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After 36 seasons, MTV’s
The Challenge is a reality television institution: No TV show has pitted more former, current, and future reality stars against one another often at the same time. Looking back, it’s remarkable to witness the prescience, and sometimes good fortune, of the people who created the show, then turned it into one of the longest-running reality series of all time.
What began with one happenstance choice to gather cast members in an RV became a rolling feast for reality television stars and scenarios. Over the years,
The Challenge has pitted lovers, friends, and enemies against one another, creating rivalries and forming new relationships both on-screen and with viewers as they absorbed the concentric circles of MTV’s smorgasbord of reality shows.
Thu May 06, 2021 at 8:49pm ET
Nelson Thomas appeared via Zoom for The Challenge: Double Agents reunion. Pic credit: MTV
The Challenge: Double Agents reunion took place over two episodes on MTV, bringing some of the cast into a studio where host Vernon Davis interrogated them about various topics from the season.
While many cast members were there in person, they also had a few cast members appearing by videoconference. That included some UK cast members such as Kyle Christie, Gabby Allen, and Tula “Big T” Fazakerley.
Nelson Thomas lives in the United States and was also one of the cast members who appeared by videoconferencing. While some viewers may have thought production didn’t want a physical altercation between him and Fessy Shafaat, that wasn’t the reason he wasn’t in the studio.
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The second instalment of the WW2 saga, penned by Refn himself and his regular collaborator
Flemming Quist Møller, is set between 1943 and 1945 and will centre on Aksel Skov (
Mads Reuther), who has become a hard-boiled partisan and left his family. As the Danish coalition government collapses, the patriarch Karl (Jesper Christensen) suddenly lacks political support and is forced to take drastic decisions to protect his family assets, which puts the relationship with his wife Eva (Bodil Jørgensen) under harsher pressure as she has always struggled with Karl’s collaboration with the Germans. The growing opposition to the occupying forces and increased brutality of the Germans have fatal consequences for the family.
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The second instalment of the WW2 saga, penned by Refn himself and his regular collaborator
Flemming Quist Møller, is set between 1943 and 1945 and will centre on Aksel Skov (
Mads Reuther), who has become a hard-boiled partisan and left his family. As the Danish coalition government collapses, the patriarch Karl (Jesper Christensen) suddenly lacks political support and is forced to take drastic decisions to protect his family assets, which puts the relationship with his wife Eva (Bodil Jørgensen) under harsher pressure as she has always struggled with Karl’s collaboration with the Germans. The growing opposition to the occupying forces and increased brutality of the Germans have fatal consequences for the family.