[Devyn] Tonight on part two of the reunion...
All you [bleep] cheated.
I didn't chuck any food into the bushes!
I was like, "Do I like Cedric or do I like Will?"
[cheering and hollering]
Nany! Nany's back!
Did you have feelings back for Bananas?
-Well, here's the thing... -[screaming]
[awkwardly] All right, this is...
I don't care at this point. It's done.
Soon as you go low, you better believe I take it to hell
every [bleep] time.
Oh my God. Bro, can you [bleep] shut up.
Not your [bleep] dog, but I'll listen.
Always you saying stuff about us.
You feel like I have hostility towards you
because you actually have hostility towards me.
Girl, what do you mean?
Who did you call? You know who the [bleep] you called.
We're not friends!
Just in case, CT, if nobody told you today,
you are big pussy, brother.
Turbo, watch your mouth.
[dramatic musical flourish]
When they give you the permission, you can talk.
-Shut up. -Shut the [bleep] up, Turbo.
Settle down.
You know what? I tell you what.
[CT] Do not come over here.
Anything physical, you will get to knees.
-Yeah right! -Good news and bad news.
-Get off my [bleep], Turbo. -[Devyn] Okay, settle down!
-You want an autograph? -Use your brains to talk.
I'm gonna remember how we are pussy this season, okay?
You better be careful! We're not in the [bleep] house!
You come near me, you're gonna see a different side of me
you didn't see.
[Turbo] We're gonna see each other outside, bitch.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Now security's over here, now you wanna stand up again.
I'm gonna [bleep] you up so bad.
We'll see, [bleep].
-You will see, bitch. -[CT] We'll see.
All right.
I do think it's a shame that our friendship turned into this,
'cause I really did look at him as a good friend on the show.
We used to have so much fun, sitting in bed...
So you're not good friends anymore, or...?
-Hell no! -[CT] No.
I have multiple personalities, none of them like CT.
-[laughter] -[CT] I can't with him anymore.
I can't fight with him anymore.
It's exhausting!
[Devyn] Let's keep moving on.
Turbo, let's get into the specifics between
Theo and you this season.
Everyone's a [bleep] pussy!
[dramatic music plays]
[Turbo] Theo, don't call everyone pussy...
[Theo] Well, I'm saying...
I say like a man, I say you like a man,
Nany is my first.
If Nany's lying on the table, I'm gonna vote you!
I wouldn't do that to you, Turbo!
I wouldn't do that to you!
So I'm a better friend to you than you are to me!
Turbo and Theo's argument
is stemming from way more than being called a pussy.
Turbo wants any excuse to not save him in this game anymore,
'cause he has basically everyone
on his "I can't say" list.
For someone that says he's a man of honor,
Uh-- Where's the honor?
Theo, man, why you calling me a pussy?
I'm so angry at Theo
because he was my brother.
I remember him as a good man, as an honorable man.
Now Theo became dishonorable
and piece of [bleep] character.
[dramatic musical stinger]
[indistinct shouting]
-[bleep]! -[Turbo] Watch your mouth!
Hey, asshole, watch your mouth.
[Theo] Do something!
Watch your mouth, son of a bitch!
-I won't, actually. -Watch your mouth, dumbass.
I won't. I'll say what the [bleep] I want!
And you'll do nothing!
-You are lucky... -You'll do nothing!
-Son of a bitch! -You're a liar!
-You are [bleep] big dumbass. -No honor!
You act tough. You're fake!
I'm gonna make your Challenge life a hell to you.
So, Theo, what was going through your mind
when you exploded in that moment?
Obviously, I exploded 'cause
I had a quick conversation with Turbo upstairs, and said,
"Look, bro, even though we haven't been
trying to vote together, it hasn't come to that time,
now is the time.
Now I need to call in my friendships."
And he was like, "Yo, bro, I'm sorry, it's too late.
I'm working with Nany and Ashley" and that.
So I'm like, "What the [bleep]?"
Listen, if I didn't tell you,
if I was fake as [bleep] like that Derek,
okay, I can tell you, "No, bro, I'm gonna protect you."
Turbo's the biggest actor here.
You're the biggest floater in the game.
All you've done, "brotherhood" this, "I got your back," this.
Once you seen where the numbers were,
"All right, Theo's going down. Let me go towards the numbers
and keep myself safe," which is fine if you admit it,
but when you say about honor and respect, and all that,
really and truly, you're a pussy.
You are the last person to talk about someone is a pussy.
-This is-- -Hey, you are, though.
You could've come down in the sand with me.
-Shut up! -You didn't.
Can you try to shut up?
-All right, for two minutes. -Just shut up.
There is a difference, okay,
there's a difference between talking [bleep]
about the person, he always doing like this,
or talking truth about the [bleep] person.
Okay? I am always talking truth about the [bleep] person.
You always talking just [bleep] about the person, brother.
You are the biggest pussy.
No, you are.
-I am not, brother. -You're a liar though. I'm not.
You lied about-- You lied to Gabe about what Jonna said.
Everyone here a liar, okay? Everyone here a liar.
-So don't talk about-- -[Theo] Especially you.
-You are talking-- -Especially you then.
Everyone here is a liar.
-I don't lie to my people. -Talking about the game.
That's why my new motto is,
"[bleep] you, Theo."
-[mic thuds] -[challengers exclaim]
Why is Turbo like this?
I know you rehearsed that in the mirror for like two days.
End of the day, you lied to me,
you stabbed me in the back.
I wouldn't have done that to you.
Theo, online, you posted a sarcastic love letter,
uh, to Turbo,
in which you said he was your best friend in the house,
and you were gonna name your son after him.
So, uh, does that still stand?
Can we expect a Turbo Jr. coming soon?
-Turabi Campbell. -[laughter]
[Devyn] Turabi Campbell?
[Theo] You never know.
-All right. -You never know.
Turbo, you responded to Theo's love letter
by posting a video clip of you smashing
Theo's head into a table
and saying, "I love my brother Theo.
He's so much smarter when he doesn't talk."
[upbeat dramatic music plays]
Um, why do you think Theo should keep his mouth shut?
[Turbo] When you see him,
he is all two meters, looks good,
you know, you're thinking he's cool.
But when he open his mouth... [scoffs]
Why he's talking? You know? That's why.
You're saying he's better to look at and not when he speaks.
Just get voted in eight times. This ain't nothin'.
[Turbo laughs]
All right, let's move on to another Hangnail.
This season, being the Hangnail put a player's fate
in their partner's hands and kept everyone on edge.
For the reunion,
we're bringing our own version to turn up the pressure
throughout the show,
so I'll pick a challenger to step up
and read a juicy question.
They can either answer it,
or target a fellow player.
Michaela, you're no stranger to being in the hot seat,
so why don't you walk on over?
-[tense music plays] -[cheering]
Get it, girl! Give us a strut, Michaela.
Give us-- There you go, girl! There you go!
"Who acts tough on social media
but does not keep that same energy in person?"
Are you gonna answer it or target someone else?
I think I wanna turn this to someone
who keeps their eye
very closely on social media, and has all the tea.
Ms. Ashley.
-Oh, interesting! Okay! -[challengers exclaim]
Michaela, you can take a seat.
So the question is,
"Who acts tough on social media
but doesn't keep that same energy in person?"
I don't know, maybe Sydney,
'cause she does talk-- Maybe?
