The Real World: Denver

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The Real World: Denver
Genre	Reality
Running time	30 minutes, including commercials
Creator(s)	Bunim/Murray Productions
Starring	Alex Smith Brooke J. LaBarbera Nicole M. Edison (Colie) J. Davis Mallory, IV Jennifer Grijalva Stephen Nichols Tyrie Ballard
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	MTV
Original run	November 22, 2006–present

The Real World: Denver is the eighteenth season of MTV's popular reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. The cast members are living in Denver's LoDo neighborhood in a recently renovated building which previously housed the B-52 Billiards, located at 1920 Market St^[1]. The announcement of the location came as a surprise to many, since it was anticipated that the eighteenth season would be filmed in Detroit rather than Denver ^[2]. The Denver season is expected to follow the format of the past seventeen seasons. Filming began in early June 2006 and was expected to end sometime in late-September (or about 17 weeks). In August 2006 it was reported that the crew would finish production on August 29 because it had enough footage.

The Denver Post is publishing a blog that follow the production. It includes sightings as well as descriptions of the cast members. The local weekly paper "Westword" also staged a fake Real World production where they spent a night at local bars with a phony filming crew, security team, producers and seven person cast. The video taped stunt fooled hundreds of bargoers and got the attention of the New York Times in an article about reality shows.

CAST	BIOGRAPHY
Brooke LaBarbera	24, Nashville, TN ("southern belle," as described by Tyrie)
J. Davis Mallory, IV	23, Marietta, GA (graduated from Stetson University, FL)
Colie Edison	22, East Brunswick, NJ (graduated from Tulane in New Orleans)
Jennifer Grijalva	22, Martinez, CA (former Oakland Raiders Raiderette)
Alex Smith	22, Houston, TX (current student at Arizona State University)
Tyrie Ballard	24, Omaha, NE (graduated from University of Nebraska)
Stephen Nichols	22, Sacramento, CA (current student at Howard University)

1 Assignment
2 Vacation
3 Episode Notes and Spoilers
4 External links

[edit] Assignment

The cast is reported ^[3] to be working for Outward Bound.

[edit] Vacation

The cast will be going to Thailand for their vacation this season.

[edit] Episode Notes and Spoilers

As of November 17, 10 promos have aired. 3 cast members (Colie, Tyrie, Alex) and 2 series overview have aired plus the 7 cast member preview sketch. Plus, Brooke on the phone, Colie likes to make-out, Tyrie fights, Davis fights and Brooke yells.

The casting special aired November 1st. The order goes: Jenn, Alex, Colie, Davis, Stephen, Brooke, Tyrie.

Tyler and Paula both of Key West passed the torch in the preview special.

MTV moved the Challenge and the Real World both to new dates and time in order to boost up ratings for Made, True Life and Rob and Big.

According to Davis, his best friend from high school knows a girl whose older brother dated Colie.

Episode 1/2, the cast members meet and arrive in Denver. Davis comes out to his new roomates and Stephen continues to take it as an insult against his religion even though Davis is Christian as well. Davis replies by telling him that being homophobic is no different than being a racist.

Episode 3, Tyrie asks a drunk Davis if he abandoned his male roommates after a racial slur was used at Stephen during their night out. Davis tries to explain he merely went home to call his boyfriend, but this continually frustrates Tyrie who asks "No, I'm asking did you leave him! (Stephen)" Even though Tyrie tries to get his roommates to calm Davis down and get him to go away he continues to follow Tyrie around the house screaming for him to try to hit him so he would be sent home. Davis calls Tyrie the "n word", which becomes the focus of discussion, as well as Davis' potential to have more emotional outbursts when he is drinking.

