The Challenge Australia: Week 1 Exit Interview 2

0:00 Welcome back to the nullify Tech channel here on YouTube where we've got the TNT takes for you on the challenge Australia I'm joined by sadly one of the contestants that were eliminated in the first episode here of the Season Susan it's great to meet you I wish it was under better circumstances and that you won the whole show but thank you for joining me today how are you doing excited to be speaking a little bit disappointed you know I wish I had more time in the house and got to do more challenges but you know on site circumstances this is what it is and I'm here well Susan thank you so much firstly for accepting the call when it came because without you the show wouldn't be there and I'm a big challenge fan and I was so excited to finally see the challenge Australia be something that Australians can be proud of and something that they had their own show now where they can shop for contestants and without you it wouldn't have been possible I do want to know were you a fan of the challenge prior to the call coming or how did that whole thing manifest with you actually ending up on the show to be honest can I can I tell you a funny funniest story I was binge watching The Challenge us and I was falling in love with the characters and I was loving it so much and then my manager sends me an email I was like

1:20 Would you be concerned say would you consider this I'm like why is he telling me that like no are you kidding me these guys give their lives for these but at the same time I like the cool stunt you know like challenges they do like jumping out of the car or you know kind of like being spun around and pulling this I hate that marathons look like it's all going up the stairs and struggling for your life but I love the challenges and I love me personally as a creative I love challenging myself so to be honest that's what motivated me to push myself go out of my comfort zone and but I had watched it before and I knew what I was getting myself into it wasn't a walk in the park yeah I saw in the preseason content for 10 play put out there that you said you were asked for other reality TV shows in the past but you've said no and then you accepted this one so what was it that sort of Drew you to say yes to the challenge where you said no to some others in the in the past consider me you know it's more like you have to fight for yourself to be in the house but at the same time also I want to grow and I want to do things that push

2:40 Me out of my comfort zone as a as an actor or as an influencer I didn't want to be comfortable I didn't want to be comfortable it was and it was it's the challenge if you've watched the US challenge it's like this is it if you're falling in love with it you know you see how people have grown and changed on the challenge you know like that challenge all starts wow oh my God oh my God yeah and you also spoke a little bit about representing as an African Australian and saying yes to go on the challenge can you talk a little bit about that and maybe the weight you felt on your shoulders to go out there and represent yes to be honest like as an African woman of diverse and culture this is huge like I can't tell you how much support I've received from the African Community in Australia for them to even just see me get on it's like wow we've achieved it she's gone far for us that's an achievement and they always see you as she's not just representing Susan she's representing the whole nation so how I behave how I'm how I act on this show is definitely reflecting on sadly on the rest of the African Community they're trying to see how far you go you know and also just how you carry yourself on the show and I'm proud to say that I did okay you

4:01 Know I did give it my best and you know to tell everyone there is a chance for anyone to be on such a show like the church or anyone to do anything like what I've just done I can so relate to that I'm from South Africa originally and I always take note of anybody that comes over and does The Challenge when they're from Africa so having Esther and Tasha previously on The Challenge from Nigeria you know those were my goals I was shouting for them that season I was shouting for you this season I really wished you could have gone a little bit further but hopefully you do get a call back in the future if we get the challenge Australia season three or two and so forth in the future because we've had champions of the show go out first and then come back to win the whole thing so would you ever say yes to it if the opportunity came back I would do it again and I'll come with a different game different strategy I would oh my gosh I will do it again it was unreal to be honest it's something I'd love to do it again and I would definitely say yes now you mentioned a little bit about you know not wanting to go on maybe like a show like The Bachelor where you're supposed to be looking pretty there was a lot of people on the season that were from The Bachelor and all these different love shows how did you find yourself gravitating towards people when you were in the house did you find it difficult to connect with those people who were you gravitating towards early in the game

5:22 United obviously like love Island Audrey my girl sugar Jack Sorel I think the real people brought the brochure like the real the real people also Mali like we had moments with them so I was grabbing that into the down to earth people you know but at the same time I think you are all there to prove something to themselves as much as they're on The Bachelor because everyone has this stereotype she's The Bachelor or she's this she's that there's nowhere she's going to win that challenge but they're gonna surprise a lot of people to be honest and I'm truly proud of every contest that I did get on the challenge now it's quite interesting you mentioned a lot of people there you did not mention Billy in that and I want to know a little bit how did this whole partnership come together you know you go to your first daily challenge and you and Billy end up being a Duo working together how did that sort of come together to be honest it was so quick so we're all standing in the line boy girl boy girl boy girl and they're like find your partners so it's the first time no one knows that you literally have to leave your position and go somewhere else so people just started coupling around whatever was next to them unfortunately

