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Welcome back again as we now WRAP up last week's episode of The Challenge Vendettas, before an all-new episode airs tomorrow. Last week saw the first female elimination that proved that even if you are new to both this show and to American fans, it doesn't mean you're no pushover which we saw in a Brit taking out the win over a fellow Challenge rookie. But the drama centered around food: pizza causing drama with the one who calls herself "Sneaky 'Ri" and a returning star & his new girl, and the week's challenge that saw us enter video game mode for someone who, if you ask him to get the job done in getting some food down your stomach, chances are you'll be fine.
We'll recap last week's episode for you ahead, plus we'll have more on the momentum Mr. Two Kids has garnered since he got an expected second chance last season, which he has taken advantage of. And on the day after Music's Biggest Night, on ExtraTime we'll share with you the meeting of a six-time champion and a man who just returned to the top of the victory podium earlier this month, with one of music's top-charting artists. Stick around for that and baby news straight ahead.
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There's nothing more awesome than a Sunday Funday, and as you indulge yourself late on this weekend welcome to this week's 'Pulse of The Challenge Vendettas. And chances are, you're having some pizza while you're reading this diary and watching the NFL or NHL All-Star Games or golf as Tiger Woods makes his return. And it's also the key object of this week's episode.
Last week in Spain, some romances flourished in seeing Natalie balance her new relationship with Bananas with trying to translate a game she mastered two summers ago into this tough environment that brought her into the Troika, and one of the British newcomers getting close to newly-single Nicole. For the game itself, another matchup between Cory and Nelson saw the ladder continue his elimination mastery, while Nicole also proved her tenacity in leveling a newcomer into the water below for the first girls' elimination week of this season.
That person is Alicia, and her vendetta Kam and Natalie are the three girls up for the cut along with Melissa due to her foot injury last week, and you'll find out who she faces in the Ring this week. Also, that couple of two newly-single competitors from opposite ends of the Trifecta timeline begin to plan to take over the game, and those around them begin to try and break them up. And food is the theme of this week: both for the week's challenge, and something you love to have on Saturday nights or Sunday afternoons causing some drama in the house.
You'll find out what happens there with all the action, reaction and interaction of Episode 4 of Vendettas ahead, along with lots of pizza talk. And after the Pulse, an emerging YouTube figure of sorts and someone who stirred the pot last year shares his thoughts on the controversy surrounding a social influencer and what he did that has cost him America's support.
Pizza, chains, Bradni and Logan Paul... it's all ahead on the Pulse of The Challenge Vendettas.
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As you warm yourself up this late January's weekend, indulge yourself in all the cast interaction between Episode 3 and this week's Episode 4 of The Challenge Vendettas, before the main diary of the ladder comes your way later tonight. Included: a Twitter beef between the mean girls and a girl who got her way in through a casting contest, and an ex gives advice to another ex on what to do with their clothes. Enjoy.
Welcome to the weekend and to our trip Inside the MTV Trifecta. There was plenty of drama this week on The Challenge Vendettas, and we'll have that covered for you coming up later. But first…
The year 2001 is notable to most because of what happened that September morning, but there were some other things that happened in the second year of the 2000's. It was the year I got my high school diploma, when The Miz and Coral met on that boat en route to the The Real World Back to New York loft and Eminem took the stage with Elton John at the Grammys. The first year of the 21st century and the third millennium is the theme behind two of this weekend's ExtraTime stories, and we begin with some unlikely prospects.
On Monday, a friend of the Trifecta in Teen Mom OG's Maci Bookout and her husband Taylor McKinney got to mark their one-year anniversary as man & wife, but then she made it public of her recent and heartbreaking miscarriage. Then, viewers stuck around as the kind of big-time drama synonymous with MTV reality series like The Challenge, Are You The One?, Real World and Jersey & Floribama Shore made its way to the sultry paradise that is Siesta Key, Florida. And just in case you're not in the loop, here you go…
As we you segue way back into the weekly grind, something to cheer about this Monday is that tomorrow, there's a new episode of The Challenge Vendettas airing. Last week saw another twist being revealed to the group in those who win elimination get more power than ever, plus a popular symbol these days being the theme of the week's mission, and two romances emerge as the house is getting fully settled into this game that keeps on changing by the minute.
Coming up, Things to Know will recap the past two episodes, plus we'll look at that twist and two others which will sure make this game much more interesting than it was at this stage in the early part of Invasion. And what happens when Sparta meets a duo who goes on a heist? Stick around after the episode coverage on ExtraTime as a man with abs for days meets the stars of one of the first big movies of the new year which dropped this weekend. All that is ahead.
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As you warm yourself up this winter's weekend - and as tickets have just been punched for Super Bowl LII tonight, come step inside our house for Inside the MTV Trifecta at DCBLOG. And after the finales of Champs vs. Stars and Floribama Shore, for the time being it's just one show we're focusing on in The Challenge Vendettas, where things are now warming up while the weather outside is nothing but snow - at least if you're not in California, Florida or Hawaii.
