The Problem: USA’s Luis Colón completely advised Us Weekly that he doesn’t assume he deserved to be on the receiving finish of Josh Martinez’s wrath this season.
Luis, 36, grew to become the fourth boot of season 2 in the course of the Sunday, August 20, episode of the CBS actuality sequence. Previous to Luis’ elimination, Josh, 29, publicly declared to the whole home that he was going after Luis and his fellow Inexperienced Group member Desi Williams.
“[The] factor is, inexperienced [team] stroll round right here and so they smile and so they preserve quiet and so they run into their rooms [and] cover behind their doorways,” Josh mentioned in the course of the episode. “I can’t do that faux s—t, bruh. I’m not included in these rooms, they shuffle like rats. … Desi, I’m coming after you. Luis, I’m coming after you. That’s the place the f—ok I’m at.”
Luis, who was eradicated from the sport after dropping to Chris Underwood within the enviornment, advised Us that Josh’s frustration ought to “undoubtedly not” have been directed at him.
“Josh is aware of that that’s not my sport. I come from [The] Superb Race. That is actually bizarre for me. … I’m not the one sport planning right here,” he mentioned. Luis added that he tried to work with Josh “from the start” of the season, however discovered that Josh didn’t have his again within the sport.
“Week one, my identify was put in [for elimination] and I requested him for assist: ‘Hey, dude, look, is there any manner you might put in some lady names? , I want your assist right here.’ And he didn’t try this,” Luis defined. “After which he by no means spoke sport with me. And I’m able to work with him right here, however he by no means gave me something. So, guess what? I went to the opposite facet.”
Though Luis mentioned that he “love[s] Josh’s depth” and thinks it makes for “nice TV,” he didn’t wish to reciprocate it. “I’m not gonna yell again. It’s not my model,” he mentioned. “However hey, he selected that.”
Luis could have tried to keep away from fights in the home, however that wasn’t the case for Problem veteran Amanda Garcia, who was eradicated straight after Luis throughout Sunday’s episode. Amanda, 30, exchanged tense phrases with each Michele Fitzgerald and Tori Deal this season, each of whom she has competed with earlier than.
Though Amanda and Tori, 30, briefly put their beef apart throughout episode 2 and appeared open to the potential for working collectively, the MTV personalities had a blowup combat throughout episode 3 after Amanda’s vote helped ship Tori into the world to battle for her life within the sport. (Tori in the end beat Jonna Stephens (née Mannion) within the problem and secured her security.)
“Disgrace on me for believing that we may ever presumably work collectively,” Tori advised Amanda after the elimination spherical.
Amanda then shot again: “Tori, I do know you may have loads of faux mates, however I’ll by no means be one among them and it’s best to have recognized that earlier than the bounce.”
Amanda and Tori’s feud made headlines final month earlier than season 2 of The Problem: USA had even premiered. After Tori shared a promo photograph for the truth sequence by way of Instagram by which Amanda’s face was lined by a clown emoji, Amanda fired again by way of Twitter.
“Sorry guys I simply acquired off work I didn’t notice that roided out monster was such a fan 😂 thanks for highlighting ME in your put up loser hahahahaha,” Amanda wrote. In a sequence of subsequent tweets, she referred to as Tori a “botched clout chaser” and a “steroid injecting prostitute.”
In response, Tori took to her Instagram Story to close down Amanda’s claims.
“FYI … making lies about folks doing unlawful issues is crossing a line,” she wrote. “There’s a distinction between a clown face and defamation of character. That is referred to as ‘libel’ and it’s unlawful.”
The 2 girls have disliked one another for years. Amanda referred to as Tori out for being a faux buddy throughout The Problem: Spies, Lies & Allies in 2021. In the course of the season reunion, Amanda referred to as Tori a “chameleon” who’s “mates with totally different folks” each season.
“Folks can’t sustain along with her and I don’t like somebody that’s not persistently the identical particular person each season,” she mentioned of Tori on the time.
Amanda grew to become the fifth boot of the season on Sunday after dropping to Desi, 34, in the course of the elimination spherical. After the episode aired, Amanda tweeted on Sunday, August 21: “Me and Luis acquired turnt on the airport and s—t talked everybody. Then ate McDonald’s like fats cows. IT WAS AWESOME. he’s my bro.”
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The Problem: USA airs on CBS Thursdays and Sundays at 10 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET, respectively.
