DC ExtraTime: Is That AYTO Girl The One Who Dated That Teen Mom Boyfriend?

An Excerpt from Week 1 of Are You The One? Season 3 back in Fall 2015,

updated to feature additional photos not posted in its original post and 

reposted due to recent news of the subject being admitted to rehab.

BY DC CUEVA                     

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As those of you fans probably know, AYTO Season 1 aired in that coveted 11PM slot of following Teen Mom 2, and it along with Catfish can thank one of MTV's two most-publicized foursomes for giving them the huge ratings bump and big buzz that saw succeeding seasons air one hour earlier. As mentioned here before, I began watching TM back in March when the OG original girls made their MTV return, influenced mainly by the additions of new kids to my inner circle in the course of the past 7 years - three of them this year alone, as well as provide some insight into that ultimate life challenge of raising a kid amidst the soap opera lives of the franchise's two casts. Obviously, me and some of the MTV Trifecta family can relate to them in going through this life-changing phase right now.

   Of course, Jemmye is the Trifecta's biggest TM fan with her always hilarious and honest live tweets which are a must for fans of the show. Besides that, the TM girls and their inner circles have support for Team MTV: Kailyn Lowry & husband Javi showing support for Jem and fellow Challenge vet Nany wanting to spend time with their adorable son Isaac; back-from-rehab Leah Messer being friends with fellow WV'ers of the Buckwild bunch with one of them, Katie, being at next week's reunion; and Adam from Real World Back to Vegas hanging out with the ex of OG Amber Portwood, Gary Shirley. Adam also became friends with fellow OG Maci Bookout some time back (both her and Gary wore his clothing line on the show), and that's where this latest story of being part of this small world of Team MTV takes us to.

As documented during the early part of their MTV stint, Maci had a relationship with boyfriend and later fiance Ryan Edwards until that all came crashing down. Along with having to share joint custody of adorable son Bentley, after the split Ryan began looking to rebound with other girls, and one of them is on this AYTO Season 3 cast. Proof came in this tweet he sent out to one of the castmates: "@KikiMTV now that you think your famous tell ppl I wasn't your bf....thanks!"
   Per a story from The Ashley's Reality Roundup, Kiki dated Ryan back in 2013 while production of the original Teen Mom was on hiatus due to Amber's jail sentence. He dated her after breaking up with on-air girlfriend Dalis and before he shacked up with current girlfriend Shelby. The story is that after they met Bentley in his native Tennessee, Ryan would ditch Kiki for a weekend and she was forced to have a spend it with his parents, and that heartbreak eventually saw them head down to Splitsville, and leading her to look for a second chance at love, this time with MTV cameras in tow.

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   But then again, it isn't just Ryan that Kiki has been spotted with a member of Team MTV before making her way to our screens. As we told you in our AYTO 3 preview last month after the buzz for the season began, she has been longtime friends with Adam from Season 1 (and for you Challenge fans, Exes 2 with his ex Brittany) going back to when they were in school together in Virginia; that's the picture right there with him at her viewing party back on Thursday, per Adam's Twitter hub. It was one of many viewing parties held around the AYTO family: the show's first couple and Adam's fellow castmates, Amber & Ethan, hosted her fellow Texan Nelson down in Austin, TX; while three-fourths of the Goon Squad - Briana, Jessica and Ellie hosted Zak, Austin and others down in SoCal when they welcomed them to Team MTV officially. That only adds to the number of AYTO castmates, both from Season 2 and the preceding and succeeding seasons who've hung out with them and Christina in what is the show's most-popular friendship.

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