[Warning: The below contains spoilers for Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test Season 3 finale.]
The 5 remaining recruits of Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at equipped for his or her closing duties in hopes of surviving Choice. As seen all through the season, the Directing Workers (DS) weren’t going to make it simple. Golden Tate, Alana Blanchard, Brody Jenner, Cam Newton and Kayla Nicole had been proven movies of their family members. This put them in an emotional headspace as they fought the “Redman” and channeled their internal aggression.
From there, they broke off into Workforce Alpha and Bravo as they had been despatched out within the area the place they needed to go o the run after being hunted by the “enemy” and canines. Their mission was to make it to the extraction level on time earlier than midnight. The 5 well-known faces had been all ultimately captured and confronted interrogation, working to stay to their cowl story.
These particular interrogators led by “The Umpire,” who couldn’t be recognized for safety causes, labored to interrupt the recruits. When the ultimate group had been uncovered to steady uncomfortable seems like crying infants, it triggered Blanchard sufficient to bow out. The ultimate stage was maybe essentially the most traumatizing, the solo interrogation. Newton and Tate failed the ultimate take a look at with Jenner and Nicole passing Choice.
We caught up with the 2 about their journey and what making it to the top meant to them.
Brody Jenner
Brody Jenner and DS agent Mark Billingham within the Season 3 finale.
How did it really feel while you came upon you survived and handed Choice?
Brody Jenner: I used to be delusional. We hadn’t slept for what felt like 24 hours. It was a grueling expertise. It took some time for it to sink in to be sincere. It didn’t sink in till the flight house. The entire expertise was actually wild.
Did it imply extra to share this with Kayla?
Completely. I want there have been extra individuals I might have shared it with. I needed everybody to make it to the top. We had been all cheering for one another. I used to be stunned. I believed Cam and Golden had been going to make it. So seeing simply her and me, I used to be stunned. I used to be excited to see her. Her psychological toughness was unimaginable. I wasn’t stunned to see her, however I used to be stunned not seeing the others.
In the course of the household video, I believe I heard your mother point out this wasn’t one thing she needed you to initially do. What was her response that you simply made it to the top?
My household was thrilled. I used to be going on the market to make my household proud and get on the market and full the course. I needed that greater than something. After they instructed me to go on the market and provides it 110 p.c, I did it each single day I used to be there. My household was actually pleased with me. They’d have been pleased with me nonetheless if I left midway by means of or the start. The very fact I might make it to the top for my household was nice.
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Coming from a well-known household and also you within the headlines as the truth TV star, how liberating was it so that you can be on the market away from the noise?
Undoubtedly. I’ve by no means put myself by means of a process like that. To see the place my psychological toughness is at and bodily conditioning skills are towards these professional athletes. I’ve by no means completed that in my life. It was very liberating. You get on the market, and it’s extraordinarily tough, however I believe you develop. You develop as an individual and find out about your self as an individual from that have. In case you ask anybody, they may say the factor. You’re doing it for your self.
Has this helped strengthen household bonds as a result of they noticed what you had been going by means of, whether or not it was opening up about your dad and your relationship. This put it on the market the place possibly they’ve by no means seen the ache and battle you had been going by means of.
I’ve lived a really blessed life. I’m not one to take a seat and complain ever. After they put you in these conditions, you might be kind of pressured to speak about lots of these items. It additionally brings so much out. You turn into susceptible while you haven’t slept in days and put thorough a bodily take a look at. I’ve lived an ideal life. Sure, I’ve had some points over the course of my life with my dad, however lots of people have. Within the grand scheme of life, every little thing is nice now. I’ve a phenomenal household. That’s what I’m most centered on. Life is fairly good. Occurring a present like that and being susceptible, I believe everybody needs to be susceptible from time-to-time. It’s okay to really feel unhappy and undergo these issues. It’s all good.
What do you suppose received you thru?
