The Challenge: Battle For a New Champion reunion brings an entirely fresh battle as cast members will recall the season, hash out feuds, and battle it out with verbal jabs.
Not only will main cast members appear at the Season 39 reunion, but several returning champions who showed up for elimination will also be there.
Cara Maria Sorbello, Laurel Stucky, Devin Walker, Tori Deal, and Darrell Taylor are among them.
Maria Menounos returns as The Challenge reunion host to ask difficult questions and mediate the event as best possible.
Based on a teaser video of highlights for the event, viewers will see Michele Fitzgerald leave the reunion at one point.
In addition, things may get to a point where security is required based on some of the heated altercations on the reunion set.
Michele gets blasted during Season 39 reunion
In a preview video for MTV’s The Challenge Season 39 reunion, viewers...
Not only will main cast members appear at the Season 39 reunion, but several returning champions who showed up for elimination will also be there.
Cara Maria Sorbello, Laurel Stucky, Devin Walker, Tori Deal, and Darrell Taylor are among them.
Maria Menounos returns as The Challenge reunion host to ask difficult questions and mediate the event as best possible.
Based on a teaser video of highlights for the event, viewers will see Michele Fitzgerald leave the reunion at one point.
In addition, things may get to a point where security is required based on some of the heated altercations on the reunion set.
Michele gets blasted during Season 39 reunion
In a preview video for MTV’s The Challenge Season 39 reunion, viewers...
- 2/29/2024
- by Matt Couden
- Monsters and Critics
Survivor favorite Parvati Shallow almost didn’t appear on the CBS show because she nearly got cast for The Real World or Road Rules a few years beforehand. Had she made the MTV series, Parvati probably would have gone on to compete in The Challenge instead.
Parvati Shallow shared a rejection letter from ‘The Real World’
A few years before making her debut on Survivor: Cook Islands, favorite Parvati Shallow nearly got cast for The Real World: Paris or Road Rules: South Pacific.
In a March 2023 Instagram photo, she shared a picture of the 2003 rejection letter she received from Bunim/Murray Productions. It began by congratulating her for making it to the interview stage as part of the top 250 applicants from the over 5,000 submissions they received.
She's got charm and she knows how to persuade. Parvati is back and @JeffProbst believes she's going to be a weapon in this game!
Parvati Shallow shared a rejection letter from ‘The Real World’
A few years before making her debut on Survivor: Cook Islands, favorite Parvati Shallow nearly got cast for The Real World: Paris or Road Rules: South Pacific.
In a March 2023 Instagram photo, she shared a picture of the 2003 rejection letter she received from Bunim/Murray Productions. It began by congratulating her for making it to the interview stage as part of the top 250 applicants from the over 5,000 submissions they received.
She's got charm and she knows how to persuade. Parvati is back and @JeffProbst believes she's going to be a weapon in this game!
- 3/6/2023
- by Tamara Grant
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Challenge two-time finalist Eric “Big Easy” Banks competed in six seasons before taking a nearly decade-long break until viewers saw him again in spinoff All Stars. Where is he now?
Where is Eric ‘Big Easy’ Banks now?
Kentucky native Eric “Big Easy” Banks made his reality TV debut in 2006 for The Challenge: Fresh Meat. After competing in six seasons, he seemingly hung up his jersey for nearly 10 years.
However, he remained in the community by attending events and continuing to interact with fans on social media.
"Unfortunately Eric kind of just rolls me off the edge like a little dog playing with a little ball." ? Throwing it back to this old school Challenge that ends in a major upset! #TheChallenge34 pic.twitter.com/atYn3brgg3
— The Challenge (@TheChallenge) November 21, 2019
Big Easy began showing interest in redeeming himself on the competition show when Mark Long teamed up with the series...
Where is Eric ‘Big Easy’ Banks now?
Kentucky native Eric “Big Easy” Banks made his reality TV debut in 2006 for The Challenge: Fresh Meat. After competing in six seasons, he seemingly hung up his jersey for nearly 10 years.
