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that seriously even if they were best friends, but you and Matt never played that game. You always showed a lot of respect for each other. Did they try to get you two to be more combative? I mean sure because it’s a reality competition show so it’s like ultimately there can only be one winner. By nature you’re going to be competitive with everyone there but Matt and I pretty much just made a pact together before we went on the show. We still work together, I’ve been working with him for 4 years. We went into the show as a team, but we wanted to win individually, but if I don’t win I want him to win. I never talked shit about him, he never talked shit about me. We didn’t do that in person, we didn’t do it on the show, even if they wanted us to do it a little bit. There was plenty of people to talk shit about on the show, I didn’t even need to talk shit about Matt. Do you think the fact that you weren’t more combative, some of the other story lines got a little more attention? I think that by default once you have two people are on the show and they’re probably having a love connection like Melissa and Tyler, that’s instantly going to be like a very important story line. So even if me and Matt were going to get into it or whatever, there were things happening on the show that 30