Ep. 471: Vinny Foti
Challenge Mania
Challenge Mania
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
VINNY FOTI makes his Challenge Mania debut to talk about his short run on The Challenge from Fresh Meat II into Cutthroat and ending with his infamous removal on Battle of the Exes, which led to the end of his partner Sarah's season as well. The episode to watch before this interview is Episode II of Season 22 (Battle of the Exes) on Paramount+ to see the incident we discuss at length and the manner in which it plays out on the show, if it's something you can handle. In it a female cast-member's top is removed so proceed with caution. We both watched it this week to re-familiarize ourselves with it, as we knew it was top of mind for many of you when we announced this guest. Vinny himself brought it up before we even got there and we end up spending a solid chunk of the interview on it before learning about his 2018 health scare and discussing some other Challenge moments.
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| 0:00.0 | The Cultural Phenomenon, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, is back with an all-new season coming to Hulu May 15th. |
| 0:06.0 | Where is everyone at? |
| 0:08.0 | Mom Talk has gotten to a really hostile point. |
| 0:10.0 | Demi is willing to kick Jesse out of the group. |
| 0:12.0 | I feel like I'm working into a line instead. |
| 0:14.0 | It's gonna get messy, for sure. |
| 0:16.0 | Mom Talk is turning on each other left and right. |
| 0:19.0 | The police are here. I can't see this going any other way, but a pure bloodbath. |
| 0:23.6 | This is so toxic. |
| 0:25.6 | The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives streaming on Hulu, May 15th. Hey, what's up everybody, Scott here. |
| 0:46.0 | Just dropping this in before the podcast starts. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm recording this after. |
| 0:49.8 | We just chatted with Vinny Foti. |
| 0:52.4 | I think a very valuable interview for you all to listen to. |
| 0:55.6 | However, if some of you guys feel we shouldn't have had him on the podcast or don't want to listen to this, I totally understand. |
| 1:01.0 | For those of you guys who are willing to listen to Vinny and hear our chat with him, I just wanted to encourage you, if you can handle it, by the way, to go to Paramount Plus and watch episode two of season |
| 1:12.1 | 22, which is X's. |
| 1:13.9 | Vinny made his debut on Fresh Me 2 with Sarah, made an appearance on Cutthroat, and then |
| 1:18.4 | him and Sarah infamously left X's 2 after the second episode. |
| 1:23.1 | And a large part of our chat is what led to that ejection and just you know i don't know if it needs a |
| 1:28.8 | full on trigger warning but i will say a cast member mandy's top is pulled off by viny that is why |
| 1:34.0 | he and sarah are eventually ejected but we talk a lot about that incident and what viny has learned |
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