Real World London (1995)

DJ Lars still looks the same. Better, actually.

He's 42 and has a son who is also a DJ.

He was 12 while on the show?

Lars was born in 1971, so he's actually 54 this year.

Which makes him look even better, for his age!

I know most people hated this season and called it boring but after all the arguing and bullshit that went down in San Francisco, it was nice to see a cast who genuinely enjoyed each other and got along.

From what I understand they are all still pretty close and keep in touch with one another.

Jacinda annoyed the shit out of me with her pet store dog that she foisted on Sharon

Didn't Jay come out after the show ended?

Did he really, R6???

I know that he was into musical theater, but he had a girlfriend on the show.

Someone said he worked on-air for a television station in Portland, Oregon for a while.

I thought Jay was very handsome.

On his Facebook page, he's also shown holding his kid.

Why does Neil Forrester go by the name "Eric Drass," aka "Shardcore?"

Of all the guys, he seemed to me the one who could be bisexual.

I don't think he's married, even today at 54 years old.

My Brush With ‘Real World’ Stardom On the MTV staple’s 30th anniversary, Joel Stein reflects on what might have been -By Joel Stein

Most of us wonder how our lives would be different if that one opportunity had worked out. If we’d asked somebody else on a first date, would we not be a divorced dad today? If we’d not torn that rotator area, would we have been in the major leagues?

I’ve wondered for a long time. And then I realized, I can find out.

Exactly 30 years ago, on May 21, 1992, the very first episode of The Real World premiered on MTV. It was a big deal at the time. Lots of people thought that something revolutionary was happening. It was an even more accurate Slacker, where you pointed a camera at a bunch of 20-somethings and let them say whatever, nothing, never mind.

In 1994 I went with some friends to auditions for the fourth season. Miraculously, among the 35,000 applicants, they picked me for the next round.

As the list of hopefuls got smaller and I remained on it, I started to wonder if I really wanted this. My first fear was that I wasn’t sure I could go six months without masturbating. My second was that I’d be hated and mocked by a large part of America, possibly for failing on the masturbation thing.

Three months into the process, I made it to the final round of 12 people. But then came the call that I didn’t make the cut. I was far more bummed than relieved.

Many years later, Jonathan Murray, the show’s co-runner, sent me my audition tapes, which they had kept. They had a warehouse with tapes of about 100,000 people under 30 who had tried out for The Real World. I know that Dave Eggers and Aisha Tyler are in there. It’s weird that people with so much more talent than I have shared my desperation to be recognized, even if it was just for fighting over fridge space.

I’ve always wondered how different my life would have been if they’d picked me. I might have become famous, hosting TV shows, shaping the culture, bouncing from one failed marriage to a porn star-parliament member to another.

But my parallel universe actually existed, being lived by another version of me. The guy the show runners picked instead of me to be on The Real World, Jay Frank, was also a nerdy writer. Wherever he was now, I figured, was where I’d be in my parallel Real World universe.

So a few years ago, I called him. Jay was a morning coanchor and storm tracker in Yakima, Washington.

Jay never put The Real World on his résumé. Nobody he’s dated since knows or even cares that he was on the show. He has to bring it up. “That’s a second-date conversation,” he told me. Which is weird because almost getting on The Real World was a first-date conversation for me.

Could I have become a storm tracker in Oregon if I’d been on The Real World instead of Jay? I don’t think so, partly because it requires getting to work at 2:30 a.m. More likely, my shot at reality-TV stardom wouldn’t have affected the course of my life in any great way, other than teaching me to masturbate in the shower.

Kevin Powell, who was on the show’s first season, went on to write 14 books, get interviewed by Oprah and run for Congress twice. Would that have happened to me if I were one of the lucky kids who got picked? Probably not. I don’t have half of Kevin’s skills or ambitions.

Most people say that I got lucky to avoid being stained as a guy whose career was started on a reality series. I pretend to agree. Feeling lucky to avoid cheesy fame feels very on-brand for Gen X.

But I don’t regret trying out. The regrets I have are the J. Alfred Prufrock ones, which Daniel H. Pink calls “boldness regrets.” The ones we got from saying whatever, nothing, never mind.

“Would I Still Have Been a Right-Wing Douchebag with So Many God-Damned Kids if I Had Failed the Real World Audition?” Sean Duffy reflects on what might have been.

Hard to believe Jacinda Barrett and Gabriel Macht have been married for 20 years.

[quote]My first fear was that I wasn’t sure I could go six months without masturbating.