I don't-- I don't go on social media too much.
-Yeah right! -[Devyn] Yes, you do.
Don't tell that lie.
Last week? [chuckles]
Look at her thinking! Look at her thinking face!
[Michaela laughs]
[Devyn] Okay, Sydney,
Ashley said that you talk a big game on social,
but that you're different in person. Would you agree?
Uh, no. I'm cocky as hell on socials,
I'm cocky as hell in person.
So you think you're-- You keep the same energy?
What about Derek, though, because he's the one
that goes on live every-- all the time.
-She's been thinking about it-- -I've been thinking.
He wants to talk after every episode.
I didn't say anything bad about you.
[laughter]
But did you say anything bad about anybody else?
-Yes, I did. -[laughter]
[Devyn] All right!
We've got a lot more to dive into.
More reunion up next.
I got to give you a lot of credit for, uh,
not, uh, meeting him in the middle,
and just throwing down because I don't think I could do it.
I would-- I would already be fighting.
-So I just want to say good job. -Thanks. Thanks.
In 20 years,
this is not the best shape you've been in!
This is reality TV!
So let's be real!
Shut up.
Not your [bleep] dog, but I'll listen.
-Can you shut the [bleep] up? -Nah, [bleep] that!
I ain't a cheap man!
[upbeat rock musical transition]
[cheers and applause]
Welcome back to part two of The Challenge Reunion.
I'm your host, Devyn Simone, hanging out with the Vets
and the New Threats.
This season tested loyalty, alliances,
and friendships like never before.
Especially for Aneesa
whose struggles with the Vet women continued
after a late night blow-up with Ashley.
Let's take a look.
[Aneesa] Jake, I will give you my money.
[Ashley] I can come in first place,
but you think you're gonna come in first place?
[Aneesa] Why wouldn't I?
[Ashley] Um, athletics?
[Aneesa] I am in the best shape of my life
and I can do anything the [bleep] I want to.
Some people are just [bleep] miserable.
You're probably not going to win this season!
And I'm probably not either.
It's [bleep] delusional.
Bitch, don't [bleep] play with me.
I don't care how big you are!
I'll knock you out, bitch!
Well, you are still trash.
[Ashley] Yeah. Wow! Wow!
-Okay, enough. -She's nuts.
-Thank you, babe. -Just go to sleep, Nees.
That was a lot.
Ashley, you said--
When Aneesa said that she was gonna give Jake the prize money,
you said that she would never be a Challenge champ
because of athletics.
What exactly did you mean by that?
Her and I were partners less than six months before
on a different show.
Probably, I say, both of us in
some of the worst shape we'd ever been in.
To say within six months
we've both gone from the worst shape to now the best shape,
that is a level of delusion
I-- I don't live in,
my family would never allow me to live in.
It's not delusion. You gotta back yourself.
Back yourself after 20 years--
-Yeah, but-- -Wait. Hold on! Hold on!
We gotta start at the whole [bleep] beginning.
First of all, I lost 40 pounds in a year.
And I trained four days a week and I was running.
So yes, I was in the best shape I had been in seasons.
Okay?
-Okay, but-- -Shut up! I'm not done!
-Who came up the hill last? -[Aneesa] But, Ashley...
I'm not [bleep] done! I let you speak!
What are your thoughts about that?
Aneesa was high on the leaderboard.
-Yes! -With I believe 30 points.
She deserves some credit.
I can swim better, and I'm better at puzzles.
I said there's no chance that she's gonna win
and then give all of her money to a partner!
-And also, Jake-- -It's delusion!
First of all, Jake was gonna pick me anyway.
That wasn't like, "We're gonna give you our money
if we [bleep] win."
-Jake said-- -I'm not [bleep] done!
I'm not done. You've said far worse things
to a lot of [bleep] people, so shut up.
Anyway, the way that I feel about myself,
you should feel no way about it.
It's a weird flex for you to feel some way
that I have confidence.
I didn't say it's a bad thing. I just--
I'm the type of friend--
But I'm saying-- We're not friends, Ashley!
We are not friends.
That's what I told you last season.
Don't take my [bleep] words out of my mouth.
You don't add value!
I don't like people who live in delusion.
-You are delusional! -You have to [bleep] take
a [bleep] reality pill.
This is reality TV!
-I know that! -So let's be real!
Yes, but you are psychotic!
This is not the best shape you've been in in 20 years.
You have not won the show.
This season, at 45,
you're not gonna magically win the show
and give your money for the first time
you've ever won to your partner.
Let's be realistic!
I wasn't gonna give him all the money. I'm not stupid.
[Johnny] Does that blow-up happen
if Aneesa stays true to you guys in the room?
'Cause I honestly feel like that was on the surface,
but there was a lot underneath the surface.
She mentioned my dad and that's when [bleep] got [bleep] up.
Whenever she mentioned a stalker that she befriended!
I didn't befriend her, Ashley!
She befriended a [bleep] bitch that was stalking me!
I don't know any of that information!
You brought up her name during the fight, bitch!
And yeah, as soon as you go low,
you better believe I take it to hell
-every [bleep] time. -We know there's more
to this fight than what aired,
and if people want to find that out...
-[overlapping shouting] -...it's all out there.
What was one impressive thing you've done on The Challenge?
I add value to [bleep] life, Ashley!
-You don't! [groans] -Nothing!
You spent so much time thinking about me.
I know there's something else to do.
Okay, let's dig a little deeper here.
When Nany chose to come for Aneesa
while still staying friendly with Ashley,
it left Aneesa wondering
if their friendship was damaged for good.
[Nany] Since the fight, Aneesa and Ashley
have gone a few days without speaking.
Obviously, I-I feel terrible,
but I am absolutely placed in the middle and it sucks.
[Nany] Are you okay?
Don't know what's going on, haven't talked to you,
but it sounds like you're not okay.
[Aneesa] There's a lot going on,
and we're gonna pretend like nothing happened?
Don't get me involved
in [bleep] that doesn't have anything to do with me!
For her to just expect me
to turn my back on Ashley,
that's just not what I'm gonna do.
For what? What has Aneesa done for me ever
to make me feel like I gotta do that for her?
You told me if she said that to you,
you would've never talked to her again. Right?
-Isn't that what you said? -Did she say it to me though?
-Then you didn't care about me. -Did she say it to me?
-No, but she said it to me. -She didn't say that to me,
so that's not my problem!
-That's not my problem! -Why are you in my face again!
Don't make your issues my problem! I am not involved!
Stay the [bleep] away from me!
I am too grown for that [bleep]!
Grow the [bleep] up!
[Johnny] Give it up for Nany being back!
-Wow! -Nany! Nany's back!
[Nany] She's back, guys.
Nany, you're friends with both Aneesa and Ashley,
how did it feel
to be caught up in the middle of that firestorm?
It was just so uncomfortable.
It was-- It was just a weird situation, like...
I spoke to Ashley a lot
leading up to this past season.
I spoke to her way more than Aneesa.
The things I said to you, totally out of line.
My problem is that I kind of just swept it under the rug
and acted like it wasn't happening.
-Yeah. -And I think that
that night when I exploded, it was a build up.
Did you feel like in that moment,
that Nany was a better friend to Ashley?
Is that part of where the--
-It wasn't-- It wasn't that. -Ashley was better to me.
I mean, I don't understand how anyone can be--
But that's besides the point.
