Why Did Kaycee and Kenny Clark Leave 'The Challenge: Ride or Dies' Premiere?

'The Challenge: Ride or Dies' premiere rocked audience with what happened to 'Big Brother' alum Kaycee Clark. Here's what went down to start Season 38.

WARNING: This article incorporates spoilers for The Challenge Season 38 premiere.

As briefly as Kaycee Clark arrived on The Challenge: Ride or Dies, she disappeared. So, what came about to Kaycee? That's what fans of the MTV truth sequence had been determined to grasp after the Season 38 premiere. Fans who have been psyched to peer Kaycee return had their hopes dashed when she left before the episode truly even began.

Theories immediately began to circulate about why Kaycee and her brother Kenny Clark had been dropped from the sequence, but there is no such thing as a conspiracy taking place right here. Read on to determine why Kaycee left The Challenge and what her thoughts have been about having to stroll away from the sequence after successful remaining season's The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and Allies.

What took place to Kaycee Clark on 'The Challenge: Ride or Dies'?

Kaycee and her brother Kenny were regarded as favorites to win this season of The Challenge as a result of Kaycee's victory within the final season. However, her chances of a repeat have been close down very early on. In the Season 38 premiere, host T.J. Lavin told the opposite groups (and the audience) that "Kaycee and Kenny had to leave the game."

The simplest explanation Lavin gave was to concede that "we live in crazy times right now," leading viewers to wonder if some roughly emergency had happened.

The Challenge then presented not one however two new teams to fill the spot left behind via the Clark siblings. The new pair of Horacio Gutierrez and Olivia Kaiser will struggle it out alongside Nam Vo and Emmy Russ to take a look at and grow to be The Challenge: Ride or Dies champions.

However, Kaycee's exit cast a long shadow over the remainder of the premiere, with the target market focused extra on her leaving than who stayed. Shortly after the episode aired, Kaycee defined her fast exit.

Why did Kaycee and Kenny leave 'The Challenge: Ride or Dies'?

Kaycee told Entertainment Weekly that she and Kenny were pulled from The Challenge because both of them tested positive for COVID-19. That puts Lavin's "loopy instances" comment into better context as the pandemic has certainly complicated everyone's lives! It also explains why he didn't say more, as it would've been uncomfortable to announce Kaycee and Kenny's positive COVID tests to a national TV audience.

What makes the story even more interesting, though, is that this is the second time Kaycee has tested positive for the virus. "I didn't move on Big Brother: All-Stars because I had COVID," the Big Brother Season 20 winner told EW.

She explained that "traveling, going to Argentina [where The Challenge is filmed], we ended up getting COVID."

While The Challenge fans are saddened about Kaycee leaving so early, she feels even more disappointed for Kenny. Not only was this season their first opportunity to compete on a reality show together, but it was his first chance to be on a Challenge season. "He probably could be lacking out on a in reality cool revel in," Kaycee added.

She said that the duo was "hoping and praying" to get back into the game, especially since Kaycee's girlfriend, Nany Gonzalez, is also competing.

While MTV hasn't revealed if Kaycee and Kenny will return to The Challenge Season 38, if they don't, optimistically the network will be offering them a possibility in a long term season so they are able to at least proportion the experience in combination.

Then again, it could be a Challenge-worthy plot twist if the duo did return mid-season after catching COVID and still crush the contest! And if somebody can make that more or less a comeback, it's Kaycee.

The Challenge: Ride or Dies airs at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.

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