‘The Circle’ Season 6’s Final Blocked Player Just Missed the Bus: “I Feel Betrayed”

The Circle’s Season 6 finale is out and it is lighting Netflix on fire. The heat radiating off your screen comes as a result of the last blocking of the season, a mega surprise from catfish “Olivia” that blew up one players game and ignited an inferno.

SPOILERS, but like, clearly I’m talking about Yung Papi Fuego himself, Myles Reed. After heating things up in the Circle Chat and scorching the earth around his enemies, Myles’ time in the Circle has come to a shocking conclusion. The unblockable Myles was taken out at the very end by his own Ride or Die, Olivia. It’s a twist that shook the cast to their core (and low-key paved the way for one player to take home $100,000).

So, how does Myles feel about getting the chop right before the finish line? What’s his take on being at the top of Jordan’s hit list all season long? And most importantly: what is his relationship with QT now?! We got all that and more in this, the final part of Season 6’s Circle Blocked Chat series.

MYLES

Decider: What was your strategy going onto The Circle? Did you ever think of catfishing?

Myles: I didn’t even apply for The Circle, right? It just fell into my lap. They found me off Bumble. I just moved to LA from South America and I thought it was a prank at first. I watched the first two seasons and then I was watching more as I was going through the process. I don’t think I could pretend to be somebody else for that long. And for me, I need to be myself, at least be genuine. If you’re playing a catfish, you adopt a personality. It’s cutthroat a little bit, and I respect it. But then sometimes it reflects who you are, and I just wanted to be myself. If my aunt was gonna watch this, I wanted to be true and make decisions. Some scenes that I watched this week, I would not have had my aunt watch. It is what it is. [Laughs] But I could say I played an honest game. Obviously there’s strategy and gameplay you got to do. I did everything I could to take QT to the finals with me. I just didn’t make it. I just didn’t get the ticket onto the bus. But I could say I played a genuine game and be happy about that.

Your genuineness was really evident after the Poor-Traits challenge where you owned up to drawing Cassie when she expressed anger about her picture.

It’s clearly a guy’s drawing, so I can pin that on Kyle or Paul. Me and Paul had a little tantrum before but it’s resolved a bit and Kyle was always nice to me. I would feel like a terrible person. They don’t show this but I’m laughing hysterically through every one of [the portraits]. I was like, “Yo, we need a roast!” Tensions were tough in the house after Steffi has gone. We just need to laugh at each other, make fun, because that’s what I do. Me and my friends in our group chats just make fun of each other. I think it’s the same idea. I did not know people were coming for necks out here. I didn’t know that was the intention. I thought everybody was laughing. I owned up when I found out it made Cassie mad. It was a joke to me. Maybe I took it a little too far. Once I heard that, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself putting the blame on somebody and not letting her know. That wasn’t my intention. I don’t know if they show this clip but she says I don’t need to bring it up into the group chat and apologize to everybody. I offer. She says it’s unnecessary, and I’ll do it. But that rubbed me the wrong way when she mentioned it after saying I don’t need to.

You were part of the #BroCode alliance, which Paul tried to get going. How committed were you to #BroCode?

I actually hated the idea of #BroCode. I ride with it because I need an alliance. When I lived in the Bay Area before I started living in South America, I lived in a reverse New Girl situation, right? So it’s three girls, one guy. My friend group in college was three girls and me. So I kind of don’t like the gendered — it’s weird. It’s weird talk. I’ve been on a sports team. I understand that environment. It’s a little toxic. And I even said that, but they make it Max’s idea. But yo, it’s pretty funny when Max says it. I wasn’t about it and I didn’t know if those were going to be the people I was gonna vibe with best, to be honest. I felt like Kyle has good energy and I could relate to him because of South America and he’s Peruvian. I’ve played sports. I didn’t expect Max to be so funny, even though… But I didn’t think a gendered alliance was the best way. And you can see me struggling with that when I start talking to QT. I’ll ride with an alliance when it’s early gameplay. They don’t show this alliance, but it was me, QT, and Cassie.

Those are the two people we see you bonding with immediately, like during the rapping challenge when you rapped about each other.

QT, as soon as I saw her I knew I had to go for it, right? I would have always had a question in my head, “How come you didn’t make the move?”

During the Empathy Test, Paul made a joke about your ““your “girlfriend back home when you hollered at QT.” How did you take that?

