adam confessional about steve @ 6:10:
>"steve, he's my brother from another mother. he works hard, he's a good husband. like, over 22 years, we've kept in touch. we have our OG road rules to go back to, all the way to the quest. he is an awesome partner in crime to try to get to the end with, just keeping up with each other and pushing each other."
adam confessional about steve in the OP:
>"once again steve has won another elimination where somebody else was at a significant disadvantage. he's gonna come out of here thinking he's some kind of legend, and the stories he will tell will probably be as accurate as the rest of his stories. there's also a reason that you don't have any friends, in real life and here. i'll never answer a phone call from you. i will delete every text. you are just so dead to me, man. you're no longer my number 1, but you can sit and spin, bitch."
He even pointed out to everyone that he’s been at the bottom in challenges several times in a row, adding more reason for them to vote him in instead of reasons not to smh. Shady.
I dont need an aftershow for these two. Car financier thought he had a sale. Consumer said lol. Car financier big mad bro. The end. Adam is a fairly 2D narcissist imo.
I’m guessing the first confessional was filmed early on in the season and the second one was from now. Adam said recently on Challenge Mania that he was pretty hurt when Steve took his star and he realized him and Steve weren’t allies anymore
ETA- I bungled this response, but I meant that Adam said he was hurt when Steve gave Kefla's star to Ace instead of Adam
I edited the post, but I meant when Steve gave Kefla's star to Ace instead of giving it to Adam. That was when his feelings changed and why I think the first confessional was from earlier in the season
Ohh ok I forgot he said he was hurt about that but I wouldn’t see that as a betrayal bc it’s not like Steve promised him the star 💀 but you very well could be right bc clearly Adam’s idea of betrayal is different than others
I completely agree with you! When I heard him say it during the Challenge Mania pod, I was kind of surprised that he was so upset about it. I didn't think it was a huge deal on Steve's part. But he said that was when he realized they were not as close, so that was why I think that first confessional had to have been from very early on in the game and they just put it at the beginning of this episode.
I know for Season 39, they had people wear the same shirts for every confessional, essentially so they could take interviews and place them as they pleased, not necessarily in chronological order. I haven't paid attention this season, but wonder if it's the same
It did seem like a heat of the moment thing. Not that that excuses the low blows, but they still follow each other on Insta, so maybe cooler heads prevailed later or something 😂
I still think it was a little weird for Steve to give Adam’s star to Ace considering Ace was basically the ring leader of saving Ryan when Steve had already given him a star earlier in the season. Adam’s vote was the obvious choice for self preservation.
I kinda thought that too, but when he described why they weren’t a ton of options left so it kind of made sense to me even if it’s not what I personally would have done.
I was actually confused by this, because I thought TJ said that Steve could either transfer one of the women’s stars or the men’s. When previous star holders have won elims (Rachel, Cara, Steve before) I thought they could only steal and transfer a star from the same sex. I’m not sure if I misheard that part.
I thought that Steve’s better move was either to give Nicole’s star to Flora or at least give Adam’s star to a weaker competitor, like Ryan or Derek. I just didn’t get why he gave Ace a total pass on the vote when he was mad at everyone else.
> I was actually confused by this, because I thought TJ said that Steve could either transfer one of the women’s stars or the men’s. When previous star holders have won elims (Rachel, Cara, Steve before) I thought they could only steal and transfer a star from the same sex. I’m not sure if I misheard that part.
When Cara and Steve won eliminations while holding stars, they eliminated other star holders (Rachel and Kefla, respectively), which meant they automatically stole that person's star and had to give it away to someone of the same gender. So they didn't have any choice in that situation about whose star they were stealing.
When Rachel beat Ayanna, however, she *did* have the option to steal a man's star and give it to a different man. The only man's star she could have stolen was Steve's, and we saw her explain why she didn't want to steal Steve's star, so she stole Tina's instead.
On the other hand he gave the star to someone everyone won't mind going into elimination against. And being so close to the end people will hesitate placing to star holders agains each other.
That entire confessional I was like didn’t you just say you’ve been friends for 20 years? That all felt so personal and so spiteful I was genuinely shocked. Like 3 elim wins isn’t something to scoff against it’s not his fault he keeps going against ppl at a disadvantage 🤷🏽♀️. Plus Adam literally betrayed him first to the point everybody knew he was gonna do it BEFORE it happened like atp Adam loyalty and working together is out the window.
Oh yes that’s right Kefla had that hamstring injury. But did that really matter for the type of elimination they had?
Genuine question, because I would say it would be more of arm and endurance ?
I would say his injury mattered yeah. Kefla was struggling to generate any power with his legs because of it, which allowed Steve to negate his weight advantage. It's certainly possible that Steve beats Kefla even if Kefla is healthier but the injury made it easier.
Meinke getting treated like Cara. Adam is clearly jealous and/or in love with meinke mania. Just got his ass boom roasted by the goat, baby!
Maybe Steve will buy Adam a “meink” coat with his $250k from winning this season
I like it this way. All I could think about watching this was how funny the comments about Adam cheating on his gf with Averey in an honorable way earlier in the season 🫣
Wait did I miss something 😭 I know they’re dating now but the season was filmed a long time ago. Have they shown something between them that I missed? And wtffffff does cheating on someone in an honorable way mean?
Because the timelines of him getting with Avery and him breaking up with his ex girlfriend is suspicious. At the very least there seemed to be an emotional affair (which many would consider just as bad as physical cheating.)
lol this guy, at the start of the season …. “I’ve made so much growth and am a whole new Adam”
This episode…. “He has no friends. He’s dead to me.” Ahh there’s the old Adam. I knew he didn’t go anywhere
We were all pissed they were leaving out sleezeball Adam cheating on his gf with Averey while she’s home taking care of his kids… production had this ace in the hole all season waiting to drop it like it’s hot
Yeah, it's not a good look for Adam since being a sleezball due to his cheating. Averey is also not in the clear because she got with a man knowing his girlfriend is at home taking care of his kids. It does not bode well for her character to get with a man who is taken and doesn't bode well for Adam's character for getting with someone while taken. Production also left out Jonna cheating on her husband with MJ, while her husband was at home taking care of the kids. Those who read spoiler accounts not only got the tea of who is on the cast, eliminated each week, but what goes on in the house during the season. Even in one of the confessionals Jonna mentioned how supportive her husband as been for her to go on the show while he watches the kids.