However, he remained in the community by attending events and continuing to interact with fans on social media.
"Unfortunately Eric kind of just rolls me off the edge like a little dog playing with a little ball." ? Throwing it back to this old school Challenge that ends in a major upset! #TheChallenge34 pic.twitter.com/atYn3brgg3
— The Challenge (@TheChallenge) November 21, 2019
Big Easy began showing interest in redeeming himself on the competition show when Mark Long teamed up with the series...
- 1/29/2023
- by Tamara Grant
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines may be finished and its winners crowned, but the drama surrounding the relationships - some strained, some spicy - shows no signs of dying down any time soon. People was on the scene of the Bloodlines reunion to see not only what was really going on between exes Cara Maria Sorbello and Abram Boise but also what hookups, meltdowns, blackouts and more went down behind the scenes. Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you want to avoid spoilers from Wednesday night's The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines finale and reunion.Cara Maria and Abram's...
- 2/18/2016
- by Lanford Beard, @lanfordbeard
- PEOPLE.com
The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines may be finished and its winners crowned, but the drama surrounding the relationships – some strained, some spicy – shows no signs of dying down any time soon.
People was on the scene of the Bloodlines reunion to see not only what was really going on between exes Cara Maria Sorbello and Abram Boise but also what hookups, meltdowns, blackouts and more went down behind the scenes.
Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you want to avoid spoilers from Wednesday night's The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines finale and reunion.
Cara Maria and Abram's Gut-Wrenching ConfrontationThe...
People was on the scene of the Bloodlines reunion to see not only what was really going on between exes Cara Maria Sorbello and Abram Boise but also what hookups, meltdowns, blackouts and more went down behind the scenes.
Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you want to avoid spoilers from Wednesday night's The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines finale and reunion.
Cara Maria and Abram's Gut-Wrenching ConfrontationThe...
- 2/18/2016
- by Lanford Beard, @lanfordbeard
- People.com - TV Watch
Bringing family into the mix certainly didn't dilute the drama on the latest edition of The Challenge. After competing both with and against each other on Battle of the Bloodlines, this season's newly crowned season's winners are exclusively telling People about the good, the bad and the ugly of being confronted by the MTV's competition's famously grueling physical challenges - and the backstabbing drama outside of the dreaded Pit. Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you haven't seen Wednesday night's finale of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines and don't want to know the results. And the winners are ...Cara Maria & Jamie!
- 2/18/2016
- by Lanford Beard, @lanfordbeard
- PEOPLE.com
Bringing family into the mix certainly didn't dilute the drama on the latest edition of The Challenge.
After competing both with and against each other on Battle of the Bloodlines, this season's newly crowned season's winners are exclusively telling People about the good, the bad and the ugly of being confronted by the MTV's competition's famously grueling physical challenges – and the backstabbing drama outside of the dreaded Pit.
Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you haven't seen Wednesday night's finale of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines and don't want to know the results.
And the winners are ...
Cara Maria & Jamie!
After competing both with and against each other on Battle of the Bloodlines, this season's newly crowned season's winners are exclusively telling People about the good, the bad and the ugly of being confronted by the MTV's competition's famously grueling physical challenges – and the backstabbing drama outside of the dreaded Pit.
Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you haven't seen Wednesday night's finale of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines and don't want to know the results.
And the winners are ...
Cara Maria & Jamie!
- 2/18/2015
- by Lanford Beard, @lanfordbeard
- People.com - TV Watch
The Challenge: Free Agents wrapped Thursday night, with a reunion that showed some unseen footage from the past season. But those unaired moments are just the tip of the iceberg for one of reality TV’s craziest shows. We spoke to a few of the most notorious fan-favorite Challengers about their off-camera antics. No surprise here: There are plenty of hook-ups, pranks, and… cheerleading?
Check out the, uh, stuff MTV should have shown below.
Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, winner of Free Agents: “My all-time S#!@ They Should Have Shown moment took place on the The Challenge: The Island...