That’s when I first think Paul’s a catfish, like confirmed it. Because they don’t show all my catfish takes. I thought Brandon was a catfish right off the bat because it was too Midwest. Max, later when he leaves the group chat, I think he could be the AI. And Paul when he cracks that joke, because I’ll crack those jokes with my boys and even the girls in my group, but you don’t crack that joke with somebody you don’t really know, especially there. It comes off like that’s somebody trying to play like they’re a bro bro, and then you find out he tried to flirt with QT earlier. I calculated that he was flirting with Lauren earlier, so I was like, “Okay, so he’s flirting with Lauren. He’s trying to overplay his #BroCode thing and it’s not cool.”

You were also one of the only people that really clock Max as an AI after he shared that cow photo as the photo of him when he felt the most alive. That moment also confused the producers and had them worried it would give him away as AI.

This is the thing I think about: I work with LMs [learning management systems] now. I have my suspicions based off the token output and token consumption theory. I’m not gonna get into the Hollywood magic of it, but there’s some questionable things. As soon as [Max] leaves the group chat, the cow photo is the biggest red flag but I start to realize there is nothing opinionated being said. Lauren at least is coming for Paul. Lauren goes bland, vanilla, neutral throughout the game later, but she had moments where she was coming for Paul. At that point, Max is the only person who hasn’t really said anything except piling on Steffi, but even when he comes for Steffi you’re like, “Oh, come on. He really likes Steffi, though.”

You also had an up and down relationship with Steffi and were very outspoken about your disinterest in astrology and crystals — but I did notice that we see you holding the crystal that Steffi gave you in a later episode.

Listen: there are two things there. I just moved to LA, right? I had PTSD from the dating apps and your first three questions in any message, it is your horoscope sign, right? And then I find out there’s three different other horoscopes. There’s a rising, there’s a moon, like what the hell? Now I found out there’s also houses, like we’re playing Harry Potter out here with the four houses, but there’s 12! I’m so confused. I do feel bad because, I know I’m genuine but there is a little strategy. If I go for Max, I get it wrong, then everybody thinks I’m playing being manipulative. Everybody felt some way about Steffi, so I did feel bad.

They don’t show this, but the yoga chat was two hours. It was the most awkward group chat I’ve ever been in my life. We were all there. There was a point I go like, “I can’t eat this much popcorn.” The snacks, I had chips. I was like, “Yo, I’m about to put on 10 pounds through this group chat because I’m just snacking.”

I do feel bad because I feel like she played an awkward game. This is her business, horoscopes, and it’s not a good look that you couldn’t see this one coming for you. So I do feel bad. I don’t believe in astrology. I know it’s supposed to be fun. I think it’s just a little overdone because my take is, I’m not that religious. I’m Jewish. I’ll rep that all day, but that’s a cultural thing. But to me religion has a moral compass. Horoscopes are like, you’re a shitty person. Double down on it.

We have to talk about your relationship with Jordan because that is one of the most complicated relationships of the season.

Bro, I tried to be so nice to this man. I don’t know why he had it out for me. I get the strategy. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m not even the influencer. I just tell him [in our first chat that] I blocked somebody. I’m trying to protect him as much as I can because I think he’s a nice guy and he’s a new guy. I really tried to protect the new people. They don’t show this but with Autumn, Autumn was not the first choice [to target during Ride or Die]. When [Olivia and I] go through this strategy, we go through several candidates. I basically protect Jordan and go for Autumn, much to my downfall.

If it were me, I would have cozied up with me and QT. I detected that she was his Ride or Die. I was doing everything to protect her. To me it seems like a bad strategy in a way, like he’s trying to replace me in the #TresFuego when it’s after my namesake? It’s a little weird and I will say, I’m still processing some of the scenes. Me and Jordan’s cool. I understand it’s a game. I was a little upset when I find this out because I feel betrayed. You’re able to take a step back but there’s some stuff like I just watched that I’m still processing, like the voodoo doll with the solo cup. I’m getting calls from my family. I will say some of the lies about the flirting were a little creepy. Just the amount of lies about me in every scene. I just posted a TikTok with Kyle about the “I hate you I hate you.” But there’s an anger in there and I don’t know what I did. I wish him the best though. He shouldn’t be getting any hate. I understand this is reality TV and you got to think there is some editing involved. I still got to process some of that though.

