And
that’s
just
one
reason Johnny “Bananas”
Devenanzio
won’t
put
himself
through
that
sort
of
romantic
gauntlet
again.
He’s
done
the
showmance
thing
with Natalie
Negrotti
and
Moriah
Jadea
and
continued
dating
Morgan
Willett
two
years
after
they
met
on
2019’s
The
Challenge:
War
of
the
Worlds.
But,
ultimately,
on-camera
relationships
tend
to
be “way
more
headaches
than
I
need,”
he
told
Us
Weekly
in
2023. “It
never
ends
well,
and
it
only
is
gonna
make
your
game
more
complicated.”
Because,
regardless
if
the
inital
spark
was
strategic
or
the
start
of
something
truly
special,
once
you
start
a
showmance,
you’re,
as
he
put
it, “now
taking
ownership
of
this
other
person’s
game,”
meaning
fellow
competitors
see
the
pairing
as
a
natural
alliance.
“Females
are
gonna
look
at
it
like, ‘Oh,
well,
you
know,
Bananas
is
with
this
girl,
that
means
that
they’re
working
together
or
vice
versa,'”
he
continued.
And
god
forbid
your
romantic
partner’s
game
play
gets
messy, “You’re
kind
of
now
responsible.”