6:42 Bella was next to me and I'm like I guess we're Partners but you know so I ended up with Billy and yeah what was so difficult in working with Billy during these challenges obviously you had two different occasions where you had to work with him let's talk about the daily itself first what was it like you know you said you didn't like doing any marathon type of challenges and of course the challenge is going to make it hard on you on the very first daily challenge and you end up having to do this big Stadium run up about 200 flights of stairs to go get these blocks or there's plates that you've got to put onto your Podium or your platform can you talk me through the difficulties of doing it and you know did it translate well on TV how difficult this challenge was I don't think it translated to be honest like I don't think people show how difficult it was you know my legs were burning my armstrings were burning like my legs were shaking everyone was shaking people were throwing up like when we finished the first challenge like people were puffing people were like what the hell obviously even the strongest or the strongest were like that was something we had to run a like 12 a case of 12 stairs but multiply that times maybe

8:02 Four and then you have to go into the main stadium climb up other stairs find your token go back down and come back again you're resting with people who are like lions and tigers and hens and like different people with different physical capability and some people are puffing some people are crawling you look at everyone you like man we man we're just gonna even win to be honest it was intense it was so difficult like when I finished that I remember I just fell under the grass and I'm like oh my Lord like I can't believe I even went through that you know but that's what I love about it because you push yourself to the Limit you push yourself and you don't want to give up and you don't want to look like I've given up on myself but Billy was supportive in that one it's just that and after we finished that one he started talking on the bus that he wanted to offer himself to go against Jack and Sorel and that's where the problem came in and that's why we found ourselves in Us in that situation that's interesting so he immediately after the daily challenge started putting a Target on your backs by saying that he was happy to go down there did he say why he was happy to go down into an elimination that was the mystery

9:22 Everyone was curious about like what do you have against Jack and Sorel and why do you think because no one was bringing up your name so people were like why are you even offering yourself to go up against them interesting he's offering himself he's not even thinking about me first of all Jack and Sarah were good friends for me in the house so and for me it was already difficult so the fact that they were being targeted and they were emotional or crying so I'm crying for them and then he's putting me in a situation where I'm like are you kidding me right now yeah that's very bizarre and I was sort of wanting to know Jack and Sorel became the targets very early on here in this first daily challenge by every team ending up putting the plates on them and they end up going becoming the last team here how did that come together can you talk us through how the teams decided that Jack and Sorel needed to be that first team that's the drama that the that was caused in the house because Roe and Jack were curious who started the rumor that they should be the target and we find out that apparently people are saying Kiki or Kona and some people but then when we watched it was it looked like Korean said let's take Sorel out because you know she's coughing

10:43 So I think people are like she's coughing she's unwell no someone started a roommate she said she didn't want to be in the house because she was unwell pastorelle never said that so once someone did spread that rumor it's funny how Chinese Whispers always end up in a funny way you know so people got frustrated they're like oh my gosh of course it's obvious she doesn't want to be here let's put a Target on her you know and that's how it started and they got frustrated hence the fight you saw with cereal and Grant because she felt like she was like did Grant started because he has an issue you know with me maybe he didn't want me in the house so you know so this argument started being in the house there's a lot that you don't see but there was a lot of arguments like why do you want to start you know and then Billy's so fixated on wanting to be part of the elimination so I just copped it and listen I find myself an elimination at the end of the day even in the elimination it was so hard like it's so weird because when we got in the house I tried so many times to have conversations with him and I'm like what is the strategy have you spoken to them I really don't want to go into the elimination I'm not physically mentally and you know in that right space I'm emotional I'm tired I'm