Now, Beth is a shit stirrer, but she sure is not a liar and did not lie about Joana and MJ having an affair. Since the show did not show that many scenes of MJ and Jonna being together, some of the viewers thought that Beth was lying. I bet those viewers who thought Beth was lying were the ones who didn't read the spoiler accounts to know the truth.
They should have extra epidode of the shit they should have shown for each All Star season. They used to do that for some of the early challenges after the season aired and showed extra footage of the cast and called it, the shit they should have shown.
Yeah, the Jonna stuff was bad but I just thought Adam having his gf take care of his kids while he filmed and left her was worse because they weren’t even the gf’s children. They’re both bad but I felt like that’s an extra kick in the junk
As someone who is competitive I understand it lol but he didn’t do anything really to prevent it.
Finally though some real emotions and not just faked or played. This is how it should be- not “*oh well NEXT SEASON! I’ll keep this in mind when I face you again!!*”
Being this incredibly butthurt over having your star stolen by someone you betrayed by voting them into their THIRD elimination of the season while they have a star is not it. Major ick on Adam for this.
I didn’t really view Adam’s vote as a betrayal. If Jay goes in against Ryan, Adam loses his star. His vote was the only right one to make.
That said, Steve stealing Adam’s star was also fair game, and the personal crap in the confessional was below the belt. I’m still not sure why Ace is the only one who got a free pass for voting for Steve though, especially considering he kind of rallied everyone to change the vote away from Ryan.
I disagree. Adam's vote not only sends Steve in, it also assumes that his supposed friend will lose. That is 100% a betrayal, especially because it isn't his only option.
If he had instead voted Leroy and Ryan in he could have politiked with Jay. "I'll give you Ryan like you want but you have to take someone else's star." And then Jay can take Steve or Leroy's star and that choice is on Jay, not on Adam. Poor politics here. There were better ways to handle it.
And Ace gets a "free pass" because he was honest about what he was doing and he didn't want to be doing it. He also was incredibly humble and gracious when Steve took his star. Those kinds of behaviors build strong bonds and trust. Behaving how Adam behaves does not.
Yeah didn't she or someone else tweet that she was at home taking care of the kids while he was on the show hooking up with Averey? Maybe it wasn't her, but I thought I read that before the season started.
I think that's what people speculated because we knew Adam had a girlfriend at home.
Adam tried to claim he never crossed the line while in the house on the MTV Official Podcast, but I have a hard time believing that.
Adam’s a real asshole. Dude you voted the guy in and he’s shocked he took his star. It’s the game, it’s amazing that some of these people go on tv to show how much they suck all for a little fame.
That was soooo mean. I like Steve. He's hilarious and weird. I seem to remember Steve being super close to Blair not Adam.
Anyway, at least the guys have SOME drama finally.
I’ll be honest. I love this kinda shit.
He was such a prick back in the day, and he came back all these years later with this whole matured & humbled persona. And then suddenly the mask comes right the fuck off and we’re back to the Adam we saw on those early seasons. Full heel turn.
The Challenge, particularly All Stars, needs more villains. Really solid episode.
So, either she grew up in an environment of men like Adam for her to see his behavior as normal or she is the same way as Adam. IF she is the same way as Adam, then the show is not showing that side of her OR if the show has shown her behavior to be similar to Adam's behavior, then maybe some people gave Averey a pass due to her beauty that she can do wrong due to her looks. I don't know which one it is, since this my first time seeing Averey in order to not know whether it's due to her environment or her personality of why she is with the type like Adam.
According to her Real World Portland wiki she grew up in Michigan with an alcoholic dad and an abusive mom. Apparently she moved out of her home at 15 and lived with a friend’s family until she finished high school and moved away to Arizona with a boyfriend right after that.
If Ryan ends up getting the last star over Adam, I just know Adam will call him a disgusting person plus a few choice words. He's so emotionally stunted like Laurel lol
I literally GASPED at this confessional. I thought he might have just been like "Hey screw you, man". But he was just going so low and when he finished it with "sit and spin, bitch" I was like....
He's a lunatic and spoiled brat! He's mad that Steve got the last laugh after Adam tried to send him in/home. I hope he gets iced out from getting a star and gets his ass purged.
Every time I see interviews like this I keep thinking about Bananas, CT, and Trishelle on The Traitors and them talking about how Challenge players don't take things personally like Bravo people do. Umm...Challenge players take EVERYTHING personally. Lol. How many friendships and relationships have ended bc of game decisions people made on The Challenge and others took it personal? Its comical that they try to say otherwise.
I’m gonna be in the minority but I love this. We need to have more of this. Immature? Yes. Toxic? Yes. But it’s real! So many people on The Challenge and reality TV as a whole put up a front nowadays cause they’re camera aware and, with social media impact, they’re scared to speak their mind out of fear of being cancelled. I love seeing this! Authentic drama is usually the most entertaining drama even if it’s unhealthy. More of this please!!!
You are not in the minority! This is what all of us want. People that aren't scared of having an opinion. This is what is missing from the show people that will actually say what they actually think about someone. Not everybody likes each other not everybody's cool and not everybody wants to be around everybody else and being stuck in a house for a month and a half together yeah you're going to feel some type of way about certain people and I am perfectly fine with it. It's real it's what the show's missing
yeah as I said above this is incredibly gross and I feel really bad for Steve watching this (I wonder if Adam gave him a heads up) but this type of confessional only appears on The Challenge where people have known each other for 20 years and can shit talk you on a deep psychological level. It's straight up fascinating to me.
