The Challenge: UK is an installment in the Challenge franchise. The season features 16 British reality stars competing exclusively against each other for the first time ever. The winners of the season will advance to The Challenge: World Championship where they will compete against the winners of The Challenge: Argentina, The Challenge: Australia, and The Challenge: USA to determine the first-ever Challenge world champion. This will be the first season to air exclusively on Channel 5.
All episodes were released on Paramount+ (UK) on February 20, 2023.
Description[]
Hosted by Mark Wright, the legendary global competition show The Challenge gives UK celebrities the chance to compete in high-stakes challenges and eliminations. They all hope to compete for a large cash prize and the title of Challenge Champion.
Format[]
Each challenge, contestants will compete with a partner of the opposite sex, which is then followed by an elimination round known as “The Arena”. Each contestant will have a different partner at each challenge, and the pairs are determined by The Algorithm. The winners of the challenge will be safe from elimination. The last-place finishers will automatically be sent into elimination. In the Arena, the winners will select another team to compete against the losers. The two teams will compete in elimination where the winners will stay in the game, while the losers will be eliminated.
In the Final Challenge, eight contestants (four men and four women) will compete. The winners of the Final will split £100,000.
Twists[]
- The Algorithm: After each elimination, an Algorithm will randomly pair contestants together before each challenge. No player can have the same partner again until it is mathematically impossible to pair them with someone they haven't worked with. Then, they will not be paired with the same player twice in a row.
Contestants[]
Game Summary[]
Episode | Challenge Winners | Arena contestants | Arena game | Arena outcome | |||
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# | Challenge | Last-place | Winners' pick | Winners | Losers | ||
1 | Meet Me Halfway | Ashley & Kaz C. | Aisleyne & James | Courtney & Curtis | Knot So Fast | Courtney & Curtis | Aisleyne & James |
2 | Peeking Blinders | Ella & Nathan | Curtis & Kaz K. | AJ & Arabella | Pato Brawl | AJ & Arabella | Curtis & Kaz K. |
3 | Getting Tyred | Arabella & Ashley | Danni & Marcel | AJ & Courtney | Ball and Chain | AJ & Courtney | Danni & Marcel |
4 | Frozen Senseless | AJ & Kaz C. | Ashley & Ella | Arabella & Nathan | Balls In | Arabella & Nathan | Ashley & Ella |
5 | Final Challenge | Kaz C. | 2nd: Zara, 3rd: Courtney, 4th: Arabella | ||||
Tristan | 2nd: Nathan, 3rd: Callum, 4th: AJ |
Episode Progress[]
Contestants | Episodes | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Finale | ||||||||
Kaz C. | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WINNER | |||||||
Tristan | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WINNER | |||||||
Nathan | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | ELIM | SECOND | |||||||
Zara | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SECOND | |||||||
Callum | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | THIRD | |||||||
Courtney | ELIM | SAFE | ELIM | SAFE | THIRD | |||||||
AJ | SAFE | ELIM | ELIM | WIN | FOURTH | |||||||
Arabella | SAFE | ELIM | WIN | ELIM | FOURTH | |||||||
Ashley | WIN | SAFE | WIN | OUT | ||||||||
Ella | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||
Danni | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||
Marcel | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||
Curtis | ELIM | OUT | ||||||||||
Kaz K. | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||
Aisleyne | OUT | |||||||||||
James | OUT |
- Competition
- The contestant won the Final Challenge.
- The contestant lost the Final Challenge.
- The contestant was eliminated in the Final Challenge.
- The contestant won the daily challenge.
- The contestant was not selected for the Arena.
- The contestant won in the Arena.
- The contestant lost in the Arena and was eliminated.
Partner Progress[]
Contestants | Episodes | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Finale | |||||||||
Kaz C. | Ashley | Marcel | Callum | AJ | Tristan | Callum | Nathan | ||||||
Tristan | Arabella | Courtney | Ella | Zara | Kaz C. | Courtney | Zara | ||||||
Nathan | Danni | Ella | Zara | Arabella | Courtney | Zara | Kaz C. | ||||||
Zara | AJ | Ashley | Nathan | Tristan | Callum | Nathan | Tristan | ||||||
Callum | Kaz K. | Danni | Kaz C. | Courtney | Zara | Kaz C. | Courtney | ||||||
Courtney | Curtis | Tristan | AJ | Callum | Nathan | Tristan | Callum | ||||||
AJ | Zara | Arabella | Courtney | Kaz C. | Arabella | ||||||||
Arabella | Marcel | AJ | Ashley | Nathan | AJ | ||||||||
Ashley | Kaz C. | Zara | Arabella | Ella | |||||||||
Ella | Marcel | Nathan | Tristan | Ashley | |||||||||
Danni | Nathan | Callum | Marcel | ||||||||||
Marcel | Ella | Kaz C. | Danni | ||||||||||
Curtis | Courtney | Kaz K. | |||||||||||
Kaz K. | Callum | Curtis | |||||||||||
Aisleyne | James | ||||||||||||
James | Aisleyne |
Episodes[]
Episode | Original Air Date | Viewers (in millions) | |
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1 | "Welcome to the Challenge" | February 20, 2023 | TBD |
2 | "Work Smarter Not Harder" | February 21, 2023 | TBD |
3 | "The Long Kiss, Goodnight" | February 22, 2023 | TBD |
4 | "An Eye for an Eye" | February 23, 2023 | TBD |
5 | "The End of the Challenge as We Know It" | February 24, 2023 | TBD |
Trivia[]
- The Challenge: UK and Road Rules: All Stars are the shortest seasons of The Challenge, with five episodes each.
- The villa that the contestants resided in was the same villa used for Ride or Dies, The Challenge: Australia, and The Challenge: Argentina.
- This season was the first to air out of chronological filming order: it filmed before The Challenge: Argentina but started airing after it. However, due to all episodes being released in one day, its finale was aired before that of Argentina.