‘Big Brother’ Alum Alyssa Lopez Says Fans Will See a ‘Totally Different’ Her on ‘The Challenge: USA’
usmagazine.comHer showmance days are over. Big Brother 23 alum Alyssa Lopez was focused on winning when she signed on to compete in The Challenge: USA, the new CBS iteration of the MTV franchise.The MollieBird swimwear designer, 25, opened up about how she went into this new game with a different mindset than last summer.“Going in [to Big Brother], I was open to anything,” she exclusively tells Us Weekly in an interview, which you can watch above. “And I think that’s what messed me up a lot too.
I wasn’t going in [where] my only priority was winning. My priority was have fun too. I feel like The Challenge is gonna be a totally different Alyssa people are gonna see, where nonstop my brain was moving.
And the only thing my brain was thinking about was the game.”The Florida native is of course referring to her short-lived relationship with ex Christian Birkenberger, with whom she’s still good friends. “I already did the showmance thing,” she tells Us. “That is expired for me.
The only attractive thing [on The Challenge] was the cash prize.”Five people from her season of BB23 – Xavier Prather, Azah Awasum, Derek Xiao, Kyland Young and Tiffany Mitchell – are competing alongside her, so sticking together, at least at first, was “probably the easiest thing to do,” she says.
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