Cory rarely—if ever— says ‘no’ to an offer to be on yet another reality TV show. However, the ‘Teen Mom’ dad recently revealed how upset he was that MTV wouldn’t allow him to appear on the Peacock show ‘The Traitors’— unless he bid farewell to his cushy MTV gigs on ‘Teen Mom’ and ‘The Challenge!’
Cory recently answered a question he got on Snapchat about appearing on ‘The Traitors,’ complaining that he came very close to being on the show but his appearance was foiled by the powers that be at MTV.
“I got hit up to do ‘Traitors’ Season 1,” Cory said. “I was two days away from leaving [to film] and MTV called me and said, ‘You are not going on that show, if you like the two jobs we have you hired at, ‘Teen Mom’ and ‘The Challenge.’ Those were my two consecutive gigs, jobs that I had with MTV.” (The Ashley is pretty sure Cory meant to say ‘consistent’ here.)
“They’re like, ‘If you like two [gigs], then you’re not gonna go [on ‘The Traitors’],” Cory said. “I was like, ‘Well, two is better than one, and ‘Traitors’ isn’t a continuous show, while ‘The Challenge’ and ‘Teen Mom’ are reoccurring. It’s twice a year. I was winning, so I was like, ‘Alright, let me not go.'”
Cory said he was not happy that he was forbidden to go on the show.
“It definitely rubbed me the wrong way,” he said, adding that he fired off an email to MTV to let them know he was not happy about not getting to do ‘The Traitors.’
Cory was also upset after he received a response that he felt was unfitting of someone with his storied history with the network,
“They sent a very basic [response],” Cory said. “My email was very personalized. Very, like, me asking a favor. [It was me] letting the network know, ‘Hey I’m going to go do this show, I’m just giving you guys the heads up.’ The respect of you understanding that [my daughter] has open heart surgery and I need this quick cash.”
Cory stated that he was offered about $30,000 to appear on ‘The Traitors,’ so he thought, “I’m gonna go do this show for two-and-a-half or three weeks in Scotland.”
“And that’s when I got the phone call of them basically saying, ‘You’re not going to Scotland. You can’t do that show because it’s in competition with ‘The Challenge,'” he said.
As The Ashley has previously stated, Cory (and other cast members of these shows) sign contracts that almost always contain a clause that states they are aware that, by signing the contract, they are forbidden from doing another show, particularly ones that are similar to the show they are appearing on. Normally, these clauses last one year from the time the cast member last appeared on the show. In order to appear on another show, Cory would have had to get written permission from Paramount before he agreed to go on the show.
Regardless of why he wanted the cash, agreeing to appear on ‘The Traitors’ while still under contract for ‘The Challenge’ and ‘Teen Mom’ was a direct violation of his contract. (The Ashley will have plenty more about this very soon, by the way…)
In his Snapchat, Cory argued that ‘The Traitors’ “really wasn’t in competition” with ‘The Challenge’ because it was a new show at the time. He also revealed that he is “definitely open” to appearing on the show for a future season.
“I think the show really took off after CT [Tamburello] won, with Trishelle [Cannatella] and [Johnny] Bananas was on there on Season 2. It was ‘Challenge’ heavy,” Cory said. “And I think on Season 3 we got Wes [Bergmann].
“But, yeah, we need the young ‘Challenge’ vet to be on that thing,” Cory— who is 34 years old— insisted.
