The reality star’s long-awaited return to the franchise begins Wednesday on Paramount+.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’ve been all around the world recently so where are you calling from right now?
JORDAN WISELEY:I’m back in L.A.
Jordan Wiseley has won ‘The Challenge’ three times and returns to franchise with ‘All Stars 3’ on Paramount+.Laura Barisonzi/Paramount+
I got back to the States five days ago.
What you accomplished over there with almost no advance planning is really impressive.
Yeah, Ukraine has been, for me personally, a huge eye-opener, even just towards myself.
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That ended up being a very fulfilling journey.
Or the start of it, really.
Are you planning to return at any point to continue that work?
I’ve been over there since March 2.
We didn’t know how long this thing’s going to be.
But as far as planning to go back, I’m going to have to see.
I mean, I hope that it’s done.
I hope I can say, “I don’t have to go back.”
But we’ll see.
What inspired you to go to Ukraine in the first place?
Growing up, especially through elementary and middle school, I got bullied.
And when I was watching the news, that’s just what this seemed like.
And I’m not great about getting really large donations either.
But what I can do is I can do the physical stuff.
I can do something there.
Yeah, we had zero clue what we were doing.
I’m pretty good in a room of unknowns.
I can make friends."
And that’s what we did.
I don’t want to have this argument about, ‘It’s unsafe,’ or whatever.
“I need drivers to go into Ukraine.”
We looked at each other and went, “Okay.”
It was that fast.
How did your time over there change you when you got back home?
Four hours is a good night.
The most unexpected thing were the emotions of being over there because we take supplies into Ukraine from Poland.
We’re going deep, all the way to the Dnieper River.
I didn’t realize how much that would affect me.
I really had no idea, either.
I thought I was going to pick up some boxes, move some stuff, you know?
And I ended up doing a lot more.
Even after this crisis, Foreign United Peoples is going to continue.
I think this is just going to be something like the Red Cross, like UNICEF.
I’d like to be more like The White Helmets going into more conflicted areas.
We do a lot better at physical stuff.
But they get all the funding, and that’s the hard part.
We can’t get a fraction of the funding that they can.
We’ll figure it out.
What inspired you to come back after your last appearance onTotal Madness?
Good timing and good vibes.
I watched the first and secondAll Starsseasons and it reminded me of what the show was originally there for.
You’re like, “What?!”
I can’t keep up with all of the triangles and things like that.
Everyone is stoked to be there.
I want to prove myself in elimination."
That’s how it’s supposed to be.
It’s nice getting back to that kind of competition.
What were you expectations going intoAll Stars 3,especially after the way you went out onTotal Madness?
What a one to go out on for a while, right?
[Laughs] Expectations coming back, zero.
Especially looking at the cast, I actually haven’t been around that long.
I’ve only done six [seasons].
A lot of these guys onAll Stars, they have done more shows together than I have done total.
I’m new to all of these people.
I think I had only ever played a game with like two or three people on this whole season.
Because when I’m there, I’m there, baby!
You’ve got to have a lot of showmanship.
you might’t be a fly on the wall.
You’ve got to be able to bring it.
And I think I have.
I love it, and I know the fans are going to love it.
That’s what they’ve been asking for.
The level of competition stepped way up.
The cast is stacked.
I would put this cast against the regular franchise any day.
What can you tease about how this season went for you?
It was very much, in a lot of ways, a classic Jordan season.
There’s Jordan winning, there’s Jordan losing.
There’s being happy, there’s being sad.
It’s a great season.
I think it holds up with some of the best seasons out there.
There will be eliminations that will go down in top 10 [lists].
There will be really cool challenges.
Was there anyone you were worried about competing against or reuniting with?
I mean, Wes has a thing for me, all right?
Who on the cast surprised you the most throughout the season?
Jonna surprised me so much.
That mama has been putting in work.
I mean, I think she’s doing better now than she had in the past.
That’s a long, long, long shot.
Yeah, I don’t know if I’ll go back there.
But I had a really good time onAll Stars, so maybe anotherAll Stars.We’ll see.
I mean, just wait.
The Challenge: All Stars 3premieres Wednesday on Paramount+.