I think I had expectations of you
that were unrealistic.
Well, I had no expectations of you.
I think, as viewers, we all kind of assumed
you and Aneesa were just as close,
given the history, so was that not the case?
I mean, we weren't any closer than me and Ashley.
[Devyn] You did say that Aneesa
never did anything for me in that clip.
-No. -I've done things emotionally.
Sure.
What did you do when you left filming, Aneesa?
[dramatic musical stinger]
-Yeah. -[dramatic music swells]
-[Nany] What did you do? -Ooh!
What do you mean?
[Nany] Who did you call? Who did you call?
What are we talking about?
Who did you call? You know who the [bleep] you called.
-We're not going to get-- -What did you do?
[music crescendos, fades]
[upbeat rock musical transition]
What did you do when you left filming, Aneesa?
Yeah.
Who did you call?
We're not going to get into any of these things.
Can we name drop?
-What happened? -What are we talking about?
-Kaycee! -Kaycee, her ex.
[challengers gasp]
[Nany] You knew that I had every [bleep] intention
to leave filming and call Kaycee,
and tell her that I hooked up with Will.
What did you do before you left?
First of all, I called her because I was worried about you!
-That's not your friend! -"I'm worried about Nany,"
that's what I said to her first,
but Nany doesn't want to bring that up.
I was actually the best I've been in years.
That's how much you don't know me.
Where do you and Nany go from here?
Nowhere. If we see each other on a show,
I'm not gunning for her, I'm not doing anything.
But I don't think there is anything salvageable.
I think on both ends, what are we gaining?
-I mean, yeah. -Exactly.
I just feel like I'm at a point in my life
where, when it comes to you,
I feel like I will always, always
be the villain in your story.
And for me, that's fine.
I will be the villain,
but I'm gonna be a villain from afar.
Oh yeah, I don't want any friendships.
I'll see you when I see you.
But I think we're-we're gonna dead it at that.
[Devyn] Okay.
Let's move on to something else.
This season of The Challenge tested loyalties,
friendships and alliances like never before.
Whether you were a Vet or a New Threat,
everyone got caught in the crossfires.
Take a look.
[Derek] Don't go in defeated.
That's the biggest thing.
[bleep] prove people wrong.
Justin's one of those gay boys
that wants to prove to himself and everybody
that he deserves to be here.
I wanna be like that big brother to Justin,
and kind of tell him, like,
"Hey, this is okay. I've been through this.
Let's get through this together."
So listen,
I'm not saying your name, so Blue's not saying your name.
[Justin] It's very relieving to know that Derek has my back.
I can trust him 110%.
[Lavin] Blue, Derek.
Unfortunately, my vote's gonna be for Justin.
[dramatic musical stinger]
[Justin] There is no way you looked me dead in the eyes
12 hours ago and told me
you would have my back no matter what,
and then you do the complete opposite.
I'm closing my tab out.
He's like, "Did you know there's two-for-ones?"
"Oh, no."
-That's what they told me. -Exactly. Told you.
Shut the [bleep] up!
Then he walks off with my drink.
So I didn't get a two-for-one, paid full price,
and now my drink's stolen.
-Jesus Christ! -I was paying my tab...
I can't control people, get into a fight for the dumbest thing.
[Izzy] Olivia.
Oh, I feel like I know so much about Olivia already.
I kind of want to work with her.
We are giving each other our word
that we're not gonna go against rookie.
The name we're gonna plant a seed in is Izzy's.
-Mm-hmm. -[Leo] Do not
under any circumstance
tell any Veteran.
My name's gonna be thrown around.
[Sydney] Izzy is a potential defector.
Any defector is going to get ousted.
-We have to say Izzy. -Izzy and Will.
Wow.
Izzy is someone that I work really closely with.
And she's also my informant.
So I would like her to come back in the house
so I can keep getting information. Duh.
Izzy, unfortunately for you,
this ends your time here on The Challenge.
Yeah, Izzy!
[Izzy] Sydney, Dee,
all those people that voted my name,
absolute snakes and no one will trust you after that.
[dramatic musical stinger]
[Will] Damn!
Let's get into our first betrayal.
So, Derek C.,
after that heart-to-heart with Justin,
you said that you're not gonna say his name
and then you did. How do you justify that?
[Derek] Well, at that point,
the two names that I had been hearing were Justin and Ben.
So at that point I said
I won't say your name because I'll say Ben's name.
We get up in the morning,
then literally, like, stuff starts changing,
we start hearing names.
I had just worked really well with Cara on 40.
And so her name was being brought up,
so I want to throw her a bone too.
And I was literally sitting there [bleep] my pants
like, "This is the worst thing that I'm gonna have to do."
I've never gone back on my word like that.
Ever. I don't regret saying the name,
I regret not telling him before.
But at that point,
I would rather have somebody that I just met be mad at me
than the alliance I was trying to show that I was loyal to.
[Justin] If he would've just come up to me
and told me face to face, like,
"I have this alliance, I want to stand true to them
because I have been working with them.
I'm gonna have to say your name,"
okay, hands clean. It's whatever.
I feel like that was an owed conversation.
Especially with the words he said,
'cause those weren't surface level words.
Right. You guys brought your identities into it.
Exactly. Those were very, very deep, personal words.
He looked at me and was like, "From gay to gay,
I want to be that big brother for you."
I took that after and was like, "Oh, I'm riding with him."
Going forward, do you think you'll ever trust Derek?
[Justin] Do I want to play with him again?
No. Do I want to work with-- No.
Do you agree with Turbo that he's "FF"?
[Justin] He has his moments for sure.
I had a moment. One moment
that I've apologized for.
I was up front with everything I did.
There was one moment, I atoned for it, done with it.
[Devyn] Let's get to our next betrayal.
Leo, did the bartender really tell you
there was a two-for-one deal
or did you make that up to get a drink from Derek?
I've been wanting to ask this all season!
So as he's closing his tab,
I'm-- I start just-- I pick up this drink.
I'm like, "Yo, like,
you know it's buy one, get one, right?
We can get more."
As I'm sipping his drink, he's like, "Wait.
That's my [bleep] drink." I'm like, "No, it's not."
I'm like, "Wait a minute.
Am I wrong?" I'm talking to myself in my head,
like, "No, we gotta double down.
Just got to go with it." So I'm like, "Nah, [bleep] that.
This is my drink! It's buy one, get one, don't trip."
[Aneesa] There was a buy one, get one.
I was gonna say, I think there was.
[Devyn] It existed.
But what you did get, Derek, is you got really mad.
Do you feel like--
Do you want to know what I got mad for?
[Leo] He told me to shut up and I couldn't do that.
Exactly, right there. I'm like, "Shh."
Are we going to? We're gonna-- Okay.
-[laughter] -So we're in there...
Not your [bleep] dog, but I'll listen.
No. That's why we got into an argument. You just did it again.
I'm just trying to explain
and he kept interrupting me.
I kept trying to explain,
and that's when I started getting mad, I go,
"Can you just shut the [bleep]-- Let me explain what's going on."
It wasn't even about the drinks.
I was just trying to explain what happened.
-I-I got you right now. -Two-for-one tonight?
-[chattering] -Right now, two-for-one.
Go grab a glass of wine.
I don't know how much the two-for-one was...
-Yeah, bust out the-- -Okay!