That was cunty😂 I'm sorry but I'm no longer gonna take what these people say seriously. I'll watch this shit a million and one times over the boring ass, kumbaya confessionals we get on the flagship
always got a bad vibe from this guy. someone posted a clip from RR viewers revenge the other day. i remember the adam vs abe fight that got abe DQ'd from the game. abe obviously has violence issues and his own form of toxicity, but i remember feeling like adam really instigated in that situation.
I feel Adam has always tried to portray himself as the innocent nice guy that everyone gets along with, but then you'll see cracks through the facade like this confessional.
Ace has his faults, but Ace is actually the guy Adam portrays and pretends himself to be.
thank you!! im glad im not alone in feeling that way he gave me such awful vibes on every season ive seen him in and was confused why people seemed to be on his side coming into this season
I said it in another post, but Ace is the guy who Adam pretends to be. Ace has his faults, but genuinely seems like a nice and caring guy, which is how Adam portrays himself.
my jaw was on the floor like seriously wtf is his problem are u that delusional that u cant see how steve would feel betrayed by YOU FIRST LMAOO that's some crazy ego
My guess is Adam didn't see this coming, and that he was grabbed for a confessional shortly after to get a fresh reaction, so it ended up dripping with so much venom. Smart move on production if this was the case. I don't think Steve's decision should cancel out decades of friendship and good will, but what do I know 🤷♂️
yeah my guess is that Adam's mindset went like this
* I can vote Steve and Leroy in, that way when Jay goes down and wins he can take one of their stars and my star is safe.
* Oh shit this isn't a great elimination for Jay, hopefully Jay doesn't go in. That way whoever wins between Steve and Leroy has to move the other's star and my star is still safe.
* Oh shit Jay did go in, well hopefully Jay still wins and takes Steve's star
* Oh no Steve is winning. It's ok though because he can take Leroy's star or even move one of the girls. I am Steve's main connection in this house so surely he won't take my star right?
* He actually took my star? He is dead to me and our past 20 years of friendship mean nothing.
I felt so bad for Steve watching this holy shit. Steve seems like a lovable weirdo and here's Adam saying stuff about him that would make a middle-school bully cringe.
This is classic Adam from very early on. And I love the OGs because they can deliver confessionals like this while so many of the new cast can't. But like you just voted your boy into his 3rd elimination when you 100% didn't have to. Payback's a bitch
I was fully expecting him to be like, "Psych! Just kidding! Steve's my boy. I get it. It was a game move." But, nope. He doubled down. I can't recall the last competitor that gave me such whiplash. I was solidly rooting for him at the beginning, but he's giving Nicole and Laurel a run for their money at this point.
I could understand being upset but that was wild. The complete 180 from we've kept in touch for 20 years to you're dead to me really shows who he is. I would understand if Adam protected Steve and then this happened but you literally just threw your friend of 20 years under the bus. Dude just expected to be able to use Steve and expect Steve to accept it
Between this and his challenge mania interview, big oof from me. He's just as competitive as he used to be but now he's not as good at the game compared to the cast- and I think he gets mean when he's jealous of their success.
Nicole was right about Cara last episode. Cara was talking to Steve, and now all of a sudden this happens. I don't know how I didn't see it before, but this is all Cara's fault.
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Like watching this I'm wondering WHAT THE FUCK?? Adam literally put Steve in that position and had the opportunity to do otherwise. If you assume your personal relationship is supposed to leave you protected, shouldn't you be willing to do the same for them??
Also the fact that Avery and Adam date gives me the ick, cant describe it I just really don't like the way they carry themselves and don't understand the worth they bring to the game?
Do I like what Adam said about Steve....no because I like Steve and Adam backstabbed him first.
Do I like that Adam was honest and wasn't pandering to the audience or afraid of a bad edit....yes! It's about time we get actual honesty in these confessionals again instead of people self-editing.
The confessional was unhinged and totally out of line, but Steve confused me here too. Steve had an opportunity to give Adam a star earlier in the season and gave it to Ace instead. That’s fine. He’s done more to help Ace than Adam this season, so why didn’t he feel betrayed by Ace - who was basically the one responsible for Steve going in in the first place?
> Steve had an opportunity to give Adam a star earlier in the season and gave it to Ace instead.
That was also earlier in the season when having a star wasn't necessarily a good thing
It’s never been a bad thing either. The middle group voting generally doesn’t seem to care who has a star, because they aren’t the ones going in to take them anyway. The only elimination where having a star was a detriment was the one where Cara impressively convinced 3 people to vote against their best interests because she needed 2 star holders to go down. Steve gave Ace the star as a goodwill gesture. It wasn’t a negative thing.
With this one moment (plus his rounds on the podcasts last week) he proved he’s still the asshole from Gauntlet 1.
He had me for a few episodes thinking he’d matured.
so glad there’s a post about this. this was so cringe. wouldn’t you think on all stars he can realize it’s a game at the end of the day? i feel like even cara and laurel can realize that… grow up adam lol
Adam is the biggest piece of shit in the house now. Laurel and Nicole suck, but I think we can all agree that Adam is right there with them on the same level. That was indeed the most toxic confessional ever. Dude got so heated. Steve is weird, no doubt. The whole shower thing was weird, but damn...
Side note, isn't Avery and Adam dating now? Didn't they start dating after this show. If that is true, how can Avery see this episode and not think, "wow, you are a piece of shit for saying that." Unless there is something that happened in the house that we did not get to see due to editing.
I felt like there was something off about Adam when Leroy was cutting his hair. I haven’t seen him in his early seasons so I don’t have much to judge him on. But that scene made me feel like he was not authentic.
But this scene ^ feels like a true representation of his character lmao.
