Exclusive Look Into MTV’s Fear Factor Reboot

Exclusive Look Into MTV’s Fear Factor Reboot
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YH goes behind the scenes of MTV's reboot of "Fear Factor" to get the scoop from executive producer Anthony Carbone on how this version differs from the original and what new host Ludacris brings to the table! Then we hop into the mix ourselves to take on one of the show's infamous and formidable eating challenges! See if we can swallow what this show dishes out!
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Hey guys, it is Audrey Cleo.
After a long hiatus, Fear Factor is finally coming back to TV and I'm on the set about to step up to one of their more savory challenges.
What is that smell?
With executive producer of Fear Factor, Anthony Carbone.
Hey, what's up?
Thank you for having us here.
Thanks for coming to visit us on set.
I'm nervous, I'm excited.
I smell weird things.
What am I about to experience?
Uh, you're about to experience one of our very rare eating challenges on this MTV incarnation of Fear Factor.
Uh, this go around, we're not leading into that so much, we're leading into more anxieties and fears of millennials, but you're lucky.
Today you get to be on one of our two eating challenges.
So we're doing uh a uh a game that's like a little, like a little game you'll see, and then you get to eat whatever it lands on.
Okay.
Yeah, very similar to stuff I've seen on other game shows, uh classic game shows.
Sure.
Yeah, it's like a classic like pinball kind of game.
And you get to eat what it lands on.
Seems harmless enough.
Harmless enough until you see what you're going to eat.
100-year-old egg.
Stinky cheese.
Stinky cheese as well.
No thanks, you know, I'm gonna pass.
Oh, Okay, so the first team is going.
They're going first, those brave souls.
I'm going to try to not look cause I feel like it's gonna mess up my game, but oh man, that does not smell pretty.
Let me tell you.
Oh, Oh my gosh.
We should have went first.
I know.
We should have went first.
We should have went first.
Also new host, you have Ludicrous.
Yeah, we're really lucky to get him.
He is, he's really like, he's into the show, like he saw it in its earlier incarnations, but he's bringing like a new take to it, you know, it's kind of, it's kind of Ludicrous's show.
He's very playful with the people.
Often times, they're doing something terrible, he's doing something that's nice.
But also, also what's really important in this version is uh that we're having help people face their fears.
So they're attacking fears and they're overcoming those fears.
And it's kind of, you know, this pride moment where it's like, okay, you may have lost or you may have cried or you may have fallen on the ground in fear, but at least you're stepping up and going to the plate and trying to, you know, do defeat your fears.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Come on.
Do it something.
One of the hottest peppers on earth.
And we go back.
You guys are like, knucklehead.
You swallow it.
Yeah, you gotta swallow it.
Good.
Yes!
One down, one down.
Come on.
Come on, fight, take it.
I'm thinking, a slightly used Fear Factor sticker is in balance.
Oh my gosh, I gotta get that sticker.
Uh oh.
Got K, got K, got K.
We put this in beans, y'all, Mexican.
We put this in beans.
Here we go.
There you go.
Oh, my God.
Now we have our winner.
Yeah.
Go.
Woo!
Here we go.
Guys.
Oh my God.
If one of you eats the uh, the uh, fermented squid, you get a sticker too.
I think I killed it.
I think you guys killed it.
You're the best.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, I need some tissues.
Someone pour milk on my face.
Oh, that taste is not gonna come out for days.
Well, after that ordeal, I think this is well-deserved.
Oh, oh god.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Anthony Carbone
Executive Producer of MTV's Fear Factor reboot
- Ludacris
New host of MTV's Fear Factor reboot
- Audrey Cleo
Young Hollywood host experiencing the challenge
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