Last week in Spain, the competitors were given a wakeup call when TJ Lavin laid two twists on them in the Troika having power over the game each week, and those who get sent into elimination having to plead their case at a Inquisition dinner before their choice is given. Kyle found himself in a love triangle with Marie and Cara Maria, while he also finds himself right in the heart of the game after he finishes with Brad and Bananas in that Troika and has to help two champions pick who to put into the Ring.
In a reprise of what happened on Dirty 30, Cory and Nelson are matched up in the season's first elimination, and this week they will battle to see who stays and goes. Meanwhile, another romance that's blossomed this early on sees the girl in it having to balance that with trying to prove that she can hang with everyone else. For another newcomer used to love British style, she finds comfort in someone fresh off a romance also as her vendetta questions her motives. And there's some oncoming traffic for this week's challenge taking place above water that incorporates a part of millennial life.
All the action, reaction and interaction of Episode 3 of Vendettas is coming up, along with a Bad Girl getting into the faces of the Real World bad girls, and a birthday for an original. All of that is ahead on the 'Pulse of The Challenge: Vendettas... and thanks for sticking with us here this weekend.
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Welcome to the weekend, and to this week's trip Inside the MTV Trifecta at DCBLOG. To warm you up for this week's look at The Challenge Vendettas, enjoy all the cast interaction from between last week's episode 2 and this week's episode 3, before we bring you the 'Pulse of the ladder coming your way here tomorrow.
With the cat out of the bag now of what will go down January 2nd, one of those who we'll be seeing on that Vendettas season is Devin, who we last saw be eliminated in the first Purge on Dirty 30, but earlier this year teamed with his AYTO perfect match Rashida to win AYTO Second Chances in Australia. After original host Ryan Devlin took his leave after the Season 5 collapse and before Terrence J. took over for Season 6, Real World Philadelphia'sKaramo Brown hosted that spinoff, bringing us back memories of his time on Season 15 of the reality O.G., his lone Challenge, Inferno II, and him being reality TV's first African-American gay man. And Karamo is the focus of this ExtraTime which takes this story across the cable dial.
Karamo (2nd to left), with fellow QE hosts Bobby Berk,
Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness & Tan France.
If your mom happens to be an avid reality TV watcher -- which is the case of fellow MTV podcast host Brian Cohen and his mom Sue (@PlainViewSue), then likely her favorite cable channel is Bravo. It was once that snoozy, PBS-style channel airing high-brow programming like fine arts, film and something still on air today in Inside the Actors Studio with James Lipton. But once NBC Universal acquired the channel in 2003, it became home to reality series catering to both the housewives and the gay & lesbian community, led by The Real Housewives franchise.
The show that helped spur Bravo's rise in cable land was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which premiered in summer 2003 and turned Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia, Carson Kressley and Jai Rodriguez -- aka the "Fab Five" -- into the channel's first big-name stars. With their passions of fashion, style, grooming, interior design and pop culture, as well as them all being "queer" in being gay, the Fab Five teamed with on a usually straight guy in giving his style, home and ways of life a new makeover. The series became a cultural phenomemon, won an Emmy Award and spawned an female spinoff.
More than a decade after its Bravo version went off the air, earlier this year Netflix announced a new version of Queer Eye, with a new generation of the Fab Five to bring this hit series to the capital of all of your binge-watching. Karamo was lucky enough to be picked to be part of this new iteration as Jai's old role as the resident culture expert of the Fab Five, focusing not only pop culture but also building relationships and social interaction which has certainly changed since 2003 in us having 2nd relationships with our smartphones. He will be joined by groomer Jonathan Van Ness, fashion lover Tan French, food & wine expert Antoni Porowski and designer Bobby Berk, and this group will call Atlanta home instead of New York.
Amidst the backdrop of the new America in these tense times and just a few months after fellow pioneer Will & Grace returned to the air, show creator David Collins says of the new Queer Eye, "It’s a new time with a new audience. If the original round was about tolerance, this time it is about acceptance." And given what happened on Karamo's Real World season of having a brush with the police and saying the N-word, he will have a moment to relive that when he and a local police officer will get to discuss relations between the cops and the African-American community.
In talking to Entertainment Weekly, Collins adds of Karamo, "Karamo is just the epitome of style and taste and class. He’s so charismatic, he pulls you right in, smart as a whip. What’s beautiful about him is, he’s an amazing listener; he stops and really hears what everyone, what the guys are saying to him and then he’s able to really process that and bring it back. It’s really a beautiful gift of his."
Given his broad TV resume since we first saw him move into that Real World house thirteen years ago, when Netflix announced Queer Eye's return Karamo was no doubt on that shortlist of those who would help to bring this show to a new generation. And given the qualities Collins mentioned in him, no doubt Queer Eye and Karamo Brown are a perfect match... it drops in February on Netflix.
