Villains unite!

Joel McHalewill hostHouse of Villains,which will see contestants compete in a battle-royale challenge each week to test their physical, mental and emotional strength. The winner of the challenge will be safe from elimination and at the end of the week, one villain will be sent home.

“Who knew being bad would pay off?” Taylor, 44, says in theHouse of Villainstrailer.

From left: Johnny Bananas, Omarosa and Jax Taylor.Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty; Rodin Eckenroth/Getty; Aaron Poole/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty

House of Villains / Johnny Bananas, Omarosa and Jax Taylor

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As fans may recall, each one of the stars featured on the new E! series carved out their own respective journeys to “villain” status.

For Jax Taylor, heearned the title of “show villain"onVanderpump Rules, where he admitted to cheating on girlfriendStassi Schroederwith her best friend, Kristen Doute, allegedly impregnated a woman in Las Vegas and latercheated onhis now-wifeBrittany CartwrightwithFaith Stowersin 2017.

Earlier this year, hetold PEOPLEthat he accepts his status as a villain.

“It is what it is at this point,” the father of2-year-old son Cruzsaid. “I did a lot of good things, believe it or not. I think I was just so pigeonholed as a villain. I felt like a lot of the cast, males, hide behind me, that I was their scapegoat. Now, as you can see, everything’s coming to a head, because I’m not there. They can’t hide behind me anymore. I was just a big character of doing bad things on that show.”

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In theHouse of Villainstrailer, he yells at someone else on the show, telling them, “You’re a brainless little pawn!”

Shake Chaterjee on Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind’.Netflix

Shake

As for Corinne Olympios, she almost instantly secured her spot in the canon ofall-time most notoriousBachelorvillainsafter day one ofNick Viall‘s season ofThe Bachelor. Between napping in the middle of a rose ceremony and dropping her top on a first (group) date,her behavior on the showwent down in history as one of the most outrageous.

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House of Villainspremieres Thursday, Oct. 12 on E! at 10 p.m. ET. Episodes will air simultaneously on across Bravo, SYFY and USA.

source: people.com