Warning: This article contains spoilers about episode 3 ofThe Challenge: All Stars.
you’ve got the option to train for a lot of things before competing onThe Challenge.
But one thing you could’t train for?
Teck Holmes on ‘The Challenge: All Stars’.Juan Cruz Rabaglia/Paramount+
Handling the intense heat of not one buttwoCarolina Reaper chilis at the same time.
“It was my time to go,” Holmes tells EW of his exit in episode 3.
“I pretty much knew once I nominated myself I had a 50-50 chance of going home.
Ruthie Alcaide, Yes Duffy, Arissa Hill, and Teck Holmes on ‘The Challenge: All Stars’.Juan Cruz Rabaglia/Paramount+
Had you ever considered coming back to the franchise over the past 20 years?
TECK HOLMES:This is really the first time that I thought of it.
I got some more calls in like the early 2000s.
And I was like, “Nah, I’m cool.”
And then when they changed the format, I was like, “Nah, I’mreallycool.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to do that.”
This was just the right time when Mark [Long] hit me up.
All Starsis definitely more cutthroat, everybody’s on pins and needles.
I was there to have fun.
The idea of “I can go home tomorrow!”
makes everyone a little bit nervous.
What was it like eating those Carolina Reapers?
I cannot believe you had to eat two of them, one is more than enough.
They were quite a challenge in themselves.
Luckily for me my body didn’t like the peppers, but they werehot.
I mean, when I say they’re hot, they werehot.
That was some bulls—.
They’re called reapers for a reason.
What was going through your mind when TJ revealed that fun little twist?
There was a lot of “M-Fing” going through my mind, cursing him out mentally.
And I knew that was like a telltale sign of what was to come in the challenges.
You never know what they’re going to throw at you.
I’ve got to give you props for flipping off TJ, Ithinkthat’s aChallengefirst.
I wasn’t the happiest camper right then and there.
TJ’s cool, that’s my man, but not at that moment!
Do you regret that because of how it put a target on your back?
I was talking s—, but at the same time defending our team.
I wouldn’t even have been in that position had I not had to defend our team.
But they didn’t show that, they just showedmelike that.
But no, I don’t regret it at all.
Did you ever think Kendal was going to use the Life Saver on you?
I didn’t, and I didn’t even pressure her.
I actually kind of wanted to do the [elimination], as weird as that seems.
And the week before, I had just voted her in.
I volunteered to go in, I’m prepared to go in, I’m not even trippin'.
If you want to, me and you will have a bond now for forever.
If not, it’s still cool.”
Was that elimination as close as it seemed?
It looked neck-and-neck the whole way through.
Yeah, it was pretty close.
I unfortunately had a bad start, threw up.
I think that’s what got me.
But I felt good about the race.
I was proud of myself.
It was just an ill-timed throw-up.
Yeah, it really was just an ill-timed throw-up.
[Laughs] Who knows what would have happened [if I hadn’t]?
Are you interested in coming back for another potential season ofAll Stars?
[Long pause for laughter] I told them hell no last time, and they keep calling me!
But after I sat home for a while, I started missing everybody.
Like, man, I started getting the itch again.
I’ll tell you, they know what they’re doing.
I told them, “No, I’m good, I’ll see y’all never.”
Then they called me, like, “Would you want to do it again?”
I’m like, “Ahh!
I don’t know.
The door is always open.
How could I say no?
But first I’ve got to work out.
I need to put on like 50 pounds.
[Laughs] And I have to figure out how to do that first.
Then I can just bully my way through to the end.
Let’s just hope it’s not another 20 years until we see you onThe Challengeagain.
I know, I still couldn’t believe it’s been 20 years since my last one.
But that would be theGolden Girls Challenge.
I can’t do that one.
I would watch that one, let’s be honest.
Yeah, I would too!