-Yeah! -Yes!
-Wow! -Yeah!
-[Leo] I ain't a cheap man! -[Derek] Drinks on me!
-[overlapping chatter] -[Leo] Come on, come on.
Great guy, great guy, great guy.
I do want to get to another betrayal that we saw happen,
which was the New Threats versus Izzy.
Izzy, watching it all back,
what's going through your mind seeing how things unfolded?
When it got to the point at which, you know,
we were doing the whole rookies alliance thing,
it was hard for me because I was at the bottom
of the rookies' list, that side of the house.
Um, and they wanted to vote in
the only Vet that I was really close with and had my back.
I also feel like a lot of people had opinions on
my relationship with Olivia,
like, "You're up her ass," and "She's using you."
Why do you care if she is?
It's probably better for your game if she is.
Olivia, actually, that's a good point,
because we often heard
Izzy refer to you as a friend,
you know, shares about you, and then we see you
kind of referring to her as an informant.
Did you guys hit true friendship level,
or at that time, was it still new to you
and you kind of just saw her as a number in the game?
No, of course she was a friend, and we were so honest
and open with each other.
But somehow, you know,
I'm-I'm tricking her, this or that,
and her choices are hers, she has her own brain.
I mean, I do believe that you were friends.
Um, but I also think that, Olivia, you see
and use friends as numbers.
She wasn't Olivia's one, two, three, four,
maybe not even five or six.
I was not using her, I didn't have this game plan,
like, let's get people together
or I'm gonna use her for votes or numbers
'cause she has all these people.
It just fell that way.
I want to be around people that make me laugh,
and she was one of them.
Izzy, do you have any final words for,
you know, anyone you feel may have betrayed you?
Um, I'll-I'll actually discuss what I said at the end
about calling you guys snakes.
So, the reason I said about you, Syd,
is because just before the deliberation,
I went up to you like,
"Look, we're supposed to be saying Jonna's name
but it's looking like it might be Dee."
You were like, "I'll say whoever's name. I'll say Dee."
To me, and I was like, "Oh, okay.
If we're gonna do that, we're gonna do that."
And then you completely switched and voted for me.
Yeah, I totally lied to you in the closet.
I could not let you sniff that it was gonna be you.
But I also did mean what I said, I did want to, like,
definitely work with you, just the time never came,
and I meant that fully,
because I did want to work with strong people.
And I really, really saw you as extremely incredible.
And I would love to see you come back.
Are you feeling okay?
It sounds like, Izzy, you had enough of an impact
to make a few people uncomfortable
by being a good and strong competitor.
I think it's time to make some other people uncomfortable,
um, and move on to another Hangnail.
Speaking of which, why don't we go with Sydney?
No shot I'm answering the question.
All right, head on over there, Sydney.
-[scattered applause] -[tense music playing]
[Sydney sighs] [bleep].
"Which Vet in this room
do you want to send to the retirement home?"
Sydney, do you want to answer that question
or do you want to nominate someone else?
Okay, I'll nominate somebody. Um...
Justin.
[laughter]
I think it's all obvious
which Vet I want to send to the retirement home.
I've said it online a hundred million times.
So Aneesa, I'm sorry,
but I feel like there are multiple times in challenges
where your bodies are catching up to you.
You can feel it, we can see it.
I don't care if my legs are falling off my body.
The one thing about me is I'm never gonna give up, never have.
I literally have to be medically [bleep] evacuated out of a place
for me to stop.
So unless I am going in a stretcher
or a body bag to that retirement home,
it might be a little bit longer.
[Devyn] All right, coming up,
when challengers mix gameplay with pleasure,
it's either true love or a total disaster.
Who's still snuggling and who wants to curse each other out?
Well, find out next.
[cheers and applause]
[Devyn] Hold on, I want to hear this.
Are you guys still hooking up?
[Johnny] Here's the thing...
You're a long-term booty call!
[dramatic stinger]
"Who's the most overrated challenger here?"
-[dramatic music plays] -[challenger] Really?
[music crescendos, fades]
[upbeat rock musical transition]
[all cheering]
Welcome back. I'm here with the cast
of The Challenge, season 41,
where sometimes the hookups are just as much
a part of the game as the eliminations.
Let's dive into who was locking lips,
crossing lines, and, uh, stirring the pot.
Take a look.
♪ You know you wanna watch this ♪
I'm always down for a bit of "polidickin'."
If some girls like me
and it's gonna be in my advantage
to let them think that I like them too, then so be it.
[Johnny] This looks tasty.
How are you feeling tonight? [laughs]
Like you're gonna get me into trouble with the entire house.
I'm not getting you into trouble,
you're getting me into trouble.
-How? -I have enemies because of you.
Dee and I used to hook up.
She's just my type and I would've had more respect
if she was like, "Look, this is what it is.
I'm gonna go over here with Johnny.
You do you." Okay, would've been cool,
but she didn't say anything.
[Justin] Stop looking over the edge.
[laughter]
Just go. Just go.
[sensual music playing]
[Will] Who's in my bed?
I like Will. I like having fun with him.
He's a good time.
Look, I am not here to be in a relationship.
I am very much here to enjoy myself and have fun.
[Cedric] I always wanna see my homies eat.
All right, I've never been a hater.
Good job, Will, you got it.
Nany, I wish y'all the best.
Look, it's been a while.
[woman laughs] How was it?
Girl...
[otherworldly music plays]
[train whistles]
You don't even know!
[funky sensual music plays]
I don't regret it at all.
-[laughter and cheering] -[Devyn] Well...
-And still the... -[Johnny] Nany's back!
I still don't regret it.
Nany's back!
The messy-- The messy Challenge that we know and love.
First, let's get into Izzy.
Your hookup kind of had the internet on fire, by the way.
There were rumors that
Rogan allegedly cheated on his girlfriend.
How do you feel about that?
Yeah, so basically, I came out thinking
we were gonna see each other, things like that,
and then I obviously turned on my phone,
and it had been leaked that, like,
his girlfriend had posted, "Happy four-year anniversary"
whilst we were filming.
So, yeah.
Before we started filming,
I hadn't seen him in years,
we were talking, and he was like,
"[bleep] is pretty rough. We broke up before the show,
but she's very upset, and like, it's still very fresh."
We had him on the official Challenge Podcast,
and he was very smitten with you.
I told him to send you flowers.
-Did he send you flowers? -Yeah, he did.
Have you spoken to him at all since?
Uh, obviously, at the start, it was really frosty,
'cause I was like, "What the hell?
I don't want to speak to you ever again."
But time has passed and I've heard different stories.
I spoke to you, you're really close with him, and...
we just need to have another chat.
Let's bring him out! Rogan, come on out!
[laughter and chatter]
[Devyn] No, he's not here,
but what do you guys think about the whole Rogan thing?
Did you think Izzy and Rogan were a cute pairing?
I went up to Izzy,
remember, that very first night, and I said,
"Girl, run, run, run!"
I feel like she is a well-rounded,
well put together woman,
who is classy
and Rogan is not.
[laughter]
[Devyn] All right, let's go to our next hookup.
Bananas.
You said you met Dee before filming this season.
-Yup. -How exactly did you two meet?
We met at The Challenge 40 finale party.
We chatted for a little bit, and we're both in South Florida.
[Dee] We knew of each other and we met
one month before February,
but we didn't speak about working together.