In episode 11, Colie begins to get irritated with Tyrie as seen in episode 4. That was the same episode in which a fight between Davis and Tyrie broke out. In episode 9, Tyrie feels that white girls are able to get over on black males and when Colie shows resentment, Ty begins acting shady. Outward Bound sends them to a party mixer/fundraiser and they all seem to be getting along until Ty jokingly makes a remark to Colie who takes it the wrong way and tosses insults. Alex, Brooke and Davis try to break it up but it results in a semi-fight and Colie just barely misses slapping Tyrie. Jim comes at the end of the episode once again and tells the two they need to watch it.

In one of the final episodes, there is a mild fight among the roommates as someone has been going through other people's belongings and the housemates begin to point fingers at each other.

EPISODE	EPISODE NOTES
1/2	In Episode 1, Tyrie and Jenn both arrived by train and took a horse-drawn carriage together to the house. Alex and Brooke both arrived by plane and took a limousine to the house. Stephen, Davis, and Colie meet at a restaurant and arrive at the house last. The roommates play "Truth Or Dare". Davis opens up to Colie first - whom they both have a mutual friend with, and tells her that he is gay. Tyrie and Brooke flirt a little in the hot tub. Brooke and Jenn make out. Colie tells Jenn that Alex has a large penis. Davis opens up to Jenn who asks if there is anyone gay at the table. Davis then tells everyone that he has a boyfriend named P.J. as well. Stephen is in disagreement with Davis about his sexuality. Davis and Stephen get into an argument and then make up. Colie and Alex hook up, but then Jenn and Alex hook up. Alex feels more comfortable "making out" with Jenn because he knows Jenn thinks it's for fun. Alex feels that Colie is more serious in starting a romance. Alex and Jenn have sex. Colie is worried. Alex tells Colie that he just wants to be friends.
3	In Episode 3, Jenn and Colie made up and Jenn says she wants Colie at her future wedding. All three girls go out to a club, agreeing that each of them are allowed one "dirty back." This referred to Jenn's situation with Alex. Colie invites two strangers to the house while Brooke and Alex start to become uncomfortable with the situation. Colie and Alex mended their relations, creating a 24 hour no hook-ups pact. The following morning, Alex breaks the 24 hour no hook-ups pact with Colie. Colie is devastated when talking with Davis because she claims that there is no one in the house that she can hook up with (ie: Alex is a playboy, she probably won't hook up with either Tyrie or Stephen because she does not find herself attracted to either of them, and Davis is gay).
4	In Episode 4, Davis gets drunk at a club and returns to the house before the others to use the phone so he could call his boyfriend. Stephen is angry because a bartender called him a "nigger" at the club. Tyrie begins an argument with Davis on the grounds that he "left" Stephen at the time of the occurence. A drunk Davis calls Tyrie a "nigger", which shocks everyone. The focus becomes the use of the "n" word, Davis' possible drinking problem, and whether he will leave (or not). A producer steps in to break up the argument, and later sends Davis to a hotel for the night. Both Davis and Tyrie cool down. Davis comes back to the house the next morning to apologize, and tells Stephen and Tyrie he used the "n" word purely out of anger that Tyrie was yelling at him, and is forgiven by Tyrie and Stephen. Davis nearly leaves the show, but is encouraged to stay by his housemates, particularly Stephen. When Tyrie forgives him, he agrees not to go home.
5	In Episode 5, Tyrie juggles between two girls he meets at a club, Jazelle and Ashley. He decides to bring Jazelle back to the house, while Stephen meets Ashley and wants to take her back the same night. Tyrie tells Stephen not to bring her back, and Stephen tells her that she cannot come due to "too many guests." Later on, Tyrie continues to talk to both girls, but he leans towards Jazelle more. Davis plans a ski trip, but no one wants to come so early in the morning, except for Alex and Stephen. During another club night, Davis wears makeup and a mask. He is described by Tyrie as being a "modern zorro." Someone at the club calls him a "f*g," and Tyrie comes and defends Davis. At the end of the episode, Tyrie is seen in bed with Jazelle, but they do not have sex.

[edit] External links

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