Warning: This article contains spoilers for Wednesday’s episode ofThe Challenge: USA.
Onthis week’s episodeofThe Challenge: USA,Madonnabrought about one team’s downfall.
They ultimately lost to Lopez and Palumbo and were sent packing.
Kyland Young and Kyra Green.Laura Barisonzi/Paramount (2)
“Going into it, I felt good having a partner like Kyland,” Green tells EW.
“Trivia is never something that they throw into eliminations,” Young adds.
“I think this is like the second time in 20 seasons, or something like that.
And nobody was allowed to help us.”
“We had to like Google it later,” Young says.
There’s all these people and legends like Tyson coming from all these different shows.
Watching it back, I just feel super proud.
KYLAND YOUNG:Yeah, absolutely.
It’s the most fun game in the world.
Everything about it is all the things I love.
How did your time onThe Challenge: USAcompare to your original shows?
YOUNG:Yeah, for me it was it wasdifferent.
They call it the craziest social experiment in the world, and that’s exactly what it is.
It’s a fairly traumatic experience to be that isolated from the world for that length of time.
EveryBig Brotherperson is like, “I would doSurvivor.
“Survivor, I don’t think I’ve encountered anyone that wants to doBig Brother.
[Laughs] They’re like, “Nah, I’m good.
Four weeks was enough.
I don’t need three months.”
Especially the no-sunlight aspect.
It’s so isolated, and I didn’t realize it untilThe Challenge.
Summer camp is the vibes I get.
Take us back to the moment when Dom and Cayla said your names.
Did you know you were being thrown into the elimination, or was it a total surprise?
It’s all game.”
He was going to hold on to that, he had been consistently saying that.
We also knew that he had a super tight relationship with Enzo, and that was Angela’s partner.
So yeah, we were pretty certain.
I thought celebrities were married like 50 million times!
So we just kept on going up and up and up in our numbers.
YOUNG:Especially someone famous for so long!
Maybe I just piled her together in the celebrity boat of being married and divorced a billion times.
It’s all Madonna’s fault, clearly.
GREEN:One hundred percent.
YOUNG:It’s our fault for not knowing.
But Madonna beat us, and that’s kind of iconic.
YOUNG:Oh, it’s done.
What was it like competing in that elimination?
It looked brutal with how heavy those medicine balls were.
GREEN:Yeah, they wereheavy.
Heavier than they look.
And then the ledge that I had to get it on was super, super high.
I felt good because we had height on our side and Leo and Alyssa are way shorter than us.
We were in the lead for a hot minute, but once again, Madonna.
We went through a lot more guesses than they showed.
We just couldn’t figure out that Madonna one.
They had to put me on medication so that I could just hold food down, hold water down.
But onThe Challenge, they don’t care.
They’re like, “You’re doing it.”
How is your relationship with everyone from your original cast now?
YOUNG:My relationships are fine.
Most of us know that.
Virtually everyone else has that same mentality.
YOUNG:It’s funny when we all watch it together because we’re cracking up.
It’s awkward, but more funny than awkward.
GREEN:That happened to me last night.
And he’s sitting right next to me!
[Laughs] And I’m just like, “All love, homie!
It’s all good!”
The Challenge: USAairs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
