Paulie Calafiore Shares His ‘Biggest Fear’ Joining the ‘Challenge: USA’ Season 2 Cast, Talks Strategy

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The Challenge veteran Paulie Calafiore is returning to the franchise as a contestant on season 2 of The Challenge: USA.Although Calafiore, 34, is no stranger to reality TV competitions, he had some nerves about joining the cast, which includes alums from shows including Survivor, The Amazing Race and Big Brother.“[The] biggest fear whenever you return after a long break is, like, ‘Do I still got it?” he exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the Tuesday, July 11, season 2 cast announcement. “And as soon as you get done with the first daily, you’re like, ‘OK, yeah, I still got it. … I can still hang with the young kids they’re pulling in here nowadays.”Calafiore added that it’s “a little bit wild” to go head-to-head with stars from some of the biggest CBS reality shows, including fellow Big Brother alums Tyler Crispen, Tiffany Mitchell, Monte Taylor, Alyssa Snider, Faysal Shafaat, Josh Martinez, Ameerah Jones and Alyssa Lopez. (Calafiore previously competed on Big Brother 18 in in 2016).Despite facing some stiff competition in the upcoming season — which premieres Thursday, August 10, on CBS — Calafiore went into The Challenge: USA with the goal of keeping his composure.“Ultimately, I went into this season with the mindset of like, ‘There’s always two wolves that everybody has within themselves, and you can choose to feed one or the other.’ So, I chose to feed the one that was peaceful,” he told Us. “Not to say that the not peaceful one wasn’t chirping in my ear, being like, ‘Hey, what’s going on?

What are you doing?’ … I really had to keep my eye on the prize this season.”Calafiore — whose last Challenge stint was on War of the Worlds 2 in 2019 — said that his basic strategy for the season was to “kind of see who’s taking