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The Challenge’s Amanda Lashes Out at Partner Josh: ‘Welcome to the Game, Bitch’

Amanda Garcia having enemies? No way! During the Wednesday, February 20, episode of The Challenge, she gets into a heated argument with her partner, Josh Martinez. It seems that the Big Brother alum had no idea how many vendettas she had in the house – and she hasn’t yet seen his temper.

'The Challenge: War of the Worlds' Cast

While he won season 19 of the CBS reality show, Josh, 25, made many rivals while inside the house and notoriously would lose his temper and smash together pots and pans to push other’s buttons. However, it looks like his words are doing that for Amanda, 26.

“You don’t know what the f—k this game is, you’re from Big Brother,” she tells him in Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek, while he yells over her, “How many times have you won?” (The answer is zero.)

The Challenge’s Amanda calls partner Josh a ‘bitch’ in an exclusive sneak-peek. MTV

“Nobody f—king likes you,” he tells the Are You the One? vet. “Your only lifeline in this game is me, and you’re f—king it up because the only partner you have, you’re turning against you.”

'Big Brother' Winners Through the Years

After calling him a “moron” and an “idiot,” Amanda says in her confessional that this is all part of her plan. “I don’t think Josh has any respect for my political game,” she says. “Josh just thinks I go around starting drama but in all reality, my drama has a purpose. It’s a very secret, on the down-low purpose, but it works. Just wait.”

However, Josh hits his breaking point at the end of their conversation when Amanda raises her voice and says, “Welcome to The Challenge, bitch,” before exiting the room.

'The Challenge' Greats: Where Are They Now?

Will they be able to see eye to eye in future competitions? The Challenge: War of the Worlds airs on MTV Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.

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Frederic Martel’s Bitch-Fest

Tomorrow morning I guess I’ll wake up to find Frederic Martel’s book In The Closet Of The Vatican in my Kindle, having pre-ordered it. I’m not looking forward to reading the book. I don’t often agree with Father James Martin, but his review of the book confirms my worst fears about it. Excerpts:

Yet what prevents his book from presenting a convincing portrait of a decadent culture, despite four years of research, is precisely that.  Essentially, it is a book largely about naming and shaming, tittle-tattle and denigration, both of groups and, especially, individuals.  To wit:

The Order of Malta?  “A mad den of gaiety” (24). The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre?  “An army of horse-riding queens” (40).  Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is the subject of the author’s special ire: “A Viking bride!” (27). Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is a “drama queen” (50).  Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo is a “tacky apostle” (288).  St. John Paul II?  A man “of great vanity and misogyny” (247).

Much of what he says about the gay subculture in the Vatican may be true.  Even if a tenth of the book is accurate, it would be awful: the worst perhaps being his description of a cardinal who enjoyed beating male prostitutes.  (Martel’s long chapter on prostitution in Rome, with interviews with not only prostitutes but police officers, is compelling).

Yet one’s ability to rely on the narrator is fatally compromised by the style in which he writes: hard-won research buried under an ocean of gossip, innuendo and what he would call bitchiness.  Martel also uses that worst of reporting techniques: imagining, guessing, hypothesizing:

“I guess that Burke is a hero to his young assistant, who must lionize him” (259).  “I have a sense that the Jesuit father wants…” (57). Cardinal Gerhard Mueller places a phone call in the author’s presence and though Martel apparently does not speak German, he insinuates that the cardinal is speaking to a lover. When Martel peers into a priest’s bedroom, even his bed is suspect: “A place for a secret rendezvous?” (305). About Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: “Did he discover a wound cauterised by chastity?” (427).  But Benedict is suspect for other reasons.  He likes Mozart, “the most ‘gender theory’ of all operatic composers” (430).

Another technique is his reliance on a skill not available to all reporters. “My gaydar works quite well” (42), he says often. This convinces him that Cardinal Francis Stafford is “probably not homosexual himself” (42).

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According to witnesses, he says, faithful gay priests are in the “minority” (417).  With this book, however, not only would you not be able to tell, for so relentless is his focus on the evils of the gay priest; but because of his book’s predilection for guesswork and innuendo, you would never be able to know.

Read the whole thing.  Father Martin’s review is part of a wider symposium on the book.

At this point, I am able to believe just about anything about the sex lives of priests and bishops — but that does not mean that I will believe these claims. Martel claims that the more anti-gay a cleric is, the greater the likelihood that he is gay. Well, isn’t that convenient for Martel’s thesis? The guy seems to have put in a massive amount of work on the book, but it sounds from Father Martin’s review like Martel’s editor did not save him from his own bitchy self. Anyway, I’ll read the book for myself, and report back.

One question that’s going to be on my mind as I read: who benefits from this book? Lots of cardinals and other Vatican officials spoke to Martel for the project. Why on earth would they? I’ve read various online comments by journalists and others who have read the book, and who say that Martel seems to think of his project as making Pope Francis look good. Hard to see how that might work, but I guess I’m about to see for myself.

Jarrell Miller Says Anthony Joshua Has a 'Bitch Ass Rematch Clause'

2/19/2019 2:39 PM PST

EXCLUSIVE

Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller says Anthony Joshua forced a "bitch ass rematch clause" into their fight contract ... telling TMZ Sports, he's already preparing to knock the dude out TWICE!!!

We spoke with "Big Baby" after his clash with Joshua in NYC on Tuesday -- where Miller straight SHOVED Joshua while promoting their June 1 championship fight at Madison Square Garden. 

Miller knows he's the underdog in the fight ... but says the critics can "kiss my ass" -- telling us he's 100% confident he'll hand Joshua his first L when they throw down. 

There's a lot of trash talk in this clip too -- Miller says a bunch of AJ's wins (from early in his career) were "given to him" by corrupt refs who would stop fights early to ensure a Joshua victory. 

In other words, Miller says AJ's perfect 22-0 record is a sham -- and he's looking to expose Joshua in a big way. 

Miller has an impressive resume too -- he's 23-0-1 -- and famously knocked out TWO DUDES IN 6 WEEKS in 2018. 

He KO'd Tomasz Adamek in the 2nd round of their Oct. 6 fight -- and then took down Bogdan Dinu on Nov. 17.