12:03 Exhausted I don't want to go in the elimination and he said yes he didn't want to you know and then next minute there's this fight that he has with a few girls in the house he apologizes to everyone he's embarrassed about his thing and then oh my gosh of course the obvious people don't want you in the house they're like Susan and you know and I had to copy I had to cop all the like you know whatever was happening and I felt like he stole my chances to be in the house like you stole those opportunities for me because he was fixated on his personal agendas he had with these people that had I had no idea about and you know instead of talking strategy with me and working well as a partner it was a billy game thing and I don't hold that against him he played the game different in the challenge and outside of that I have no hate for Billy I have no resentment towards Billy but in the challenge as the game no it sucked and I was a bit disappointed by his behavior and how the whole thing turned out it's interesting because on the show we saw Billy get upset with Emily or try and be almost intimidating in a way and saying that if I was to go down there I would hurt Jack and that seemed like Emily didn't really that didn't work and she called

13:23 His bluff and ended up putting him down there so very confusing Behavior there because at one point you said he wanted to go in but then he did also try and avoid going in by having that strategy there and then you also talk about the potential that he had a beef with both Jack and Sorel do you believe that beef with Jack and Sorrel was something that he brought into the game or was something that sort of manifested itself within the game itself manifested with in the game itself I don't think you realized how that beef was how strong that thing because that's the challenge you know you may have babies with people outside and then you put it in the challenge and all these things that you've had with these people start manifesting and I think that's what happened I don't think Billy found himself on the other side of the coin you know like he expected to see himself where he you know what I mean it's manifested before him he didn't know how to control it hence the aggravation hence saying things like why do you want a hot Jack he said those words you heard him so for me it was a huge concern as his partner because I'm thinking is this personal is it intentional like what is going on with you talk to me you know so many times I tried and he would just cut me off not listening even when we're in the challenge doing not a tie a knots the game The Last elimination game he

14:43 Just kept pulling me one side and I'm like can we do this way he's like no listen women don't you know don't tell women what to do don't tell men what to do and I'm like I was just out I just my soul was duplicated I was tired I was emotional I was just like you know what whatever we're just gonna lose this yeah it seems like a series of unfortunate events here for you sadly that put you in the place that you were in going into the elimination and then being in an elimination like the Thai knots elimination with the pyramids communication is so important because you tethered together you can't work on separate parts of the challenge you have to work together so not communicating clearly with your partner seems sadly like it was your downfall in the game is there anything else you wanted to add about the elimination itself that we potentially didn't see or did I get a pretty good sort of summary there of how things went in the elimination for you've definitely got the this summary like there's no way I could explain being tied with someone who wants to go East but you but you're like West is the best but he's like fixed like it's like he's in the boxing ring and it's just him yeah sort of as we as we're sort of getting to the end here of the interview I wanted to ask you who are the people that impressed you because

16:03 You had a first-hand seat you were right there with them seeing how people performed in this first daily challenge who should we look out for this season that you think will be extremely competitive throughout the whole season Kiki was a surprise I didn't realize how fit she was you know and I loved her and she was just a champion she kept cheering me on when I was struggling on those days he was a big surprise who else was a surprise Kieran I think Kieran coming out of the Bachelor and everyone's looking at him like a Playboy he's just a pretty boy that just wants to chill at the pool and drink cocktails who's focused like I knew he was like a roadrunner like it was just like his people were like let's go I was quite impressed with him like there's a lot of people that you're impressed with their physical and mental capacity to be able to do the challenge so I was quite impressed with that and of course Molly you know and Emily they are Olympians you know it's how they think it's how they see you know this so that's expected and cereal also I was very proud of how she performed because she was not well she was actually coughing she was so sick you know so for me to see her go through was beautiful I love I

17:23 Loved it and I was proud of them for winning although we lost I was very proud of them yeah she definitely is a big hard fighting Spirit you know gets down there and fights really hard in this elimination this is your opportunity Susan is there anything that you would like to make people aware of any of the fans of the show where can they find you and what are you up to next okay I'm writing a TV series with Michael Bard who produced Ruby's choices a film that starts Jen Simo Hollywood and UK star so I'm working on that and also I have my book it's a memoir called The Immigrant that found her Unapologetic voice I should be releasing it soon so look out for that and of course find me on all social platforms Susan with AC and yes I would love to be friends well thank you so much for your time today I'll make sure to grab your link tree link from your Instagram as well and put it in the description of this video for any of those that are watching the video on YouTube for those that are on the audio platform I'll make sure to put it in the description as well thank you so much Susan and have a good rest of your day all the best of luck with the rest of the interviews today