Real World News

August 9, 2007

Real World goes Hollywood

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After 20 seasons and 16 years, MTV's The Real World is finally going Hollywood, finally bringing its cast of unknowns into ground zero of the celebrity culture it helped create-- a celebrity culture of fake celebrities who are famous for being famous (and/or for being assholes) and preaching to the rest of the world about how to live while living as hedonistically and hypocritically as possible.

No, seriously...

No. Seriously!

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July 26, 2007

MTV's Real World goes down... under

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How's that for a TMZ headline? MTV's original reality franchise heads to Australia in its 19th season, as Real World: Sydney premieres August 19th.

Three males and four women landed in Oz, where they didn't simply go on walkabouts, drink lotsa beer, argue and have sex, but worked for the Contiki Holidays vacation company.

MTV introduces the cast... after the jump...

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June 19, 2007

Coral Smith doubles her chances for a date

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Coral Smith, the brash and busty cast member from The Real World: Back to New York who went on to become a reality TV mainstay on shows like Clash of The Reality TV Stars and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat, has found herself a new way to keep herself in the spotlight. She's come out as a lesbian.

Well, sort of. In her own words: "I'm definitely venturing toward my lesbian qualities."

Coral raised eyebrows with an apparent relationship with the male Abram Boise on Road Rules: South Pacific, but though they shared a long kiss when he was voted off, Coral later she'd claimed they faked an affair to make good television.

Coral spoke with Outlook magazine during a recent "Gay Day" appearance at Paramount's Great America theme park near San Francisco and as far as we can tell said she's going out with women now. Our favorite quote from the interview is her answer to the question: "Why do you think you were picked for The Real World?"

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June 17, 2007

Laughs, pickles & mystery at Frankie's funeral

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It was an overflow crowd at the Webb-Freer Funeral Home in Blue Springs, Missouri, Saturday morning for Frankie Abernathy's funeral. Fifteen year-old kid sister Mamie Hunter led the eulogies, silencing everyone when she walked to the front with purple and magenta hair, making them laugh when she said, "I have a confession to make. This isn't my natural hair color," and making them cry when she explained, "Every day that I knew Frankie, I grew a little more colorful inside. "Her vibrance, it dyed me forever."

Frankie, a memorable castmate from MTV's The Real World: San Diego back in 2004, and the first Real World star to die since AIDS hero Pedro Zamora thirteen years ago, suffered from cystic fibrosis, and that's what her family thinks killed her at 25. But the medical examiner hasn't yet determined the cause (Frankie was a "hard liver" who was found dead in her mother's house eight days ago).

Frankie's hour-long memorial service was a rock 'n' roll affair...

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June 15, 2007

Family & friends say farewell to Frankie

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Services will be take place tomorrow morning at 10:30 at the Webb-Freer Funeral Home in Blue Springs, Missouri, for Frankie Abernathy, the housemate from The Real World: San Diego who died Saturday at 25.

Frankie was the pierced, tattooed, Hello Kitty-loving, boat-fearing emotional cutter who happened to have cystic fibrosis. She's thought to be the second Real World castmember to die, joinig Pedro Zamora, who died of AIDS in 1994.

"It was a very quick thing," her mother says. "She was fine Friday, and I went down to see what she wanted for dinner. She was taking a nap, I thought. And she was dead.

"I don't think she had any regrets. She had a lot more stories at 25 than I have at 47. She lived pretty good. She had a lot to cram in."

Meanwhile, some of Frankie's San Diego housemates have reacted to the news:

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August 9, 2007:Real World goes Hollywood
July 26, 2007:MTV's Real World goes down... under
June 19, 2007:Coral Smith doubles her chances for a date
June 17, 2007:Laughs, pickles & mystery at Frankie's funeral
June 15, 2007:Family & friends say farewell to Frankie
June 12, 2007:Farewell to Frankie from The Real World
May 30, 2007:Real World reunion series debuts tonight
May 7, 2007:Talk Live With Real World Creator Jon Murray
March 12, 2007:Real World 20?
February 8, 2007:Jenn from The Real World: Her Past Exposed!
January 9, 2007:The Real World ventures Down Under
December 1, 2006:Now you can get drunk in the Real World house!
November 10, 2006:TVgasm Presents Ronnie Day in Concert 8PM EST