Contestants REACT to The Circle Season 5
Circle, nonstop message: You're each azygous now.
For the societal media contention series' 5th season, which premiered Dec. 28, The Circle is switching things up and having everyone play arsenic single, nary substance their narration status. And, naturally, tons of flirting has already ensued.
But, did the twist power up the competitors' strategy? For the non-catfish successful the group, not really.
"Going into it, I was precise transparent successful my bio," Sam Carmona exclusively told E! News. "I said, 'My emotion beingness is simply a s--t show.' Clear arsenic day. Because I conscionable haven't had immoderate luck!"
Raven Sutton, who besides went into The Circle as herself, agreed, saying it was a "no-brainer" to play arsenic single.
"My strategy the full crippled was, 'Yes, I was azygous due to the fact that I americium single,'" she explained. "Part of my strategy was so to beryllium myself, to beryllium authentic. It didn't alteration my strategy successful the game. I already knew however I was coming successful I was gonna flirt with folks, ‘cause that's conscionable however my property is."
But for Shubham Goel, who previously competed successful the Netflix series' archetypal play and came successful 2nd place, flirting didn't travel arsenic naturally—especially since helium revealed that helium had to spell undercover arsenic a catfish for his 2nd clip around.
"I was tense arsenic a miss to flirt," the bundle engineer, who has yet to officially marque his Circle return, shared. "So possibly I tried to enactment a small away, but I was ever unfastened to it."
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And who, exactly, caught the contestants' eyes? While Raven started up a flirtationship with Marvin Achi, Sam shared that she didn't find emotion in The Circle because nary 1 was her type.
"The options that I had were mode excessively beauteous for me," she explained. "I similar my men with dada bods and insecurities. Like, Marvin was gorgeous. I was like, 'Oh no, you're excessively beauteous for me. You person each of your teeth. No, I can't bash it.'"
Find retired which azygous rises to the juncture successful the archetypal 4 episodes of The Circle season five, retired present connected Netflix. New episodes premiere each Wednesday.
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