DC ExtraTime: Anthony - Master of the Hookup

From during The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions in Spring 2017,

featuring a key figure from this week's episode of Ex On The Beach, 
which DCBLOG will be featuring the Pulse of ahead this weekend.

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Hooking up: to many its definition flat out means, "to make out or have sex with someone." It's officially defined as casual dating or a casual relationship between those who've had casual sexual activity without necessarily looking into having a more formal relationship and the extra commitments of doing it long-term, and many of these relationships last just a few days or a few weeks. There's even a culture called a "hookup culture" where having hook-ups and one-night stands are commonplace, especially in colleges across the country. As students make their way down south for Spring Break starting this weekend, this will become all the more prevalent in hotels & apartments being filled by them, often with plenty of alcohol available along with kissing.
   And on television, it has evolved into an art form over the 25-year life span of the MTV Trifecta ecosystem spanning four shows and many people too many to count who we have seen kiss and engage in sexual activity for everyone to witness in their living rooms. When the now-famous shower scene took place on The Real World Miami in 1996 - and then when the show headed to Las Vegas for the first time fifteen years ago, it's now become par for the course to see young people hooking up in the comfort of our homes on a television platform outside the pleasure-land of premium channels and pay-per-view.
   And of course, since Are You The One? debuted three years ago, this has been brought to another level in combining what MTV viewers love about The Real World and The Challenge with romantic reality shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. In AYTO's five seasons on the MTV airwaves, we have seen many couples forged because of that show, and though four three of them still exist and only one of them is a true perfect match (one we'll look at later during this cycle), there is one person who has been able to hook up for as often in that house full of singles.

On Season 2, Anthony came in as that frat guy who took a break from the same university at where both Theo of this Challenge and Jimmy Garafalo went to, and made his mark by hooking up with not 1, not 2, but NINE girls once the confetti fell after the group came back from two blackouts to win the money - for which Anthony had a hand in their plans. He hooked up with Jenni, Briana, Ellie, and several other girls before the science settled with him and Alexandria - among the nine girls he locked lips with...it's in the bottom video of the two below.
   Anthony's most notable hook-up in the AYTO house came in Episode 5. When the group was in need of starting anew following the first-ever matchup blackout, Anthony and the group played a game of Truth or Dare - just as their Season 1 predecessors did earlier that year. But this time, when it time to come to his turn, Anthony would kiss not one, but TWO girls without giving up his seat in the living room. And it came in front of everyone including someone we'll be seeing in a few weeks in Ellie. Check it out below.

After that hook-up with Christina and Jessica, he would then get into a heated fight with Layton when the two were playing for Jenni, and after that second blackout he would take the lead in the house's strategy, and eventually with getting three Truth Booth matches they won the money...without getting penalized in losing money for having a blackout as we've seen since.
   Ant's not alone when it comes to kissing multiple girls: of course, we've seen Tyler, Andre and Ozzy kiss multiple girls this season; last year that title fell to Giovanni and Asaf; and Season 3 saw Chuck get close to several girls (including his current girlfriend Britni) and Alec kiss three girls in the premiere itself.

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