Want to know why did Kaycee leave the challenge? The Challenge fans were recently shocked to see Kaycee not being featured in the first episode’s footage despite appearing in several promotional videos that led up to Season 38. Fans were recently taken by surprise after show host T. J Lavin announced that Kaycee and Kenny had left the game. Kaycee and Kenny Clark’s unexpected exit was revealed close to the start of the premiere. Host Lavin stated that stating the obvious, and they do live in crazy times right now, as Kaycee and Kenny already had to leave the game.
Kaycee has participated in her fair share of reality television shows as she has been a former Big Brother and Challenge champion. Kaycee took home the winning title of Big Brother season 20 in 2018 and went on to win the Spies, Lies, and Allies season of The Challenge back in 2021. Don’t forget to watch the newest episodes of The Challenge: Ride or Dies, which airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.
Viewers can also watch the episodes and can stream live on Philo, fuboTV, Sling, DirecTV Stream, and Paramount+. However, fans have been wondering what led to Kaycee’s exit. Let us take a look at all the details and lesser-known facts to know why did Kaycee leave the challenge.
Why Did Kaycee Leave The Challenge?
While fans have been taken by surprise by the siblings’ shocking exit, Kaycee has recently revealed in an interview that she and her brother were pulled from the game because they contracted COVID-19 while traveling to Argentina for filming. While talking about it at length, Kaycee explained how while they were going to Argentina to film this season, they ended up getting COVID and got sick.
The reality show star further added that the crazy thing is that she didn’t feel any of the symptoms, and while she had a light cold, everyone had a light cold sadly, she and she had COVID, so they had to exit the game.
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Kaycee Clark Opens Up About Her Exit!
Clark had described her and Kenny’s exit as “devastating” and admitted that she felt bad that her brother, as he had not been on the show before, was missing out on it all. While talking about being pulled out of the game due to her COVID diagnosis, Kaycee admitted that she felt worse for her brother because she had done this before and done these crazy challenges and got to experience doing it, but his brother has not.
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Kaycee further admitted that she was way sadder for him because if it came down to her not going back in the game and it was just me by myself because of COVID, she would have been okay with it but is hurt for her brother. Kaycee also said how his brother is her No. 1 fan and has always watched her competing on TV from Big Brother and now on The Challenge every season. Kenny was excited that he was finally able to come on, and that really crushed Kaycee, but she also praised her brother, who kept it cool and calm.
Who Replaced Kaycee On The Challenge?
Nam Vo and Emmy Russ were soon added to the competition to replace the Clark siblings, and viewers also saw Horacio Gutierrez and Olivia Kaiser joining as late additions to the game show.
However, Kaycee and Kenny Clark were not the only teams to leave The Challenge: Ride or Dies during the premiere, as the elimination saw Tori Deal and Devin Walker beat Sam Bird and Kailah Casillas-Bird, and thus, the newlywed couple was sent home.