Check out the, uh, stuff MTV should have shown below.
Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, winner of Free Agents: “My all-time S#!@ They Should Have Shown moment took place on the The Challenge: The Island...
- 6/27/2014
- by Lanford Beard
- EW - Inside TV
The wait is finally over for fans of MTV's long-running reality competition series, "The Challenge." On Wednesday, the network released the trailer for Season 22 of "The Challenge: Battle of the Exes."
This season will take place in the Dominican Republic, and all of your favorite "Challenge" competitors are back. If you thought previous seasons brought the drama, just wait until each competitor gets paired with a former on-air flame. Things are guaranteed to get explosive.
"Battle of the Exes" will premiere on Wed., Jan. 25, 2012, at 10:00 p.m. Est. MTV will air a special preview on Jan. 11 that will explain how the former couples became exes.
Below, find a list of this season's contestants.
The female contestants:
Aneesa Ferreira, "Real World Chicago"
Camila Nakagawa, "Spring Break Challenge"
Cara Maria Sorbello, "Fresh Meat II"
Diem Brown, "Fresh Meat"
Emily Schromm, "Real World DC"
Heather Marter, "Real World Las Vegas 2011"
Jasmine Reynaud,...
This season will take place in the Dominican Republic, and all of your favorite "Challenge" competitors are back. If you thought previous seasons brought the drama, just wait until each competitor gets paired with a former on-air flame. Things are guaranteed to get explosive.
"Battle of the Exes" will premiere on Wed., Jan. 25, 2012, at 10:00 p.m. Est. MTV will air a special preview on Jan. 11 that will explain how the former couples became exes.
Below, find a list of this season's contestants.
The female contestants:
Aneesa Ferreira, "Real World Chicago"
Camila Nakagawa, "Spring Break Challenge"
Cara Maria Sorbello, "Fresh Meat II"
Diem Brown, "Fresh Meat"
Emily Schromm, "Real World DC"
Heather Marter, "Real World Las Vegas 2011"
Jasmine Reynaud,...
- 12/22/2011
- by Crystal Bell
- Huffington Post
The wait is finally over for fans of MTV's long-running reality competition series, "The Challenge." On Wednesday, the network released the trailer for Season 22 of "The Challenge: Battle of the Exes."
This season will take place in the Dominican Republic, and all of your favorite "Challenge" competitors are back. If you thought previous seasons brought the drama, just wait until each competitor gets paired with a former on-air flame. Things are guaranteed to get explosive.
"Battle of the Exes" will premiere on Wed., Jan. 25, 2012, at 10:00 p.m. Est. MTV will air a special preview on Jan. 11 that will explain how the former couples became exes.
Below, find a list of this season's contestants.
The female contestants:
Aneesa Ferreira, "Real World Chicago"
Camila Nakagawa, "Spring Break Challenge"
Cara Maria Sorbello, "Fresh Meat II"
Diem Brown, "Fresh Meat"
Emily Schromm, "Real World DC"
Heather Marter, "Real World Las Vegas 2011"
Jasmine Reynaud,...
This season will take place in the Dominican Republic, and all of your favorite "Challenge" competitors are back. If you thought previous seasons brought the drama, just wait until each competitor gets paired with a former on-air flame. Things are guaranteed to get explosive.
"Battle of the Exes" will premiere on Wed., Jan. 25, 2012, at 10:00 p.m. Est. MTV will air a special preview on Jan. 11 that will explain how the former couples became exes.
Below, find a list of this season's contestants.
The female contestants:
Aneesa Ferreira, "Real World Chicago"
Camila Nakagawa, "Spring Break Challenge"
Cara Maria Sorbello, "Fresh Meat II"
Diem Brown, "Fresh Meat"
Emily Schromm, "Real World DC"
Heather Marter, "Real World Las Vegas 2011"
Jasmine Reynaud,...
- 12/22/2011
- by Crystal Bell
- Aol TV.
