The Challenge: Battle For a New Champion featured several showmances in episodes, including MTV newcomer Kyland Young and former finalist Melissa Reeves becoming an item. Kyland arrived on the competition series after competing in CBS’ Big Brother 23 and The Challenge: USA’s debut season. Melissa, who reached the Total Madness final but had to drop
Big Brother winner Dan Gheesling continues to get trolled by Johnny Bananas of The Challenge. Dan got voted off a recent episode of The Traitors 2, becoming the first Traitor eliminated by the players. He didn’t go down with a fight, as Dan tried to shift the target from himself to fellow Traitor Phaedra Parks.
Former The Challenge and Real World star Zach Nichols continues to express strong opinions about the cast members of Battle For a New Champion. The latest included remarks directed at Moriah Jadea, whom he called “delusional” for how she’s played the game to save her showmance over people she’d met and bonded with on her
The Challenge’s Nurys Mateo revealed that her Ride or Dies castmate, Aneesa Ferreira, was the one who pointed out Olivia Kaiser wasn’t being a true friend. After bonding through their rookie season, Olivia and Nurys returned as castmates for MTV’s The Challenge: Battle For a New Champion. Several of their Ride or Dies castmates also
The recent episode of MTV’s The Challenge: Battle For a Champion brought a stunning betrayal that seemingly fractured several friendships. In Episode 16, viewers saw returning finalist Olivia Kaiser backstab her Ride or Dies friend and partner Horacio Gutierrez and his showmance, Nurys Mateo. Olivia’s decision to save their castmate Moriah Jadea rather than Nurys
As The Challenge: Battle For a New Champion weeds out its finalists, alliances and friendships are tested. Several of those friendships were seriously fractured in Season 39, Episode 16, as multiple competitors got sent home from the game. At one point in the episode, Nurys Mateo contemplated leaving the show due to the ongoing drama
The Challenge: Battle For a New Champion continues to heat up with drama as alliances navigate the Conquest phase en route to the final. With this phase, there’s a purge in each episode’s daily challenge based on whoever finishes in last place from the cast. The daily challenge winner gets safety from the Conquest elimination
Several significant updates regarding The Challenge arrived from a recent event involving some of the show’s past, present, and possibly future cast members. Challenge Mania Podcast held an event in Tampa, Florida, where fans could meet and interact with cast members from MTV’s show. Podcast host Scott Yager was joined by stars from the competition
The Challenge Season 40 could feature a lot of MTV star power, including several of the show’s champions. As Battle For a New Champion is airing, some viewers have criticized the show’s main cast for a lack of veteran competitors. The show still features some of The Challenge’s all-time greats, including Chris “CT” Tamburello, Cara
Former show sinner Zach Nichols may have confirmed he won’t appear on any more seasons of MTV’s The Challenge. The Real World: San Diego star currently hosts a podcast alongside his friend Pierre, where they discuss reality TV shows primarily focusing on The Challenge. Zach appeared in multiple seasons of the competition series with castmates