The Real World: Back to New York

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The Real World: Back to New York
Cast of The Real World: Back to New York in Times Square
Genre	Reality show
Running time	30 minutes
Creator(s)	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
Original channel	MTV
Original run	Summer 2001–Fall 2001

Coral confronts Mike after she hears a comment that she perceives to be racist.

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.

[edit] 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 if he or she were fired from the job.

[edit] Cast

The seven strangers were:

• Mike Mizanin
• Coral Smith
• Malik Cooper
• Nicole Jackson
• Kevin Dunn
• Lori Trespicio
• Rachel Braband

[edit] Season highlights

• In the first episode, while 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". Though he tried to explain that it was merely what was told to him, black houseguests Coral and Nicole were visibly offended and did not address Mike in a civil manner for a couple of episodes. When Coral and Nicole calmed down, they 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.

The cast on the cover of the Fall 2001 issue of Time Out New York.

[edit] External Links

• Real World New York Cast Appearances