'The Challenge' Star Anna Leigh Wilson Owns Flirting Scandal: "I Made a Mistake"

Anna Leigh Wilson is not dodging the drama. TheChallenge: Cutthroatstar addressed her viral flirty moment with co-star Leo Dionicio, where the two had an intimate conversation on camera while her husband, Coy Wilson, was back home. After getting eliminated on Wednesday’s episode, she told Page Six she made a mistake, apologized to Coy, and says she told him everything the moment she got her phone back after filming.

But here’s where it gets interesting, and we’re going to say it the way she did. Anna Leigh says she’s owning what she actually did, but she refuses to“plead guilty to the director’s cut that everybody else wrote for me.”That includes the whole“Underweargate”mess, where she got into it with Alexis Lete over Johnny Bananas’underwear turning up in her bag. She says she knew it was plotted, and that Bananas does everything for the plot. Bananas? He basically shrugged and said if someone’s licking his boots, he’ll let them.

So now fans are split. Is this a real apology with some healthy boundaries, or is it accountability with an asterisk? Either way, she’s off the show, the drama is not, and new episodes drop every Wednesday on Paramount+.

Do you think Anna Leigh handled this the right way, or did she bend the truth on her way out? Sound off in the comments.