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USA Today
a day ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'The Challenge: Vets and New Threats': Cast, release date, how to watch
"The Challenge" is pitting a cohort of newcomers against seasoned veterans on its newest season, "Vets and New Threats." Season 41 of the reality competition show is set to kick off on July 30 after airing a launch special on July 23. "The Challenge," one of the genre's longest-running series, brings together a group of competitors facing off in a series of mental and physical challenges in the quest for a massive cash prize. While the original iterations of the show only saw alumni from "The Real World" and "Road Rules," the modern version has expanded to include competitors from reality shows around the globe. Here's what to know about the new season. When does 'The Challenge' Season 41 premiere? "The Challenge: Vets and New Threats" will premiere on Wednesday, July 30 at 8 p.m. ET. It will be hosted by TJ Lavin. How to watch 'The Challenge: Vets and New Threats' The new season of "The Challenge" will air on MTV. Aside from watching it live, viewers with some TV providers can use their login to stream the show on MTV's website or app. A list of participating TV providers is available on MTV's website. It won't be available to stream on other platforms, a Paramount spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY. 'The Challenge' Season 41 will see veterans, newcomers pair up While "The Challenge: Vets and New Threats" doesn't air until July 30, a "launch special" episode was released on July 23. The episode, which is available to watch on YouTube, covers the beginning of the competition. It includes a challenge that determines the order each contestant enters the house and picks their partner. Lavin explained during the episode that one vet and one new threat will each pair up as a team for the competition. 'The Challenge: Vets and New Threats' cast The 41st season of "The Challenge" will feature 32 players, including 16 veterans and 16 new competitors. They include: Vets New threats Melina Khan is a national trending reporter for USA TODAY. She can be reached at
Sydney Morning Herald
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘There would be nothing without you': Why Ozzy was the original Kardashian
Ozzy Osbourne famously cemented his reputation as the 'Prince of Darkness' in 1982 when he bit the head off a bat – the lead singer of Black Sabbath was a dark and otherworldly rock god who couldn't be constrained by the bounds of polite society. But I, like many other millennials, instead knew him as a doddering sweatpants-wearing dad who ranted to his pets, loved burritos and couldn't ever quite work out his TV remote. It's a bizarre dual legacy for Osbourne to leave, following his death at age 76 on Wednesday. And while endless words will be written about his contribution to heavy metal and his shifting of the musical zeitgeist, it's only fair to mark his contribution to TV. Through his seminal MTV series, The Osbournes, the Prince of Darkness was also the father of reality TV as we know it. Though it would go on to run for 52 episodes over four seasons, The Osbournes began in 2002 as a total experiment. And a risky one at that. The established musician who had struggled with sobriety had everything to lose by letting cameras into his private life; and at age 53 for the series launch, he was well outside the usual demographic for the youth channel (even though the cartoon stars of Beavis and Butt-Head loved him). The show – which followed Osbourne, his wife Sharon and their two teenage children Kelly and Jack going about everyday life in their Beverley Hills home – was conceived as a 'documentary sitcom' off the back of the success of The Real World. The family had shot a segment for MTV's other new show, Cribs, which looked inside the homes of celebrities, and producers realised there was something worth exploring about the 'loving, dysfunctional, chaotic' nature of their home.
The Age
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘There would be nothing without you': Why Ozzy was the original Kardashian
Ozzy Osbourne famously cemented his reputation as the 'Prince of Darkness' in 1982 when he bit the head off a bat – the lead singer of Black Sabbath was a dark and otherworldly rock god who couldn't be constrained by the bounds of polite society. But I, like many other millennials, instead knew him as a doddering sweatpants-wearing dad who ranted to his pets, loved burritos and couldn't ever quite work out his TV remote. It's a bizarre dual legacy for Osbourne to leave, following his death at age 76 on Wednesday. And while endless words will be written about his contribution to heavy metal and his shifting of the musical zeitgeist, it's only fair to mark his contribution to TV. Through his seminal MTV series, The Osbournes, the Prince of Darkness was also the father of reality TV as we know it. Though it would go on to run for 52 episodes over four seasons, The Osbournes began in 2002 as a total experiment. And a risky one at that. The established musician who had struggled with sobriety had everything to lose by letting cameras into his private life; and at age 53 for the series launch, he was well outside the usual demographic for the youth channel (even though the cartoon stars of Beavis and Butt-Head loved him). The show – which followed Osbourne, his wife Sharon and their two teenage children Kelly and Jack going about everyday life in their Beverley Hills home – was conceived as a 'documentary sitcom' off the back of the success of The Real World. The family had shot a segment for MTV's other new show, Cribs, which looked inside the homes of celebrities, and producers realised there was something worth exploring about the 'loving, dysfunctional, chaotic' nature of their home.
