DC ExtraTime: The Challenge Goes Onto The Bachelor?

 REPOST   From October 2022

from during filming of the new Bachelor 

season, which debuts this Monday

BY DC CUEVA 

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There is a possible thing to look forward to for those in the know in the world of reality TV and links to Challenge Nation -- something we'll be delving into next on here before we cover the Ride or Dies premiere. But here at the end of this appetizer: a little look ahead.

Bachelor Nation is now into its traditional year-ender when it comes to the trilogy of series that airs in that love franchise, as Bachelor in Paradise continues with its eighth season down in Mexico. At the same time, filming is in full swing for the 2023 edition of The Bachelor which will begin airing in the new year on ABC, and with Zach Shallcross from the duel Bachelorette season of Gabby & Rachel given the honors to be the leading man for Season 27.

Now when we watched Double Agents two years ago, there were actually two women named Amber: Amber B. who won it all, and Amber Martinez who made her MTV debut on the most-recent season of Are You The One? -- the sexually-fluid Season 8 -- back in 2019. As we hinted in our Who Are These Newbies? intro to her that year, she was a co-host of a YouTube recap show entitled SPILL3 -- and if everything on the wire is right, there may be new episodes of that coming in 2023.

The favorite authority on all things Bachelor Nation to those on Twitter, Reality Steve, served up this latest serving of tea late last month when he reported that Amber's Spill3 co-host and cousin, Kimberly Gutierrez, is among the nearly thirty or so suitors who have been chosen to try and vie for Zach's heart on this winter's edition of The Bachelor. Safe to say, there will be plenty to spill from the Casa come January... but for now, below one of the Spill3 episodes with Kimmie and Amber -- we wonder what kind of advice the MTV'er got to tell her friend before going on her own journey to find love on TV.

  UPDATE   1/21/23

Amidst the craze of reality love taking over with the return of Amber M.'s original show AYTO returning (which we covered the Season 9 premiere on here earlier tonight) as well as her fellow Season 8 single Kariselle Snow getting yet another chance at love in her being part of the cast of Netflix's take on this whole thing Perfect Match debuting next month (she was on the cast of the widely reviled but equally hilarious Sexy Beasts as a panda), Kimberly's quest for love begins on Monday on The Bachelor. And below, her being part of the cast introductions.

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