‘The Challenge: All Stars’ Season 2 Winners Detail ‘Next-Level’ Finale — and How They’ll Spend Cash Prize

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Warning: This story contains spoilers from the Thursday, January 13, finale of The Challenge: All Stars.It all came down to this. TJ Lavin wasn’t joking when he told the cast of The Challenge: All Stars that he wasn’t going to go easy on them.

In fact, he put the remaining four teams through a grueling finale.Heading into the finals, the competitors breathed a sigh of relief after Jodi Weatherton and Brad Fiorenza — who dominated a lot of the season — were sent home in the final elimination after facing off against Darrell Taylor and Janelle Casanave.Melinda Collins and Nehemiah Clark, Teck Holmes and Ayanna Mackins, and MJ Garrett and Jonna Mannion joined Darrell, 42, and Janelle, 39, in the finals — and everyone had a different reason for wanting to be there.In the end, MJ, 41, and Jonna, 33, took home the crown — but not before fans witnessed some drama on the show when Ayanna, 43, exited the show mid-challenge.“I mean, I’m not, like, that shocked only because I was also there in the race and it was so hard,” Jonna exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday of Ayanna’s departure. “It’s the hardest thing that I’ve ever done.

It was so physically demanding.”MJ noted that the whole experience was exhausting. “It’s the next-level type stuff,” he said.Through their own efforts, however, MJ and Jonna won the $500,000 prize, which the Tennessee native joked “weighs a lot” and is “very heavy.” MJ then sang his partner’s praises, adding, “We got very, very lucky.

We worked very well as partners and played off of each other’s strengths and picked each other up where we had our weaknesses.”He revealed that it was “unbelievable” to work for so long and then have a “common goal” that led to winning. “It’s just surreal,” MJ told Us.Now