Tyler Cameron’s time on The Bachelorette wasn’t precisely a stroll within the park — however he’d somewhat search for love than discover himself on one other season of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
“Both [shows are] psychological warfare,” Cameron, 30, completely informed Us Weekly on Monday, November 27, forward of the season 2 finale. “But I would definitely say Special Forces is tougher. I get to go to nice exotic places on The Bachelor and do all that stuff. I go to exotic miserable places with Special Forces.”
Cameron joined season 2 of Special Forces, which premiered in September, alongside different actuality stars like Bachelor’s Nick Viall, Vanderpump Rules’ Tom Sandoval and JoJo Siwa. The Fox actuality present follows a bunch of celebrities to a distant location the place they’re compelled to carry out coaching workouts led by particular forces operatives. While season 1 befell in Jordan, season 2 noticed the recruits combating the cruel winter months in New Zealand’s mountains the place they confronted tough terrain, freezing temperatures and extra.
For season 2’s last course, Cameron — together with Siwa, 20, Sandoval, 41, Viall, 43, and Olympic gold medalist Erin Jackson— have been “captured” and compelled to run by the night time earlier than enduring a resistant interrogation course of meant to push them to their psychological limits. After a grueling eight days, Cameron discovered he had handed the course.
“I was on the edge the whole time,” he informed Us of the ultimate problem. “I was like, I don’t know how I can keep going further. I feel like they’re going to kill me in this sense. I’m beyond freezing. I feel like I’m experiencing hypothermia. I’ve never had it before, [but] I was jackhammering, shivering.”
Tyler had private causes for wanting to achieve success all through his time on Special Forces. His brother, Austin Cameron, is an infantry officer within the U.S. Army. Tyler informed Us that his sibling was “super thrilled” to listen to he had handed — and was extraordinarily impressed with how “good” the Bachelorette alum fared.
“He’s like, ‘It scares me how good you are at this. Probably even better than I am,’” Tyler recalled. “And I’m like, ‘Austin, you got to understand, this is me knowing that there’s actually no gun at the end of this that’s going to be shooting me one day. Your mind and your mentality and bravery are so much more advanced than mine. I would never put myself in those positions, but you’re willing to and make that sacrifice.”
Tyler in contrast his time on Special Forces to that of being in a “video game,” noting that what his brother does is “real life.”
“But to hear him say that is like, ‘Damn, I did it in his eyes,’” he continued. “That’s one thing. I wanted to get: his respect. … So that’s one thing that kind of kept me pushing through.”
While Special Forces makes it clear that no items or rewards are given out for taking part on the present, Cameron joked that he hoped there was a “little something more” to passing the course. “Give me a trophy. You know what I mean?” he quipped. “I was like, ‘I really passed?’ I was so unsure. And I was so cold, my mind was just shot.”
Cameron added that it took him “a minute” to register the accompaniment, which is why viewers seemingly noticed “no emotion” on his face in the course of the season 2 finale.
“I’m not even in my own body anymore,” he mentioned. “I’m just kind of checked out, just hoping to survive. It isn’t until they come up and give us a hug or whatever, that I’m like, ‘Oh wait, I actually passed and did this thing.’ And then I think the whole sense of joy and relief comes. I got so much more energy after that.”
While the recruits enter Special Forces as people, they’re typically confronted with group duties and discover themselves turning to one another for energy all through the method. Tyler particularly was observed by his fellow castmates as a pacesetter and large crew participant — one thing the truth star mentioned he discovered to be early on in life.
“It is almost like you’re just pulling for people to get past points that we’ve never been to before,” he defined to Us. “And I think when you go through something like we’ve gone through, it brings you together and builds a bond. That’s one thing I love about football. We’d be up at 5:30 in the morning doing crazy training, workouts, all that stuff. It created a bond because we were trying to do something that’s bigger than us.”
While Tyler was in a position to reach the arduous terrain of New Zealand, making an attempt his hand at one other spherical at discovering love on TV seemingly nonetheless isn’t within the playing cards. The mannequin, who was runner-up throughout Hannah Brown’s season of The Bachelorette, revealed in August 2021 that he was requested to take up the mantle as the subsequent Bachelor however finally declined.
“I wanted to see what the world has to offer me,” he mentioned throughout an episode of BroBible’s “Endless Hustle” podcast. “I took a gamble on myself and took my own way. It’s worked out, I think.”
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