Unlike all my other interviews, this interview was conducted over the phone :)
(i do have videos, but my computer hasn't finished uploading them yet, so be patient and I will have them soon!)
So the main thing I asked Kenny about was pretty much all the drama that went down. I had asked him about Wes, Sarah, Johanna, and everyone else the guy has issues with.
He said one main reason for all the drama was that there's: "nothing else to do". He mentioned that there's no TV, no phones, no computers, all there is is everyone in the house and the way to have downtime is make fun of everyone.
I'm sure from an outsider it looks vicious and cruel, but he said everyone does it to everyone and that he got put into the spotlight for doing it more than others.
I also asked him about how the challenges work, he said: "You can be there from 1 week to 6 weeks." And when I mentioned that it seems like the show lasts for so long and that they're there for such a short time he said: "Trust me, it's way too ******* long." Kenny mentioned that the only reason he goes on the challenges is for the money, and nothing else. (he seems to not enjoy them, lol)
Kenny originally tried out for RW Austin, but had met a girl he was very interested in, and turned it down later on. And when they called to ask him to be on Key West, he still said no because of the girl...then when Fresh Meat rolled around, he agreed, and had had fun :)
JOHANNA DRAMA...
Yes, we all heard so much about this whole situation with Wes and Kenny this season. Kenny had told me tons of different things about Wes and him. Kenny believes and original reason is because on Fresh Meat, Johanna said to Wes that if she weren't with Wes, she'd be with Kenny. And when they were on the Island, Kenny's intensions were to NOT hook up with Johanna, but they both got really drunk, and it "just happened". Which we all know fed the fire underneath Wes. Kenny said: "People say 'oh you took that guys fiancee' when they weren't even engaged". Which really shocked me that Wes and Johanna were in fact NOT engaged at all, and that Wes had just been saying it.
WES DRAMA...
"that dumb *******." Was heard quite a bit on my end of the phone. Though Kenny admits he gets along fine with Wes outside the shows, he says on the shows it's just not possible. "Wes always says, yeah we used to be friends, and yeah we were until he ****ed me over". When I asked Kenny how he did that, he told me that on another challenge Kenny had actually won him 10,000 dollars, and then on the next challenge, he threw him under the bus. And this is why they just don't get along.
SARAH DRAMA...
Kenny admits that it was never his intensions to hurt her feelings at all, but they both made fun of each other. Kenny said: "There's hours of footage that never showed of her hanging with me, just talking and messing around". They were friends, and good friends (they still talk today), but he said: "the incident that she was crying was not because of me, but because of Johnny". He said that Johnny was messing with her, like he messed with her, but different.
In talking about the Challenges themselves he had brought up Ms. Katie Doyle, and saying: "Why would we keep someone around who doesn't help out the team". when talking about performance in the show. In my talking with Katie, Katie mentioned the reunion special and that her, Evan, and Kenny had agreed that they all get along just fine outside of the show, but on the show, they just don't.
SUCK YEAH!
I asked Kenny how SuckYeah came about, and Kenny said that him and Evan always said ****** Yeah a lot, but the producers told them it would never make it on the show so they should just stop, so then one day they said suck yeah, and it just stayed, and is now their very own clothing line. When I asked Kenny about a shirt Evan was wearing for the finale with a sucker on it, he said that it was actually from their line. And that they weren't allowed to mention it, or promote their stuff since so many other companies paid thousands of dollars to have their stuff featured on the show. (Kenny also told me I have to buy something from the line, lol, sooooo I encourage you all to do the same! suckyeah.com)
ALLIANCES,
I was curious about the alliance system that happens in every show. Kenny told me that it's just a thing for friends in his case, he told me: "If you went into the show with two of your friends, would you stab them in the back? No, you'd stick with em". And he's honestly right. He said that alliances just help his friends to stay there, and it someone gets effed over, it just happens.
THANKS FOR READING!
Hopefully the videos will load soon, lol.
[B]I will be talking to Sarah Rice, and Evan Starkman tonight as well! I hope to have their interviews up by tonight! I have Johnny Bananas number too, and plan to also get ahold of him this weekend![/B]
- Mary
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