Her showmance days are over. Big Brother 23 alum Alyssa Lopez was once focused on profitable when she signed on to compete in The Challenge: USA, the new CBS iteration of the MTV franchise.
The MollieBird swimming gear dressmaker, 25, unfolded about how she went into this new sport with a special mindset than final summer time.
“Going in [to Big Brother], I used to be open to anything,” she exclusively tells Us Weekly in an interview, which you'll be able to watch above. “And I feel that’s what messed me up so much too. I wasn’t getting in [where] my handiest priority was once successful. My priority used to be have fun too. I believe like The Challenge is gonna be a unconditionally other Alyssa persons are gonna see, the place nonstop my mind was once transferring. And the only factor my brain was interested by used to be the game.”
The Florida native is of course referring to her short-lived relationship with ex Christian Birkenberger, with whom she’s nonetheless good friends. “I already did the showmance thing,” she tells Us. “That is expired for me. The simplest sexy thing [on The Challenge] was the money prize.”
Five people from her season of BB23 – Xavier Prather, Azah Awasum, Derek Xiao, Kyland Young and Tiffany Mitchell – are competing alongside her, so sticking together, at least in the beginning, was once “most definitely the easiest factor to do,” she says. Still, things may get tricky.
“I indubitably have all of those friendships. [Xavier] was the person I used to be closest with in the Big Brother house and outdoor the Big Brother house,” Alyssa explains. “It’s a unusual stability going in as a result of you will have those friendships and these connections, and also you have been additionally just lied to by them simply six months in the past. … It used to be a very bizarre feeling having your perfect buddies there but in addition your very best buddies who just lied to you. You don’t wish to get were given again.”
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She would possibly not wish to fear regardless that, as host T.J. Lavin has already alluded to Alyssa being a fierce competitor. “Going in and seeing those buff girls which are in order that intimidating, I simply have little string bean me, not in reality tremendous built,” she says. “But I felt like I for sure had the energy for my frame weight. I had the endurance down. Puzzles, still now not my thing, guys. I tried to practice as much as I may. I was truly working towards my mental math.”
“I used to be so frightened that I wasn’t going to do really well,” Alyssa adds, saying her plan used to be “no longer having regrets” in addition to “entering into and playing laborious. Playing smart but taking part in arduous.”
The Challenge: USA premieres on CBS Wednesday, July 6, at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.
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