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The Challenge: Cutthroat - Exclusive Interview with Katie Doyle

Posted on 11/10/2010 by Gina in Real World Road Rules and Cast Interviews

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Katie Doyle from The Challenge: Cutthroat

 

by Gina Scarpa

 

Last week, on The Challenge: Cutthroat, Katie was sent into the Gulag again by her blue team and she was pitted against Camila of the red team. Unfortunately, it wasn't Katie's day and she was eliminated from the competition. The outspoken, veteran player talked to us today in an exclusive interview about how things really went down in Prague this season.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: In our last interview, you said that you wouldn't come back to do another challenge unless Kenny or Evan weren't on it. You got your wish! Did that factor into your decision to do Cutthroat?
A. Katie: Not really. Finding out who the cast was this season was not as easy to find out as it normally is. I don't mind if they (Kenny and Evan) are on the shows with me, just not on my team. Individually, they aren't bad guys. Evan and I got along great on The Duel 2. We just don't see eye to eye when we are on the same team. I prefer to be on a team without them, and it's obvious they feel the same way!

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Who were you most happy to see on the challenge?
A. Katie: I was happy to see quite a few people, especially Derrick, Eric, and Tori. I was happy to meet Aiiiya, Camila, and Brandon. The cast itself was pretty good.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Initially, were you happy with your blue team?
A. Katie: Initially, yes. I felt like it was luck to be on a team with two of my closest guy friends (Eric and Derrick). I was also happy that there were quite a few rookies on the team as well. As past history proves, I figured they would all see a Gulag once before I did. We all see how that went down. I was an idiot. I had hoped there was strength in numbers. Not quite so. Jenn and I had a conversation about us sticking together at first until we just couldn't anymore. Derrick vowed to have my back. The "numbers" were there, the truth was not. They lied to me, the plan backfired, and I looked like the idiot.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: You were ready to throw down with Ty a few weeks back! What tends to set you off the most on these challenges?
A. Katie: It varies but on this particular Challenge, there were several reasons. Please understand it's a competitive game and I view it from MY eyes, not the eyes of viewers. So this is why I was mad and it boiled over. Once it airs and I watch it from a viewer's perspective, it all appears different. I even yelled at the tv at myself to shut up or I have to literally leave the room because I am too embarrassed to look at my boyfriend, who sat horrified on the couch. So trust me, I get it. But no one is going to fight for me on these shows BUT me. And I am never one to back down. FYI: Ty got into a fight with me, Jenn, Camila, and Emily all before that big one went down. He had made his threats before. So here are my reasons for being pissed off this particular night:
1.) Overall, do not lie to me. I am an emotionally tough girl so I can handle you telling me I suck. That won't piss me off as much as being phony and then lying to me.
2.) I was mad because I was going in. Not that I never thought I wouldn't see it but I was the only girl on my team who has ever even won a Challenge before - 7 years ago, but still! Do I think I deserved it? Maybe. That's not the point. It's a competitive game in which you will hang on to any reason on why you shouldn't go in.
3.) I fell, and got hurt.
4.) Theresa fell too and is a hell of a lot taller than I am. Point being: she should have been able to clear the jump. Remember, I am holding on to anyr eason that it should have been someone else first.
5.) My team wouldn't even look at me - especially Derrick.
6.) My face was messed up and throbbing.
7.) Johnny and Jenn both made several attempts into the gas chamber while Eric and I did it the first try. The bed Challenge in which I fell? Yeah, guess who also DQ'd? Johnny. He touched some stupid rope. A DQ and a mistake is just that. Regardless of how athletic you are. The same "mistake" can happen in a final too. So if that applies to me: it should for you too, a-hole.
8.) My feelings were hurt. Bottom line, I felt betrayed by Derrick at the time and he never did that to me on a show before. He wouldn't even talk to me and avoided me. Derrick didn't vote me in, but he just didn't push to save me either. He didn't give me the understood "heads up" before deliberation. But ya know what? He is playing a game too. I understand that now, but at the time, I was too pissed off to rationalize anything. And technically, I am explaining why I was mad THEN.
9.) I was pissed off Jenn didn't hold to her initial promise. That is how the fight started with Ty, because I was telling Emily that she better hope I win, because if not, she was going to be next. Then Ty yelled at me, and you saw how it ended.
10.) I was stupid.

