Battle Camp

Battle Campbrings together some of the best of the best in the Netflix realness television creation , likeCheer’sGabi Butler andToo Hot To Handle’sLouis Russell , who spoke to Screen Rant about their time on the serial publication . While both Gabi and Louis arrive from world TV background signal , the yoke could n’t have come from two more unlike experience fetch into the musical genre . Gabi , a world champion cheerleader who win two NCA title with Navarro College , has been document onCheerin the past , while Louis , a manakin and influencer , has appear onToo Hot To HandleandPerfect Match .

While both have occur from different backgrounds , their show on realism TV brought them into a like space with Netflix’sBattle Camp . A competition design to feel like summertime camp , Battle Campseason 1placed its dissident into team to strategize and vie throughout a serial publication of intense games . Whilethe physical side of things was patently give way to be a zephyr for Gabi , Louis had been more strategicin his past experiences on reality TV . Both rank on the same team , the pair got to sleep together each other quick . Almost as quickly , unluckily , they were each eliminated in shocking blindsides .

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AlthoughBattle Camphas an component of competitionwithin the biz , it also relies on a wheel to do its bidding , bringing in a game of prospect to rock things up . Both falling victim to the wheel landing on their names during an voiding twisting , Gabi and Louis had very lilliputian warning or musical theme that they ’d be getting eliminated in the competition . While they were both taken aback on being taken out betimes , the pair were felicitous to sit down with Screen Rant and natter about their experience onBattle Camp , no matter how unretentive .

I was not a fan of the wheel … it takes one regretful tailspin and you ’re out .

Screen Rant : So , Gabi and Louis , both of you issue forth from very dissimilar appearance in compare to Battle Camp . How did it feel coming into this new surround ? Did you feel prepared ?

Battle Camp’s Gabi Butler & Louis Russell in front of the campsite.

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Gabi Butler : I definitely feel inclined , but when we got there and got told that there was live on to be a steering wheel system , I was like , " ooh , okay . "

Screen Rant : That was a surprise .

Gabi : Yeah , it was . It was a very handsome surprisal , but honestly , otherwise , I felt as disposed as I could have .

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Louis Russell : I felt prepared until the first challenge . Yo , as presently as I got in that damn kayak , yeah , and I could n’t suspire . I ’m like , " oh , I ’m not ready for this . " [ laughs ] But you know , I ’ve miserable - Florida key , I ai n’t got much of a cad as Gabi , but I ’ve unquestionably got a hound in there that come through [ in rival ] . So , I contend to get through it . I could say I ’m get up mentally , but physically .

Gabi : [ express mirth ] Yeah , we get that pawl mentality , Louis .

Screen Rant : You both do , and it was great to see both of you really just get to compete . Gabi , obviously we ’ve seen you vie physically with Cheer , but it was fresh for Louis . Now , obviously the wheel element of the game both kind of use up both of you by surprise . In terms of being eliminated more on chance than on your own science , how did you finger about that ?

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Gabi : I thought it sucked . I was not a fan of the cycle at all , just because I ’m like , if we ’re really physically fit , if we ’re really mentally , you jazz , interlock in , if we ’re good with everybody , that now does n’t matter . It takes one bad twisting and you ’re out .

Joseph Louis Barrow : I ’ve puzzle bad hazard . So when I heard that wheel , I was like , " there ’s nothing I can do . I ca n’t alter my circumstances . " And the room I got voted out as well is softheaded because I did n’t vote . Getting done by your own teammate is just , is even worse , bro . It ’s even sorry .

Gabi : That was gaga , yeah .

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Louis : I did n’t even know ! I follow up to the cycle and I see Louis , Louis . I move around around and I ’m like , how ? Who ? What ? Then I find out it was Trey [ Plutnicki ] . I was like , " Trey taught me how to hoodwink ! " He take me from day one and put intelligence operation in my brain and showed me how to bring the game . Then he play the game that he taught me against me . I was [ shocked ] .

Screen Rant : That ’s a gamer for you - he ’s a gamer .

Louis : Crazy plays .

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Screen Rant : Gabi , we check kind of how your background help you in the game . Do you call back it work against you in any elbow room , though ?

Gabi : On the forcible side ? No , not at all . I retrieve it definitely helped , but on the mental side of things and the psychological side , I in spades do n’t guess it aid me . I was very excited , peculiarly when it come down to the balloting process . I remember it was very tough because I am such a team role player . Like I ’m the eccentric of person that my squad , I will , we ’ll all be running , let ’s say , and I ’m the person that run to the team member in the back that ’s struggling and pushing them and being like , " hey , arrive on , let ’s go , you may do it . " So I ’ll do anything for my teammates . I ’m a very large drive or die type of a somebody . I do n’t care to wander people , specially on my own squad . So when we had to vote [ the great unwashed out ] , I would have vote for myself every time [ alternatively of someone else ] , but that was n’t an choice . That was the sucky part .

Screen Rant : That ’s rugged , especially coming from that team brainpower . Louis , we ’ve understand a slew of different side of you on your past reality tv set appearance . What do you call up was different about the elbow room you perform on Battle Camp ?

Louis : Well , flirting was n’t really a good option . So , that ’s probably my main creature and I could n’t really use it . It ’s emphatically like a weird , eldritch place to be in , and even though it was weird , I had a great time too . Too spicy To Handledidn’t help in the slightest . It had nothing in coarse with Battle Camp . Except for when Bri Balram walked in , and then she was in my seam . Other than that , there was no crossing over . So I ca n’t really compare the two on how it helped because it literally had nothing to do with the same thing .

Screen Rant : They ’re completely different side of the coin , so that ’s apprehensible . Both of you had really emotional , surprising eliminations . go into those moments , did you both finger safe that night or those nights ?

Gabi : Going into elimination , I never really feel safe just because plain I do n’t get laid what everyone else is thinking . One minute you could be really close with somebody and be like , oh , this person ’s all catch my back . And then the next , it could be wholly opposite and you ’re like , whoa , that person in reality is the one come for me . So I do n’t retrieve anybody feel safe at any point unless you literally won a challenge . I was still stressed , even when we won , I was stressed for everybody else because I ’m like , oh my God , I do n’t like this .

Joseph Louis Barrow : Such a squad actor .

Gabi : It ’s a great affair , but it ’s a bad thing when it comes to stuff like that . Yeah , it ’s hard .

Screen Rant : Last question for you both - would you encounter something like this again ?

Joe Louis : Yeah , turn tail it back . Run it back .

Gabi : I would . No , 100 % . I would do it all over again with that same grouping because I felt like I just got to know everybody , and it sucked because I had to go so early . I like I had more time with them . Maybe we can get another season of this and just bring back the same , bring back the people , but without the wheel .

Louis : Gabs , you literally manifest your elimination that dark . I remember being , I think back she was like , " I ’m go . " I ’m like , what ? She ’s like , do n’t worry . I ’ve get this brave face , but I just got a intuitive feeling . I ’m like , you ’re not run anywhere . She went , well , got put up once on the wheel . One name . One .

Screen Rant : Well , next fourth dimension we ’re manifesting a win , o.k. ?

Gabi : in spades , I ’m not say anything disconfirming anymore .

All episodes ofBattle Campare now streaming on Netflix .

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