Is Wes Too Good for The Ruins?

Former Real World/Road Rules Champion Wes Bergmann is a successful businessman. So what made him go to The Ruins?

This season of  Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins has the challengers facing proven champions, which should be a cakewalk for the people who have already won in previous competitions. But when  a certain red-haired, muscle-bound competitor named Wes decides to sabotage his own team until they “play fair”, its seems like it’s any body’s game.

Wes Bergmann started The Ruins off on contentious footing, mixing his personal vendetta against Kenny with a choice not to be a team player because he didn’t like the way they chose people to go into battle. And Evan, Kenny and Johnny who have been dominating the previous several challenges seemed to not want Wes to come to Thailand.  Evan said that he called Wes several times to find out if he was going to be in the competition, and he said he wasn’t. Yet, he showed up, causing Evan to say he didn’t trust him.

Evan seems to think that Wes lied to him about participating in the ruins just to mess with his head. Honestly, I don’t think that’s true. Wes is probably a very busy man. He and his ex-fiance Johanna own a bar in L.A., and he just opened a Korean-style frozen yogurt shop in his hometown of Leawood, KS. He’s very much involved in entrepreneurial pursuits, and from all accounts wanted to spend his time running his businesses.

However, according to an article in Sun Publications, he did say that he would return to do a Real World/Road Rules Challenge if it was in his best interest from a financial standpoint:

“I’m not necessarily opposed to going back. But I promise you if I go back, it was because I was compensated very well. I want to make a name for myself for my brain and entrepreneurship now.”

You have to wonder how much he was offered to come back and shake things up. Probably more than some of the people who seem to show up for every single challenge.

And for all the girls who were wondering: he and KellyAnne are no longer together. According to the article, which was written before he went to do The Ruins, he and KelleyAnne had broken up. Either the article has its dates wrong, or Wes and KellyAnne were  pretending to still be together for the show.

RW/RR Challenge: The Island Cast’s MySpace Pages

We never think of these people between seasons, but once they come back we remember how much we either love or hate them, and the the urge to tell them just that. Yeah MTV has their “IAmOnMTV” page, but it just doesn’t give you the same warm fuzzy feeling that you get when your favorite cast member finally adds you on myspace. Its with that thought in mind that I present you with “The Island” cast’s myspace pages. Read more