‘The Challenge’: Danny Reveals Advice He Got From Wife Kiki & Who She Wanted Him Paired With (Exclusive)

After winning The Challenge: USA successful 2022, Danny McCray is backmost for The Challenge: World Championship, which premieres connected March 8. The Survivor alum volition beryllium representing squad USA connected the show, on with fellow Challenge: USA winner, Sarah Lacina, and finalists, Ben Driebergen and Justin Ndiba. “After moving that last for The Challenge: USA, I was like…I request to marque definite my cardio is up,” Danny admitted to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “Before USA, I was moving determination astir 7-8 miles, truthful I tacked connected different 2 to my workouts. I went to instrumentality swimming classes truthful I could get a small amended astatine that, too, and not beryllium truthful bushed erstwhile I was done. I truly conscionable worked connected getting successful amended carnal signifier for immoderate of the worldly that The Challenge was going to person america doing.

For World Championship, the USA players volition beryllium up against competitors from installments of The Challenge successful Australia, the UK and Argentina. All of the planetary MVPs volition beryllium paired up with a Challenge “legend” from the archetypal MTV series. “With maine having the strength, I knew I needed idiosyncratic who was smart,” Danny said, of his imagination partner. “I request idiosyncratic who’s bully astatine puzzles, idiosyncratic who’s bully astatine reasoning rapidly and precise bully nether pressure. I wanted idiosyncratic with a wide caput who didn’t panic erstwhile things got tough.”

Viewers won’t cognize who Danny is paired up with until the amusement premieres. However, helium told america that his woman Kiki McCray, who fans fell successful emotion with done Danny’s confessionals on USA, wanted him partnered up with Jonna Mannion. “She knew Jonna is smart,” Danny explained. “She knew maine and Jonna unneurotic would beryllium a unit to beryllium reckoned with.”

Like Danny, Kiki is simply a instrumentality of The Challenge, and she had immoderate proposal to stock with her hubby earlier helium near to film World Championship. “She told maine the aforesaid happening she ever tells me: ‘Don’t travel location without that money!'” Danny dished. “‘Don’t travel location telling maine astir nary friends you made, FaceTiming with caller people, unless you find a mode to marque that money. That’s the astir important thing. If you gotta portion somebody’s throat, oregon stab idiosyncratic successful the back, bash immoderate you request to bash to bring the wealth back!'”

The Challenge: World Championship will premiere with back-to-back episodes connected March 8. The amusement streams connected Paramount+. See much of our interrogation with Danny below!

Was determination anyone from the Legends broadside that you wanted to enactment with? Well, Darrell [Taylor] is idiosyncratic I’ve been watching for a portion now. I was ever like, ‘Hey, if I ever got a accidental to play with a feline similar Darrell, I would privation him connected my side.’ He ever seems similar he’s connected the extracurricular of those alliances, particularly with the caller schoolhouse MTV people. I consciousness similar that’s a feline who would beryllium consenting to enactment with me.

What was your narration similar with the different ‘USA’ squad members coming onto the show? We were goo. We didn’t cognize Justine and Ben were coming, but maine and Sarah were truly close. We tracked each other’s workouts and made definite we had a program coming into the house. Justine is similar my small sister, truthful I was excited to person her on. I knew she’d person my back. Ben is simply a chaotic card, but I had seen him a mates of times and we had a fewer conversations that made maine consciousness similar he’d beryllium connected my side, arsenic well.

Danny for ‘The Challenge: World Championship’. (Paramount+)

What did you cognize astir your competitors from the different countries? We came successful wholly blind. We didn’t get to spot immoderate of those seasons earlier we came on. They were each caller fresh faces to us. I had ne'er heard of immoderate of them. We didn’t cognize however they fared [on their seasons]. We conscionable assumed we were possibly successful a small spot amended signifier than them, but they came retired and fought. It was a bully archetypal content from astir people.

Now that you’ve played ‘Survivor’ and ‘The Challenge’, however bash they compare? They’re some very, precise amusive games, but they’re wholly different. The mode you person to strategize and the mode you person to deliberation is wholly different. The gait of the crippled on Survivor and the mode they portion you down – nary soap, nary bathrooms – that’s thing that you person to accommodate to. On the flip side, connected The Challenge you’re eating each this nasty worldly and you person to get implicit your fearfulness of heights and aquatics agelong distances. They’re wholly different, but arsenic amusive and exciting.

Do you spot yourself competing connected either amusement again successful the future? Never accidental never. I don’t deliberation my woman would fto maine spell backmost on Survivor due to the fact that we don’t get immoderate FaceTime calls and she can’t spot me. She wants maine to spell backmost on The Challenge. You ne'er know. It conscionable depends connected who calls and what the timing looks like. I person a two-year-old, and that’s the biggest happening close now.

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