Leroy Garrett Says He’ll Never Formally Retire From ‘The Challenge’ Again

Leroy Garrett is back on The Challenge for its landmark 40th season, Battle of the Eras, and fans shouldn’t expect this to be the last time he returns to the arena, either.

Garrett previously retired from the MTV reality competition series, thanks in part to an incident in which Camila Nakagawa used racist language against him on the set of Dirty 30 and she wasn’t sent home. He later returned to the series for subsequent seasons but decided to formally call it quits after Double Agents, his 12th season.

The allure of the competition show was too strong for him to resist, though, and he returned alongside partner Kam Williams for All Stars 4. Now, he’s representing Era 3 in Battle of the Eras and promises to never formally retire again.

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When asked by TV Insider if he’s fully back now, he answered in the affirmative but added that he thinks Williams is the one who has a real shot at victory.

“I want Kam to come back,” he said. “I feel like Kam has a better chance of winning than I do. Maybe this season I might have got it.”

Garrett added that All Stars 4 was an outlier in the sense that he and Williams won’t be appearing together on The Challenge in the future: “I don’t think you’ll ever see us on the same season together with the children. But, yeah, I’m back,” he explained, referring to their two young kiddos, Kingston Lee and Aria Lee Garrett.

As for his future on the show, Garrett plans to keep it open-ended instead of making any final determinations in the future: “I probably will never say that I’m done again. I just won’t come,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Garrett felt that returning for Season 40 offered him a bit of validation that he was an important part of something massive upon entering the house and seeing the room full of snapshots of each challenger’s most iconic moments.

“40 to me was nostalgic to see people. I haven’t competed with [Rachel Robinson] since Battle of the Exes, but since then, it’s been a while — Mark Long, I haven’t competed with him. So to see all these people from back in the day and new people and then to see the pictures on the wall… I’m like, ‘D***, I’m a part of this,'” he explained. “Sometimes, I’m like, ‘Am I a challenger?’ It’s like, ‘Yes, you are.’ Just to see all of that, I was like, it’s crazy.”

The Challenge: Battle of the Eras, season premiere, Wednesday, August 14, 8/7c, MTV