Coral's notorious ability to form alliances has carried her to many a Challenge Final. Remember when Alton saved her over The Real World: Chicago's Theo during the first Gauntlet? That's a mistake that came back to bite them, literally, when a spider bite prevented Coral from completing the Final Challenge. After taking a few Challenges off, does Coral have enough connections to coast to the cash again?
HBD to the Queen, hoping she's back on our screens soon
Cap queen
Queen.
Why is there a brand new thread with the Gauntlet 3 title? Lol. Couldn't she just be talked about in the generic thread?
Had no clue she hasnt been on a challenge in 13 years... I wonder why she stopped doing these?
QUEEN COMING
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It always seemed to me that Coral always found one girl to make her best friend per season and that is it. Which one of them is your favorite?
battle of the seasons- Elka (kelley could also fit in this spot, and then replace irulan with elka in gauntlet)
gauntlet- irulan
inferno- leah
sexes 2- arissa
fresh meat- tina
gauntlet 3 - katie
love her and she's an icon but it's been 17 years of her trolling so honestly i really don't give a shit anymore
Leah, Elka, Arissa
What if Coral was on a season with all of them at once? Who would rise as her ultimate bestie? Methinks it'd be Arissa.
if it was back in the day I woudl actually think she would sid with Elka - I love Arissa but she was horrible at the daily's in sexes 2. And even Coral said during the reunion she told her multiple times other people deserved to be in that final over her. I think she had a good friendship with Elka from seasons and gauntlet that she would have gravitated toward her if she had to pick one female bestie for a team challenge.
True. I think this would be especially true if both Arissa and Irulan were there together, cuz they'd already be attached at the hip. Coral would be friends with both of them but would probably form her own clique with Elka and maybe Leah lol. Irulan and Arissa being her next closest friends after them. She wasn't close to Tina or Katie in her earlier seasons so that would've likely still stayed the same.
Arissa would get voted out first so she doesn't count.
Stop hating, *****.
True
Regardless if she could have had any girl by her side it would have been Elka. Nothing against Arissa, Leah or Irulan...even Katie....but her best relationship with the girls was Elka.
Summary of Coral's interview with Jon and Beth:
- Bunim-Murray Productions still contacts Coral
- A lot of fans email Coral on her business email
- Coral, Jon and Beth talk about how all RW/RR/Challenge cast members would have been millionaires if social media was popular earlier
- Coral has been focusing on her doula career instead of reality tv
- They talk about Coral's "I don't wrestle..." line and argument with Julie
- C.T. set up the argument between Coral and Julie but didn't want the argument to become a physical fight
- Coral didn't know what The Real World was initially
- Coral's personal trainer told her about a Real World casting in her city
- She went with her friend to an audition and had to fill out a stack of papers and draw a picture of her face inside a TV screen
- Coral talks about the Real World: New York/Road Rules: The Quest casting special
- They gave the cast medical tests and background checks
- During the casting special, none of the people who were part of the cast knew which show they were on
- They joke about Mark Long being upset that he wasn't cast for The Real World and say that everyone wanted to be on The Real World instead of Road Rules
- Coral forgot what her first Challenge season is, they talk about Battle of the Seasons 2002
- Coral said that Eric Nies was creepy
- She felt that Eric and Mark were more like cast members than hosts
- They started filming shortly after 9/11
- David was originally supposed to be Beth's partner, but he got sick before filming
- Coral talks about the rankings and how they kept the lower-ranking players so that they could beat them
- Beth and Jon were voted out because they were in the middle of the rankings and their team wasn't sure if they would improve and outrank them
- Beth compliments Coral's record on the shows
- They talk about Fresh Meat, which was the first season where Coral didn't make it to the final
- Coral talks about how the "culture" of The Challenge changed with Fresh Meat
- The alumni were mad that they were casting people they met in malls
- Coral drew the top number in the raffle and the chose the statistical best player
- Coral said that she and Evan made a deal to shave their heads if they lost
- The producers said that if Coral and Evan stayed despite their injuries, the production team would not be liable
