Real World, Road Rules, and Simple Life creator Mary-Ellis Bunim dies.
Real World, Road Rules, and Simple Life creator Mary-Ellis Bunim dies. Mary-Ellis Bunim, half of the team that created The Real World, Road Rules, Making the Band, Love Cruise, and The Simple Life, died of cancer yesterday at 57. She worked first in daytime TV, producing “more than 2,500 hours of daytime television on Search …