He was just like, "We should work out."
I'm like, "Yeah, sure." But we were both...
[laughter]
I know that one.
[Devyn] Did you guys work out in any other way beforehand?
No, afterwards.
You knew each other but you never hooked up
-before the show? -No.
I was saving my gift until the show.
[Devyn] Dee, are you guys still hooking up?
-Define-- -Yeah. Sometimes we're friends.
-Broke my heart! -Sometimes we're more. [laughs]
Put it this way, she has a-- Listen, she has a hotel key
-to my room... -No, I don't.
...but 'cause my blow-dryer works better than hers.
Bananas gets uncomfortable when talking about relationships,
and especially if it actually involves
any remote form of feelings.
-Yeah. -[Devyn] He deflects.
Bananas, you forget, I've known you for 17 years.
I think you're deflecting, you have feelings for Dee.
-He does! -Here's the thing,
I have a hard time, especially on the show,
really letting my guard down and opening up
because in the past, I have been burned.
[Devyn] Okay, you have some feelings.
Dee, do you have feelings back for Bananas?
Yeah, she does!
[Dee] Here's the thing,
we have different lifestyles.
I'm always traveling, he is,
so when we do get together, it's like
we're in a relationship for 48 hours.
And then we don't speak after. And it works.
It works for now, for myself, I mean.
[laughter]
You're a long-term booty call!
[Devyn] Yeah, good job, you guys. You got there...
[Leo] Yeah, yeah.
-That's a long-term booty call. -...in expressing your feelings.
While we get to see one success
and one potentially budding love story,
Will, you told challengers
that you and Dee hooked up in the hotel before filming.
-What?! -Was that...?
-[laughter] -What?!
Cover your ears, Banana.
Was that the only time you guys hooked up?
-That was it. -Okay.
But why were you upset over one hookup?
Were you expecting to continue in the house?
That's what I was thinking, then,
she told me, "I didn't like the way you acted
the first night we got there." I was wasted the first night
-in the house. -That red wine.
[chuckles] And then, she was like,
"That's why I'm getting away from you."
Then I found out that they had been talking before.
I will say, where I messed up, I wish I would've--
and I had this conversation with Yeremi on the bus early on,
I was like, "I'm kind of flirting with Bananas.
Should I tell Will?"
And Yeremi said, "You should."
-But I didn't end up... -I tried, Will.
I didn't end up telling Will because I thought,
"All right, we're nothing. I don't owe him anything.
Why would I tell him?"
Which was a little messed up
because then he had to find out from seeing it.
But I will say, there was never an overlap.
Here's the most awkward part.
Mine and Will's bunks were three feet apart.
Every morning we'd wake up staring at each other.
[awkwardly] "Well this is, uh, kind of awkward."
I was like, "Dude, that's all you.
I don't care. Do what you guys need to do."
And they did do what they needed to do, I guess.
So did you, Will.
Yeah, I moved on real quick!
[Devyn] Nany, you told producers,
"Girl, you don't even know."
-Girl, you don't even know. -You're right.
We don't know. So tell us. Is he the champ where it counts?
Oh my-- 1,000 percent! Are you kidding?
I'll give credit where credit's due.
Attaboy, Will!
It's not much work, but it's honest work.
[Devyn] Now, Cedric, you tweeted...
[Devyn reads text]
Are you saying you and Nany
were cuddled up before she and Will?
Can I be honest? Can I say something?
-Go ahead. -There was one moment, like,
"Do I like Cedric or do I like Will?"
[laughter]
-Cedric is like, so... -[challengers exclaim]
Like, honestly, I'm not gonna lie,
I had that moment where I was like, "Which one do I--
Which one do I go for?"
And honestly, Cedric was so sweet but he's too young.
I was literally closing my eyes, looking at the ceiling like,
"Damn, last night she was right here."
[laughter]
All right, few moments raised more eyebrows
than the mini final,
and the whispers of cheating that came with it.
Who cheated and who didn't?
We'll see if the challengers fess up right after this.
[rock music plays]
All you [bleep] cheated.
I didn't chuck any food into the bushes!
TJ is not gonna stand for it.
And speaking of the man,
-he's actually here now. -Really?
[Devyn] Hey, TJ!
CT, can you set the record straight for us?
Did you throw that daily?
[upbeat rock musical transition]
[all cheering]
Welcome back, this is The Challenge 41 Reunion.
And if there's one thing TJ hates, it's a quitter.
But if there's something he hates even more,
it's a cheater.
In the mini final, challengers were supposed to
eat their way through a checkpoint.
Some cleaned their plates,
while others tossed spicy shrapnel into the bushes.
Too many bent the rules, no one owned up,
and then ultimately, everyone paid the price.
[Sydney] Onions, garlic, ginger and chili peppers?
I don't think it could be that bad.
[coughing] Oh my God.
-[bleep]. -[gasps]
[Will] Gonna burn my ass coming out.
-[shudders] -This is your challenge, Turbo.
[Turbo] Oh my God.
This is my normal breakfast in Türkiye.
[retches]
[Cedric] Good job, Will! Good [bleep], baby!
All of a sudden, everyone turned into
[bleep] Joey Chestnut.
-[ding] -[breathes heavily]
[ding]
Am I missing something?
Like, is this not hard for y'all?
-[ding] -[heavy breathing]
[Michaela] That's not my onion, by the way.
[dramatic stinger]
-[Derrick] It's not? -[Michaela] No.
You guys can go back and check the tapes on that one there.
-Yeah. -See that one right there?
That's a chunk.
I don't know how many people cheated,
but it looks like everyone cheated.
[Sydney] Nany threw all the onions.
I can't believe my eyes right now.
Their whole [bleep] vegetable garden.
What a bunch of sorry [bleep]
cheating that bad with a full size of something.
[dark dramatic music plays]
[Jonna] Clearly, everybody else didn't eat.
If that's how it's gonna be,
I might as well take the same penalty if they get one.
The one thing that I hate more than quitters...
are cheaters.
[intense music playing]
[Lavin] Does anyone wanna confess?
[intense music swells]
As a result, we're gonna scrap the whole day.
So you ran the whole mini final for nothing.
Jonna, once you realized
there was all that food on the ground,
you decided if you can't beat them, join them.
What was the final straw for you?
I think the final straw was just how many onions,
and how many peppers,
but what they didn't show you is,
then the producer went down in the bushes,
got someone else's onion,
someone else's pepper and garlic and I ate it.
And then that's how I moved on.
I still ate someone else's [bleep].
And speaking of what we did see,
Dee, it definitely looks like it was you
throwing food in the footage.
Yeah, it was me. I will say something to TJ.
[laughter and clamoring]
Wait. The reason I threw it is because I looked back,
and there was already an onion by my bush.
So in my head, which doesn't make it right,
was, "[bleep] this. Why am I eating all of this
if someone threw their entire onion?"
I didn't realize there was a camera behind me, obviously.
[laughter]
I will say though, and I've said this in the past,
and Dee learned from the best,
"If you ain't cheating, Dee, you ain't trying."
So I brought a little something for you.
-Oh, what? -Oh my God.
Because your ass looks like an onion,
I think it's only appropriate
that your head should look like one too.
-Don't mess up her hair. -I'm not going to.
-Be gentle. -All right.
Bro, you were sitting on that [bleep] the whole time?
All you [bleep] cheated.