- She said that the Fresh Meat challenges were very scary and extreme
- She said that the cockroach eating challenge from Battle of the Sexes 2 was the most disgusting thing from her tenure on The Challenge
- During The Gauntlet III, Beth told Coral that the men on the Veteran team were talking about getting her out
- Coral didn't believe Beth because she thought that she didn't like her because she found her mean. Beth said that it wasn't true
- Evan and Kenny locked Beth in the bathroom of the bus as a prank
- Coral talks about the heights challenge she did before she left
- The men convinced Evelyn, Casey and the other girls to lose the challenge on purpose to get Coral out. They secretly wanted an all-male team
- Coral was upset about the men throwing challenges and left
- Coral isn't mad at Evelyn, but she is still "unsure of some things" about her
- Jon said that he found Coral good-looking and was intimidated by her looks
- Beth joked that she would replace Tami with Coral as a Real World: Los Angeles cast member
- Coral said that she regretted being rude and confrontational. She felt that she was afraid of being seen as weak
- Coral said that no one would have trusted the young Coral to be a doula
- Coral explains what a doula does
- Coral also helps post-partum mothers and educates people on labor and pediatric sleep
- Coral says that she gets recognized a lot. People are surprised when they see Coral and cannot believe that it is her
- A lot of people initially think that Coral is an old high school classmate
- People are curious about Coral's life after the show
- She didn't want to come back to the show because of safety and the treatment of women
- Coral still seems to dislike Nia
- Coral reminisces about Syrus and his argument with TJ
- Coral talks about Theo Von and believes that he has not changed since The Challenge
- Coral had a showmance with Theo Von during Battle of the Seasons 2002
- Coral became friends with Theo and dated one of his childhood friends for five years
- Theo didn't want to hold hands with Coral on camera because he was worried about the racism of people from his hometown
- Coral still cares about Theo
- Coral's relationship status is "not single" and "not married"
- Coral is not interested in dating and does not find it organic
- One of Coral's dates told her that he could not believe that he kissed Coral from The Real World and it grossed her out
- Jon learns that Coral is undefeated in eliminations on The Challenge
- Coral says that Beth was not trying her best during their elimination and she is not sure if the result would have been the same if Beth was giving it her all
- During the elimination, the arena was hot and Coral's face was full of sand. Coral says that the elimination took a long time and neither of them were trying
- Beth and Coral were both mentally exhausted during their elimination
- Coral said that people were trying to turn her and Beth against each other
- Coral says that people do not like Beth because she is genuine when they expect to be betrayed
- People take small comments out of context and become paranoid
- Coral says that people never gave Beth enough credit and she did not want to go against her in elimination
- Beth feels as though she and Coral bonded during The Gauntlet III, but they didn't really talk after The Challenge
- Jon was the one who managed to get Coral on the podcast
- Jon wanted to have Coral on their podcast for a long time but he didn't want to seem as though he was using her for views
- Beth and Jon have also asked Theo Von and Tami to be on the podcast, but they have been busy
- When Coral left, she said "Beth was right"
- When Beth left, the Veteran team celebrated Coral. They did not know about Coral and Beth's agreement and the fact that they did not try during the elimination
- Part 2 of the podcast will focus on Coral's relationship with her daughter, her dream Challenge cast and whether or not she would want to return to The Challenge
Great recap, PK!
Thank you pk22
It was a great listen. Jon however is the worst podcast host. He sounds so bitter and jealous every time he hosts a RW or RR cast member.
Beth is actually pretty likeable and positive on all of them
Coral is definitely lying and being nice about why she didn't like Beth lol. Jon & Beth aren't great host. There's a lot of talking over each other and trying to outshine their guest. Not as bad as Derrick but it was pretty rough.
Coral has lost all her sass and wit. Not in a bad way. You can just tell she has matured tons and is very professional.
TY!
She has a career, she's never coming back.
Katie, Michaela, Kefla, and many others have careers. She has one of the more flexible ones. The career isn't stopping her.
Thank you for the recap!
Nice job with the recap--nothing too suprising