DC ExtraTime: Another One for Mr. MTV Baby Daddy

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On the pre-Christmas weekend in December 2017 -- in between the first $1 million season of The Challenge and the start of the ensuing invasion by the British and beyond, a tremor jolted the MTV landscape from, fittingly enough, earthquake country in Los Angeles. There on a winter's Saturday night - and while some of his fellow Challengers were partying in Chicago prior to the debut of Vendettas, Cory Wharton returned from a few months' hiatus from social media of filming that Challenge and Season 1 of Ex On The Beach back to back to announce something that happened to him while he was away on his extended fall sojourn.

There, Cory announced in a picture posted on Twitter, Instagram and similarly with someone he met on a past series, that he was the father of the baby of Are You The One? Season 3 alum and Rivals III finalist Cheyenne Floyd, Ryder K., who was six months old when the news was made public for the first time. For someone who started his MTV career on The Real World in 2014, competed on 5 Challenge seasons, appeared on the first EOTB USA season, and for her on what is the most successful alumni class of her original series, they were chosen to replace Farrah Abraham on Teen Mom OG nearly a year after that revelation... in part bringing the rest of the MTV fandom to a new frontier, and also to bring light to a health condition Ryder was diagnosed with upon his birth.

Of everything that went down on his first six MTV shows, Cory becoming a dad became his biggest moment yet - much bigger than being part of the next generation of Challengers and a twist that rocked the Bay Area. But perhaps, no one was expecting the news that emerged last week of the same thing happening once again: Cory meeting a girl on an MTV series and them getting knocked up... though this scenario of him getting a girl pregnant has become old hat - not just with what he's had with Cheyenne, but past instances before and during his time in San Francisco on Ex-Plosion.

For what he has this time around, the girl is not just an AYTO alum: it's the one Cory met on that maiden Ex On The Beach voyage last year: Taylor Selfridge. And now, the man who was minted with a tattoo that Cheyenne dubbed him "Mr. MTV" is about to become a daddy to two kids.