The Challenge Australia 2022 was riddled with an outbreak of “cold sores”, which prevented the reality stars from hooking up.
A “cold sore” is a colloquial name for an oral herpes infection, where the herpes simplex virus is located around the border of the lips, according to the medical industry body, The Mayo Clinic.
As reported on episode 235 of the So Dramatic! podcast, one contestant dished that many of the reality stars were forced to keep it in their pants while filming The Challenge due to the outbreak of the cold sores!
“There actually weren’t that many hookups among the cast, apart from Megan [Marx] and Konrad [Bien-Stephen], because everyone had cold sores,” the insider said.
They continued: “Everyone just broke out in them during filming, so there was no hooking up. Strangely enough, Megan and Konrad didn’t get cold sores but everyone else did.” Wow, go figure!
Cold sores are often spread through oral or genital contact, but (apparently) these sprung up from “stress”.
“They weren’t spread, they must have just been from stress and weirdly, everyone got them except the people hooking up,” the contestant claimed.
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