Kyland Younger, one in every of six members of The Cookout alliance that ran Large Brother 23, was slightly involved when he noticed so a lot of his former castmates on The Problem: USA.
The account government, 30, stars on the brand new CBS iteration alongside a few of his allies in Xavier Prather, Azah Awasum and Tiffany Mitchell, along with fellow BB23 forged members Derek Xiao and Alyssa Lopez.
“As quickly as I walked in and I noticed a 3rd of my season’s forged, I used to be fearful as a result of I knew everybody else was tremendous combined up,” Kyland completely tells Us Weekly in an interview, which you’ll be able to watch above. ”I knew that may be a straightforward goal for folks to take a look at. I figured the sport format would possibly combine it up, nevertheless it was a type of double-edged swords.”
It was additionally clear to him who the aggressive threats had been, naming Survivor winners Tyson Apostol and Sarah Lacina, regardless that he admits he’s “by no means even watched Survivor.”
“Large Brother was the one actuality TV present I ever watched,” Kyland explains. “I hadn’t heard of The Problem till I used to be within the Large Brother home.”
As totally different as these reveals are, the California native credit his time competing in Large Brother with serving to him transition into this new competitors. “The Problem is a totally totally different animal,” Kyland says. “That being stated, Large Brother was undoubtedly an expertise that, if something, gave me confidence in my talents to compete. In order that was tremendous useful. And it helped level out a number of the challenges I might have once I’m in a contest mindset the place I additionally want to keep up the social relationships.”
Talking of relationships, Kyland says he “grew to become tremendous shut” to BB23 castmate Derek after the present and “in The Problem, we had the chance to deepen that relationship, which was actually cool,” including “He’s like slightly brother. I simply love the child.”
He additionally grew shut with one other former castmate. “Me and Alyssa acquired to bond, which was very nice,” he tells Us. “We had been within the Large Brother home, kinda at all times on reverse sides.”
“In The Problem, we created a very tight, homie bond,” Kyland provides. “Now we textual content on daily basis and test on one another. I used to be at all times impressed by her, however now getting a chance to tighten that bond, for any individual who was one in every of my least shut bonds popping out of Large Brother, was very nice.”
The Problem: USA premieres on CBS Wednesday, July 6, at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.