-[clamoring] -Who is we?!
I did not!
-Thank you! -The game's over now,
so you can be honest, who cheated?
-Raise your hand. -Raise your hand if you cheated.
They're still not gonna raise their hand.
I will raise my hand
when I see other people
-raise their [bleep] hand! -Theo, I need you to confess!
I didn't chuck any food into the bushes!
[clamoring]
I didn't chuck any food into the bushes!
It was in his pocket!
When I saw Leroy
and [bleep] him run past me
in the eating in five minutes,
I said, "Ain't no way in [bleep] hell!"
I want to hear from Lee, 'cause Lee,
you were the brave one to fess up.
How does it feel knowing that you disappointed TJ?
I love TJ, but my mental is like,
I knew that I couldn't do that.
I couldn't eat it. There was gonna be no way.
So I said, "You know what? I'ma cheat."
[laughter]
We have eaten a lot of nasty [bleep]...
-That was terrible. -...over 41 seasons.
Collectively, that had to have been the hardest thing
that I've ever done, period.
I'm a little-- I'm a little shocked to hear you say that.
I would rather be drowning, which I've done on The Challenge
than experience that again.
It was like [bleep] poison, absolutely.
You'd think though, after letting TJ down,
the house would be too upset to celebrate, but...
Nope. Dinner was full of laughs
and good vibes for everyone
except for Will,
who clearly wasn't in the mood.
[laughter]
I know it's all-- I'll wait.
[tense stinger]
Are we good?
I know it's all good--
good vibes right now, we're all loving each other,
but if you're gonna [bleep] cheat...
I don't wanna be with you.
Because if you cheat, and it's a partner day,
you've [bleep] both of us.
[Nany] Oh, God.
Look, I understand where Will's coming from,
but I don't think this was the time or place for that.
-[dramatic stinger] -[Aneesa] Yeah.
Super awkward.
Everything was so nice and then it's Will.
I said what a lot of us were thinking,
and they weren't gonna say it.
So I mean, I was kind of pissed off.
It didn't even bother me, what he said,
because I still would've did the same exact thing.
[laughter]
I get it and I respect it,
but my mama coulda came in and been pissed,
-"Oh well." -[laughter]
Well, I hope you've all learned
your lesson on cheating
because TJ is not gonna stand for it,
and speaking of the man, he's actually here now.
Give it up for the host of The Challenge,
TJ Lavin! Hey, TJ!
-[all cheer] -What's up, guys?
How you guys doing?
Let's get your opinion on how that mini final went down.
What was the most disappointing part in all of that?
To be honest,
when I saw that behind the back pass
to the bushes, I was like,
"She's learned that from somebody."
And I thought, maybe,
she learned that from CT
when he did the back behind the pass,
tennis shoe to Wes's face,
uh, in Iceland, so I kind of said, you know,
CT had to have cheated.
But nah, CT didn't cheat, man.
-[challengers exclaim] -Stellar guy, man.
I wanna say that on-on the telly
that I appreciate that-that,
you know, he's a real dude.
But at the same time,
you came all the way there, you came all the way this far,
and you are in the mini final.
Like, let's try to get this thing done right.
Let's try to make it happen.
I hope that, in the future,
we-we never have this problem again.
TJ, the New Threats came ready to play this season.
So who was your MVP of the New Threats?
Sydney.
-Wow! -Yeah!
Thank you, TJ.
From the second that I interviewed her,
I was like, "She's out of her mind."
-[laughter] -And then she's coming in here
with all this crazy attitude, that's fun to watch,
and her [bleep] -talking ability
along with her ability ability, is pretty damn good.
-I was impressed. -TJ, is there anything else
that you want to say to the challengers this season?
Yes, I would like for you to have
Olivia and Yeremi please stand up.
My grandma ass.
I was unable to be at the top for your victory,
so I just wanted to crown you two
and say congratulations,
you two are the champions
of season 41, Vets and New Threats.
-You are incredible humans. -[cheering]
Well done. Great job to both of you.
Deserved. Well deserved.
It didn't happen at the mountain, but I get it.
It was [bleep] tall and cold as [bleep].
It still means the exact same, so I appreciate you, man.
[Lavin] Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
I just love all of you guys, you are all my friends.
-I love you guys. -We love you!
-[Devyn] We love you, TJ. -Suck my ass, TJ!
[Devyn] We appreciate you, TJ.
I love everyone except for you, Bananas.
[laughter]
All right, see you guys. Take care.
[Devyn] Bye, TJ!
We've got a lot more to dive into.
More reunion up next.
-[dramatic music plays] -[Devyn] CT,
can you set the record straight for us?
Did you throw that daily?
-[clamoring] -CT threw it!
All right, enough!
"Who's the most overrated challenger here?"
Hmm...
Gabe.
[challengers exclaim]
[Devyn] Oh-ho-ho!
[upbeat rock musical transition]
[upbeat music plays]
Welcome back to The Challenge Season 41 Reunion.
One of the biggest controversies this season
came when CT couldn't make it up a rope ladder.
His stumble sent Leka into elimination,
leaving many of the challengers seeking justice for Leka.
[heavy rock music playing]
[Leka] I'm excited to have CT as a partner.
Might have to be scared of us.
Mm, scared of falling, I was thinking.
[CT] I was not afraid of going up,
I'm afraid of coming down.
[Leka] I need you, CT.
[music winds down]
This is bull[bleep].
-You got it, Aneesa! -Go, Leka!
It's starting to feel like he's throwing this challenge.
[intense music plays]
[CT] There are better ways to throw a challenge,
and humiliating myself wouldn't be the first option.
[Lavin] CT never made it up the ladder to the crossbeam.
So Leka, I'll be seeing you in the arena.
Guys, like, I'm 45 years old with bad knees.
Overweight and out of shape. Give me a break.
[dramatic musical stinger]
-[horn blares] -[Leka sighs]
Leka, you left it all on the field,
but unfortunately, this ends your time.
Love you, Leka!
We need to get CT in that elimination.
Yeah. If somebody that will make a move wins,
[bleep], my legs gonna break.
[Nany] I know, right? [laughs]
[Lavin] All right, CT, get up there!
[Nany] Oh, wow, now he can climb!
[Michaela] Drop it to me.
[CT exhales sharply]
[laughs heartily]
The Lord has shined upon me,
and he knows what I'm gonna do.
Throw it.
[funky upbeat music plays]
[challengers chant] Justice for Leka!
Come on, Michaela!
CT, I'll be seeing you in the arena.
-See you down there. -[horn blows]
[heavy breathing]
[grunting]
[horn blows]
[groaning]
[CT] A dub is a dub, I'll take it any way I can get.
Done.
-You did good. I'm proud of you. -Thanks. I appreciate it.
-You whupped some ass today. -You think, uh,
the rest of the house will count this as time served?
-No, I don't think so. -Yeah, I don't think so either.
[laughter]
Kept it real.
CT, can you set the record straight for us?
-Did you throw that daily? -No, I did not.
-No. -You didn't. Okay.
I never thought he threw the challenge,
even as his partner, however,
there were rumors going around of him making jokes
about throwing the challenge for the Vet women on the bus.
Then when you're in the challenge
and you're seeing him not perform at his best,
it leaves room for questioning.
My only question was, if it was a guys' day, I don't know
if he would've tried a little bit harder?
