DISCLAIMER: Contains Potential Spoilers, Please Read with Caution Below.
BY DC CUEVA
So, hope you all got to enjoy this week's episodes of Are You The One?, The Challenge, Floribama Shore and the season premiere of Teen Mom OG as MTV alums Cheyenne & Cory join that family. DCBLOG will have all of that coming up for you here starting tomorrow as we usher in the month of October in grand fashion... but first, something special to begin this week's blog wave.
If you're a TV nut, then you are surely like that kid on Christmas rejoicing to your favorite shows returning for the fall, as well as wrapping your arms around new ones too. For us here - and for now, our focus is on a threesome... an MTV Reality threesome that is, with the first two shows headed into their business half of the season, and Floribama to soon wrap up its summer. And now, a lot of you are now getting to watching Teen Mom for the first time as those who we loved on Rivals III now join Maci, Catelynn, Amber and fellow new mom Bristol Palin to the show.
Something we sometimes do here is to take a peek ahead, look into the crystal ball and find out what the future holds for a show of interest on here. We don't do it as much as those of you who talk about it among yourselves and on other sites do, but when it's necessary we'll have a first opportunity to scratch the surface a little bit on it before it goes out to everyone else when the time comes. That's what we'll be doing on here as, now, we'll have this Look Ahead to something that will be keeping our eye out for, and will of course be covering it wall to wall once we arrive there.
Last time out here - and as this is posted on Mean Girls Day of October 3rd, we discussed MTV's reentry into celeb-reality television with Lohan Beach House, as Lindsay Lohan will be at the helm of a new and fabulous European resort in the Greek islands... she's been in the news lately with her bad behavior once again taking over. And one of those who has been reportedly been cast to be part of that new show that debuts in early 2019 is someone who, if you're a Challenge & Real World fan, is familiar... check that out when you can and to give you a clue about that: if you watched the second season premiere of Jersey Shore Family Vacation and the guests who came to Ronnie's baby shower you know what we mean.
For the show that received the ultra-coveted spot of airing after the first rendezvous to Miami this past spring, Ex On The Beach introduced America to something that's been keeping those in Europe and overseas on their toes of hot girls and guys having to go through absolute hell seeing the past come back to bite them in the tush. It ushered in a new way for a lot of those who loathe romantic reality shows to get a chance to see your favorite reality stars and their exes make a vacation feel like they wanted to go back home and not want to live with the ones they thought they buried in the past coming back to haunt them like Halloween ghosts.
The show rode that post Jersey Shore-wave to be MTV's highest-rated totally new series in several years, and helped fuel the channel's reality re-embrace. Season 2 of Ex On The Beach is now filming down in Malibu as it's slated to drop during the winter and it will definitely warm us all up with those sights of summer during the season of snow. Obviously, the sequel will have much to live up to after what we saw when Cory, Alicia, Paulie, Angela and the rest of those who made up that first cast had to go through in Hawaii.
For what we have ahead of us for Season 2, there will be a new group of those who will find themselves in that spot of having to ask themselves, "Whose Ex Is Next?" And we'll discuss who will be in that position after the jump... so again, get ready for some tea around the hotstove after dark.
After what we got to witness in April, May and June of this year, one thing that left those who stuck around after MTV's biggest show wondering what they could do next for an American version of an MTV overseas sensation, and how to follow that up.
For what to expect, it will follow very much on the lines of what we saw on Season 1, and if the buzz on the grapevine is correct there will be plenty of drama to explode in the Southern California sun. Two things will remain the same though: Romeo Miller will once again emcee the proceedings of welcoming the singles for the first time, the exes when they arrive, and preside over the Cut or Crush eliminations... and we should be serenaded in between scenes by the voice of Wilborn Ferrene.
As for those who you'll be seeing when we arrive for Season 2, there will be something for everyone. The singles -- and ultimately, the exes -- who will be coming into the house will be a mixture of those that MTV viewers will be familiar with from having watched their original shows on the channel, and veterans of the whole reality TV landscape that will bring their fans to the MTV system for the first time. And there should also be those who've been cast the traditional way with no prior reality experience that we might not know about now, just like what we had with Tor'i, Victoria and Chris.
For what to expect, it will follow very much on the lines of what we saw on Season 1, and if the buzz on the grapevine is correct there will be plenty of drama to explode in the Southern California sun. Two things will remain the same though: Romeo Miller will once again emcee the proceedings of welcoming the singles for the first time, the exes when they arrive, and preside over the Cut or Crush eliminations... and we should be serenaded in between scenes by the voice of Wilborn Ferrene.
As for those who you'll be seeing when we arrive for Season 2, there will be something for everyone. The singles -- and ultimately, the exes -- who will be coming into the house will be a mixture of those that MTV viewers will be familiar with from having watched their original shows on the channel, and veterans of the whole reality TV landscape that will bring their fans to the MTV system for the first time. And there should also be those who've been cast the traditional way with no prior reality experience that we might not know about now, just like what we had with Tor'i, Victoria and Chris.
