Tonya Cooley, who made her MTV debut with The Real World: Chicago back in 2002, has since become a regular on the Real World/Road Rules Challenges participating in six challenges as of 2007. Tonya is currently and fittingly competing with the “Bad Asses” on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Inferno III which airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Tonya took some time to talk to BuddyTV about the show, how it compares with past seasons, and what we can expect to see from her in the upcoming weeks.

Read the full interview transcript and listen to the MP3 audio below.

Evan Starkman made his TV debut as one of the eponymous newbies on MTV's Real World/Roud Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat. On Fresh Meat, Evan was so beloved by fans that MTV brought him back for another challenge, this time taking place in Brazil and called The Duel. The Duel currently airs on MTV. Evan recently took time out of his hectic college schedule to sit down and talk to us about his start on MTV, the behind-the-scenes action on The Duel, and his plans for the future. Evan, for those of us who might not know, maybe you can tell us a little bit about yourself before you got into the MTV business. What exactly were you doing before Fresh Meat and The Duel?

So you sent in your audition tape, beat out hundreds of thousands of hopefuls, and now you're one of the new Fresh Meat competitors on the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Congratulations, you've officially been thrown to the sharks. Despite the exotic tropical backdrops and lush island accommodations, Real World/Road Rules Challenge are actually elaborate minefields filled with sadistic physical competitions and political deception. Take a wrong step and you're likely to get blown limb from limb. In preparation, here's some Fresh Meat secrets to ponder on that long plan flight to hell.