Real World goes Hollywood
No, seriously...
No. Seriously!
Real World News
August 9, 2007
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.
July 26, 2007
MTV's Real World goes down... under
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
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
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
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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