DC ExtraTime: Team MTV Takes Over Wild 'N Out

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During the three-month offseason in between seasons of The Challenge, fans of that show and MTV Reality were offered some juicy special attractions: one of them saw Nicole, Marlon, Jemmye & Laurel head to Ex On The Beach's first winter-themed season, Peak of Love. But it was the state of Florida that played host to ample amounts of drama and fun in the sun with two shows that walked the red carpet together at last year's Video Music Awards and then shared the marquee in the sultry Siesta Key and the wild-fest of Floribama Shore.

Season 3 of the ladder saw Mattie Lynn Breaux go from being a finalist of War of the Worlds to joining fellow rookie of that season, Gus Symrios, and the rest of his crew in their new playground of the Tampa/St. Petersburg area, now known as Tompa Bay after Tom Brady's signing last month with one-time NFL doormats, the Buccaneers. During their summer in SPB, she helped relive the joys of her young self that viewers first saw on CMT's Party Down South, and Mattie even got close with Gus' frenemy, Jeremiah Buoni, among other things over the winter.

This past week, four of those Southerners Mattie lived with in St. Pete Beach in between her times on The Challenge took on a different role to what they have been used to. Instead of puke 'n rally and chi-chis up - or even getting minted with a tattoo souvenir, they got to take the stage of one of MTV's most enduring hits which began fifteen years ago. And they were spectators to a mic-drop meeting of two former best friends... only part of the times when some familiar faces to MTV fans have shared the stage with Nick Cannon and friends under the bright lights of Wild 'N Out.