USA’s Tiffany and Cashel on Elimination, Betrayals

A surprise exit. Big Brother 23Fan favorite Tiffany MitchellThis was done in conjunction with Love IslandPartner Cashel BarnettIn a wild episode The Challenge: USAWednesday, July 13

The arena was filled with the 41-year-old phlebotomist and the 30 year old model. James Wallington Cayla LeeThe daily challenge was lost by, in a decision of winners Tyson Apostol Justine Ndiba.

Tiffany and Cashel knew they had become a house target of sorts, but didn’t necessarily expect their names to come of out some people’s mouths. “To see my sister Shan [Smith] throw me all the way under the heaviest bus,” Tiffany exclusively tells Us WeeklyYou can see her reaction to the episode in our interview below. “Girl code is you just don’t do that, and you don’t do that where no one even can hear you. I got chicks’ secrets that I don’t fool with today, but I’ll never go and tell anything about them.”


Tiffany Mitchell and Cashel Barnett
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Shan and some other Survivors were seen discussing Tiffany’s relationship with Love IslandAlum Melvin “Cinco” Holland Jr. “That’s just not cool especially on TV, but we talked about it,” Tiffany says. “We’ve hashed it out. I don’t get it, but what can I do about it? It’s not cool. I didn’t know that Shannon and Desi [Williams] were dragging me, and Desi doesn’t even know me. So really, she shouldn’t say anything about me at all, period.”

Cinco’s ex-girlfriend Cashay ProudfootShe also had some unkind things to say, but it was less shocking to her. “I did know that about the Love Island girls, it was pretty obvious,” Tiffany explains. “They had it in for me from minute one. It was not surprising that they thought about me all the time, ate and thought about me, and slept and thought about me. They also dreamed about me and spoke about me in their dreams. It’s me, me, me. It’s the Tiffany show, so no surprise.”

Cashel agreed: “In the same way that Tiffany’s name was in their mouth, [it was] nothing but mud-slinging and s—t-talking about me. … I feel no allegiance to people who are gonna talk bad about me.”

Tiffany Mitchell Challenge's Tiffany and Cashel Break Down Shocking Elimination

Tiffany Mitchell
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As for her Big Brother 23 The Detroit native explained that castmates were meant to protect each other during the game. “It wasn’t unspoken,” Tiffany says. “It was definitely spoken that Big BrotherWe were going to stick together. We knew we would be a target due to the sheer number of us. We knew we probably wouldn’t all make it to the end, but there was no service, no purpose to go in and attack each other or go after each other in the beginning when we knew we would need numbers on our side.”

That didn’t exactly happen though. Tiffany says she wanted a “clean slate” with everyone after the show last summer and “just get to know people more outside of Big Brother and see how we vibe.” Of her friendship with Alyssa Lopez, she says, “We got along. We don’t have, like, a close relationship where we are chatting every day or we’re best friends where I’m planning to hang out with her. We can all get together if we want to. I didn’t have any issues with her, but she always seemed a little sketchy to me.”

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As for Tyson and his decision to throw them into elimination, Tiffany says, “I think Tyson is going to play the whatever gets in his hands less dirty. If I were a house target that everyone was okay with going, why make waves. However, I do understand Tyson’s personal decision. … I was not one of the stronger women there. He still had the chance to be paired with me, but he didn’t know how I would do in a challenge. So if he’s looking at his long-term game of who he may get paired with next, and it’s me, and he’s not confident that I’d be a strong person to pair with, then he can say, well, I probably wanna get her out before I get paired with her and she brings me down.”

The Challenge: USAAirs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on CBS