DC ExtraTime: Ashley and Kendal

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On Thursday night before the finale of Ex On The Beach - which is our next piece of business here, we saw old friends say goodbye for now as Mike, Snooki, J-Woww, Pauly D, Ronnie, Vinny and Deena wrapped up the first of two Jersey Shore Family Vacations in Miami, with another one to come later at summer's end. It's with them in mind that two of this week's ExtraTime stories that accompany Champs vs. Stars feature those we first saw on MTV as far back to 16 years ago, and the person who we saw back in 2002 is our first subject, who with the help of a Challenge champ.

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After what we saw from her on the Reunion, you know Ashley is someone who is the epitome of a firecracker just waiting to go off on these shows: her Real World season and succeeding Challenges and what we've seen there explains how explosive she is emotionally. Last week, the Invasion champ got to play host to someone who we last saw back in 2004 on the winning Road Rules side on The Challenge: Inferno I in Mexico.
   If you watched that season, you might remember Kendal Sheppard, that blonde girl who we saw on Shane's Road Rules Campus Crawl season of sixteen years ago. Her bio read, "With her golden hair and dimples, angel-faced Kendal is a total sweetheart with a penchant for trouble. When it comes to parties and boys, this 21-year-old is game for anything. She's had a steady stream of boyfriends over the years, and couldn't remain faithful to a single one. But Kendal has a heart-wrenching past: Her father committed suicide when she was 12, and her flight attendant mother was constantly away. Kendal was forced to fend for herself and is still dealing with those consequences; she wants to be strong, but can't help being vulnerable."
   Kendal developed a romance with Floridian Eric during the RV trip across America's top colleges, then went onto her only Challenge of Inferno, where she shared in the victory elation with Darrell (part of his untouched Challenge four-peat), Christena of the South Pacific season, Holly from Latin America, Timmy from RR Second Adventure, and Veronica and Katie -- though it's what happened with the ladder two and that fight in the girls bedroom that's most remembered than the final.
   Kendal and Ashley partied together in Sin City along with the Real World'er's sister, as the Road Rules alum took a break from her post-MTV gig of being a mom, wife and a nurse. She even walked by the Palms Hotel, which hosted the original Real World Las Vegas and recently went through a new hotel renovation. And during Final Reckoning, we'll take a look at a notable moment of that Road Rules Campus Crawl season: Kendal, Shane and their RV mates getting to dance in front of two of hip-hop's biggest names who were in the verge of worldwide stardom.

Girls just wanna have fun

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