[Devyn] Turbo, why were you so convinced
that he was throwing that challenge?
[Turbo] He's throwing because I know how he's powerful,
he shouldn't come like this, you know?
This is disrespectful for our team.
We earn money here.
And we are fighting here.
And this woman's first season, go because of his lazy ass.
He's right. I deserved every bit of that flack I was getting
because it's not fair for everybody else
to have to be stuck with me if I'm not here to play.
And I've said this before, if I could make it up, I would.
So, CT, in the "Cyclone" challenge that came after,
you were able to do that when you weren't able to do the rope.
He wasn't able to do either one.
I didn't get all the way up.
The rope ladder was in the water.
The "Cyclone" was above water, about four feet above.
So, realistically, he probably climbed about the same height.
Do you feel like the rope was harder--
I think the rope was harder than a stable wall, for sure.
-Okay. -And, uh,
thank you, by the way, for giving me so much grace.
-Of course. -I was taking a lot of heat,
but I really do hope that you get another chance to prove...
-Thank you. -Like, the hype is real,
because, I mean, she beat every one of us.
Yeah, that was awesome.
It was amazing.
Michaela, so you had said,
"Look, if God shines down upon me,
He knows what I'ma do." Right?
And you threw the next challenge.
Was it really about getting justice for Leka,
or was it you wanting to get CT out of the house?
Was it a strategic move?
There could be multiple things happening at play
and they can all be to my benefit.
For me, at that time in the game,
again, there's a big group of people that I'm not in,
and there's a need to shift things around.
And CT, from what I could see,
was voting with this big group that I was not in,
but then again, also, at this point in the game,
I'm trying to find my friends as well.
And so when I see a big chunk of people,
rookies, who I need to be close with,
especially the men because they're gonna be my partners,
this is the opportunity. Y'all want him in?
Get up out of here.
For her to be like, "You know what?
I'm gonna do everybody a favor here."
Yeah, get up out of here.
-[CT] Smart play. -For the people who thought
that CT threw it initially,
and maybe have changed now,
do you feel like you owe CT an apology?
I'll apologize to you.
You guys don't owe me anything. I did it to myself.
I should have came in properly,
and I think the reasons why people wanted me gone
was 'cause I was a liability to their game.
I think it may have been a different story--
It doesn't matter how you come in,
-you could still win. -Yeah!
-Exactly! Exactly! -It don't matter.
Yeah, but I need to come with respect to the game.
Can we also acknowledge how great he looks?
-We can! -Hey!
-Stop! All right. Enough!
-Enough about me! -Hey!
-Coming up next, we got-- -[laughter]
Coming up, more fan questions,
and trust me, they don't hold back.
These questions will hit harder than an elimination exit.
Next.
I promised the fans if I got this gig,
I would ask the questions they wanted to know.
What led you to say that you were gonna
-punch her in the face? -Um...
Always chirping in my ear, talking [bleep].
Girl, come on.
[Johnny] Met a lot of great rookies
-and my future wife, so... -[music winds down]
[all clamoring]
[upbeat rock musical transition]
[all cheering]
Welcome back to the reunion.
We've got time for one more Hangnail.
Adrienne, you are no stranger to pressure,
so let's see if you buckle under this pressure.
Please, and do a strut, you look amazing in that dress.
"Who's the most overrated challenger here?"
[dramatic musical stinger]
All right, you have an option,
you can either answer that question
or you can nominate someone else to be the Hangnail.
-[Adrienne] Hmm... -What do you choose?
Gabe.
-[Devyn] Oh! Oh-ho-ho! -[laughter]
Are you saying Gabe's overrated or you want to nominate Gabe?
You wanna nominate him? Okay.
So, this is what I'm gonna say.
I think that
the most overrated challenger
is gonna be the person who huffs and puffs,
forgets his inhaler...
-[laughter] -...can't climb up the hill,
and made me fall on a dagger for him,
so it's gonna be Theo.
-[cheering] -[Devyn] And you answered, Gabe!
Well played.
-Theo? -[Nany] That was fair.
No, that's fair.
[laughter]
I do have a few more questions.
I promised the fans if I got this gig,
I would ask the questions they wanted to know.
Derek, you said on IG Live, you had a bathroom emergency
on the side of the mountain in episode one.
Macy from North Carolina wanted to know,
-"What exactly happened?" -Well, Macy, you're a freak.
-[laughter] -[Derek] You nasty.
Uh, no, so when we got there, like,
I don't know what happened in the hotel,
I just either ate something that
upset my stomach,
bubble guts are coming, I'm like, "All right."
So we're going and I'm like, "Oh my God."
And I'm wearing gray shorts.
Gray sweat shorts and a white shirt, I'm like,
"Oh my God, I'm literally gonna [bleep] myself."
Oh my God, that's horrifying.
-He straight up disappeared... -So I went to the side--
[challenger] Hilarious.
I'm holding on like this off the cliff...
[laughter]
Used my gloves, used my panties...
-[indistinct chatter] -[laughter]
The saddest part is that was day one for you.
-[Derek] That was day one! -That was day one.
Oh my God.
Great representation of what I can do.
Now I had a question about
this interaction between Olivia and Michaela, actually.
Check it out.
[challengers shouting, cheering]
-Theo. -Where's your partner?
Go get your partner!
[Michaela] Of course, cheating Theo.
[scoffs] Nothing.
Girl, let him live, let him live.
[indistinct] Just give it a second.
Don't talk to me before I punch you in your face.
[bleep] out of my face, Olivia.
-Excuse you? -Yeah, excuse you.
I would never talk to you like that.
[Michaela] We're not friends. Don't talk to me.
Michaela, if you want to say something, say it to my face.
Hey, somebody move Olivia. I'm on nine and a half.
Don't [bleep] come over here.
[tense music crescendos, fades]
[Devyn] Now, Michaela, fans want to know,
it's obvious that you weren't allied with Olivia,
but in that moment, what led you to say
that you were gonna punch her in the face?
Um, essentially,
I was irritated
because there was a situation where
Leroy and America,
they were kind of the underdog team,
and they performed really well in that challenge,
and it was one where, at the end,
you have a little straightaway
and you cross with your partner
and throw your detonator down.
That's a special moment.
Nobody would've expected them to come in, whatever,
third or fourth in that challenge.
But instead of them having that moment,
Theo literally took off, left Adrienne in the dust,
and he crossed the line by himself.
And then just stood there in the way.
And for me, it was kind of like,
you're taking away someone else's moment.
It wasn't something egregious that I said, it was literally,
"Man, Theo always doing something."
"Theo always--" Whatever I was saying.
But when someone jumps in front of me and says,
like, gives me the finger wag,
-"Stop talking about him." -[Olivia] I did not do that.
-Whatever-- -So there's obviously
things that build up to things that happen, right?
I don't care if she has an opinion.
Not gonna bother me one time.
It was the case of it happening all the time,
and I feel like it was always right next to me.
Always chirping in my ear.
-No. -Talking [bleep].
Listen, I listened to you.
Talking [bleep]. I didn't even say anything horrible to you.
I said, "Girl, come on. Give it a break, like, please.
This isn't that serious."
Because the way you were approaching it was very...
I made a statement and I let it go.
I made a statement...
To be fair, you weren't planning on punching her...
Absolutely not.
Always you saying stuff about us, yeah?
And no one else is here trying to police what we do.
