If there’s still a need to prove reality television’s pervasiveness and influence, an interview with a TV star and a segment from a TV show should provide sufficient evidence. In an interview with Out magazine, Neil Patrick Harris, star of How I Met Your Mother and, previously, Doogie Howser, M.D., said that when he was …
Scott Wolf and Kelly get married. Actor Scott Wolf and The Real World New Orleans‘s Kelly Limp got married Saturday in Fayetteville, Kelly’s hometown. Judging by the specificity in the AP’s headline (“Scott Wolf weds Real World star”), you can see who the more famous member of the pair is. They’d been engaged for about …
The Real World New Orleans’ David arrested for paying $10 for oral sex. Apparently, being an MTV celeb hasn’t helped The Real World New Orleans David Broom get any action. He was so hard-up–literally–for human affection that on Wednesday, he paid $10 for oral sex. Or, according to an awesome sentence in the police report, …
Danny reveals that Paul left the military, where he was an Army captain. The Real World New Orleans’ Danny’s boyfriend Paul was a captain in the Army, and after 12 years left the military in Feb., Danny writes in an essay for New York Metro. He says that living in Wilmington to be with Paul …
drug use used to be allowed outside Real World houses; Julie slips, says Danny “was a huge pot head.” In a write-up (first discovered by Tubescan) of a The Real World lecture at Slippery Rock University, an attendee reports that Puck told the audience drug use was, during his season, permitted by producers away from …
Melissa charges that a “really, really staged” Real World used actors. Speaking to a Cornell University audience last Friday, The Real World New Orleans cast member Melissa Howard charged that participants on her season of the show–specifically Elton, the group’s boss at the TV station–were actors. “How the producers sleep at night, I do not …
Danny’s web site’s message board has a “real-world impact” for gay people. Danny Roberts created his web site–which is down now, but his journal, hosted on another server, is still live–and its accompanying message board during the airing of The Real World New Orleans. On it, gay people have “found a network of people who …