Johnny Bananas Shades Fessy Shafaat’s ‘The Challenge’ Criticism: ‘Put the Phone Down’

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After Fessy Shafaat criticized The Challenge for not putting more professional athletes on the competition series, show veteran Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio has weighed in — looking at both their records for his shady response.“Fessy needs to put his phone down.

OK, Fessy needs to stop tweeting because, I mean, as much as we wanna sit here and call The Challenge the fifth major American sport, which in a lot of ways it is, at the end of the day, I mean, it is a competition show,” Johnny, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, October 4. “It’s a reality show.”He added: “We’ve seen in the past, sometimes — and there’s obviously exceptions to the rules — when professional athletes come on The Challenge, they’re not exactly cut out for it because a lot of professional athletes are used to doing one thing and doing one thing very well, and they’ll come into The Challenge and when the rules are kind of murky here and there, and the game’s different every day and there’s so much house … drama and politics going on.”The 30-year-old Big Brother alum, for his part, made headlines on Sunday, October 2, tweeting his criticism about the series’ casting choices.“Ima need The Challenge to start bringing NFL players & professional athletes on the show more often because we would really run circles around them,” the fitness trainer — who competed on Total Madness, Double Agents and Spies, Lies & Allies after previously playing football — wrote via his social media post. “Most professional athletes are only great at one thing.

The Challenge is made for those who possess versatility.”The Real World alum took the opposite perspective, telling Us that he’s not sure Fessy made the right comparison.“I mean, there was obviously a lot said