BY DC CUEVA
Last Wednesday night after episode 3 of The Challenge: Total Madness aired, DCBLOG offered an appreciation and thanks to two alumni of that show who have become nurses in their post-MTV life. Road Rules alum & Inferno champ Kendal Sheppard and AYTO alum & 5-time Challenger Amanda Garcia have certainly garnered much respect from the Twitter-sphere for being part of the most important workforce in this country right now: those who work in hospitals and healthcare to care for those battling the coronavirus and who are working for us during this unprecedented time in our lives.
The beauty of this hobby turned at-home profession for me is that my phone is always on and where I'm always available for any notifications that pop up... and that includes any tips to stories that I write on here to add any additional context if it is needed to be updated, like any reporter. But after I posted my link on my Twitter this past week, Kendal let me in on someone else who has also done their part to be part of the true heroes of this spring in helping to contain the spread of a virus that has shut down everything in our world the past month and for the near future.
For this follow-up, you have to go back over two decades to where it all began for one of the first Real World roommates to come from the LGBTQ+ community, and who then became the very first openly gay competitor on The Challenge. And it took for one of cable news' most prominent figures to bring a nurse from America's Midwest to the forefront, as he has now joined the many thousands who have descended upon the one place in the entire U.S. that has been most affected by COVID-19, and where nearly a third of all the cases reported in this country have been in its largest city.
