By Olivia Steinman Dwyer

SIOC: When do the casts from different shows get to meet each other?

ES: You get booked a lot with other cast members. And it's kind of like a sick little family and a lot of times I wish I wasn't in it. And it sounds lame and corny, but really those people are the only ones who understand what you're going through. When you get together with those people it's really the rare opportunity where you don't talk about the show.

SIOC: How satisfying was it to see C.T. go home on the first night of the Inferno for hitting Davis in the face?

ES: That was wicked. C.T. is one of the few people that I have a hard time getting along with; he's kind of a weird guy and I don't know why he did that. Felt pretty good to see him go home, for sure. I hate to say that I'm rooting against him, but there's a lot of other people I'd rather see win the Inferno than C.T.

SIOC: Who are you cheering for?

ES: I'm really good friends with Kenny, so I hope he wins.

SIOC: Can you tell us any exciting stuff you've heard about that is coming up on the show?

ES: They have some pretty cool challenges that I heard of. One of the Infernos, there's two people trapped in a glass box and they have to smash their way out of the boxes and fall. And they have another one where they're out in the middle of the ocean and one girl from each team has to start swimming away from the boat and then after 30 seconds they have to stop where they are and there's a fishing line attached to them and the other team has to reel them in. But they can keep swimming [to fight it]. So that just sounds pretty funny. Tonya hooks up with Davis, and she's married and he's gay. Some of the kids are pretty confused, I've seen some very weird things happen.

SIOC: Is it really what you see is what you get, or does footage get manipulated in production?

ES: What you see is what you get. Here's a perfect example. In the first episode [of the Inferno], Kenny and C.T. were wrestling. Kenny was a collegiate wrestler and as you know, wrestlers, even if they're 5-foot-2 and 140 pounds, will absolutely kick the s--- out of you. Easily. In three seconds they would have you tied up like a pretzel screaming for your mother. So my understanding of that situation is that Kenny threw C.T. down like 10 times, because C.T. was drunk and aggressive, so that really fired C.T. up, and then C.T. came up behind Kenny while Kenny was talking to someone and choked him out. And then what you see on the show is Kenny getting choked out by C.T. So it happened, it's not a lie, it's not fabricated. ... The show's about storylines.

SIOC: What do you say to the girls when you see them after a certain surgical procedure?

ES: I feel bad for the girls, because the girls get a hard rap. The guys on the show -- we can do whatever we want. We can hook up with every girl in the house, act like drunken idiots the whole time, and no matter what, girls and guys will high-five you afterward. And the problem is, I think most of the guys on the show are mostly fun-loving, outgoing personalities, whereas the girls, they're crazy. So girls getting boobs, it makes sense. You don't know who you are, you think you're a celebrity, you think you're quasi, so you get boobs. It's disgusting and sick but kind of makes sense.

SIOC: What's the equivalent of the standard post-show boob job for a guy?

ES: Guys do stupid things with [the money] too. Isn't it equally embarrassing if you're a 21-year-old guy and you buy a BMW m3? It's funny money. The money's so easy, even the money you make afterward. [For promotions,] you go to a bar, you do what you'd normally do on a Friday night but you walk out with $2,500 cash. I used to work in construction, and when I'd go out and have a beer I'd be like, "That's 11 wheelbarrows." You could see how much work went into that beer. When you win money on a stupid show, you know it's kind of luck.

SIOC: You've put a lot of your money into a clothing line. What is the idea behind it?

ES: It's a clothing company that basically spreads positive messages. Each shirt has a code in the back and you go to our website, BranchOutClothing.com, you type in the code and it shows you where 50 percent of the proceeds have been donated. We're also developing another end of the site that will make people a member of an online community. It will be kind of like a MySpace for volunteering.

SIOC: What are your plans for after you graduate this May?

ES: Well, I'm doing a general arts degree in arts and sciences. It absolutely leads to nowhere, so I'm hoping Starbucks or someone has an opening. I'm going to focus on the clothing line, and now that I've kind of released the first line and started to sell it, I can realize what I actually have to do to become a clothing line. And the foundation is what I'm passionate about, so I'll try that for a while.

SIOC: Will we see you on another challenge?

ES: I don't know. They asked me to do the Inferno and I said no, and they asked me to do Road Rules and I said no, so I might be done. Yeah, I'm a retired reality athlete. I don't really have a plan for after college so if I'd like to run off to somewhere and make a little bit of money, it could be a pretty good gig.