It didn’t take long for Kayla Nicole and Brody Jenner to form a — ahem — special bond on the set of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test season 3.
“I think pooping next to each other in open spaces really creates a really deep bond,” Nicole, 32, exclusively told Us Weekly while chatting about the upcoming season of the Fox reality competition show. Jenner, 41, hilariously added: “She had my back every time I needed to drop a deuce.”
Nicole and Jenner are two of the 16 celebrities who will be put through a series of grueling challenges akin to actual Special Forces training on the show’s third season, which premieres on Wednesday, January 8. As the cast is pushed to their physical and mental brink, only a handful will emerge from the competition stronger than ever.
“When you’re stripped down like that, I mean you literally have nothing else,” Nicole told Us of the filming experience. “You don’t have your family, you don’t have your friends, you don’t have your phones, you don’t have social media. There’s no way to disconnect. You have no other option but to connect. And thankfully it was a cast full of really amazing, dope people that we were able to connect with. I’m really thankful.”
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Jenner doubled down on her kind comments, calling his costars “phenomenal.” He added: “The camaraderie going through these team challenges because it’s not a contest. You’re not there to compete against each other. You’re there to get to know each other and to help each other, motivate each other and to just try to make it to the end.”
Jenner went on to credit former NFL stars Golden Tate and Cam Newton for helping to keep things light on set despite the hard conditions. “Just having people there that were funny and there was just such diversity and we got really lucky. We really did,” he stated.
Nicole told Us that she joined the show to prove to herself that she’s “capable of anything that I put my mind to,” which included facing a newfound fear. “I was unaware that I had a fear of heights up until the show,” she revealed. “I love roller coasters. I can do all of those things, but there’s something about jumping off of a bridge over land [that] spooks me. I can jump off of a helicopter into the water every day. I loved those tasks. But for whatever reason, put me on a bridge over standstill land and I freeze.”
Jenner, meanwhile, said having to leave his fiancée, Tia Blanco, and 16-month-old daughter, Honey, was “one of the toughest parts” about his Special Forces journey. (The couple welcomed their first child together in July 2023.)
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“Tia’s the best mom ever, so I knew that Honey was well taken care of,” he said. “And so, knowing that I had an incredible support team at home and they’ll be fine, and going out there and just trying to get the job done, it was great.”
Season 3 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test premieres on Fox Wednesday, January 8, at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Mariel Turner
