Unpacking that security breach and double elimination from episode 12 with one of the players who left the game.
“I had everything I could have possibly wanted and I blew it,” Walker-Molaghan tells EW.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What happened with that puzzle?
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DEVIN WALKER-MOLAGHAN:Well, I’ll start a little further back.
That hurts less than someone pretending to be on your side and then being neutral.
I probably should have called out Leroy.
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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both of the dads ended up winning this tangram challenge.
I’ve got to be totally honest, I would still be down there trying to solve that.
I was really struggling as the pressure was mounting.
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At that point, I’d have beaten Wes, Johnny,andDarrell?
No one has that resume.
And that is not an excuse, it’s just the truth.
The Challenge: Double Agents.
I probably should have won this.
And it’s no one’s fault but my own.
Had you really never thought to practice tangrams?
That was the first tangram I’ve ever done.
And they’re for 6-year-olds!
So like, I should have figured out.
[Laughs] They’re literally for toddlers.
But I don’t know, it was just the pressure.
I made things a little bit more difficult on myself.
But if I could do it again the same way, I would!
I am that way, I’m going to continue to be that way.
You lost, and you should own it and get better from it and move on.
Hopefully, for me, it was a wake-up call.
So how are you learning from this experience to prepare for future seasons?
I knew Nam’s back was hurt.
I knew Kyle wasn’t great at puzzles.
I know that historically Leroy’s not great at puzzles.
I don’t imagine that Fessy would have wrapped his head around the tangram.
There were four easier options up there.
And that is my full intent of doing these, to win.
Yeah, that’s the thing, I was so caught up in getting my feelings hurt.
Darrell, I mean, we’re not like super-close.
But I consider him to be a friend.
He’s someone that I really think is a good person, we’ve got a lot in common.
It didn’t even cross my mind.
I didn’t even get to see it!
I just heard TJ blow the horn, and 90 seconds later I heard a crowd eruption.
I was like, “Someone got DQ’ed.”
I mean, that is insane.
Again, he’s got a 4-year-old, does a lot of tangrams.
The guy figured it out in 20 seconds.
It did look like he solved it immediately.
Josh misses the rope.
I make fun of Josh.
I miss the rope.
I get sent into elimination instead of Josh.
Josh is also in elimination.
And now you’re going home and you have to stay in the same hotel room.
[Laughs] It was a lot to deal with.
What was it like spending so much time with Josh afterward?
It isn’t in my character to want to dislike people.
It is just something that happens to me when I get locked in a house with certain people.
One thing we both realized as soon as we got eliminated was that we had played ourselves.
Cory, Darrell, CT are all on the outside looking in.So that was dumb of us.
And we realized it.
He was fueled by revenge just as much as I was.
We’ve seen that twice now backfire.
It sounds like your beef with Josh has actually been… squashed?
Is that put to bed now for future seasons?
Oh man, I have to remember I’m being quoted on this.
And that goes for me and Josh, me and Fessy, me and Cory.
I do not want an early problem with anybody.
But season 36 was a blueprint in how not to operate as a vet.
And a lot of us are paying the price for it.
So short answer, the Devin-and-Josh feud is tabled for now on my end.
But you never know.
But there’s also a secret vote.
It was incredibly stressful and tricky.
It made this the most difficult game that I’ve ever played.
A lot of people feel the same way.
It was incredibly taxing.
That seems to be a trend after last season’s bunker/Total Madnesstheme was really tough on everyone mentally.
This one appeared to be better in that regard, but it sounds like it wasn’t?
Yeah, multiple people said, “Take me back to the bunker.
I’d prefer to be there.”
Wow, strong statement!
And they didn’t even have a bathroom!
So I know I’m not delusional when I say it sucked.
The food was great.
The rooms were clean and nice.
The house was fine!
It was just the rules of the game.
Looking over your shoulder does you no good because the threat could be coming straight forward.
There was a lot of factors that were out of our control.
But I wouldn’t trade it!
With that being said, bring it on,Challenge, because this is an absolute hitter.
