Lulu Byrd

Luanda Mary-Mae "Lulu" Byrd is an American television personality. She was a contestant on The Challenge: Dynamic Duos, the first season of the reality competition television series The Challenge.

Biography
Byrd was born on 19 June in x|Luanda, Angola to American parents John and Melissa Byrd. Her parents worked as x|Southern Baptist missionaries, and were on a mission trip in Angola during Byrd's birth. They named her in honor of their city of residence. Growing up, she lived in various countries in Africa and Asia, such as x|Ethiopia, x|Nigeria, x|South Korea, and x|Uganda. When she was seven, the family returned to the United States, settling in x|Asheville, North Carolina, where her father worked as a Baptist preacher. She has an elder brother named Delhi (nicknamed DJ), who is two years older than her.

Byrd attended public schooling in Asheville, graduating from x|Asheville High School, where she was a cheerleader and homecoming queen. After graduating, Byrd attended the x|University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and graduated with a degree in international studies. At UNC Wilmington, Byrd became a member of the x|Alpha Xi Delta (ΑΞΔ) sorority.

Dynamic Duos
Byrd became a contestant on The Challenge: Dynamic Duos, the first season of The Challenge. Byrd impressed the alumni enough on the initial obstacle course to be selected as the partner of Johnny Richmond for the duration of the competition. Byrd was initially well-liked in the house, but her popularity began to fade after drunkenly kissing her partner Richmond, while his girlfriend Maria Thorne looked on. This resulted in Byrd and Thorne getting into a physical altercation and Byrd's ostracism from the rest of the contestants. Her and her partner were sent into the elimination challenge in episode five, where they were eliminated by Thorne and her partner Peter Munro.