The Challenge [MTV]

The Hughie interview on podge and rodge show is one of the funniest 10mins interview you will ever see on tv. It’s up there with the Oliver Reed big pipe interview.

I like the International Theme - it's a great way to introduce a sh*tload of new players from a variety of different shows in one season. From a casting standpoint it'll mean an even larger pool of reality shows to choose from going forward. I'm glad infiltration remains a thing, it was the aspect from last season I really loved.

That's my first introduction to Hughie ever, and so far he's like an Irish Josh... When Josh first came over from being on Big Brother to joining the Challenge I couldn't stand him, but he grew on me over time even though I still think he's a dope, so perhaps it'll be the same for Hughie given a bit of time. I can understand him barely featuring in the episode after that first challenge, because they had 34 people to give screen-time to and then obviously you tend to shift the focus to those in danger of being in elimination.

Best first impressions of the people I wasn't already familiar with would be Esther from Big Brother Nigeria, I instantly wanted to root for her, but hopefully she'll get infiltrated away from Fessy fairly sharpish before any of his awfulness rubs off on her...

Speaking of how awful Fessy is, I'm disappointed in Amanda. I've always kind of flip-flopped on whether or not I'm a fan of Amanda because she can be awful at times, but for the most part I've generally liked her overall, and her and Fessy being a thing is not endearing.

Yeah Hughie's definitely a lot like Josh for me. He's more than a bit of an eejit who you're not a fan of initially, but you start to warm to him and root for him pretty quickly.

Fessy as always is still the biggest d*ckhead in the house, now moreso than ever before, and I really can't wait to see the smug grin knocked off his face.

I find the vet vs rookie dynamic of the show to be incredibly frustrating at times. Maybe it's because unlike some long term fans I am more familiar with some of these rookies compared to a few real world cast members from long long ago.

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I’m still watching this every Monday on mtv. Ashley is still in it. Fezzy was removed for fighting his big brother buddy, and Hughie was eliminated after being a really great contestant, surely he will be back again. Tho I’m not sure about the recent split into 3 teams, that 1 team has won everything so far so bit unfair. I dunno why the winner of the elimination has not put themselves on that team, yet.

Getting to the pointy end of the competition now. Big names are going to start falling.

Good episode last night (in the US). No spoilers since some people are watching at the UK times.

This should be good tonight so. It’s a mens elimination, preview shows some problems between Kyle and Devon. Reckon Kyle goes to elimination anyway and will pick Josh if his team don’t win or Nelson if they do.

I don't dislike Kyle but I do feel he very much goes out of his way to play this snakey wildcard character, both within the came and as part of his confessionals. He's a witty guy but it always seems a little forced for me to really warm to him. The decision to target the Sapphire cell made zero sense. Behind the facade appears to be a decent enough guy though.

I've warmed to Josh recently which is a bit of a surprise given how obnoxious and petulant he behaved when he first appeared in BB.

Given how they've been split into cells is it clear how the final will play out? Do they compete as a team and share the winnings? Or compete against each other? Or nobody knows yet?

I’d like to see an elimination between Tori and Kaycee and Tori getting her revenge.

I don’t get the 3 team split this season. Again this week it gives a big advantage to the team with the most numbers. Same team have practically won every week. And most weeks the winner of the elimination doesn’t pick to go into that dominant team, why?? EG - why did Kyle go back to CT he should have swapped with Count Dracula and teamed up with his buddy Devon. Why is that strong team almost threatening others not to infiltrate them, when that is the only positive I see in this 3 team structure, ie the power given to however gas the balls to go to elimination and win.

I didn’t understand why did the Spanish guy pick Count Dracula for the elimination. He should have picked Devon, it didn’t look like a puzzle game, and he could have not picked his best buddy and made a name for himself by eliminating a ‘self appointed’ big player. Other than that the Spanish guy was pretty impressive throughout and even had some hanky panty with Big T.

I won’t know till I watch next Monday night, but am hoping to see Kyle do well.

Seems the team lost it on the puzzle and paid the price with elimination of half them. Looks like they all got great cardio except Devon.

Anyone watching the new season? It's a total cracker. No Josh or Hughie either. 2 episodes are out. 🙂

The Ride or Die twist is excellent. No spoilers but I feel sorry for the person who was eliminated near the start of episode 2, only because their partner couldn't hack it.