Chris 'CT' Tamburello and His “Challenge” Costars Appreciated Being 'with People Our Age’ on “The Traitors”

Tamburello, Trishelle Cannatella and Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio will represent the MTV competition series when season 2 of 'The Traitors' premieres on Peacock

Chris "CT" Tamburello, Trishelle Cannatella and Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio will make the jump from The Challenge to the world of The Traitors when they compete on season 2 of the Peacock reality show.

After years of newcomers joining The Challenge, Tamburello, 43, appreciated being surrounded by reality vets like Survivor’s Sandra Diaz-Twine and Parvati Shallow, Big Brother’s Dan Gheesling and Janelle Pierzina and Real Housewives Tamra Judge, Larsa Pippen and Shereé Whitfield on The Traitors.

“We're in a house with people our age, finally,” Tamburello tells PEOPLE in a joint interview with Cannatella, 44, and Devenanzio, 41.

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Devenanzio feels like “they're trying to replace us with this new generation” on The Challenge.

“I love the fact that it's the three of us here who are still representing the old guard, the OGs, the vets, representing The Challenge and representing MTV,” Devenanzio continues, adding that with less of an age gap among the Traitors cast, “all my jokes aren't dad jokes, they're just regular jokes again.”

The Challenge alums also enjoyed the level of care shown to the contestants on The Traitors, which they felt superseded the often-rigorous conditions on the MTV series.

For one mission, “they gave us wetsuits, and I'm like, ‘That's so kind,’” Cannatella says. “I felt like I'm thanking people for a human thing that of course you give someone, you don't want them to get hypothermia. In The Challenge? No wetsuits, just jump in there, dive 40 feet down, grab something that's 100 lbs., bring it out.”

Devenanzio says he and his Traitors castmates received “a four-hour long safety lesson,” while on The Challenge, “you come out with a bone sticking out, they're like, ‘Rub some dirt on it, you'll be fine. Here, they were like, ‘OK, listen here, the pebbles might be wet, so don't slip on them. Watch your footing.’”

The Death, Taxes, and Bananas podcast host looked forward to stepping out of the world of The Challenge, where he’s competed since 2006.

“What I always say about The Challenge is we are placed in one of the most insane environments with the most complicated set of individuals that exist anywhere on earth,” Devenanzio says. “So it's like, if you're able to not only survive but to thrive in that environment and be able to understand people and read people and how people move, I feel like, then coming into this, it's going to be the ultimate test of being able to see if the skills that we've acquired over the years, if they apply somewhere other than just The Challenge.”

Cannatella admits The Challenge “had gotten way too hard for me physically,” but feels like with The Traitors, “I can still carry my weight.”

The Traitors also reinvigorated Cannatella’s love of competing.

“I stopped caring because I didn't like the people,” she says of The Challenge. “There are better people in this show, but this is more of a mental and kind of emotional toughness game. And I've always felt like I was super mentally and emotionally tough. And so this is, to me, I was like, ah, this is the perfect game for me because I can actually just thrive and survive.”

Tamburello thinks coming from The Challenge gives him, Devenanzio and Cannatella an edge over their Traitors competitors.

“I feel like The Challenge is like Big Brother and Survivor and Fear Factor and any other competition show throw it in there too. And it's all in one,” the father of one says. “When someone says they come from Survivor or Big Brother or something like that, I feel like, oh yeah, I kind of did that. But they can't say the opposite.”

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Devenanzio calls The Challenge “the most cutthroat, mentally, physically, emotionally draining experience on earth.”

“I've made a living off of being manipulative and conniving and backstabbing people and Tom Foolery and Skullduggery,” he continues. “A lot of people know, at least with me, what I bring to the table, front and back. And I think that I have a reputation going to The Challenge every season where it's like I have my back up against the wall Day 1, and I'm like public enemy No. 1. And I feel like coming in [to The Traitors], for once, I feel like I might be able to take a breath for a second and not have to clock in the day I get here.”

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The Traitors season 2 premieres Friday on Peacock.

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