I needed it. I needed it extra. On the finish of the day, I can’t clarify to you ways badly I needed to make it to the top. I manifested that. I put in 110 p.c each single day. I took the whole course very critically. I needed it greater than something in life that second. The one means I used to be going to not make it within the competitors was die or they had been going to bodily take away me or I received injured. That was the one means I used to be getting out of there. I preserve myself in fairly good bodily situation. I’m not loopy, however I do prepare and surf and lead a really lively life-style. So when it got here to coach for this, I did a bit of bit. However nothing prepares for what you undergo. On the finish of the day, you simply need to need it.
Do you discover this will likely have modified perceptions about you from the general public eye?
I hope so. I’m in my very own little bubble, so I don’t take note of all of the noise on the market. I hope so although that anybody who watched and realized or gained one thing from watching me undergo all that. It was one of many the explanation why I did it. Simply to see a special aspect of me than the traditional actuality reveals I’ve been on prior to now. This was a totally completely different aspect of who I’m.
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What did you’re taking from this expertise?
It’s grateful to be alive. Time is so useful. Essentially the most treasured factor we have now is time. I realized that as I become older. This expertise introduced me nearer to my household and made me respect them that rather more. I simply love them a lot and need to spend all my time with them. That have helped me understand that. You may actually do something you actually set your thoughts to. If you need one thing so unhealthy, I realized I can accomplish it and anybody can.
So far as actuality TV, would you do it once more whether or not it’s a docuseries or a contest collection?
It’s attention-grabbing. I used to be desirous about this the opposite day. I’d be concerned about filming a actuality kind of present for YouTube or one thing that reveals my precise life and what I do. My day-to-day and never some scripted actuality tv present. Possibly I’d do one thing like that, however to be sincere, we’ll see. I’ve been doing actuality TV for a very long time. Music is my ardour. That’s what I’ve been doing for the previous 20 years. We’ll see. We might movie a present about that too. I’ve been placing bits of music out over time. I’m such a perfectionist about my music. I simply need to launch it extra, however that’s one thing I’m going to proceed to do and touring and DJ. I adore it.
You’ve got a really distinctive pal group. Do you suggest anybody do that subsequent? Possibly a Spencer [Pratt]?
I’d love for Spencer to do that. After I instructed him I had this chance, he mentioned, “You higher do it.” I believe what he mentioned was, “I’d like to do it. It could be a trip for me.” I’d like to see how this “trip” can be for Spencer. It’s no trip. I’ll let you know that. I really suppose he would do very nicely. Spencer would kill it. I’d love to look at.
Kayla Nicole
DS agent Jason Fox and Kayla Nicole within the Season 3 finale (Pete Dadds / FOX. ©2025 FOX MEDIA LLC.)
What was going by means of your thoughts while you discovered you’d handed the interrogation?
Kayla Nicole: From my reminiscence, I used to be so disoriented that when the DS introduced I had handed I used to be impassive, zero expression on my face as a result of I used to be so bodily exhausted, and admittedly, traumatized from the 24 hours we had. The interrogation course of is by far the toughest a part of this whole expertise. I used to be actually proud I made it to the top. I want I’d proven it extra, however I used to be simply in shock. That’s how exhausting this expertise was for positive.
There’s that have you had with the “Pink Man” the place you sort of had some blacked out rage. Who or what had been you picturing in that second?
The DS does a very good job of prepping you for these simulations the place you’ll be able to go to a spot to faucet into the aspect of your self you’ve by no means seen earlier than. The immediate was to think about this particular person was a menace to you or your loved ones. For me, I used to be envisioning they had been a menace to my sisters. If you wish to deliver out the animal in me, that may deliver it out to me each single time, apparently.
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Take me by means of these hours of interrogation. What was particularly triggering for you?
