The Real World: Las Vegas
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| The Real World: Las Vegas | |
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 Cast of the Real World: Las Vegas |
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| Format | Reality show |
| Created by | Jonathan Murray Mary-Ellis Bunim |
| Starring | Alton Williams Arissa Hill Brynn Smith Frank Roessler Irulan Wilson Steven Hill Trishelle Cannatella |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | MTV |
| Original run | Fall 2002 – Spring 2003 |
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| Preceded by | The Real World: Chicago |
| Followed by | The Real World: Paris |
The Real World: Las Vegas is the twelfth season of MTV's popular reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. First airing in 2002, the Las Vegas cast lived in a converted penthouse suite on the 28th floor of the Las Vegas Palms Casino and Resort. The Las Vegas season was the second highest-rated season of the series after 2002's Chicago installment. This was the fourth season of The Real World to be filmed in the western United States (after The Real World: Los Angeles in 1993, The Real World: San Francisco in 1994 and The Real World: Seattle in 1998).
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[edit] Production
The owner of The Palms Casino Hotel, where the season was filmed, asked for production to cast exclusively people over 21 years old. Thus this was the first season in which all the castmates were at least that old.
The Palms demolished six rooms to make the hotel suite that the season was filmed in, at a cost of over two million dollars.[1] The suite is now called the "Real World Suite", and is available for stays by guests.
During the weekend preceding the debut of the Denver season, MTV re-aired the Las Vegas season. The marathon ran November 18-19, 2006. The entire season was again re-aired on May 26-27, 2007, preceding the airing of the miniseries Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas.
[edit] Assignment
Every season of the The Real World, beginning with its fifth season, has included the assignment of a season-long group job or task to the housemates. The Las Vegas housemates had various jobs throughout the season involving the Palms Casino and Resort in which they lived, including promotional work for the night club, "Rain in the Desert", cocktail waiting, and go-go dancing.
[edit] Cast
| Cast Member | Age1 | Hometown | RW/RR Challenges |
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| Arissa Hill | 22[2] | Malden, Massachusetts[3] | Battle of the Sexes 2 |
| Frank Roessler | 22[4] | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | Battle of the Sexes 2, The Gauntlet III |
| Trishelle Cannatella | 22[5] | Cut Off, Louisiana | The Gauntlet, The Inferno |
| Brynn Smith | 21[6] | Portland, Oregon | None |
| Alton Williams | 22[7] | San Diego, California | The Gauntlet, The Gauntlet 2, The Inferno III |
| Steven Hill | 23[8] | San Marcos, Texas | Battle of the Sexes 2 |
| Irulan Wilson | 21[9] | Bronx, New York | The Gauntlet |
Note 1: Age at the time of filming.
[edit] Season highlights
- During a visit by Arissa's boyfriend, they attend a nightclub, where Arissa gets into a physical altercation with another female patron who calls her "bitch".
- Trishelle and Steven has an on-again-off again sexual relationship (even though Steven was in the middle of a divorce), which at one point resulted in a pregnancy scare for Trishelle (due to their seemingly utter refusal to use condoms). Trishelle later posed for Playboy magazine after the show and is one of the more well-known Real World cast members.
- On the castmates' third day in the suite, three of them (Steven, Trishelle and Brynn) have a threesome.
- Alton and Irulan begin a romantic relationship, which results in the break up of Irulan and her boyfriend back at home, Gabe. Alton and Irulan were still together by the time they both appeared on their first season of the spinoff show Real World/Road Rules Challenge, but later broke up.
- Arissa had difficulty trusting her roommates, and at times exhibited a temper. She also had a strained relationship with her family, including her mother and her uncle who would frequently call and upset her. Arissa would later pose for Playboy magazine after the show.
- Brynn experienced emotional outbursts, including one in which she threw a fork at Steven. This incident sparked major controversy in the suite, and Steven was adamant about having Brynn thrown out until they had a heart to heart discussion; showing Steven that Brynn was just like him when he was younger.
- Frank searched for love while in Las Vegas, starting with Trishelle, though this ends quickly after Trishelle makes out with Steven in front of him. He later dates a girl from out of town, but he admits cheating on her over the telephone. Frank also applies at USC and is accepted.
[edit] Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas
In 2007, the cast reunited to appear in Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas, a six-episode spinoff reunion miniseries in which they lived in the same suite they filmed the original series in. [10][11][12] Trishelle Cannatella was the last castmember to agree to appear, assurances were needed that filming would not conflict with her schedule.[13] The mini-series premiered May 30, 2007 and concluded on July 11, 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ Dehnart, Andy; "Las Vegas house cost the Palms $2 million; Ikea-free space matches hotel." realityblurred.com; September 11, 2002.
- ^ Arissa Hill at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Although sources such as the Internet Movie Database give Boston as her city of birth, the "About" section of her website, at http://www.cytekstudios.com/clients/arissa/arissa_content.html, gives it as Malden.
- ^ Frank Roessler at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Trishelle Cannatella at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Brynn Smith at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Alton Williams at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Steven Hill at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Irulan Wilson at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ the Real World Las Vegas cast reunited for two weeks and lived in the Palms suite beginning later this month. Retrieved on 2007-04-06.
- ^ NORM: 'Real World' may be back at Palms. Retrieved on 2007-04-06.
- ^ Las Vegas cast leaves for Vegas beginning this Monday and filming wraps up the last full week of April. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ Real World Las Vegas 2 Film Again with the Same Cast and Suite. Retrieved on 2007-04-06.
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