DC ExtraTime: The Challenge Comes to a Bar's Rescue

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Tyrie (right) w/ Jon Taffer (center) & staff of
Oasis/Taza bar [TW @Susie_Gentleman]

While this year of 2020 has seen far more negative headlines than positive ones, one bright spot in this has seen the one show we wrap ourselves around more than any other in the world of MTV Reality, The Challenge, finally receive some overdue recognition in being the first of its kind reality competition series in this industry. Not only did so many of you look to the most recent season of Total Madness for a weekly escape in what was for a time the only major pro sport that was going on this year, it has also shined a light on the people who have competed on this show at one time or another.

A recurring instance in recent years has been of many past Challenger (or an alum from other series we cover) making an appearance on shows outside of what we cover and appearing with big names in the entertainment industry, and we here at DCBLOG have always made it a point to spotlight each and every one of those cameos. In the past year, those who have competed in the past have shown up on Dr. Phil, Married at First Sight, Say Yes to the Dress, Holey Moley, HGTV's House Hunters, and of course Bayleigh & Da'Vonne returning to where it all began for them on Big Brother All-Stars, among others. Better yet, we just might as well call this spinoff: The Challenge: Invasion of Other Networks.

In the instance of what we have for you next here, this is the first of a two-parter involving two members of one past Real World season from a decade & a half ago: the second will feature a lady who was part of a shower threesome when she moved into that house, then went from competing two times on The Challenge to now heading up one of American sports' biggest organizations... and we'll be featuring a member of the cast of the Denver season spying in on what goes on in her job as head of a bowling company when we'll feature her episode of CBS' Undercover Boss to come later.

But before we tell that story, there was that other time where someone from her same cast that lived at 5,280' above sea level found himself on national TV. But this one didn't involve finding himself in the middle of a hot-tub threesome, or when he was hit at by his Challenge partner. But rather, he was a bit part player in the time where the cameras from MTV's then-male focused & now-more premium sibling came walking into his workplace at the time back home in America's heartland, and a show that might be considered a cross between Extreme Makeover and that place "where everybody knows your name."