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Do you feel like you should've been thrown into the Gulag repeatedly? Who should have been going in your place?
A. Katie: Do I feel like I "should've"? Well, as a player: No! I wouldn't be there for the right reasons if I said I should be thrown in repeatedly. I'd be a real idiot with no self respect! There would be no real reason I should even go to compete if I said "Hi guys, I love to be thrown in numerous times!! Screw the money, I just looooove Gulags!!" Did I deserve to go in and prove myself? Sure. But so did some other girls as well. Just because your 5'10" doesn't mean you're athletic. The newer girls should at least prove something before everyone assumed they must be better than I am. Look at Ty for example! The kid couldn't run to save his life but he is tall and he loves working out. Therefore,he must be an amazing asset to the team. Riiiiight. However, after Shavoun quit my first Gulag, I couldn't take that as a "win", so I volunteered to go in again to actually prove myself. Not for my team. Screw that, but for me. And for the third Gulag, I just knew they were sending me in regardless. It was 3.5 weeks into the show, and I was over it. I started to feel at that point, I didn't care anymore. I was going to be sent in again and again just so I can keep Emily, Jenn and Theresa safe? No. So I decided I would decide my own fate, and sent myself in again. Not because I should've, but because it was going to happen with a bitch fit or not. I was mentally exhausted by the game and the rules and just didn't give a crap. I did try in my Gulag, despite what some people think. I didn't WANT to go home, but I didn't WANT to play the mental aspect of the game anymore. I was in it for me, and I knew I would try in that Gulag against Camila because I am not a punk. It had nothing to do with my team at all. Camila is a strong girl, and she just kicked my ass in the Gulag. Simple as that. And the reason I was ok with it? Because I knew that Jen, Emily and Theresa were gonna crap themselves, while I got to eat real food, use a cell phone and go home to see my boyfriend. I would have been happy either way, and I can honestly say that.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: The challenge this season were pretty intense! How would you compare them to other seasons?
A. Katie: They are all intense but in different ways. Sometimes it is the people that make it that way, sometimes it's the challenges themselves and sometimes it's the rules. They can be incredibly stressful.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Is there anyone you're pulling for to win the money?
A. Katie: I know who wins and I can say I am happy with who does.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: How have the challenges changed from your first (The Gauntlet) to your most recent (Cutthroat)?
A. Katie: Haha this was one of our number one conversations while in Prague! Well, night and day. It's almost as if it were 2 separate shows. A lot of the reasons are things the viewers would never know about. The older Challenges were way more fun. In a way, I think that's why I did them for so long because I was hoping they would go back to the old ways. Or that I assumed the last one I was on was just a "bad challenge". Production has gotten so strict that we have literally no privacy or options anymore. We used to be able to bring a book or a magazine, cameras, iPods, and be able to use a team cell phone. We had access to a computer. We could go out to dinner in whatever amazing city we were in, or go out and sight see a little. We had great food, and unlimited drinks, not just alcohol. All of that is gone. Now, we get fed 3 times a day by a caterer with no option to make a sandwich in the middle of the day. And if you didn't like the food, you were screwed. No sodas, and if we did get them, they were warm. We used to have coolers stocked with sodas. Not now. We drink lukewarm water and they would give us a limited number of water bottles and told us to refill it with tap water. We used to get our laundry done, and the house cleaned. Nope, not now. It's more of a prison really.

 

Now, I know I sound like a spoiled brat, but that is why I am listing the comparisons. If it was always this way, then this is all I would know. But I am simply stating how they have changed. It used to be like a vacation and you still had contact with the outside world.  We could take fun pictures, but now I have no documentation I have ever even been to Prague or Thailand besides the episodes. So as cool as it is to "visit", we don't see much except on the drives to the actual Challenges. They let us go out that night that Johnny got punched and then said we never could again because of the fights. We had no air conditioning and our house was so hot we couldn't sleep. There is way too much downtime between the Challenges with literally nothing at all to do. 3 weeks feels like 2 months. Everyone gets more cranky and crabby. I think production's intent is to take away all forms of entertainment so that we are forced to communicate which, with boredom, eventually becomes fighting. And they get what they want. We all bitched a lot this season and were miserable. That's why you see lots of people voting themselves in. I got to a point, where I didn't give a crap anymore. I wanted to talk to my boyfriend, wanted a burger, and a cold Diet Coke.

 

Before, they did cater to us a bit. We felt lucky for the opportunity. We were getting paid to live in an amazing mansion, party, compete, and get a bunch of free clothes. Now, it's only Under Armour. But back in the day, we could call who we wanted when we wanted, take a bunch of cast pictures, eat great food and have fun. I am not ungrateful, but although the viewers don't know about these changes, it greatly influences the cast and if people want to return. I am not saying they are no longer fun, because they can be. But not nearly so in comparison to how fun they used to be. And ask any real veteran cast member (Johnny, Abram, Derrick, Jenn, Brad) and I promise you they will agree with just about every word I said, because we discussed it daily. The Rookies do not know about the older seasons, so they can't compare this from that. And I am referring to people who were doing Challenges from years ago, not last year.


Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Will we see you again on another challenge?
A. Katie: I don't want to say never, but it is not looking likely. I know I have said that before but I have a real job now and I work full time AND go to school full time. I've been doing these shows for the past 10 years of my life. I have had great times and experiences and am grateful for the opportunities it has provided me. But some things need to end. I don't like screaming like a lunatic on TV anymore, I don't enjoy the manipulation, sabotage, deceit, lies and disrespect to each other. I don't even go to reality events anymore. I have turned down the past two event because it's just something I am losing interest in. I just want to decorate, spend time with my boyfriend and graduate! I am so thankful for some of the friends I have made, the places I have gotten to travel and the money I have made on behalf of these shows! Really, I am!

 


The Challenge: Cutthroat airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on MTV.

 

(Image courtesy of MTV)

 


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