The Challengeveterans had better watch their backs becauseEmanuel Neaguis coming for them all.
“They were scared,” Neagu says with a laugh.
“I’m a vampire, so they love their blood.
Emanuel Neagu plans to snuff out the competition on ‘The Challenge’.mtv
They don’t want their blood to be spilled by another contestant.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Did you watchThe Challengebefore you joined this season?
I did watch a fewSurvivorand some other stuff close toThe Challenge, but neverThe Challenge.
Priscilla Anyabu, Emmanuel Neagu, and Emy Alupei on ‘The Challenge’.MTV
Was it always your goal to go fromSurvivor Romaniato another reality show likeThe Challenge?
Yes, yes, yes.
I wanted to do something bigger and I wanted to do some other reality shows.
You almost won your season ofSurvivor.
What did you learn from that loss that you took toThe Challenge?
Yeah, I almost win it.
[Laughs] It’s like TV stunts, like you see this in movies.
It really is so different physically fromSurvivor.
So how did you prepare?
I feel like I’ve always been prepared because I love sports and I’m a dancer.
I’ve been dancing for 10 years now.
The endurance I have helped me a lot.
And I love parkour, I’ve always done parkour jumps, backflips, and stuff like that.
I kind of grew up training forThe Challengewithout even knowing.
Even if you don’t know [what to do], you just have to try it.
Do you consider yourself to be more of a social, mental, or physical threat?
I’d say 50-50 for physical and social.
I don’t want to spoil it, but I heard that from other people too.
They were talking about me.
Aside from winning, what was your goal playing this season?
How did your time onThe Challengecompare to your expectations of what it’d be like?
It was actually the way I expected.
It was crazy, but I expected to do what I did [end up doing].
You got all the way to the end, so how long did you end up competing inSurvivor Romania?
I don’t really remember the dates, but there’s been five months on an island.
Now that you’ve done bothSurvivor RomaniaandThe Challenge, which one was more difficult?
OnThe Challengeyou always have to be on your toes and make strategies.
You’re basically on your own, where inSurvivorwe were two teams.
OnThe Challengeif you’re good, people want you out.
It was harder onSurvivorbecause of the way we lived.
But as challenges and social strategy games, it was harder onThe Challenge.
Who did you end up working with this season?
I also worked with an alliance.
It was a new thing, so…
I don’t know, it was crazy.
The trailers for this season show you andfellowSurvivorplayer Michele Fitzgeraldgetting quite close.
What can you reveal about what happened with her this season?
But she had a better English.
[Laughs] But we came with a strong social game, and everyone seen us as a threat.
And then we hooked up and we tried to kill them all!
But… you will see, you will see.
I almost cried, I will say that.
[Laughs] I almost cried at one point.
What is going to surprise your fans about what they see from you on this season ofThe Challenge?
Oops, spoiler alert.
And I have really strong physical skills, and they won’t really be surprised.
They might be surprised about the difficulty of the challenges and that I can really do them.
The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Alliesairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