Road Rules and Challenge cast member Abram Boise was sentenced to probation and a fine for an incident that ended with him writing his name in his own feces on a jail cell wall; he later bragged about that in a now-deleted tweet that said, "Cops were assholes tried to mace me in my cell.So I shit in my hand& thew it at him :) fuck the police." The Worcester Telegram reports that Abram's "case...
- 6/22/2011
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
Two cast members from The Real World New Orleans, the 2010 season, were arrested in Panama City Beach and subsquently attacked cops and others on Twitter, and one of them, Jemmye Carroll, threatened someone who allegedly punched her with death. While they did not smear their own feces on cell walls, that post-arrest reaction on Twitter is similar to Abram Boise's arrest last month, when he bragged about his actions online. Jemmye and Ryan Knight...
- 3/14/2011
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
Abram Boise -- the MTV star who smeared feces all over the walls of his jail cell this weekend -- is telling friends he wanted to make a statement because the cops were treating him like crap. Sources close to the " Road Rules " star tell us ... Abe feels like he was "targeted" by police on the night he was arrested for peeing in public ... because he was one of several people relieving themselves in a...
- 3/2/2011
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
MTV reality show star and kids' book author Abram Boise appeared before a judge yesterday after his defacing his jail cell with feces, and he ended up being charged only with that, not for indecent exposure after peeing in public. His blood alcohol level was .208. Abram "was released on $300 bail yesterday after his arraignment on defacing property charges after he allegedly defecated and urinated in his Lunenburg police cell, wrote his name in...
- 3/1/2011
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
Road Rules cast member and MTV Challenge veteran Abram Boise was arrested for peeing on a car, and in his jail cell, defecated and smeared his own feces on the cell's walls. He was, in case you didn't already guess, drunk. The Worcester Telegram and Gazette reports that he "was arrested and charged with urinating in public" yesterday and "placed in protective custody because he was 'extremely intoxicated,'" according to police. He "was also charged...
- 2/28/2011
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
So gross. Though, I couldn't stop laughing when I read about this sh*t. Haha. Get it? Nevermind...
MTV Real World star Abram Boise was arrested over the weekend and decided to poop in his hand and smear it across his jail cell. For real.
According to TMZ, the Lunenburg, Massachusetts Pd cuffed him on two counts of defacing property and one count of indecent exposure for urinating in public.
I guess he really had to go, because law enforcement officials said he took a piss in his first cell, was moved, and then decided to smear feces all over his second cell.
He is scheduled to be arraigned today. This guy had a bad temper on the show, so I'm not all that surprised. Are you?
read more...
MTV Real World star Abram Boise was arrested over the weekend and decided to poop in his hand and smear it across his jail cell. For real.
According to TMZ, the Lunenburg, Massachusetts Pd cuffed him on two counts of defacing property and one count of indecent exposure for urinating in public.
I guess he really had to go, because law enforcement officials said he took a piss in his first cell, was moved, and then decided to smear feces all over his second cell.
He is scheduled to be arraigned today. This guy had a bad temper on the show, so I'm not all that surprised. Are you?
read more...
- 2/28/2011
- by Sharon Tharp
- Filmology
So gross. Though, I couldn't stop laughing when I read about this sh*t. Haha. Get it? Nevermind...
MTV Real World star Abram Boise was over the weekend and decided to poop in his hand and smear it across his cell. For real.
According to TMZ, the Lunenburg, Massachusetts Pd cuffed him on two counts of defacing property and one count of indecent exposure for urinating in public.
I guess he really had to go, because law enforcement officials said he took a piss in his first cell, was moved, and then decided to smear feces all over his second cell.
He is scheduled to be arraigned today. This guy had a bad temper on the show, so I'm not all that surprised. Are you?
read more...
MTV Real World star Abram Boise was over the weekend and decided to poop in his hand and smear it across his cell. For real.
According to TMZ, the Lunenburg, Massachusetts Pd cuffed him on two counts of defacing property and one count of indecent exposure for urinating in public.