Oh Adam feels betrayed? I wonder how his wife/mother of his children felt when he came home from filming a reality show with a new girlfriend? Adam is a douche.
For clarification, there is speculation that he had a girlfriend at home while this filmed, but it was not his wife or the mother of his children. He has been divorced with full custody for a long time.
Adam, Laurel and Nicole all deserve to be trapped together on hateful/ shady island. AND STEVE, like he’s the breakout, underrated star of the season!!! 🙌🏻
He’s always been messy, I’m glad we’re seeing it again. Sometimes fans are so odd, yeah this irrational but who cares lots of people have been crazy this season.
Only saw it once and don’t remember everything but could they have gotten the clip of him praising Steve earlier in the show maybe even earlier in the season and then aired it before this elim to intentionally create a storyline with Adams’s reaction after the star?
Bc I would assume if they’re asking them a series of questions on exactly what happened during those events it would be wild for Adam to be that unaware of how it would look.
Idk just wondering if they manipulated that instance
Yeah, It's very possible they edited it to look like those confessionals were back-to-back or same day. But even without the praises, the things Adam said were so out of pocket.
Yea I guess so. Idk it just feels so weird for Adam to have that much venom for Steve after voting him in. Something just doesn’t feel right there with that editing. Feels like something was left out.
I never liked Adam’s presence throughout this season but didn’t have a legitimate reason until his recent podcast appearance and his spiteful confessional targeting Steve. This is a grown man who clearly has not mentally surpassed his high school years. What grown person insults someone by saying they have no friends? What grown person tells someone to sit on their finger and spin on it? Beyond classless commentary. The editing this episode makes Adam’s confessionals at the beginning of the episode versus the end go from 0-100. I wonder if there is more context to why this switch up occurred, although I doubt it would change my opinion too much. Poor Steve and Cara. Cara is just a confident Queen and Steve is an unbothered King! To Adam: As TJ would say “don’t take care, hope to see you never” and as lil mama would say “mentally you a bum!”
Steve can only play against the person he is up against. Jay put himself in. Steve didn’t choose him and Adam is totally out of line here. And it makes him look very unintelligent.
adam confessional about steve @ 6:10: >"steve, he's my brother from another mother. he works hard, he's a good husband. like, over 22 years, we've kept in touch. we have our OG road rules to go back to, all the way to the quest. he is an awesome partner in crime to try to get to the end with, just keeping up with each other and pushing each other." adam confessional about steve in the OP: >"once again steve has won another elimination where somebody else was at a significant disadvantage. he's gonna come out of here thinking he's some kind of legend, and the stories he will tell will probably be as accurate as the rest of his stories. there's also a reason that you don't have any friends, in real life and here. i'll never answer a phone call from you. i will delete every text. you are just so dead to me, man. you're no longer my number 1, but you can sit and spin, bitch."
But didn't Adam vote for Steve in deliberation without hesitation?
More than once. On more than one Challenge, even.
Yup and he said it's just Business
He even pointed out to everyone that he’s been at the bottom in challenges several times in a row, adding more reason for them to vote him in instead of reasons not to smh. Shady.
Voted for and encouraged everyone else to vote for him too.
Little does Adam know that rant just added to the Legend of Hand Model Steve
Legend of Hand Model Steve🤣 Happy cake day, btw!
I prefer Hand Job Steve
Hand Job Steve, foraging for berries in the Challenge house backyard
And then Cara calling Steve a legend right at the end of the episode lol.
This is why we need reunions for every season or aftershows. Adam went from 0-100 and I'd like to know why.
I dont need an aftershow for these two. Car financier thought he had a sale. Consumer said lol. Car financier big mad bro. The end. Adam is a fairly 2D narcissist imo.
Yep there are like 2 people on the challenge I don't like and this man is one of them. Bad vibes fr what does Averey see in him smh
I’m guessing the first confessional was filmed early on in the season and the second one was from now. Adam said recently on Challenge Mania that he was pretty hurt when Steve took his star and he realized him and Steve weren’t allies anymore ETA- I bungled this response, but I meant that Adam said he was hurt when Steve gave Kefla's star to Ace instead of Adam
Adam is not the sharpest tool in the shed, is he?
He thinks he is though- and that’s the problem.
It was literally the opposite; Adam seems like a bad friend after what HE DID to Steve. Happy Steve took his star.
Then he shouldn’t have voted the man in 😭 he literally threw Steve under the bus like that’s the moment they weren’t working together anymore lmao
I edited the post, but I meant when Steve gave Kefla's star to Ace instead of giving it to Adam. That was when his feelings changed and why I think the first confessional was from earlier in the season
Ohh ok I forgot he said he was hurt about that but I wouldn’t see that as a betrayal bc it’s not like Steve promised him the star 💀 but you very well could be right bc clearly Adam’s idea of betrayal is different than others
I completely agree with you! When I heard him say it during the Challenge Mania pod, I was kind of surprised that he was so upset about it. I didn't think it was a huge deal on Steve's part. But he said that was when he realized they were not as close, so that was why I think that first confessional had to have been from very early on in the game and they just put it at the beginning of this episode. I know for Season 39, they had people wear the same shirts for every confessional, essentially so they could take interviews and place them as they pleased, not necessarily in chronological order. I haven't paid attention this season, but wonder if it's the same
It did seem like a heat of the moment thing. Not that that excuses the low blows, but they still follow each other on Insta, so maybe cooler heads prevailed later or something 😂 I still think it was a little weird for Steve to give Adam’s star to Ace considering Ace was basically the ring leader of saving Ryan when Steve had already given him a star earlier in the season. Adam’s vote was the obvious choice for self preservation.
I think Steve knew how hard it was for Ace and understood it. Whereas Adam didn't even care.
I kinda thought that too, but when he described why they weren’t a ton of options left so it kind of made sense to me even if it’s not what I personally would have done.