For the basics to this, we'll have those whose stories date back to the AYTO house, those who will follow in Chase, Angela and Paulie by coming into this world by way of Bachelor Nation, from Bad Girls Club and from Big Brother, and for the first time from Survivor. We'll even have something that, by our count, has never occurred in an Ex On The Beach season either in America or overseas of those from the LGBT community having to deal with their past coming back. And if we thought we had seen the last of that Teen Mom who just got replaced on her own show, then it's time that we get to see THAT girl again... this time on a different show.
So, as compiled by that site Vevmo, here's a partial list of cast members for Season 2 of Ex On The Beach USA, only mentioning those with prior reality TV experience... beginning with Team MTV. And from our count, the EOTB Season 2 "Who Are These Newbies" post that introduces new cast members for the sake of MTV viewers on here will be much larger than what we did for Season 1.
THE RUMORED CAST (Partial List)
♥ ANGELA BABICZ RETURNEE (EOTB Season 1)
♥ DIANDRA DELGADO (AYTO Season 6)
♥ FARRAH ABRAHAM (Teen Mom OG)
♥ JOZEA FLORES (Big Brother 18 & The Challenge)
♥ MALCOLM DRUMMER (AYTO Season 6)
♥ NURYS MATEO (AYTO Season 6)
♥ NELSON THOMAS (AYTO Season 3 & The Challenge)
♥ NICOLE RAMOS (The Challenge - Bloodlines)
♥ SIMON SARAN EX (Teen Mom OG, Farrah's ex)
♥ TOR'I BROOKS RETURNEE (EOTB Season 1)
♥ CHAD JOHNSON (The Bachelorette)
♥ COREY BROOKS (Big Brother 18)
♥ CHEYENNE PARKER (LOGO's Fire Island)
♥ JAY STARRETT (Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X)
♥ JANELLE SHANKS (Bad Girls Club: Miami)
♥ MAYA BENBERRY (E's Catching Kelce)
♥ MORGAN WILLETT (Big Brother: Over The Top)
♥ MONTE MASSONGILL (Big Brother: Over the Top)
♥ MURRAY SWANBY (E's What Happens at The Abbey)
COURTESY: VEVMO
List will be updated after this is first posted Oct. 3
Of the notables listed above, there are several takeaways...
♥ For those into the Trifecta like we are here, the triangle that took place on AYTO last fall with Malcolm, Didi and Nurys will once again play itself out just as it did in New Orleans. They'll find themselves in the same spot Taylor was last season when she dealt with Andre, Cameron and Joe.
♥ Farrah, of course, has had her relationship with Simon documented on Teen Mom OG, and she seems to have been given free ride with her social media in doing things with her fans while filming, and promoting an upcoming exhibition boxing event involving her taking place next month.
♥ Having been on Champs vs. Stars I and becoming the first spinoff competitor to jump to the actual Challenge, Jozea makes history as the first gay person to appear on either EOTB or AYTO. He will likely be linked with Murray and Cheyenne, who appeared on shows catering to the LGBT crowd.
♥ While appearing on multiple Ex On The Beach series are common in the U.K. version (all four EOTB alums on Vendettas - Kayleigh, Joss, Melissa and Rogan - have done so as have other fellow British alumni), Angela will become the first castmate to return to EOTB USA... same goes for Tor'i from last season as well. We probably know whose ex of each other are.
♥ When we saw Nicole on her four previous Challenges, she's not been as prominent in the drama on Bloodlines, Rivals III or Dirty 30 and was the first one to go on Vendettas. EOTB will be her first opportunity to become a major figure and shave off the tag of being Nany's cousin.
♥ Nelson may have become a Challenge force with the Young Bucks and nearly stole an Invasion win from C.T., but he got his MTV start on AYTO Season 3. He joins many other alumni from the love fest who'll be represented on the channel's second romantic reality series.
♥ Those who watched their original seasons know that Chad and Corey have dynamic personalities, and so does Jay, Janelle and Morgan after the BB girl took out the digital-only Over The Top season. When these combine with the rest of the house, things may make for something big.
We've talked here before about the task of having to follow up an incredible first season of a new act with something just as good as the original... most recently Floribama Shore in our friends in PCB again delivering the goods on Season 2. For here, there's a cast who are familiar to both MTV fans like a lot of you are and those in the whole reality universe who'll tune in when Season 2 debuts.
On paper, there's enough of a strong dynamic among this partial list of castmates, as well as the others with no reality experience and of course their exes whose details are sketchy, but will sure to bring the heat to the house. And if everything is true from reading the threads on Vevmo, then we should have quite an incredible season coming our way either after AYTO ends or in the new year.
And what about the house? It may not be as spectacular or as large as the estate Justin Bieber once stayed at in Hawaii, but being out by the Pacific will sure offer a nice backdrop to what we have ahead of us. Below on his Instagram @RomeoMiller, our host has had the chance to spend a few moments in that crib that looks like one of those houses that might be familiar if you watched The Hills. This will tide you over until we get to do this all over again.
- I AM DC
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Updates:
- #1: Oct. 6 to include Nelson
- #2: Oct. 8 to include Tor'i
- #3: Oct. 10 to include Monte
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