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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
After her stint on ''The Real World'' ended, while the fifth season of the show (set in [[Miami]]) was being filmed, Campos was in a serious car accident. She sustained injuries to her leg, and the other passengers in the car, including her [[fiancé]] at the time, a producer for ''The Real World'', were killed.
After her stint on ''The Real World'' ended, while the fifth season of the show (set in [[Miami]]) was being filmed, Campos was involved in a head-on car collision after the driver of an oncoming vehicle fell asleep at the wheel. Campos' boyfriend and his friend, who was driving their rented car, died in the accident. Campos was thrown out of the passenger-side window and sustained serious injuries to her right leg that caused permanent long-term problems such as [[arthritis]], a limp and difficulty running.<ref>Campos-Duffy, Rachel (September 9, 2009). [http://www.parentdish.com/2009/09/09/gory-texting-psa-is-good-for-teens/ "Gory Texting PSA is Good for Teens"]. ParentDish. [[HuffPost Parents]].</ref><ref>Campos-Duffy, Rachel (). [http://www.parentdish.com/2007/11/12/moms-rule-at-n-y-marathon/ "Moms Rule at N.Y. Marathon- Inspiration or Bad Example?"]. ParentDish. HuffPost Parents.</ref>


Campos later married her ''[[Road Rules: All Stars]]'' costar, [[Sean Duffy (Wisconsin)|Sean Duffy]], They lived in [[Ashland, Wisconsin]],<ref name="weddingvideomovie">[http://www.weddingvideomovie.com/castandcrew.htm#rachel Cast description of ''The Wedding Video'']</ref> where Duffy was the [[District Attorney]] of [[Ashland County, Wisconsin|Ashland County]] and is currently a Republican member of Congress.<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1584947&vid=222473 Sean Duffy mentioned this during the 2008 ''Real Worlds Awards Bash''.]</ref> They moved to [[Weston, Wisconsin]] in late 2011.<ref>Olivo, Rick (October 19, 2011). [http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_1e37cd39-c39f-502a-a511-2808a8700014.html "Mr. Duffy moves to Weston"]. HaywardWI.com.</ref> They have six children:<ref name=DailyNews>Salvatore, Rosanne. [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/real-world-cast-members-gallery-1.92861 "'The Real World' cast members: Where are they now?"]. ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]''. April 1, 2011. Page 10 of 44</ref> Evita Pilar (October 1, 1999), Xavier Jack (November 2001), Lucia-Belen (April 2004), John-Paul, Paloma Pilar (May 18, 2008) and MariaVictoria Margarita (April 1, 2010).<ref name="celebritybabies">[http://celebritybabies.people.com/2010/04/16/rachel-campos-duffy-welcomes-daughter-mariavictoria-margarita/ "Rachel Campos-Duffy Welcomes Daughter Maria Victoria Margarita"]. ''[[People magazine|People]]'' magazine; April 16, 2010</ref><ref>[http://celebritybabies.people.com/2008/05/20/sean-and-rachel/ "Sean and Rachel Campos-Duffy welcome fifth child, daughter Paloma Pilar"]. ''People'' magazine, May 20, 2008</ref>
Campos later married her ''[[Road Rules: All Stars]]'' costar, [[Sean Duffy (Wisconsin)|Sean Duffy]], They lived in [[Ashland, Wisconsin]],<ref name="weddingvideomovie">[http://www.weddingvideomovie.com/castandcrew.htm#rachel Cast description of ''The Wedding Video'']</ref> where Duffy was the [[District Attorney]] of [[Ashland County, Wisconsin|Ashland County]] and is currently a Republican member of Congress.<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1584947&vid=222473 Sean Duffy mentioned this during the 2008 ''Real Worlds Awards Bash''.]</ref> They moved to [[Weston, Wisconsin]] in late 2011.<ref>Olivo, Rick (October 19, 2011). [http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_1e37cd39-c39f-502a-a511-2808a8700014.html "Mr. Duffy moves to Weston"]. HaywardWI.com.</ref> They have six children:<ref name=DailyNews>Salvatore, Rosanne. [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/real-world-cast-members-gallery-1.92861 "'The Real World' cast members: Where are they now?"]. ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]''. April 1, 2011. Page 10 of 44</ref> Evita Pilar (October 1, 1999), Xavier Jack (November 2001), Lucia-Belen (April 2004), John-Paul, Paloma Pilar (May 18, 2008) and MariaVictoria Margarita (April 1, 2010).<ref name="celebritybabies">[http://celebritybabies.people.com/2010/04/16/rachel-campos-duffy-welcomes-daughter-mariavictoria-margarita/ "Rachel Campos-Duffy Welcomes Daughter Maria Victoria Margarita"]. ''[[People magazine|People]]'' magazine; April 16, 2010</ref><ref>[http://celebritybabies.people.com/2008/05/20/sean-and-rachel/ "Sean and Rachel Campos-Duffy welcome fifth child, daughter Paloma Pilar"]. ''People'' magazine, May 20, 2008</ref>

