Here, we have featured those two times where Are You The One? alumni and a girl from an often-forgotten Real World season have donned a Disney outfit, Christmas dresses and got down on the dance floor on the modern-day revival of Let's Make A Deal. There was that time where we saw a guy who was there when I began following MTV Reality on a social basis go onto The Price is Right but used his original name instead of the name on the back of his two Challenge jerseys. And there was that time when a future Hurricane and a Brooklynite fell in love on a Voice-style dating show.
For the next two nights, MTV will take center stage on ABC when we get to see how it all started for Chad Johnson, Chase McNary, Daniel McGuire and Robby Hayes when they were on JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette before they invaded Ex On The Beach and Siesta Key. But before that trip down memory lane tomorrow night with plenty of roses & rosé on offer, tonight the casts of Jersey Shore and The Hills face off on one of TV's most enduring programs whose lineage dates back over five decades and before all but one of the contestants were even born.
And that brings us to this latest edition of Before They Were MTV Stars, where one notable member of this year's Challenge cast took her talents to after she was part of a Big Brother season that debuted two years ago this weekend. This story also involves someone who she was at war with on Total Madness the other night, who also had her own moment on a couple of the occasions of when Big Brother Takes Over a Television Game Show.
THE "DAYTON DYNASTY"
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The man who committed the famous faux pas of screwing up the Miss Universe winner has also been in the driver's seat of the summertime spinoff, Celebrity Family Feud, since ABC began filling its summer schedule with reenergized versions of classic game shows under the banner "Summer Fun & Games." Everything about the format is the same as the syndicated one: a face-off to begin each set, families trying to guess as many of the top answers on the big board in the quest to 300 points, and them trying to get to 200 in the Fast Money round to win the big bucks. That is, except that the "family" is comprised of celebrities.
Tonight and straight out of the drama of Angelina's wedding night a week ago, Snooki, Mike "The Situation," JWOWW and Deena will represent the Jersey Shore cast, and are joined by Uncle Nino subbing for Vinny who's out in Vegas for A Double Shot At Love. And The Hills will be represented by Spencer & Heidi, Audrina, Whitney and Frankie as they prepare for the eighth overall season of their show later this year. And both teams will compete for charity, just as Chase and Daniel did when they were part of a Bachelor-themed CFF match in 2017 against a girls team that included Robby's Bachelor in Paradise ex Amanda Stanton.
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Then of course, came Big Brother: two years ago yesterday, she came into Season 20 of America's most scrutinized summer house on a break from her job serving as a flight attendant, and she had no idea that she would be a changed person from when she entered. And those who saw Total Madness this past Wednesday saw the outburst Bay had on eventual champ Kaycee Clark after a nomination vote that didn't go her way (more on her shortly...).
It harkened back to her blow-up at Tyler Crispen after alliance member (and Fessy's girlfriend) Haleigh Boucher revealed the hacker twist and saw Bay become the first jury member, who cast the deciding vote for Kaycee on finale night. And it was before that there that Chris "Swaggy C" Williams got down on one knee, and #Swayleigh became official with an engagement ring, all after a short stay in the house that saw him become a household name. But that's not all...
Five years earlier, another member of the Daytons had her moment on a TV game show: in 2013, Brittany Dayton went on The Price is Right just after Real World St. Thomas' Trey Weatherholtz bid $1 to win a surfboard competing with his actual first name Walter. But Brittany did one better than the 2-time Challenger: wearing a tiara, she spun her way into the showcase showdown, put down a successful bid and won herself a sailboat & a trip worth over $20,000. And it was no surprise that she was tasked with leading the group, thus she got to represent them in the first face-off and answering the response question should the opposition strike out after getting three wrong answers.
In real life, the Daytons' appearance was taped in early summer 2018 prior to Bay moving into the Big Brother house, but it wasn't after she had settled back into the real world that she would see herself on national TV for a third time in nineteen months. And in mid-November that year, the Daytons officially made it onto Family Feud, facing off with the Harris family from Charlotte... and this was how they fared the first time out...
In the end, the Daytons ended the Harris family's three-day reign as champions, two short of what's needed to win that brand new car for winning five in a row. And Brittany, Bayleigh, Bre, Michael & Robin advanced onto Fast Money: two family members volunteering themselves to face Steve, answer five questions within 20 and 25 seconds, and hope they get to the magic number of 200, and score $20,000. And Brittany and Bayleigh chose themselves to face the bright lights...
They didn't get the job done on that first day, but the Daytons won the following day to earn another shot at $20,000...
They did one better after all of that, and they won a third game and got a chance to double their winnings... but this time it was the dad who went out first before his daughter.
In the end, it was a 1-2 record in Fast Money, and the Daytons left town with a three-day total of over $21,000... just about matching the same amount in prizes Brittany won on her TPIR appearance. They had cemented the family's nickname "Dayton Dynasty," which lives on as the name of Bre's realty firm in the family's hometown.
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KAYCEE ON JEOPARDY! (Sort Of...)
Shortly after, sports gambler James Holzhauer started his 33-day stint on the program, earning $2.46 million in winnings over his 32-game winning streak. That earned him a spot in January's Greatest of All Time event, where he finished in second place ahead of the show's all-time money winner Brad Rutter, and behind the winner of that series, all-time game show champion Ken Jennings, and where both gentlemen can boast a $5 million career on television.
To be mentioned as an answer on Jeopardy and by Alex is anyone's dream, and for Kaycee she had her moment shortly after she was crowned winner of Big Brother 20. All that she could write on Instagram below was, "That one time I was a Jeopardy question 😳.... did the guy answer correctly?!?! 🤔 • Still blown this happened. Grateful 🙏🏽"
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