Saturday, August 4, 2018

DC ExtraTime: Chuck's Adventures In The Sea

BY DC CUEVA                      
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After what we saw this week, a lot of fans seem to be in agreement that the two teams who got Purged and sent home on The Challenge Final Reckoning didn't have a fair chance at this game... most especially the one rookie out of the four. And as this post goes to print this Saturday, he happens to be part of a select group of those in community of The Challenge, Are You The One and MTV Reality to celebrate their birthday to begin the month of August, as does the channel itself.

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He may not have had a fair shake in getting a chance to compete, no less be part of the first month's drama with his ex which has dominated the first month of this season when everyone has been up in arms on the focus on Real World-like drama when they're there for the action. But we're sure that Chuck should get another opportunity to compete on a Challenge, the seventh member of the now-lauded Are You The One Season 3 cast to appear here after their stint on the love fest. But this stay to South Africa that amounted merely to just a business trip would not have been possible had he not been in something that wasn't even mentioned at all on-air.
   A year ago while going on a cliff diving trip along the Chatahoochee River in the outskirts of North Georgia, Chuck had a painful accident when he fell awkwardly on one of his feet when landing in a shallow part of the water below. Half of his feel was sliced off, and was hospitalized for a week with multiple bacterial infections and the fear that his foot would be amputated. But not only did he survive that ordeal, his foot healed enough to not have that foot be lost and would've robbed him of any chance of competing on a Challenge if it was offered to him one day.
   In this new age of the show, a lot of Challengers these days love to party, advertise new products on Instagram and engage in Twitter warfare with fellow cast members for everyone to see with the hope they get paired on a future season. But there are those, in what we call the Trifecta on here, who don't make being on MTV their whole lives, who is not fully engaged in these shows all the time, and have jobs and hobbies to fall back on to prove the point that, they are real & genuine people like us.

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Chuck is one of them, and before he made it to AYTO three years ago, he became a series first. He's the only cast member to have the luxury of not having to make a long plane flight to the house as one who lived not far from the singles mansion when Season 3 invaded his Hawaiian backyard in 2015. You might remember him more for his relationship with Britni, but he also formed the duo of Chuck & Big D with Devin in the confessional playing the ukulele, was one of the many guys who stood next to Kiki in the Truth Booth... and there are those tattoos.
   But how many people in the MTV community can say that they love the sea so much that they have a job working at an aquarium? He was a Hawaiian scuba diver before he made his way here, and when he moved to Georgia during that ill-fated romance, he took up a gig with the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta. When it opened, it was the world's largest zoo for our friends in the ocean with over 100,000 sea animals, and continues to draw a million visitors each year to its prime location near Centennial Olympic Park and the World of Coca-Cola museum.
   For the handful of you who might have an appetite for programming that features animal discovery or life in the ocean, it's likely you've watched Nature or NOVA on PBS, those National Geographic Specials or searched on YouTube to watch those old underwater specials hosted by the late Jacques Cousteau. Besides pictures of him & his new girl, his brothers and the time heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield photobombed a selfie pic, Chuck's Instagram channel frequently features him in his natural habitat of the ocean and the aquarium.

Below - and in the spirit of the recent installment of the annual cable tradition of Shark Week as well as his birthday, some of Chuck's Adventures in the Sea...













A difference between the main Challenge house and the Redemption house is that there's plenty of time for occupants of the small retreat to just relax and go sight-seeing just as it was both last season and in early, old-school seasons of years gone by. And after what went down in Armageddon, Chuck had the opportunity to go in a cage and get up close to a shark. He posted this Instagram video during Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week festivities and captioned below, "I celebrated early in South Africa when I got to cage dive with Great Whites. Bucket list experience ✔️🦈"





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