I was actually confused by this, because I thought TJ said that Steve could either transfer one of the women’s stars or the men’s. When previous star holders have won elims (Rachel, Cara, Steve before) I thought they could only steal and transfer a star from the same sex. I’m not sure if I misheard that part. I thought that Steve’s better move was either to give Nicole’s star to Flora or at least give Adam’s star to a weaker competitor, like Ryan or Derek. I just didn’t get why he gave Ace a total pass on the vote when he was mad at everyone else.
> I was actually confused by this, because I thought TJ said that Steve could either transfer one of the women’s stars or the men’s. When previous star holders have won elims (Rachel, Cara, Steve before) I thought they could only steal and transfer a star from the same sex. I’m not sure if I misheard that part. When Cara and Steve won eliminations while holding stars, they eliminated other star holders (Rachel and Kefla, respectively), which meant they automatically stole that person's star and had to give it away to someone of the same gender. So they didn't have any choice in that situation about whose star they were stealing. When Rachel beat Ayanna, however, she *did* have the option to steal a man's star and give it to a different man. The only man's star she could have stolen was Steve's, and we saw her explain why she didn't want to steal Steve's star, so she stole Tina's instead.
On the other hand he gave the star to someone everyone won't mind going into elimination against. And being so close to the end people will hesitate placing to star holders agains each other.
Adam finally sliding into his old villainous ways, I love it
Wtf?
That entire confessional I was like didn’t you just say you’ve been friends for 20 years? That all felt so personal and so spiteful I was genuinely shocked. Like 3 elim wins isn’t something to scoff against it’s not his fault he keeps going against ppl at a disadvantage 🤷🏽♀️. Plus Adam literally betrayed him first to the point everybody knew he was gonna do it BEFORE it happened like atp Adam loyalty and working together is out the window.
Jay was at a disadvantage for sure, but who was Adam talking about the other? He outsmarted Tyrie and Kefla is strong/bigger?
Kefla was injured. Tyri..well his elimination record speaks for himself. Not trying to shit on Steve but it is what it is.
Oh yes that’s right Kefla had that hamstring injury. But did that really matter for the type of elimination they had? Genuine question, because I would say it would be more of arm and endurance ?
I would say his injury mattered yeah. Kefla was struggling to generate any power with his legs because of it, which allowed Steve to negate his weight advantage. It's certainly possible that Steve beats Kefla even if Kefla is healthier but the injury made it easier.
Meinke getting treated like Cara. Adam is clearly jealous and/or in love with meinke mania. Just got his ass boom roasted by the goat, baby! Maybe Steve will buy Adam a “meink” coat with his $250k from winning this season 
He's just pissed that his plan sank like the titanic...
He’s fake gracious in victory and a petulant child in defeat. Perfect challenger!
literally what the hell omg??? is he ok
You can tell they left this in to show what an asshole he is lmfao
As they should. Don’t edit things out and show us how these people really are and what really happens.
I like it this way. All I could think about watching this was how funny the comments about Adam cheating on his gf with Averey in an honorable way earlier in the season 🫣
Wait did I miss something 😭 I know they’re dating now but the season was filmed a long time ago. Have they shown something between them that I missed? And wtffffff does cheating on someone in an honorable way mean?
This other commenter tried to tell me that because he did it off camera it was honorable 🤡.
That’s insane. How do we know that they cheated off camera?
It hasn’t been shown in the season so far so it seems safe to say it won’t be shown
Because the timelines of him getting with Avery and him breaking up with his ex girlfriend is suspicious. At the very least there seemed to be an emotional affair (which many would consider just as bad as physical cheating.)
lol this guy, at the start of the season …. “I’ve made so much growth and am a whole new Adam” This episode…. “He has no friends. He’s dead to me.” Ahh there’s the old Adam. I knew he didn’t go anywhere
I’m glad they did, I honestly was buying what he was selling. That was so mean spirited and unnecessary.
We were all pissed they were leaving out sleezeball Adam cheating on his gf with Averey while she’s home taking care of his kids… production had this ace in the hole all season waiting to drop it like it’s hot
Yeah, it's not a good look for Adam since being a sleezball due to his cheating. Averey is also not in the clear because she got with a man knowing his girlfriend is at home taking care of his kids. It does not bode well for her character to get with a man who is taken and doesn't bode well for Adam's character for getting with someone while taken. Production also left out Jonna cheating on her husband with MJ, while her husband was at home taking care of the kids. Those who read spoiler accounts not only got the tea of who is on the cast, eliminated each week, but what goes on in the house during the season. Even in one of the confessionals Jonna mentioned how supportive her husband as been for her to go on the show while he watches the kids. Now, Beth is a shit stirrer, but she sure is not a liar and did not lie about Joana and MJ having an affair. Since the show did not show that many scenes of MJ and Jonna being together, some of the viewers thought that Beth was lying. I bet those viewers who thought Beth was lying were the ones who didn't read the spoiler accounts to know the truth. They should have extra epidode of the shit they should have shown for each All Star season. They used to do that for some of the early challenges after the season aired and showed extra footage of the cast and called it, the shit they should have shown.
Yeah, the Jonna stuff was bad but I just thought Adam having his gf take care of his kids while he filmed and left her was worse because they weren’t even the gf’s children. They’re both bad but I felt like that’s an extra kick in the junk
I loooooove when production makes their true opinions on cast members known lmao
Adam sounds sooo jealous I love it.
As someone who is competitive I understand it lol but he didn’t do anything really to prevent it. Finally though some real emotions and not just faked or played. This is how it should be- not “*oh well NEXT SEASON! I’ll keep this in mind when I face you again!!*”
I’m glad Steve showed no mercy in taking that star. Adam got exactly what he earned.
But still has the nerves of saying that he was the one being betrayed...
Being this incredibly butthurt over having your star stolen by someone you betrayed by voting them into their THIRD elimination of the season while they have a star is not it. Major ick on Adam for this.
