Nurys Mateo is finally exposing the (alleged) reason behind her breakup from fellow ‘Challenge’ star Horacio Gutiérrez, while relishing in how much better her life is without him.
As fans may remember, Nurys and Horacio began dating in 2023, with the couple’s relationship playing out on Season 39 (‘Battle for a New Champion’) and Season 40 (‘Battle of the Eras’). After many months of speculation, Nurys confirmed in February of this year that she and Horacio were no longer together, though neither party ever revealed what led to their split– until now, that is.
Over the weekend, Nurys took to TikTok to celebrate a post-injury milestone and to call out a certain someone for cheating on her.
“Best part of being cheated on is that it’s not my loss,” Nurys wrote. “I got my own and I’m only getting hotter and he’s still broke and she’s ugly.”
The 31-year-old went on to provide some additional context in her caption.
“Heavy on the it’s not my loss cuz she got a man that was telling me he loved me the whole time he was getting to know her,” she wrote. “WHAT A CLOWN A$$ LOSER (him not her).”
Although Nurys opted not to call out Horacio (or the alleged woman he’s now dating) by name in her post, she made it abundantly clear in the comments that the 30-year-old was the intended target of her social media slam.
“Whaaaat! Say it ain’t so?!?! Not Horacio!!” a fan commented on Nurys’s video. “I loooove him! And looooove you guys together! [Crying] here I’m lowkey praying ya get back together.”
“Please don’t pray for my downfall like that,” Nurys responded. “I JUST dodged that bullet.”
When another fan stated that they couldn’t believe “Horacio of all people” would cheat on his partner, Nurys replied, “I was just as shocked!”
“Especially because you should hear how he judges everyone else,” she added.
In response to another person who claimed they were shocked to learn that Horacio had been unfaithful to someone so “stunning,” Nurys insisted that her looks were “only the cherry on top,” as she “loved that man with everything [she] had.”
Nurys also hinted that there may be more relationship tea-spilling to come, as she “liked” a comment on her post from ‘Challenge’ vet Cara Maria Sorbello which read, “Ooop she said she’s done protecting him now.”
While Nurys’s latest TikTok and subsequent remarks heavily suggest that she’s not concerned about sparing Horacio’s reputation, that wasn’t the case back in February. In fact, while confirming the breakup rumors on social media at the time, Nurys seemed to direct a lot of her anger not at Horacio, but at fans for speculating why the two had called it quits.
“ … you guys love to put your two cents into sh*t you guys have no f**king idea about, and you guys comment on it as if you guys know facts,” she said. “It’s really crazy … .”
According to TV Insider, Nurys told fans the same month that she would not be sharing the reason behind her and Horacio split, insisting that those who continue to ask her about it “need to learn boundaries.”
For those hoping to see Nurys and Horacio hash out their residual relationship issues on a future season of ‘The Challenge,’ the chances of that happening are pretty slim. Following a controversial Season 40 elimination in which Horacio was sent home after losing to longtime ‘Challenge’ competitor Derrick Kosinski, Horacio suggested that his ‘Challenge’ days were behind him.
“Too many factors out of my control,” he posted in September 2024. “I had this immense pressure of proving myself as a challenger, but not anymore. I’m sorry.. but THANK YOU.”
As The Ashley previously told you, Horacio and Nurys were two of the cast members who spoke out in 2024 about the highly contended Season 40 elimination. That December, the exes were called out by Johnny Bananas and Wes Bergmann for publicly trashing ‘Challenge’ production, something both vets agreed was a bad move.
“Horacio and Nurys, the two of you have openly– multiple times– basically questioned production, questioned the rules of a game, questioned the outcome of the game,” Johnny said on his ‘Death, Taxes and Bananas’ podcast. “And even once it blew up on f**king social media, turned into this huge conspiracy, this huge controversy, and production literally showed you frame-by-frame evidence of how they got the rules right, you still continued to openly talk and openly disparage them. Now we’re f**king somehow confused why we don’t have an invite to come back?”
While Horacio has not returned to ‘The Challenge’ since Season 40, Nurys made her return to the competition series this year on Season 42’s ‘The Challenge: Cutthroat.’
At this time, Horacio has not commented on the cheating allegations Nurys has made against him.
Click here to watch Nurys’s full TikTok.
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