This is the true story … of seven [or eight] strangers … picked to live in a house … work together and have their lives taped … to find out what happens … when people stop being polite … and start getting real … “The Real World.”
“Let’s be honest, it not the ‘real’ world,” said Judd Winick, 41, who appeared in the San Francisco-set third season of the long-running MTV series. “But within the context of living in a luxury house with strangers while cameras follow you … real things do happen.”
And for nearly two decades, viewers have been tuning in to watch it all unfold.
“I watched the show when I was in high school!” said Trishelle Cannatella, 31, whose drunken antics and pregnancy scare were highlighted in the first Las Vegas season in 2002. “I remember the Los Angeles season with Tami shouting, ‘It wasn’t not funny!’”
Now “The Real World” is launching its 25th season Wednesday night with a return to Las Vegas.
“It’s truly amazing that we’re still here,” said Jonathan Murray, who, along with the late Mary-Ellis Bunim, created the show. “As long as people keep tuning in, we have no plans to stop.”
Alums of the show are surprised by its longevity.
“I never would have thought it would still be going,” said 31-year-old Julie Rogers, formerly Stoffer, whose Mormon beliefs were tested in the show’s first visit to New Orleans in 2000. “It’s unbelievable to me. Truly. And it’s weirder that I was on a DECADE ago. Where did the time go?”