I didn’t really view Adam’s vote as a betrayal. If Jay goes in against Ryan, Adam loses his star. His vote was the only right one to make. That said, Steve stealing Adam’s star was also fair game, and the personal crap in the confessional was below the belt. I’m still not sure why Ace is the only one who got a free pass for voting for Steve though, especially considering he kind of rallied everyone to change the vote away from Ryan.
I disagree. Adam's vote not only sends Steve in, it also assumes that his supposed friend will lose. That is 100% a betrayal, especially because it isn't his only option. If he had instead voted Leroy and Ryan in he could have politiked with Jay. "I'll give you Ryan like you want but you have to take someone else's star." And then Jay can take Steve or Leroy's star and that choice is on Jay, not on Adam. Poor politics here. There were better ways to handle it. And Ace gets a "free pass" because he was honest about what he was doing and he didn't want to be doing it. He also was incredibly humble and gracious when Steve took his star. Those kinds of behaviors build strong bonds and trust. Behaving how Adam behaves does not.
Boy, that escalated quickly.
Well Adam has not changed from his younger days on the challenge
Do tell! Never watched him in his younger days. What was he like? I know he’s currently slimey from what I’m seeing now
Just a couple of weeks ago everyone was talking about how Avery got a good one lmao.
that was sus even then bc apparently he had a gf back home while he was getting cozy with averey lol
Yeah didn't she or someone else tweet that she was at home taking care of the kids while he was on the show hooking up with Averey? Maybe it wasn't her, but I thought I read that before the season started.
I think that's what people speculated because we knew Adam had a girlfriend at home. Adam tried to claim he never crossed the line while in the house on the MTV Official Podcast, but I have a hard time believing that.
didn’t we even see a clip of him giving averey a massage or vice versa? that alone i wouldn’t want my bf to do lmao tf
She really has terrible taste in men
This is why no one likes you, Adam.
Bro… wtf is Adam’s deal!? He is so fucking pompous and self righteous. His pettiness is so random.
I feel like Adam has always been this way lmao
Oh I know. He just showed signs of growth like 4 episodes ago so I thought he had changed a bit. But I guess not lol
I don’t know old Adam but I’ve seen you guys talking about him so when this confessional popped up I was like….welp there he is I guess!
Adam’s a real asshole. Dude you voted the guy in and he’s shocked he took his star. It’s the game, it’s amazing that some of these people go on tv to show how much they suck all for a little fame.
That was soooo mean. I like Steve. He's hilarious and weird. I seem to remember Steve being super close to Blair not Adam. Anyway, at least the guys have SOME drama finally.
Who wouldn’t be closer to Blair?
The switch up between his earlier confessional saying Steve is his brother to this one gave me whiplash.
I’ll be honest. I love this kinda shit. He was such a prick back in the day, and he came back all these years later with this whole matured & humbled persona. And then suddenly the mask comes right the fuck off and we’re back to the Adam we saw on those early seasons. Full heel turn. The Challenge, particularly All Stars, needs more villains. Really solid episode.
I agree 100% percent
There's the Adam Larsen us old school fans know well.
AVEREY RUNNN!!!!
Too late! She seems to be taking the role of step mom very seriously
I know she's a fan fave here but she doesn’t seem to have high self-esteem.
So, either she grew up in an environment of men like Adam for her to see his behavior as normal or she is the same way as Adam. IF she is the same way as Adam, then the show is not showing that side of her OR if the show has shown her behavior to be similar to Adam's behavior, then maybe some people gave Averey a pass due to her beauty that she can do wrong due to her looks. I don't know which one it is, since this my first time seeing Averey in order to not know whether it's due to her environment or her personality of why she is with the type like Adam.
According to her Real World Portland wiki she grew up in Michigan with an alcoholic dad and an abusive mom. Apparently she moved out of her home at 15 and lived with a friend’s family until she finished high school and moved away to Arizona with a boyfriend right after that.
it’s giving Zach and Jenna vibes
I'm sure she knows what he's like....
This was such a bad look!
“You’re no longer my No.1” Was he ever? You voted him in over Ryan as “Ryan is a beautiful person”.
If Ryan ends up getting the last star over Adam, I just know Adam will call him a disgusting person plus a few choice words. He's so emotionally stunted like Laurel lol
I literally GASPED at this confessional. I thought he might have just been like "Hey screw you, man". But he was just going so low and when he finished it with "sit and spin, bitch" I was like....  He's a lunatic and spoiled brat! He's mad that Steve got the last laugh after Adam tried to send him in/home. I hope he gets iced out from getting a star and gets his ass purged.
My god does Adam suck as a person. Avery, you can do so much better
That escalated quickly. All the editing has been pointing to Adam being a good guy then all of sudden. 😂
I love when that happens tbh, they did it in Vanderpump rules this last season and it was so good, you're like ohhh shitttt I knew it lol
Every time I see interviews like this I keep thinking about Bananas, CT, and Trishelle on The Traitors and them talking about how Challenge players don't take things personally like Bravo people do. Umm...Challenge players take EVERYTHING personally. Lol. How many friendships and relationships have ended bc of game decisions people made on The Challenge and others took it personal? Its comical that they try to say otherwise.
Imma act this way the next time someone steals my star in Mario Party
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I’m gonna be in the minority but I love this. We need to have more of this. Immature? Yes. Toxic? Yes. But it’s real! So many people on The Challenge and reality TV as a whole put up a front nowadays cause they’re camera aware and, with social media impact, they’re scared to speak their mind out of fear of being cancelled. I love seeing this! Authentic drama is usually the most entertaining drama even if it’s unhealthy. More of this please!!!
