing carnal threat, fixed the iconic uncover that she was portion of The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) arsenic a teen.
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Zach Justice
OG Show: Married At First Sight
Why: TBH, this feline should person been formed connected The Bachelorette, not the Lifetime matrimony experiment. His Instagram bio adjacent leans into his unpopular turn: "Experience arsenic a villain connected MAFS S10." Naturally, pursuing his not-at-all shocking divorcement from Mindy Shiben, the adjacent measurement would beryllium for the aspiring wellness and wellness influencer to caput to The Challenge to disturbance the pot.
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Prince Harry
OG Show: Harry & Meghan
Why: Hey, an amusement quality squad tin dream!
The Challenge: Ride oregon Dies airs Wednesdays astatine 9 p.m. connected MTV.
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