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Rachel Campos-Duffy
Born
Rachel Campos

(1971-10-22) October 22, 1971 (age 52)
Tempe, Arizona, United States
OccupationTelevision personality
Years active1994–present
SpouseSean Duffy (1999-present)

Rachel Campos-Duffy[1] (née Campos. born October 22, 1971) is an American television personality who first gained fame in 1994 as a castmate on the MTV reality television series The Real World: San Francisco, before becoming a TV host, most notably as a recurring guest host on the ABC talk show The View.

Early life

Rachel Campos was born in Tempe, Arizona.[2][3] She has two brothers,[4] one of whom is named Patrick,[3] and a sister[3] named Leah Campos Schandlbauer.[5] Campos and her sister were raised in a strict Catholic home.[3]

Campos graduated from Arizona State University in December 1993 with a degree in Economics.[6] She was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, which she had planned to use to attend graduate school, with the goal of being a college professor.[7]

The Real World: San Francisco

Campos was cast on The Real World: San Francisco in January 1994, and lived in the house on Russian Hill in San Francisco with her six housemates from February 12 to June 19.[8] The season premiered on July 6, 1994.

Although the castmates were informed ahead of time that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, they were not informed which housemate it would be.[9] On the cast's first night in the house, Campos’ housemate, AIDS educator Pedro Zamora, informed the housemates that he had AIDS by showing them his scrapbook of his career as an HIV educator. Campos felt uncomfortable and initially distanced herself from Zamora, stating that she wanted to know how his health status would affect her. However, she said nothing to the other housemates for fear of appearing homophobic.[10] Although Zamora took this as an act of rejection on her part, the two eventually became friends, with Zamora traveling to Arizona with Campos to visit her family.[3]

During her time on the series, she had both a romantic relationship and tumultuous friendship with housemate David "Puck" Rainey.[11] Judd Winick attributed this attraction on her part to her taste for rebellious men, or "bad boys". Campos conceded this,[4] and admitted that she was sometimes an initial bad judge of character, and too trusting.[7] Campos' friendship with Rainey eventually dissolved, as did Rainey's friendship with the rest of the cast,[12] resulting in his eviction.[13] Campos subsequently became best friends with Rainey's replacement, Joanna Rhodes, and the two of them were referred to by Winick as "high maintenance twins".[14]

On the show and in MTV's promotional materials for the show, Campos was depicted as a passionate Republican,[7] whose heroes included Jack Kemp,[15] and as a Catholic, though she conceded her strict religious upbringing fostered within her a rebellious streak that sometimes brought her into conflict with her parents.[3] Her political viewpoints led to conflict with her housemates on more than one occasion, as when Mohammed Bilal ridiculed the Republican housing ideas that she expressed in Episode 3.[16] In Episode 18, after Campos invited her housemates to a College Republicans function, self-described liberal Winick[10] opined that the speakers at the function were sexist, homophobic, and racist, a view to which Campos objected as unfair.[15]

After The Real World

Campos later appeared on Road Rules: All Stars, along with alumni of other past Real World seasons, such as Sean Duffy of the Real World: Boston cast.

She twice vied for a role on the daytime television talk show The View. After Debbie Matenopoulos left the show in 1999, Campos competed in an on-air try-out with Lisa Ling and Lauren Sánchez. Ling was eventually hired.[17] After Ling's departure in 2002, Campos, who by then held her own "coffee talk" show with other Wisconsin housewives, again competed in a week-long on-air try-out, this time against Erin Hershey Presley and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Hasselbeck was hired.

