Despite not winning the $100,000 prize, one Charles County resident brought a good fight to a new, unique television show this year.
Tyrenna Tolbert, 54, of White Plains competed in the new competition-based TV show series “The Anonymous.”
The show is a strategic competition played in two worlds, the real world and in an “anonymous mode.”
The premise of the show is that 12 players have been invited to live together and work side-by-side to raise a prize fund of up to $100,000. Despite their close quarters, all players have their own private underground hideouts, where each is completely anonymous and can say anything and everything behind the mask of a unique digital handle, a release from USA Network said.
In their hideouts, players can provide raw, unfiltered takes on their fellow contestants. They will scheme, connive and deceive to build influence and advance their game.
The players must shield their real identity from the other contestants while they act on their digital platform.
Despite being voted off in an episode that aired Aug. 26, Tolbert told Southern Maryland News about her experience on the show and about her 20 years as a Charles County resident.
Living with 11 other contestants was one of the least jarring aspects of the show for Tolbert due to her 35 years of military service.
“I’ve been in a room up to 16 people,” she said. “So that wasn’t so bad, but this was definitely more beautiful accommodations. In terms of meeting a whole bunch of different people, I thought it was really cool because everybody was from somewhere different, and everybody had something that they brought to the table.”
In terms of why she was eliminated, Tolbert says that she was a “little bit late to the party.”
“People make alliances from the door,” Tolbert said. “If you’re in that type of atmosphere it’s important to build relationships immediately. Every second really does count, and people are definitely who they claim to be at face value. For anybody who ends up in a situation, either by on purpose or by happenstance, is that they have to be ready to go on day one.”
Besides competing in the show, Tolbert also runs a fashion design business called TMAJOR. She up-cycles denim and old military uniforms into handbags.
“Recycling old army uniforms into handbags has inspired me to create something beautiful out of something that seems useless. This your own personalized handbag,” Tolbert’s site reads.
“No one had anything to do during COVID but watch TV, so I taught myself how to sew,” Tolbert said. “And I’m an online business. I do a lot of local events anywhere from P.G. County to even over in Waldorf mall.”
“Being a veteran-owned business, people have been extremely supportive,” she said. “It’s been really great to just create and make things from my own hand.
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