In the intro of our preseason preview of
The Challenge: Final Reckoning back in July, we began with a teaser of what's to come in the second half of 2018 in MTV Reality:
Jersey and
Floribama Shore,
Fear Factor,
Are You The One? ...and at the end we added,
"we could have yet another crossover that will sure leave everyone shook." Well, here we are in the beginning of the fall TV season with perhaps the biggest and most surprising crossover of all.
If you're one of those who have rolled with us for all five years of our journey through covering these shows, we've had a growing number of those instances where those who were on one MTV show make their way to another. There have been a lot of crossovers from all over the landscape - and even stretching beyond its Times Square headquarters that had a hand in leading this site to expand our beat beyond just covering three TV shows, as we did for the first four years.
First, we had four people from the first
Are You The One? season head onto
The Challenge with
Battle of the Exes 2... a year later, a member of a heralded AYTO Season 3 cast made his way to
Real World and cheated on a girlfriend who she met through her season's perfect match who's also his roommate. And at the beginning of this year, we saw
The Challenge expand its draft pool by going to former Viacom corporate sibling CBS to take alums from
Big Brother and five British folks from overseas, which also brought with them
Ex On The Beach, which premiered in America in April.
At the same time amidst this crossover madness, so many of your favorites from both the shows we cover extensively and those that we might not feature as much have become moms and dads. Snooki, J-Woww and Ronnie are parents, and soon Deena will join them in the
Jersey Shore parents' club. The baby drama involving Tony Raines and his
Real World Season 30 girlfriend, Madison Walls, has recently taken a twisty turn, while many of his other fellow Challengers have also become parents - and most of them have retired from MTV to take on this ultimate of all adult challenges.
And of course, the one franchise that's been around for this entire decade began nine years ago and has been that one show that, along with
Jersey Shore, has seemingly kept MTV afloat in everyone's interest. It started as
16 & Pregnant which followed several girls' journeys of having a baby at a young age, and it then translated into the spinoff
Teen Mom. The show opened everyone's eyes into being a parent this early and ignited a national debate over a then largely-ignored taboo topic, and the cast of four generations' worth have long been fodder for the paparazzi and gossip sites.
Given all those circumstances above, perhaps it was just only a matter of time before a seemingly inevitable prospect would come to pass: someone from what we call the Trifecta joining
Teen Mom, and it is about to take place as we turn the page to a new month of October. And for the very first time, a show that was first born out of seeing teenage girls go through the most excruciating 9-month process will now welcome those who weren't seen on 16 & Pregnant but certainly are used to seeing in the public light - both in the mainstream and on MTV.
It's in the ladder most especially that those used to seeing competitors challenge themselves or go for love will be tuning in for the first time come October 1st, and gave us this opportunity to introduce
Teen Mom for those of you who will be tuning in when
Cheyenne Floyd and
Cory Wharton join MTV's most-scrutinized series, as does the daughter of Alaska's best-known politician,
Bristol Palin.