New York Times
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
What ‘Road Rules' Wrought
Attention, as a currency, can work a bit like money itself, creating classes of haves and have-nots. If income inequality in America ballooned in the 1970s, attention inequality got worse in the 1990s — thanks of course to the internet, but also to reality TV. On 'The Real World,' which premiered on MTV in 1992, viewers were invited to surveil the day-to-day of people who were both totally normal and anything but, people finding jobs and facing crushes and doing what 20-somethings do, all while living under one roof. On 'Road Rules,' a sister show of sorts that premiered 30 years ago this month, a handful of teens and 20-somethings were dropped into the middle of nowhere in a camper van. There, they performed 'challenges' like jumping out of an airplane or spending the night in a supposedly haunted building. The two shows, made by the same production company, essentially ushered in the reality television factory of fame — fleeting and otherwise — as we have come to know if in the decades since. There is something distinctly American about 'Road Rules,' possessed of a berserk energy as if it had emerged from a Hollywood brainstorming lunch between Jack Kerouac and Kim Kardashian. It's just an R.V. full of young people and the open road. Plus some 'challenges' that seem like a real-life test of the parental aphorism 'If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?' The answer is always yes, so long as the tape is running. Both 'The Real World' and 'Road Rules' attracted and thrived on a particular personality: obnoxiously authentic. The type of person saying what nobody else will — because it's rude, offensive, moronic or plainly unnecessary. If that archetype sounds familiar, it's because reality TV show fame is now actual real-world fame, and we're living in a world that 'Road Rules' made. Theo Von, a cast member on Season 9, is now one of the biggest podcast stars in the world, with a show that frequently ranks in YouTube's Top 10, reaching millions, and which last year counted President Trump as a guest. Sean Duffy, who met his wife on 'Road Rules: All Stars,' is the secretary of transportation. Michael Mizanin, now a wrestling star better known as the Miz, was a cast member of 'The Real World' and went on the mash-up once known as the 'Real World-Road Rules Challenge.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Time Magazine
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
What to Know About Sean Duffy, NASA's New Interim Head
The people tapped to run NASA have often been scientists, engineers, academics, or government officials. The agency's new interim head, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, brings a different sort of background to the position. Over the past three decades, Duffy has worn a variety of hats, appearing on reality television, serving as a district attorney and a member of the House, and now leading the Transportation Department under President Donald Trump's second Administration amid mounting concerns about air travel safety. Trump announced Duffy's appointment as NASA's interim Administrator on Wednesday, praising his work as Transportation Secretary. 'Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Country's Transportation Affairs,' Trump said in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social. 'He will be a fantastic leader of the ever more important Space Agency, even if only for a short period of time.' Duffy said in a post on X that he was 'honored to accept this mission.' The news of Duffy's appointment comes after Trump pulled his nomination of billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to run NASA in May, just days before Isaacman was expected to be confirmed to the position. Isaacman is a friend of Elon Musk, and the move was seen as the first sign of the rift between Trump and Musk that widened as the two men publicly feuded over a sweeping tax and spending package central to Trump's second term agenda. Duffy will continue to run the Transportation Department while temporarily leading NASA, making him the latest Trump Administration official to take on multiple roles. Here's what to know about him. He was an MTV reality star When Duffy was in his 20s, he appeared on MTV's reality show 'The Real World' and became known as the show's resident playboy. He later starred in the MTV show 'Road Rules: All Stars,' where he met his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, now a Fox News host. The couple have nine children. Together, in 2021, they launched a podcast, 'From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys,' on which they have discussed various social and political issues and promoted a conservative vision of family. He was a district attorney and served in Congress Duffy was the district attorney of Ashland County in Wisconsin for nearly 10 years, from 2002 to 2010. He was elected to the House as part of 2010's Tea Party wave, winning a district that had been held by a Democrat for more than four decades. He served in Congress for about eight years before resigning partway through his fifth term in 2019, saying he wanted to support his family after learning his ninth child would be born with health complications, including a heart condition. He worked as a political commentator and lobbyist After leaving Congress, Duffy worked as a paid political commentator at CNN, where he garnered criticism for promoting a conspiracy theory and suggesting National Security Council official Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman had an 'affinity' for Ukraine after Vindman testified in Trump's first impeachment inquiry. He later worked at a lobbying firm based in Washington before becoming the co-host of a show on Fox Business that premiered in 2023. He now serves in Trump's Cabinet Trump named Duffy as his nominee to run the Transportation Department soon after the 2024 election. Duffy was not among Trump's most contentious nominees, and was sworn into the role in January after an easy confirmation process that ended in a 77-22 Senate vote to approve his nomination. Under Duffy's leadership, the department has pledged to make changes to the nation's air traffic control system, after a string of crashes and near misses. In January, an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided when the plane was about to land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, killing all 67 people on board both aircrafts. A few months later, radar and communications at Newark Liberty International Airport stopped working on multiple occasions. One of the outages lasted as long as 90 seconds. Hundreds of flights were canceled and delayed in the aftermath. Duffy said he plans to overhaul the nation's air traffic control system, including by replacing antiquated telecommunications and launching efforts to boost staffing for air traffic controllers. As Transportation Secretary, Duffy has also said that he will roll back 'woke DEI policies' and environmental regulations initiated under the Biden Administration.
