[Warning: The next accommodates spoilers from the season premiere of The Problem: Double Brokers. Learn at your individual danger!]
The brand new season of The Challenge has arrived, and like each season earlier than it, the present is decided to prime what it has executed earlier than. Going with the season’s spy motif, Double Brokers is a accomplice recreation the place you are by no means actually certain if the particular person you are working with is actually in your facet — or if they will be staying loyal for lengthy. Within the premiere, every forged member was in a position to decide on their accomplice, which was a extra difficult endeavor than anticipated.
Veteran Wes Bergmann rapidly picked Natalie Anderson from Survivor. Having watched the opposite actuality present together with his spouse, he was aware of not solely Natalie’s bodily talents however her crafty social recreation. Initially, it felt like a win-win determination to work with a robust woman who would depend on him to assist construct alliances together with his established buddies in the home, however Bergman’s alternative made them each targets.
“In hindsight, all of the issues that [my wife and I] would praise [Anderson] about ended up being an issue,” Bergmann instructed TV Information. “The opposite forged is extremely jealous and insecure…Then whenever you pair me with an outstanding woman, that insecurity — you may as effectively simply throw some gasoline on it. In hindsight, I ought to have been going after considered one of them, as a result of they are not nearly as good and that may make them really feel method much less insecure, if I used to be with considered one of them.”
The Large Brother groups — who think about Bergmann to be a main enemy to them — wasted no time in deploying their technique to “swing huge” in opposition to vets, convincing the rookies to facet with them and vote huge names into elimination. The primary episode noticed vets CT Tamburello and Ashley Mitchell thrown into elimination by the home, adopted by Bergmann and Anderson, who have been nominated to go in by day problem winners Aneesa Ferreira and Fessy Shafaat.
“They’re swinging at me as a result of I’ve what they need, which is cash, fame, energy, a profession, a life, and a household,” Bergmann mentioned of the groups concentrating on him. “What they should perceive is I am 36 years previous. They’ll have that stuff in some unspecified time in the future, too. They don’t seem to be making the very best choices… as a result of I am not the very best finalist up there. So as an alternative of throwing in the very best finalists, which is the very best recreation transfer, they’re throwing within the largest names. It may come again to chew them within the ass, as a result of if this try to do away with the 2 folks that they’re throwing in — if that backfires they have some issues on their palms.”
Wes Bergmann, The Problem: Double Brokers
It stays to be seen how precisely Bergmann will precise revenge. The true motive the season known as Double Brokers turned clear after the elimination. Despite the fact that the groups went in as companions, it was a feminine elimination, and Anderson triumphed over Mitchell, sending the vet dwelling. Nonetheless, host TJ Lavin offered a brand new twist after Anderson’s win. She may return again to the home with Bergmann as her accomplice, change to Tamburello, or decide any of the opposite guys in the home (aside from Shafaat) to accomplice with as an alternative. The episode ended earlier than Anderson made her determination, leaving followers to surprise who she would decide and what would occur to the particular person she did not.
“[The twist] positively does change issues a little bit bit,” Bergmann defined. He elaborated on how he may use it to his benefit going ahead. “I [could] use that a little bit bit as ammunition to all of the individuals which might be scared by the truth that I’ve obtained a great woman. The brand new argument is, ‘Hey, look, I am not going to have this for lengthy, as a result of it is solely a matter of time earlier than she’s stolen by considered one of your all’s guys. So going after me is futile.'”
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The forged made their accomplice choices on the belief that they’d be a ride-or-die staff not less than till the ultimate, however the twist signifies that they might lose their accomplice — probably unwillingly — at any second. That is positively going to trigger some belief points, however Bergmann claimed it solely shook him quickly.
“The rationale that I got here to was to proceed to inform her all the things, as a result of that may be good for nevertheless lengthy [our] partnership lasted,” he mentioned. “It could additionally construct up a number of belief in case we ever did grow to be not-partners. We may nonetheless be in an alliance. I did not actually maintain again, however the brand new rule sort of made me not less than query whether or not I ought to maintain again.”
Does that imply Anderson goes to remain loyal to Bergmann though being his accomplice places an enormous goal on her again? We’ll have to attend till subsequent week to seek out out.
The Problem: Double Brokers airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on MTV.