I guess he really had to go, because law enforcement officials said he took a piss in his first cell, was moved, and then decided to smear feces all over his second cell.
He is scheduled to be arraigned today. This guy had a bad temper on the show, so I'm not all that surprised. Are you?
read more...
- 2/28/2011
- by Sharon Tharp
- Celebsology
MTV reality show star Abram Boise must have been feeling down in the dumps after he got arrested this weekend ... because while sitting in his jail cell, he defecated in his hands and smeared it on the cell ... this according to law enforcement sources. Boise was arrested in Massachusetts by Lunenburg Pd on two counts of defacing property and one count of indecent exposure ... after cops found him urinating in public. But apparently his bowels...
- 2/28/2011
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Bmx rider T.J. Lavin, also known as the host of MTV's "Real World/Road Rules Challenge," remains in a doctor-induced coma after losing control of his bike in a horrific crash. Reports from his family and friends now contain mostly good news about his condition, despite the fact that he's suffering from pneumonia as a result of his breathing tube.
According to People, doctors have no reason to believe that Lavin suffered any serious brain damage in the crash. "Everything is good there," says Lavin's friend and business manager Chas Aday . "Doctors are not expecting any [brain damage], but we're just not going to know until he wakes up if there is any loss or how bad it is going to be."
Lavin's condition will be re-evaluated when his breathing tube is removed and his pneumonia treated, hopefully by week's end.
Aday says, "Once they get the tube out, he could be home two,...
According to People, doctors have no reason to believe that Lavin suffered any serious brain damage in the crash. "Everything is good there," says Lavin's friend and business manager Chas Aday . "Doctors are not expecting any [brain damage], but we're just not going to know until he wakes up if there is any loss or how bad it is going to be."
Lavin's condition will be re-evaluated when his breathing tube is removed and his pneumonia treated, hopefully by week's end.
Aday says, "Once they get the tube out, he could be home two,...
- 10/21/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
'T.J., you're always pushing us to our limits ... and now we want you to do the same,' one castmate says on Wednesday's show.
By Jocelyn Vena
Tj Lavin
Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images
Tj Lavin, host of MTV's "The Challenge," got some televised well-wishes from several members of the cast. During Wednesday night's episode, Cara Maria Sorbello, Abram Boise, Chet Cannon, Derek Chavez and Jenn Grijalva stood together to send their love to Lavin, who is recovering from an injury he suffered during a Bmx bike competition last week.
"T.J., you're always pushing us to our limits, encouraging us to hang in there, and now we want you to do the same," Boise said as his castmates stood by his side. Derek added, "And now we want you to do the same."
Sorbello wanted Lavin to know that "if there's anyone who's not a quitter, it's you.
By Jocelyn Vena
Tj Lavin
Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images
Tj Lavin, host of MTV's "The Challenge," got some televised well-wishes from several members of the cast. During Wednesday night's episode, Cara Maria Sorbello, Abram Boise, Chet Cannon, Derek Chavez and Jenn Grijalva stood together to send their love to Lavin, who is recovering from an injury he suffered during a Bmx bike competition last week.
"T.J., you're always pushing us to our limits, encouraging us to hang in there, and now we want you to do the same," Boise said as his castmates stood by his side. Derek added, "And now we want you to do the same."
Sorbello wanted Lavin to know that "if there's anyone who's not a quitter, it's you.
- 10/21/2010
- MTV Music News
The cast of The Challenge: Cutthroat can only imagine the challenge facing T.J. Lavin in the real world. But of course the assorted team players and backstabbers participating in the 20th season of the Real World-Road Rules competition want the show's host and voice of reason back at full strength. More: The Mlb playoffs' biggest error "T.J., you're always pushing us to our limits, encouraging us to hang in there, and now we want you to do the same," bad-boy turned elder statesman Abram Boise said in a special message added to Wednesday's episode. "And if there's anyone who's not a quitter, it's you," added Cara Marie Sorbello. Chet Cannon...
- 10/21/2010
- E! Online
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