I didn't know guys masturbated back then.

[quote]Why does Neil Forrester go by the name "Eric Drass," aka "Shardcore?" Of all the guys, he seemed to me the one who could be bisexual.

Neil was bisexual on the show, even if they gave him that Kat storyline.

Jacinda had one of the best post Real World careers as an actress until she got married to Gabriel Macht.

My favorite was always Sharon, people thought she was boring, but I liked that she seemed the most normal of the bunch.

Neil fucked around and found out!

Tried to kiss another guy, and got his tongue bit off!

About all I remember from that season was Mike showing up with several bottles of Ranch dressing because he put it on everything.

I had a crush on Neil. Did Sharon ever end up becoming Lebanese?

In episode one or two, MAGA Mike had a crush on a tranny he saw at a club.

Hahahahaha!!!

Joel Stein is such a cutie. I think he would’ve worked well on the show.

And I appreciate the imagery of his several masturbation references in that article.

[quote]I know that he was into musical theater, but he had a girlfriend on the show.

I think that was actually a man. Wasn’t she a foot taller than him?

R19, I believe that was Joe from Miami and his "girlfriend" Nic the model.

Jay Frank is straight.

Married to a woman.

Has a child.

The end.

Of all the seasons these guys were the most aspirational. They all had cool jobs and good personalities and you kind of just wanted to be part of their crew

Couldn't stand the british guy.

I remember reading an article eons ago about how this cast was the one that just wanted to hang out and jibber-jab on the couch, so there was barely enough useful footage of them to make the show.

After that, all of the seasons had to have some sort of job to do.

Miami was supposed to have some sort of surf shop or something that never caught on. Seattle had some radio station. Boston was all about a rec center that wound up being a bust because Sean Duffy couldn't stay sober long enough to work with kids.

It was annoying. I liked the "sitting around" years.

[quote] Miami was supposed to have some sort of surf shop or something that never caught on

No, that was Hawaii.

Miami was given money to start a business. That didn't work, so after that, they were just given regular jobs.

The Americans couldn't work in London because none of them had work visas.

They were given only one day's notice that they were cast, and had to catch the flight to London the next day.

Is Jacinda friends with Meghan Markle?

Jaconda was so annoying.

I liked that season for awhile, but when Jacinda and Kat became mean girls and started picking on Sharon, they lost my interest.

I think Miami was the last season I watched. Sean Duffy was an alcoholic? That tracks

Unbelievable that Sean Duffy is the Secretary of Transportation now and married to that Fox News bitch Rachel Campos from Real World San Francisco , what a couple of assholes. They have popped out 9 kids who will probably terrorize the world for years to come, glad I will be gone.

Sean Duffy has Puck’s sloppy seconds. It was allegedly rumored at the time that Puck gave rachel an std, though as I recall it was likely from anal sex since she was SAVING herself for marriage. Every time I see Duffy I think about that!

r30 Funny because a couple of years ago I rewatched the San Francisco season, and Rachel actually says she can't imagine being a mother-- only to have almost a dozen.

Are there no embarrassing outtakes of Sean Duffy?

I never watched the show but Jacinda's name rang a bell so I googled her to find that her birth name was "Giacinta Juanita Cordelia Arabella Luciana Rosalina Barrett".

Quite the mouthful.

[quote]Quite the mouthful.

I think she's tremendous!

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Sean Duffy was Real World London? I thought he was Real World Boston.

RW London was so boring we switched topics

I auditioned for RWLA. Got through to the third round. Rode the elevator for my second audition with Beth S. were were both from Ohio. I was not out yet and was going to use the show to come out. They were intrigued, but I also worked for CBS at the time and they thought it would be to hard to get clearance since I worked on a TV show. Funny thing is the producer of my show was good friends with Mary Alice Bunim, the exec producer of RW. I told him after I got turned down. He said "Oh my god, we would have totally done that.." Oh well, it was a disaster season anyway.

Are you, or were you cute R39??

r40 Stunning. Lol. Corn fed mid west jock who realized I was Weho fat when I moved to West Hollywood. Lost the last 20 so I fit in. Probably a WeHo 7 if I am being honest. Getting laid was not a problem if that helps.

To those wondering, the reason I was not cast, so I was told, was they had featured Norm in the first RW and had cast a Lesbian this season so they didn't want to have another gay male storyline. I thought it was odd they shot in LA and hardly had any gay men involved.

R37. He was not in the London series and.no one has claimed he was.