DC ExtraTime: A Challenge Boss Goes Bowling Undercover

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Last week in the latest episode of the rapidly-popular spinoff series The Challenge: Invasion of Other Networks, DCBLOG took a trip back in time to when six-season alum Tyrie Ballard was part of the bartending staff in his native Nebraska's first-ever hookah bar Oasis when it was put under the microscope of Paramount Network's Bar Rescue. Because of the reputation forged by the bar that was exposed by host Jon Taffer, the bar's owner would later admit that asking the show for help actually hurt his business, and after continued troubles Oasis shut its doors for good a few years later.

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Tyrie is part of the alumni class of The Real World Denver, which recently had it & many other seasons of that show that started MTV's reality story join The Challenge and other MTV shows on CBS All Access, soon to be the Paramount+ streaming service. His fellow Season 18 cast also includes Davis Mallory, who got in a heated argument with Ty that winter, and where as being a musician post-MTV also became one of the first people in America to befriend a then emerging and now superstar British pop singer named Ellie Goulding. And recently another six-season vet, Jenn Grijalva became one of the many Challenge alumni this year to ascend into parenthood as she awaits her first child.

And then, there was what happened just a couple weeks ago: someone who Ty, Davis and Jenn lived with in the Rocky Mountains and then competed alongside with on The Challenge reemerged onto our national television screens... but this time in a totally different scenario than what we featured here days ago. In this case, Colie Edison wasn't just working for the company she works at now, but also in a top level position... and being told to dress up in disguise to see what her fellow employees are up to, in that ultimate of family fun places in the cities & towns you call home: a bowling alley.