The Fab Five wasn’t so fabulous when it came to working together in the latest episode of The Challenge: USA. In fact, their actions during the daily and subsequent deliberation led to two of them facing off in elimination.
Working together, The Amazing Race‘s Cayla Platt, Love Island‘s Cashay Proudfoot and Justine Ndiba, and Survivor‘s Desi Williams and Sarah Lacina should have been able to get Big Brother‘s Alyssa Lopez or Angela Rummans eliminated. Instead, Lacina lost the daily, and winners Williams and Survivor‘s Danny McCray sent in Proudfoot against her. Proudfoot was eliminated.
Jonne Roriz, courtesy of Paramount
Still, she left feeling like she was leaving a better woman than when she came in. “It was just challenging myself, putting myself in a hard situation,” Proudfoot tells TV Insider, “because I have two dislocated knees, I’m on a fitness show, like what am I doing? I purposely didn’t wear my knee braces for certain challenges because I didn’t want to be looked at as super weak. I walked in someone sad, heartbroken, unsure, scared, shy in a sense of being with so many competitors.”
Overall, “I walked out [feeling great]. I was happy that I had the experience that I can look back on and feel good about,” she continued. “I’m just happy and I’m proud of myself.”
As for where Proudfoot and her ex, Melvin “Cinco” Holland Jr. stand, “we’re not friends, we’re not in contact and I’m completely OK with that because things happen. You date, you break up, you live your life.”
Proudfoot discusses the Fab Five “alliance” and that elimination below.
The Fab Five was better as a concept than in the actual execution of an alliance. So I’m curious: How much did you trust each other going into that daily challenge where it seemed it was everyone for herself?
Cashay Proudfoot: Yeah. Desi and I did not talk game, we weren’t friends, we weren’t close. So I did not trust that woman as…
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