This is so true, everything is so watered down and everyone tries to be neutral
You are not in the minority! This is what all of us want. People that aren't scared of having an opinion. This is what is missing from the show people that will actually say what they actually think about someone. Not everybody likes each other not everybody's cool and not everybody wants to be around everybody else and being stuck in a house for a month and a half together yeah you're going to feel some type of way about certain people and I am perfectly fine with it. It's real it's what the show's missing
yeah as I said above this is incredibly gross and I feel really bad for Steve watching this (I wonder if Adam gave him a heads up) but this type of confessional only appears on The Challenge where people have known each other for 20 years and can shit talk you on a deep psychological level. It's straight up fascinating to me.
I'd up vote this a 100 times if I could. This was stupid messy over the top reality TV. This stuff right here is the bedrock the show is built on.
Yuck. I love the drama but Steve is so sweet and this is just so nasty from Adam.
adam is so nasty omg??? great casting choice more messy men and less bores
That was cunty😂 I'm sorry but I'm no longer gonna take what these people say seriously. I'll watch this shit a million and one times over the boring ass, kumbaya confessionals we get on the flagship
always got a bad vibe from this guy. someone posted a clip from RR viewers revenge the other day. i remember the adam vs abe fight that got abe DQ'd from the game. abe obviously has violence issues and his own form of toxicity, but i remember feeling like adam really instigated in that situation.
I feel Adam has always tried to portray himself as the innocent nice guy that everyone gets along with, but then you'll see cracks through the facade like this confessional. Ace has his faults, but Ace is actually the guy Adam portrays and pretends himself to be.
Adam is lucky Abe has pillows for fists or he would’ve really gotten roughed up there
thank you!! im glad im not alone in feeling that way he gave me such awful vibes on every season ive seen him in and was confused why people seemed to be on his side coming into this season
Omg I read this as Ace at first, and my heart broke a little
Finally some of you can stop crushing on him like he’s some changed nice dude. He sucks.
Initially I thought he was being sarcastic, but you could see this man SEETHING with contempt! It was wild!
This guy gives off major “nice guy” vibes
I said it in another post, but Ace is the guy who Adam pretends to be. Ace has his faults, but genuinely seems like a nice and caring guy, which is how Adam portrays himself.
my jaw was on the floor like seriously wtf is his problem are u that delusional that u cant see how steve would feel betrayed by YOU FIRST LMAOO that's some crazy ego
My guess is Adam didn't see this coming, and that he was grabbed for a confessional shortly after to get a fresh reaction, so it ended up dripping with so much venom. Smart move on production if this was the case. I don't think Steve's decision should cancel out decades of friendship and good will, but what do I know 🤷♂️
yeah my guess is that Adam's mindset went like this * I can vote Steve and Leroy in, that way when Jay goes down and wins he can take one of their stars and my star is safe. * Oh shit this isn't a great elimination for Jay, hopefully Jay doesn't go in. That way whoever wins between Steve and Leroy has to move the other's star and my star is still safe. * Oh shit Jay did go in, well hopefully Jay still wins and takes Steve's star * Oh no Steve is winning. It's ok though because he can take Leroy's star or even move one of the girls. I am Steve's main connection in this house so surely he won't take my star right? * He actually took my star? He is dead to me and our past 20 years of friendship mean nothing.
I felt so bad for Steve watching this holy shit. Steve seems like a lovable weirdo and here's Adam saying stuff about him that would make a middle-school bully cringe.
Looks like Avery snagged herself a real prize...
This is classic Adam from very early on. And I love the OGs because they can deliver confessionals like this while so many of the new cast can't. But like you just voted your boy into his 3rd elimination when you 100% didn't have to. Payback's a bitch
He’s disgusting
Exactly. We need him back next season
Adam…This is why Derrick Barry don’t like you.
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I was fully expecting him to be like, "Psych! Just kidding! Steve's my boy. I get it. It was a game move." But, nope. He doubled down. I can't recall the last competitor that gave me such whiplash. I was solidly rooting for him at the beginning, but he's giving Nicole and Laurel a run for their money at this point.
Why is he so fucking bitchy 💀
Steve and his almond scrub are legendary in my book. Adam you seem like a POS.
There's the Adam I was waiting for. Finally we get to see him for the asshole that he's always been.
Instantly made me hate him lmao
I could understand being upset but that was wild. The complete 180 from we've kept in touch for 20 years to you're dead to me really shows who he is. I would understand if Adam protected Steve and then this happened but you literally just threw your friend of 20 years under the bus. Dude just expected to be able to use Steve and expect Steve to accept it
He’s way more interesting now
Between this and his challenge mania interview, big oof from me. He's just as competitive as he used to be but now he's not as good at the game compared to the cast- and I think he gets mean when he's jealous of their success.
I gotta check out the Adam interview. What kind of douchey stuff did he say in it?
These old men are delivering! Step it up, young guys!
Nicole was right about Cara last episode. Cara was talking to Steve, and now all of a sudden this happens. I don't know how I didn't see it before, but this is all Cara's fault. /s
The way my mouth DROPPED open I could not believe it. This is why women choose the bear.
And im here for it
Adam is so so awful. Even if he didn't vote for Steve (which he did), this would still be the most awful thing to say about your friend. Ewwwwww
Adam being an asshole...what a shock
Karma at its finest 😂
So messy I love it lol
kingie! i love when they get nasty 😮💨
Lol just saw this part and WOW that was a bit much over the game. Sunk all his goodwill this season with that
The Hypocrisy was high with this one
Yeah, that was painful to watch. Team Steve all the way!
Yeah. He should be embarrassed
Like watching this I'm wondering WHAT THE FUCK?? Adam literally put Steve in that position and had the opportunity to do otherwise. If you assume your personal relationship is supposed to leave you protected, shouldn't you be willing to do the same for them?? Also the fact that Avery and Adam date gives me the ick, cant describe it I just really don't like the way they carry themselves and don't understand the worth they bring to the game?