To start with it’s freezing cold and warm. You’ve got these insane noises in your ears, the pigs are oinking, infants are crying and persons are screaming. They’re put in strenuous positions, so you’ll be able to’t go to sleep. I bear in mind one among my different recruits gave us a be aware that in interrogation try to sing a tune to self-sooth you. I deliberate to sing “Staring on the clean web page earlier than you…” That was my go-to tune. I don’t know the way lengthy into my interrogation that was. I couldn’t consider the phrases or concord as a result of I used to be so out of it. I simply began to call my relations. I simply wanted one thing to take me out of the room I used to be in and discomfort I used to be feeling. I attempted to floor myself in that second. I needed to stop the entire time. They took me exterior for a portion of the interrogation the place I noticed the daylight that made me understand we had been nearly on the end line. That I simply needed to maintain on just a bit bit longer.
What had been these hours and days after as you transitioned again to society?
Talking of decompressing, they put you involved with somebody like a therapist that checks on you occasionally as a result of there’s a little little bit of PTSD. After I first received again to my lodge room, I sort of sat on my mattress for a superb quarter-hour rocking and self-soothing till I snapped out of it. I took a very lengthy sizzling bathe. I ordered a burger and beer and slept for like 20 hours. Then as soon as I received again to the States, I took out these raggedy braids that become dreadlocks and received my hair completed. That was the very first thing on my agenda.
Whenever you do a Google search of you, you typically will get Travis Kelce’s ex. Issues like that. Do you discover this present has helped transfer ahead from that and present who you might be as a particular person?
My delivery certificates says Kayla Nicole Brown. That’s my title. I don’t reply to another titles past that as of late. I believe I’m actually grateful for this chance as a result of lots of occasions there may be the thought that your success is tied to somebody you might be in shut proximity too. This expertise. You may’t try this. I earned this. I fought by means of this, and that is my title to maintain.
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What did you’re taking from this course of?
I realized from this that I’m a lot stronger mentally than I ever imagined. I’d contemplate myself a bodily match particular person. I do know that bodily I’ve power for positive, however my psychological fortitude was examined. I proved I could possibly be stronger than my feelings and that they’re fleeting. That I don’t have to permit my feelings to overhaul me. That I’m in a position to conquer life someday at a time due to who I’m.
I noticed a turning level for you the place it simply turned routine to get by means of these experiences. You had been even attempting to maintain Alana within the recreation so she wouldn’t stop. How was it taking that management place in that second?
I believe lots of occasions too it was my very own intrusive ideas and conversations I used to be having with myself. I’m telling Alana she has to remain and may’t go away. That she was stronger than what you’re feeling in these moments. Actually, these had been conversations I used to be having with myself. I’m actually usually an outspoken extrovert. I really feel like on this expertise and on this present, I used to be so quiet. It’s often because I’m attempting to speak myself off the quitting cliff. I’m attempting preserve myself calm, floor myself. Me encouraging different individuals was additionally me encouraging myself.
Are you continue to in contact with others?
We positively have a Particular Forces group chat. We speak nearly each episode. We jokingly say we’re going to make a journey to Cabo to let our hair down a bit of bit and never have our final expertise be torture, however we’re positively in contact.
What’s subsequent? One other actuality present you need to sort out?
I contemplate myself a multi-hyphenate, so I’ve my arms in lots of luggage. I’m at present internet hosting I’m Athlete Every day with Brandon Marshall on Revolt TV. I’m launching a podcast of my very own with Expensive Media. I’ve my very own health and wellness model referred to as Tribe Therepe that I’m actually pleased with. In phrases fo actuality TV,I don’t suppose I’m meant for that. I don’t suppose something that may have digicam on me 24/7 simply me and my mouth. I would like a bit of bit much less digicam time than that. If I needed to decide one, I’d decide Dancing with the Stars. I really like the glitz, glam, and sparkle.
How was it sharing this achievement with Brody?
I’m so grateful to have had Brody as a accomplice in that final problem. Truthfully, I don’t know if I’d have made it to the top with out him. He was an ideal accountability accomplice, an ideal chief. He is a superb man who has been by means of so much within the public eye. I used to be pleased with him, proud to be his accomplice, proud to have been left standing with him. This was essentially the most insane expertise of my life, but additionally deeply gratifying as a result of I’m leaving this sense like a extra assured confident model of myself. I’m deeply grateful for that.