It seemed hard to process during the show. Later you’re talking to Lauren and she reveals that she heard lies about you from Jordan. You low-key wrecked the roof hangout.

I think they cut some of that because I actually threw that chair up in the air. They were like, I gotta reset it. I don’t think they show that. I was pissed.

I’ll say this: I didn’t know you could lie in the game. I think I even asked if lies were allowed. This is just blatant lying. This man is the only one who gets eight messages in one day. That’s not a typical thing that happens. I don’t know why they’re allowing him to do eight conversations to set up lies about me throughout. I don’t see any season where they’re getting eight conversations in one day. Those have to be authorized. It seems a little sus. Also it impacts my relationship because Lauren says like, “At least Jordan’s real,” but I’m not. She’s calling me fake, but it’s clearly a lie. I remember my conversation. I said nothing bad about Lauren. I gave the details about what was said. It felt for me like I was in Narcos calling for the #TresFuego group chat. I felt a certain way, I will say. You see the emotion there. That’s real.

You had a complicated relationship with Olivia/Brandon throughout, going from adversaries to Ride or Die partners. What do you think about Olivia ultimately being the one to block you?

We hated each other and I think that starts with the Cassie snake portrait and giving Liv misinformation, and I just come for her. I think I should have opened up and probably told Liv, “Hey, I acted immature.” There might have been something there. If you think about the Circle Scenarios, I call Liv a catfish several times and she thinks I’m a backstabber, but we have to trust each other and we both know that there’s a gameplay. The fact that we’re able to put our personal beef and protect the other one to both move forward, you have to develop the level of trust. And seeing that she did have my back even though she didn’t want to in those chats. I respect her more — him more. Brandon. Because of the Ride or Die, I had to trust and I grew to trust. Seeing that Liv had developed a friendship with QT and Kyle, I can go, “Okay, she’s a good person. I trust my people.” And so coming to her and her allowing me to vent shows that I know this is a game but there are emotions here. And Brandon is one of the better emotionally intelligent people I will say, even in our continued conversations. I feel sorts of ways about all this. Brandon is one of the people I do not feel any bad way about blocking me. It’s great strategy, right? Playing with a catfish, I feel like there’s no harm when you gotta block, especially when it’s just a crazy catfish, one of the most iconic ones we’ve seen the game. It does make sense. The only blockings that make sense if you’re in his position are me and QT, in my opinion.

And getting blocked allowed you to meet QT in person. Did you think about meeting anyone else?

It’s clearly QT. I did think there are moments where I said I gotta meet Jordan and swing on him real quick. [Laughs] I’m just joking on that. Kyle and I became boys. You will see the energy when Kyle messages me and I message back, it’s like family. I went to his brother’s birthday party, stuff like that. It’s family. I’m chatting with his wife. I just filmed reactions of his wife seeing him flirt with Brandon in the hot tub. I’ve stayed in the man’s house. His brother is staying at mine. We’re brothers so I would have loved to have seen him but, bro, I had to know at that point. I couldn’t wait a second longer. I needed to see if QT was real. I had a feeling, but I needed to see her. I’m so freaking upset about the one fact: I was the best dressed person in the show, without a doubt. That’s no ego. I think everybody on the internet will agree on that — and they blocked me in the freaking cowboy fit. I was so mad. I tried to change, they said you gotta go. I had a suit ready and everything. I’m running into the bathroom, they’re calling me out, I’m trying to get my hair right. I was so excited to see her.

She also said you smelled great.

There’s natural. Obviously we applied a little cologne. But your boy’s clean. I shower two, three times a day. I have a skincare routine that’s immaculate. I’m on it. Your boy doesn’t fuck around.

What’s the deal with you and QT now? Have you gone on any dates?

There’s been some leaks of the TikToks and stuff like that. People have seen us. We got caught on a date the other day and we’re still exploring. It’s early. It’s a whole different thing now. Seeing the airing of it now and seeing the genuineness — seeing how she was during the breakfast in bed scene. There’s always a little bit of you in the back of your mind going, “but was she actually feeling it?” To see those moments that felt a lot to me, there was something to seeing that she was acting the same way. And we talked about this. I think last week’s episodes were rough for me personally, to see some of the stuff there both on QT and the Jordan side. FaceTiming, we talked about it. It was a two-hour FaceTime, you know. We’re talking. To see the genuineness actually does mean something.

This interview was edited and condensed for clarity.