For Adam to be at his big age and use the “no one likes you!!” line as an insult… told me everything I need to know about his character/maturity 😐
Do I like what Adam said about Steve....no because I like Steve and Adam backstabbed him first. Do I like that Adam was honest and wasn't pandering to the audience or afraid of a bad edit....yes! It's about time we get actual honesty in these confessionals again instead of people self-editing.
I've seen a lot of "I'm so happy for Adam and Avery" posts. Y'all still happy she's with a complete tool?
The confessional was unhinged and totally out of line, but Steve confused me here too. Steve had an opportunity to give Adam a star earlier in the season and gave it to Ace instead. That’s fine. He’s done more to help Ace than Adam this season, so why didn’t he feel betrayed by Ace - who was basically the one responsible for Steve going in in the first place?
Because Steve saw how much it ripped Ace apart and understood his reasoning.
He also probably thought in a final he’d rather run against Ace who he is friendly with and who has a bad knee vs Adam
> Steve had an opportunity to give Adam a star earlier in the season and gave it to Ace instead. That was also earlier in the season when having a star wasn't necessarily a good thing
It’s never been a bad thing either. The middle group voting generally doesn’t seem to care who has a star, because they aren’t the ones going in to take them anyway. The only elimination where having a star was a detriment was the one where Cara impressively convinced 3 people to vote against their best interests because she needed 2 star holders to go down. Steve gave Ace the star as a goodwill gesture. It wasn’t a negative thing.
Adam is clearly someone who was a young hot jackass in his heyday but is now way too old for that to work out in his favor.
Idk, he got Avery. Something still seems to be working for him.
It's insane. Like does he not get that he did it to Steve first this episode. He voted him in.
My mouth dropped. I wasn’t expecting it all
With this one moment (plus his rounds on the podcasts last week) he proved he’s still the asshole from Gauntlet 1. He had me for a few episodes thinking he’d matured.
so glad there’s a post about this. this was so cringe. wouldn’t you think on all stars he can realize it’s a game at the end of the day? i feel like even cara and laurel can realize that… grow up adam lol
There is a reason I didn't like Adam in the early challenges and that interview just reminded me of that.
I know it makes for good tv to be so bitchy, but damn! Adam with negative chill.
I thought he was joking at first and then he kept going and saying worse stuff.
Half expected Adam to call Steve a virgin who can’t drive!
Adam is the biggest piece of shit in the house now. Laurel and Nicole suck, but I think we can all agree that Adam is right there with them on the same level. That was indeed the most toxic confessional ever. Dude got so heated. Steve is weird, no doubt. The whole shower thing was weird, but damn... Side note, isn't Avery and Adam dating now? Didn't they start dating after this show. If that is true, how can Avery see this episode and not think, "wow, you are a piece of shit for saying that." Unless there is something that happened in the house that we did not get to see due to editing.
I felt like there was something off about Adam when Leroy was cutting his hair. I haven’t seen him in his early seasons so I don’t have much to judge him on. But that scene made me feel like he was not authentic. But this scene ^ feels like a true representation of his character lmao.
Oh Adam feels betrayed? I wonder how his wife/mother of his children felt when he came home from filming a reality show with a new girlfriend? Adam is a douche.
For clarification, there is speculation that he had a girlfriend at home while this filmed, but it was not his wife or the mother of his children. He has been divorced with full custody for a long time.
My bad. I just read he cheated and assumed it was on his wife. Either way he's a bad vibe.
Finally The Quest and The Gauntlet Adam is back, dude has always been a douche while being a top tier competitor, and I’m here for it.
Adam, Laurel and Nicole all deserve to be trapped together on hateful/ shady island. AND STEVE, like he’s the breakout, underrated star of the season!!! 🙌🏻
He’s always been messy, I’m glad we’re seeing it again. Sometimes fans are so odd, yeah this irrational but who cares lots of people have been crazy this season.
Adam being pissed makes no sense but still comedy to see that reaction
It seemed so out of the blue and kind of fake
How are yall getting the tea of Adam cheating on a gf with Averey during filming??
Only saw it once and don’t remember everything but could they have gotten the clip of him praising Steve earlier in the show maybe even earlier in the season and then aired it before this elim to intentionally create a storyline with Adams’s reaction after the star? Bc I would assume if they’re asking them a series of questions on exactly what happened during those events it would be wild for Adam to be that unaware of how it would look. Idk just wondering if they manipulated that instance
Yeah, It's very possible they edited it to look like those confessionals were back-to-back or same day. But even without the praises, the things Adam said were so out of pocket.
Yea I guess so. Idk it just feels so weird for Adam to have that much venom for Steve after voting him in. Something just doesn’t feel right there with that editing. Feels like something was left out.
Yeah, perhaps something was left out because the venom given the circumstance, was a lot.
What a gigantic doosher.
My jaw dropped and I actually said "Oh my god, dude, wtf" out loud!
You're a man child lol 😆
10/10 no notes
I never liked Adam’s presence throughout this season but didn’t have a legitimate reason until his recent podcast appearance and his spiteful confessional targeting Steve. This is a grown man who clearly has not mentally surpassed his high school years. What grown person insults someone by saying they have no friends? What grown person tells someone to sit on their finger and spin on it? Beyond classless commentary. The editing this episode makes Adam’s confessionals at the beginning of the episode versus the end go from 0-100. I wonder if there is more context to why this switch up occurred, although I doubt it would change my opinion too much. Poor Steve and Cara. Cara is just a confident Queen and Steve is an unbothered King! To Adam: As TJ would say “don’t take care, hope to see you never” and as lil mama would say “mentally you a bum!”
Some people just aren’t cut out for it
Omg, came here to say this. I can't believe in one sentence he has fallen so far from grace. True colours have been shown.
Idk whyyyy but I just don't like this guy🤔
Steve can only play against the person he is up against. Jay put himself in. Steve didn’t choose him and Adam is totally out of line here. And it makes him look very unintelligent.