Paulie Calafiore, best known for his appearances on various reality competition shows, is opening up about his sexuality.
11.08.2023 - 15:31 / usmagazine.com
Is Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio and Paulie Calafiore’s The Challenge rivalry finally coming to an end after all these years?
“Life is too short to carry hate in your heart,” Johnny, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 10, ahead of the season 2 premiere of The Challenge USA. “I didn’t know what the situation with Paulie was gonna be [on the show.] Dare I say, we’re friends or something?”
Johnny and Paulie, 43, first met on MTV’s The Challenge: Final Reckoning in 2018 before going on to appear on the first and second installments of War of the Worlds in 2019. While the duo didn’t align in their respective seasons, a feud brewed between them off-camera. Paulie and Johnny would often clap back at each other via social media. Most recently, Paulie shaded Johnny in November 2022 for his failed showmances over the years.
After butting heads for multiple seasons, the twosome seemingly buried the hatchet after they were forced to work together on the second season of The Challenge USA — the CBS spinoff of the iconic competition series. In the premiere episode, fellow competitor and Big Brother 19 winner, Josh Martinez, put Paulie and Johnny on the same team.
“I think it worked out better in a weird way that Paulie and I were on the same team,” Johnny confessed to Us. “Only because coming into this season, he was the only one I really had long-standing issues with. He hasn’t been on [The Challenge] in a while. We’ve obviously had a very public beef So by putting the two of us in the same team, it almost kind of neutralized that right out of the gate.”
Johnny explained that he and Paulie grew closer in the game because they ended up bunking next to each other.
“It also helped that [Paulie] chose to not just room with me, but
Paulie Calafiore, best known for his appearances on various reality competition shows, is opening up about his sexuality.
, Paulie Calafiore clarified some comments he made on the show and officially came out as bisexual on Friday.«I am bisexual,» Calafiore shared in a Zoom interview with GLAAD's Anthony Allen Ramos. «I feel good about finally being able to talk about this.»The interview came after Calafiore was eliminated in a one-on-one challenge with rival competitor Johnny Bananas, but there were no hard feelings between the two.
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