It's always you having something snotty to say
against either me, flippin' Olivia,
Izzy, for some reason.
Always got to be the one. No one else does it on that side.
No one else moved how you did,
but you always felt, you know,
that you had to say something all the time.
And you're acting like I took away their win.
But also, that's not what you said,
didn't say that in the moment. You're saying that now,
-that's what the reason was... -I didn't explain in the moment.
Again, again, I wasn't having a conversation with anyone.
-How was I cheating? -I was expressing something
that I felt in the moment that wasn't-- it was about him,
but I wasn't talking to him like I wasn't talking to you.
I had no awareness of what you were,
so we need to figure out why you think that
so much of what I say and do
is directed towards you--
Girl, what do you mean?
-It's important to me-- -I'm lying then.
It's important to me,
based on the identity that I have,
that I very clearly and directly address
anything that associates me with being a violent individual.
I take it very seriously.
-You definitely do. -That was my one moment
this season where I was
un-- unintentional and uncareful with my words
towards you because I was so irritated.
And I know that is not something that I want to portray,
which is why I apologized to you, did I not?
-Yes, you did. -The very same day,
in the evening or the next morning,
because I'm very intentional about how I present myself
because I know how Black women
have been presented on television.
I'm not saying that I was scared that you were gonna punch me.
Exactly, I know you weren't scared,
nothing in my character that would do that.
I think this is-- this is what the point is
of this whole clip we just saw.
I feel like there was a lot of deep down hostility
from you to me,
just like there was, it was the same.
And that's the thing, it wasn't.
You-you feel like it came from me
because you have it towards me.
You feel like I have hostility towards you
because you actually have hostility towards me.
I don't care at this point. It's done.
I accept your apology.
-Okay. -[Devyn] It seems like
we're not gonna get anywhere here on that,
but still ahead, before the Vets became legends,
they were New Threats, so we're gonna take a look back
at their very first days on The Challenge.
-[chattering] -Be very afraid.
Be very afraid.
[upbeat rock musical transition]
[all cheering]
Welcome back to the reunion.
Before the legends were made, these Vets were just rookies
stepping into The Challenge for the first time.
Different stories from different seasons,
but one thing in common,
they all came in hungry
and instantly a new threat to the game.
Let's take a look down memory lane.
-Wow! -Yes!
All right, everyone, my name is TJ Lavin.
Welcome to your first challenge.
[droning whir]
I'm your host, my name is TJ Lavin.
This is your first challenge.
Hi, I'm Aneesa, from The Real World: Chicago.
I'm CT, from Beantown.
It's Johnny Bananas.
I got Aviv right here.
I'm ready to get this show on the road.
-[Lavin] Derrick! -I'm here to kick ass
and, uh, give it everything I got.
[challengers shout]
-[Lavin] Leroy. -This [bleep] about to win.
So we're not gonna worry about voting.
-[Lavin] Nany. -We're starting fresh.
[Lavin] Devyn.
I'm pageant princess, heels and proper.
-[woman] Derek. -I'm amped up, ready to go.
This is my first Challenge.
I'm Ashley. I'm doing The Challenge
to push my limits.
Nia, aka, "Hurricane Nia."
[woman] Michaela is a superwoman.
-[challengers] Theo! -[Theo] I'm a track athlete.
My name's Rogan.
[man] Best girl is Cara Maria.
-[Lavin] Turbo. -[grunts]
-[Lavin] Olivia. -I'm obviously not gonna quit.
I could never quit on my partner.
[Lavin] Jonna.
-[horn blows] -My adrenaline's pumping.
We won! It's a pretty cool feeling.
-[indistinct] -[challengers shout]
I'm not really making sex noises.
I'm just making noises like bodybuilders do.
-[moans] -When they work out, like, ugh!
-[moans sensually] -[upbeat funky music plays]
[indistinct]
[Turbo] Who is ready to die for first place? Just me.
-[tense music plays] -[man] Come on, man!
Shut the [bleep] up!
[Johnny] I'm on my way home.
You're a good sport. See you in the future, no doubt.
You apparently have a list
of people that you wanna go up against.
This is horrible, and I've got to figure out a way
to get out of this situation.
[challengers shouting]
-[blows air] -[thud]
[Olivia] I broke my nose.
I don't even know what just happened to me.
I'm never gonna stop fighting.
We're staying here, we're not going anywhere.
[music fades]
-[Ashley] I'm gonna cry. -[cheering]
[Devyn] CT,
in one of your first challenges,
it involved running in a chicken suit.
How has the game evolved since then?
Honestly, you got to-- you got to admit,
it's impressive how it's evolved and how they continue to
just continuously push the envelope.
It's a whole different game now.
Derrick K., on your first season, you came to party.
Tell us about the craziest Challenge party...
-[Derrick] Oh boy. -...that you've experienced.
[laughter]
-I mean, what you can tell us. -Well, this is-- this is--
The reason-- The reason why
there are cameras with us
on Saturdays now
are because of parties like this.
I mean, they'd leave us in the house,
and people would just leave, go next door, find people,
they would come back, have these stories
with people that they hooked up with next door.
And we're doing Slip 'N Slides
on the table with ketchup and mustard.
We used to have fully stocked alcohol closets at all times.
We're throwing-- we're destroying the house.
I mean, they're the stories that are untold
and not talked about because they're so...
Because they're that legendary.
[overlapping chatter]
[Johnny] We did the island, okay,
and you had to take a boat to get to where we were at.
We had no food, but there was a keg there every day, all day.
And rice! We had rice!
And rice. Beer and rice.
[laughter]
Bananas, you were eliminated
on day one on your first Challenge.
What happened?
Usually the rookies are the sacrificial lamb.
-I was the first one to go. -It's Tyler's fault too.
Actually, yeah, first time I got betrayed by my roommate
from Key West, he had an option of any guy in the house
and he chose me to go against in elimination.
And in the elimination, basically,
it was basically a "who could call
the other person's bluff first."
And I called his,
and that's one of my biggest regrets.
TJ gave me a piece of advice that's always stuck with me.
He said, this is true on The Challenge to this day,
"Don't ever put your fate in the game in somebody else's hands."
And I did.
And it was a huge learning moment.
And, um, but it really did
ignite the fire for me, 'cause going home first
on my first Challenge, I think what it did
is it humbled me
and it showed me how difficult this game is
and how to respect it.
And then, in summation,
'cause I've done 25 seasons since,
uh, we've seen a lot of new rookie classes come and go,
and I have to say, of all the seasons I've done,
this is the most impressive rookie class we've seen
-possibly ever. -[Nany] Yeah.
As a protective father over this franchise,
I'm like, actually happy with like,
whose hands it might be left in once we, you know, decide to go.
[overlapping chatter]
-Met a lot of great rookies. -Mic drop.
And my future wife, so...
-That was beautiful-- -[all gasp]
And that, my friends, is all we have time for
on The Challenge 41 Reunion.
I want to thank the Vets and the New Threats
for being here and bringing the heat this season.
What a ride it has been.
I'm Devyn Simone, thanks for watching.
-[upbeat music plays] -[all cheer]
Get in here! Get in here!
Turbo, everybody, get in here! Come on!
[bleep] group hug, everybody!
Get in here!
"Season 41" on three.
One, two, three!
[all] Season 41!
[all cheer]
[upbeat rock theme music playing]