The Challenge Vendettas - Who Are These Newbies?: Team MTV

Following is an excerpt from DCBLOG's "Who Are These Newbies?" post for The Challenge Vendettas posted earlier today, reposted in the interest of our mobile-first users.

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💔 ARE YOU THE ONE? 

First, we begin with Are You The One?, where a year ago this month that the cast of Season 5 got their chance at love and money. Unfortunately and very infamously, what happened at the very end of that season was one of the more shocking moments we've seen in recent MTV history when they became the first to not win the money. But after we saw Derrick H. have further bad luck on Second Chances and Dirty 30 (including letting a gorgeous girl in Tori Deal get away) and two girls from that season, Carolina & Shannon, score Keith & Anthony from Season 6 who did win the money very miraculously, three people from Season 5 now have a second chance to not only join Hayden in the money club, but also encounter what happened at the midway point of that season where a betrayal that took place there has brought them overseas to settle things.

♥ ALICIA: First, there's Alicia from New Jersey, who came to the D.R. bearing strong responsibility having been a babysitter to her siblings, and working at both a vet hospital and to become a dentist. There, her ability of deal and control people enabled her of being headstrong that the guys she dated became too much for them to handle. She was supposed to debut last season on Dirty 30, and the Redemption House even had a photo of her on the Pop Art mural, but she had a burst appendix before they left and had to drop out... we offered her response to that earlier this year where she went all in on her haters in showing an Instagram video of the damage that was done on her. On AYTO, she found herself in the drama aplenty with an argument with Hannah that is embedded below, but then on Second Chances she redeemed herself quite a bit after what happened there and also flirted with another one who knows what it's like to not be well liked: Giovanni from Season 4.

♥ KAM: Then, there's Kam - a Jamaican native who lives outside Philly and was a flight attendant when we met her a year ago. As we wrote in our bio on her in our AYTO preview, that occupation meant she wasn't in one place for too long, which is very much the case in the love field. There, she kept a lot of guys in her options which saw her earn a player's reputation but saw her fear getting hurt and loved to break hearts instead of the other way around... and when a relationship began to get serious she decided to say enough. On last season, Kam made quite a mark in fitting the outspoken persona we loved about AYTO original Simone, Kaylen and fellow Season 5 mate Tyranny - she even did a couple YouTube videos with Kay earlier this year like the one below. And she's also known for pleading for people's help on GoFundMe to move out west after their loss last year -- she then realized that was a mistake.

♥ EDDIE: And the man who found himself in the middle of that love triangle was Eddie, who entered the house also from outside Philly and enjoying a career as a model. He came to the Dominican Republic with a clear idea of what his future awaited him in a good work ethic and a good charm. Like any other ladies' man, Eddie is flirtatious, carries himself with what those girls would see as that of a player, and trust became a big deal for him but didn't stop him from stepping out of that comfort zone. Compared to other high profile romances that were part of the first AYTO season to ever go home empty-handed (Gianna/Hayden/Carolina, Tyler & Shannon and Taylor & Andre, etc.), Eddie wasn't featured as much on that season, though he left with good friendships with fellow members of #TeamChocolate in Derrick H. and Jaylen. And that leads us to...

 AYTO's VENDETTA MOMENT 

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The moment that brought Alicia, Kam and Eddie back together again some tem months after that infamous last matchup where they lost $800,000 was what happened at the midway point of Season 5. In their fifth week in the house, Kam won a getaway challenge and chose Eddie as her date, after Alicia felt that they were a match and back when they were close in the house. Before their date, Eddie went to Alicia to not break her loyalty to Kam, and on that date he and Kam bonded over their desire to connect mentally before closing the deal and that he would be there for her if they are or not a match. They are indeed voted into the Truth Booth and they have a shock on their face that they are a Match much to everyone's delight. The two girls have a hug knowing that Eddie is lucky to have Kam as a match... but that turned out to be the start of this twisted tale.
   Later that night when everyone was fast asleep, Alicia and Eddie decide to go on an after dark visit to get some water in the bathroom. But when Kam and her close friend Tyranny went around to look for them around the house, they couldn't find them there as if they were a couple kids who went off to the treehouse looking to escape getting some important homework done. And in a house where cameras are all over the place, the infrared lens catch Alicia and Eddie kissing inside the Boom Boom Room with her telling him that when the news finally gets to her Kam will lose it. Indeed, when the two girls discuss what took place, Kam indeed told Alicia that she crossed the line and won't accept her apology while Eddie says that he wanted to enjoy those last hours before they went to the Honeymoon Suite. And after they got to go around the islands, the events of what happened in the house gave reason to Tyranny to pop off on Alicia on the reunion... clips related to all of them are embedded below.

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🏆 THE VETERAN RETURNEE 

Finally, earlier during the Dirty 30 season, we spotlighted a meeting of the past, present and future of The Challenge that took place on a hot summer's night in Tampa, FL, the hometown of Nicole R. as well as AYTO comedian JJ from Season 1. There, a party she and Cara co-hosted also brought down from Chicago a Challenge veteran who had added DJ duties to the responsibilities of being a dad. That's where we find our last subject, and the returning star of this season...

►BRAD CHAMP : Brad first made his MTV debut on Real World San Diego in 2004 on a cross-country motorcycle ride from his hometown of Chicago to Cali and where he instantly fell in love with future Southern Charm castmate Cameran Eubanks. That stay in Surf City is best remembered for what happened when he was drunk: a bad night on the town and street rants in front of locals and the local cops led him to be arrested... and in a strange coincidence, another San Diego roomie and a future Challenger herself, Robin, was also cuffed on the same night. Brad went on to do eight Challenges, starting on Battle of the Sexes 2 and played his way into four finals during his career including both Duels and the infamous Gauntlet III final. It would've been five shots at the money if not for a fight that took place late in The Ruins between him and another veteran who returned from a long hiatus this year, Darrell, that sent the both of them home before the final. During Gauntlet III, he met pageant queen Tori Hall and their relationship blossomed to where they got engaged after Duel II. It led to them winning Cutthroat together after tying the knot in 2010, shared a victory kiss in Prague and led to great things afterwards when she gave birth to two kids. However, it was revealed last year that the two had separated though they continue to co-parent their children.

 BRAD'S VENDETTA MOMENT 

And what led Brad to return to The Challenge world? It was, of all things, a Twitter beef he had with fellow Challenge dad Tony... let him explain below.

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