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On the latest episode of The Challenge, titled “Say It To My Face,” the Blue Team gets a massive advantage in the team challenge… and is still a complete embarrassment.
In other news, which person who should be on their best behavior is going to fall first? And Nurys Mateo goes scorched earth on some of her castmates.
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SPOILER ALERT: There are spoilers ahead for the fourth episode of The Challenge: Cutthroat, so don’t keep reading if you don’t want to be spoiled.
Who Went Home on ‘The Challenge’ Season 42 Last Night?
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Nurys Mateo, 31 (veteran)
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Advancing Contestants on ‘The Challenge: Cutthroat’
Adrienne Naylor, 29 (veteran)
Alexis “Lete,” 29 (rookie)
Anna Leigh Wilson, 30 (rookie)
Cara Maria Sorbello, 40 (veteran)
Cassidy Clark, 30 (veteran)
Chris “CT” Tamburello, 45 (veteran)
Chris Underwood, 33 (veteran)
Cory Wharton, 34 (veteran)
Deb Chubb, 29 (rookie)
Isabella “Izzy” Fairthorne, 26 (veteran)
Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, 44 (veteran)
Josh Goldstein, 29 (rookie)
Justin Hinsley, 26 (veteran)
Keanu Soto, 33 (rookie)
Leonardo “Leo” Dionicio, 24 (veteran)
Michele Fitzgerald, 35 (veteran)
Nelson Thomas, 37 (veteran)
Sydney Segal, 30 (veteran)
Victoria “Tori” Deal, 32 (veteran)
Will Gagnon, 29 (veteran)
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What Were the Challenges on the ‘Cutthroat’ Premiere Episode & Episode 2?
The team challenge was called “Infiltration Dive” and it tasked the teams with swimming to a dock, then one at a time swimming a decent distance complete underwater, with only submerged air cones to surface in. Along the way, they would have puzzle pieces to grab. Blue Team had a huge advantage because they only had to get five people through the swim; both other teams had eight people. And Blue Team still lost.
It was entirely the fault of (captains, ahem) Cara Maria and Nelson. Nelson had decent excuse — he was absolutely not prepared to swim with his prosthetic leg on, so he eventually took it off. However, after that, he should’ve been able to do it and he got into the first air bubble and kind of panicked.
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Cara Maria had no excuse. She’s not a good swimmer, but good lord. As she yelled later at Josh, she’s been doing The Challenge since she was 23 years old. She is now 40. Basically her entire adult life. Why in the name of all that is holy haven’t you become a better swimmer?! It’s seriously insane. Get your ass down to the YMCA and learn how to frickin’ swim!
Her teammates had every right to be pissed. Lete, Josh and Anna Leigh absolutely crushed it and then Cara Maria and Nelson really dropped the ball. Josh later confronted her about even wanting to be there and she tearfully said she does. And I think she truly does want to be there. She’s in arguably the best shape of her entire life.
HOWEVER — how many seasons of this show have you done and you still haven’t bothered to learn how to swim? C’mon.
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Personally, I think Cara Maria should have sucked it up and volunteered for the elimination. Because that’s what a captain whose fault it was they lost should do. But she didn’t and of course, the Orange Team full of vets didn’t choose her. They also didn’t chose Lete because she’s making out with Bananas. So Anna Leigh had to go into ANOTHER elimination before either girl on her team had done one. That’s garbage.
Nurys got voted into the choice for Orange Team by her team and Adrienne was the other one, so obviously Captain Izzy didn’t pick her BFF Adrienne to go into the sand. Nurys was super mad about it and lashed out hard. I don’t think what she said to Sydney is fair. Sydney is pretty real. Nurys just doesn’t like that Sydney is frank with some meanness rising.
Either way, Anna Leigh aboslutely smoked Nurys in “I’ve Got You Pegged,” a puzzle and strength challenge. Just about everyone on the sidelines was rooting for Anna Leigh because everyone’s pretty much over Nurys and her drama.
Afterward, they were informed that at the next challenge, they would tell him who the sole (permanent) new captain is. Dun dun dun!
In other news, Anna Leigh needs to stop trying to blow up her marriage on national TV by sitting with Leo and saying some super borderline things top him. Girl, he will jump your bones at the slightest nod, so if you don’t want to cheat on your husband for all the world to see, you better tighten up.
And Izzy and Cory are also both half a step away from making a big mistake. Izzy, girl, RUN. You in danger, girl. STOP.
The Challenge: Cutthroat season 42 premieres Wednesday, August 5 at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on Paramount+ with two back-to-back episodes. Subsequent new episodes drop every Wednesday at the same time.