Campos-Duffy was also one of ten Real World alumni who starred in The Wedding Video, a Real World parody centered on the wedding of first season alumnus Norman Korpi.[18]

Personal life

After her stint on The Real World ended, while the fifth season of the show (set in Miami) was being filmed, Campos was involved in a head-on car collision after the driver of an oncoming vehicle fell asleep at the wheel. Campos' boyfriend and his friend, who was driving their rented car, died in the accident. Campos was thrown out of the passenger-side window and sustained serious injuries to her right leg that caused permanent long-term problems such as arthritis, a limp and difficulty running.[19][20]

Campos later married her Road Rules: All Stars costar, Sean Duffy, They lived in Ashland, Wisconsin,[18] where Duffy was the District Attorney of Ashland County and is currently a Republican member of Congress.[21] They moved to Weston, Wisconsin in late 2011.[22] They have six children:[23] Evita Pilar (October 1, 1999), Xavier Jack (November 2001), Lucia-Belen (April 2004), John-Paul, Paloma Pilar (May 18, 2008) and MariaVictoria Margarita (April 1, 2010).[24][25]

In popular culture

In Pedro, Nick Oceano's 2008 film dramatizing Pedro Zamora's life, Campos-Duffy is portrayed by Karolin Luna.[26][27]

Filmography

  • The View - Episode: October 12 (2009) Guest Co-Host
  • The View - Episode: November 4 (2003) Guest Co-Host
  • The Wedding Video (2003)
  • The Real World Movie: The Lost Season (2002)
  • The Real World Reunion 2000 (2000)
  • The Real World You Never Saw: Boston + Seattle (1998)
  • Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Road Rules: All-Stars (1998)
  • The Real World You Never Saw (1997)
  • The Real World Reunion: Inside Out (1996)
  • The Real World Reunion (1995)
  • The Real World Vacations: Behind the Scenes (1995) Hostess
  • The Real World: San Francisco (1994)

References

  1. ^ Campos-Duffy, Rachel. "I'm Expecting My 5th: What To Make Of The Trend In Bigger Families". December 19, 2007.
  2. ^ Rachel Campos. Mooviees.com. Retrieved December 1, 2011
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Rebel, Rebel". The Real World: San Francisco. Season 3. September 15, 1994. MTV. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |episode= ignored (help)
  4. ^ a b "Love Stinks". The Real World: San Francisco. Season 3. July 7, 1994. MTV. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |episode= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Campos-Duffy, Rachel. Stay Home, Stay Happy: 10 Secrets to Loving At-Home Motherhood. Celebra Trade. 2009. Acknowledgements. ISBN 0-451-22807-3
  6. ^ interview with Scott Schneider "Rachel Campos-Duffy: Mother, Stay At Home Advocate" for conservativefeatures.com
  7. ^ a b c Biography page for Rachel Campos at mtv.com
  8. ^ Winick, Judd; Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned 2000; Henry Holt; Pages 61 and 119.
  9. ^ Winick. Pages 30, 63-64.
  10. ^ a b "Planes, Trains and Paddywagons" The Real World: San Francisco, Episode 1; MTV; 1994
  11. ^ "Kiss and Tell" The Real World: San Francisco. Episode 10. MTV. 1994
  12. ^ The Real World Diaries; MTV Books/Pocket Books. 1996. Pages 146-147.
  13. ^ "Getting Dropped". The Real World: San Francisco. Episode 11. MTV. 1994
  14. ^ Their rapport is mentioned in Episodes 14, 17 and 18. Winick uses the term during the bicycling trip in Episode 17.
  15. ^ a b "Just Friends". The Real World: San Francisco. Episode 18. MTV. 1994
  16. ^ "White Like Me". The Real World: San Francisco, Episode 3. MTV. 1994
  17. ^ "Good View". eonline.com. 1999-05-03.
  18. ^ a b Cast description of The Wedding Video
  19. ^ Campos-Duffy, Rachel (September 9, 2009). "Gory Texting PSA is Good for Teens". ParentDish. HuffPost Parents.
  20. ^ Campos-Duffy, Rachel (). "Moms Rule at N.Y. Marathon- Inspiration or Bad Example?". ParentDish. HuffPost Parents.
  21. ^ Sean Duffy mentioned this during the 2008 Real Worlds Awards Bash.
  22. ^ Olivo, Rick (October 19, 2011). "Mr. Duffy moves to Weston". HaywardWI.com.
  23. ^ Salvatore, Rosanne. "'The Real World' cast members: Where are they now?". Daily News. April 1, 2011. Page 10 of 44
  24. ^ "Rachel Campos-Duffy Welcomes Daughter Maria Victoria Margarita". People magazine; April 16, 2010
  25. ^ "Sean and Rachel Campos-Duffy welcome fifth child, daughter Paloma Pilar". People magazine, May 20, 2008
  26. ^ Pedro official site
  27. ^ Cast and crew page of Pedro

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