The Real World: Back to New York
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| The Real World: Back to New York | |
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| File:RealWorldBack2NY.jpg Cast of The Real World: Back to New York in Times Square | |
| Created by | Jonathan Murray, Mary-Ellis Bunim |
| Starring | Coral Smith Mike Mizanin Rachel Braband Lori Trespicio Nicole Jackson Malik Cooper Kevin Dunn |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV |
| Release | Summer 2001 – Fall 2001 |
The Real World: Back to New York was the tenth 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. The Back to New York season first aired in 2001, with the cast living in a four-floor loft at 632 Hudson Street in Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. As its title indicates, Back to New York was the first season of The Real World to take place in a city that had hosted a previous season, marking the show's return to New York which had been the setting for the show's first season in 1992.
Assignment
Every season of The Real World, beginning with its fifth season, has included the assignment of a season-long group job or task to the housemates. The Back to New York housemates were assigned jobs as receptionists for Arista Records during the day, and helped gain publicity for their up-and-coming bands at night. This was also the first season of the show in which a cast member would be ordered to leave the house and show if he or she were fired from the job.
Cast
(b. October 8th, 1980 in Parma, Ohio) Grew up as an only child with divorced parents in a predominantly white middle-class neighborhood. Dropped out of Miami University to appear on The Real World. He is the most care free of all of his castmates, but finds himself embroiled in debates and arguments with castmates Nicole and Coral over race. Has an angry and confrontational wrestling alter ego named The Miz, which both annoys and amuses his fellow castmates. Besides The Real World: Back To New York, he has appeared in Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes II, and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II. Currently, he is working as an American professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Entertainment on its ECW brand.
(b. January 19th, 1979 in San Francisco, California) Maintains her stance as a strong feminist. Finds Mike ignorant of black culture and attempts to educate him. Has appeared in MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes II, and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat. On June 18th, 2007 lesbian magazine Outlook reported that Coral revealed she was coming out as a lesbian.[1]
Malik Cooper
Nicole Jackson
Kevin Dunn
Lori Trespicio (March 11, 1979 born Roseland New Jersey )
Ethnically half-Filipino, half-Caucasian (her father is Filipino).
Ranked #72 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World"(2002)
Attended Boston College.
She is 5'2 Tall
She now resides in Cambridge Mass.
Rachel Braband
Season highlights
- In the first episode, while out at breakfast, Coral was taken aback by the antiquated views on race that Mike related from a family member, including the idea that blacks are "slow". Mike tried to explain, but Coral and Malik were visibly offended. Malik tried to help Mike understand black culture by teaching him about things such as Malcolm X. Nicole was also critical of bi-racial Malik, who wore a Marcus Garvey t-shirt, but dated white women, which she saw as a contradiction, since Garvey was against race mixing.
- Eighteen-year-old Rachel experienced her first brush with city life, and because of her naive, inexperienced ways, endured ridicule at times from her fellow castmates.
- Lori developed feelings for Kevin, but he did not reciprocate the feelings beyond friendship.
- This season was also filmed before September 11th, 2001.
