The Real World: Boston
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| The Real World: Boston | |
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 Cast of the:The Real World: Boston |
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| Format | Reality show |
| Created by | Jonathan Murray, Mary-Ellis Bunim |
| Starring | Elka Walker Jason Cornwell Montana McGlynn Genesis Moss Sean Duffy Kameelah Phillips Syrus Yarbrough [1] |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | MTV Syndication |
| Original run | 1997 – 1997 |
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| Preceded by | The Real World: Miami |
| Followed by | The Real World: Seattle |
The Real World: Boston is the sixth 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 Boston cast lived in a converted historic firehouse at 127 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, which is located right off of Charles Street and was also used in the television series Spenser: For Hire The show made its debut in 1997. This was the only season to be filmed in New England and the second of four seasons to be filmed in the Northeastern United States (The Real World: New York in 1992, The Real World: Back to New York in 2001 and The Real World: Philadelphia in 2005).
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[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 Boston cast worked with children at an after-school program in East Boston. Some of the cast worry they will not get along with kids or like the job, but in the end they all enjoy it. Montana, however, gets fired from the job as a result of allegations involving alcohol and has to find another way to volunteer, since she is required to volunteer for 20 hours a week by contract while she is in Boston. Kameelah and Elka also get into trouble for an argument they have, within earshot of the children, stemming from Kameelah's anger towards Elka for discussing what she believes was a sexual interlude that Kameelah had at the house. At the end of the season, Syrus becomes emotional when he talks about how he will miss the children.
[edit] Cast
This is the first season of Real World whose entire cast has at one time or another competed in MTV's spinoff reality series, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge.
| Cast Member | Age1 | Hometown | Stats | RW/RR Challenges |
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| Elka Walker | 19[2] | Brownsville, Texas | (b. February 2, 1978) Elka is a Mexican-American who comes from a well-to-do background with conservative values. She says in the casting special that she doesn't know many gay or lesbian people and wasn't sure how she would feel if one of the roommates was gay. She is still struggling with her mother's death from cancer. Before she leaves for Boston Elka's father requires her to sign a contract saying she will not smoke, do drugs or have premarital sex while in Boston. She is later filmed having a cigarette. She gets her eyebrow pierced against her father's wishes and she finally stands up for herself against his controlling ways in a tear-filled phone conversation later in the season. Her boyfriend Walter visits from Ireland. The housemates expect she will have sex with him, but Elka insists she is a virgin and will stay that way until marriage. | Battle of the Seasons, The Gauntlet |
| Jason Cornwell | 24[2] | Boulder, Colorado | (b. July 10, 1972) Jason is a poet with a girlfriend named Timber. The relationship is tumultuous and Genesis expresses displeasure at how Jason talks to Timber. Jason is not faithful to her in Boston. | Challenge |
| Montana McGlynn | 21[2] | Manhattan, New York | (b. April 13, 1975) Montana is fond of science and is a proud feminist. She is committed to her boyfriend Vaj, but he later discovers she is seeing other men while in Boston. He texts her to say he is dumping her and she needs to get her things out of their apartment or he will throw her stuff in the street. Montana is shocked, but everyone else in the house saw it coming. | Challenge, The Gauntlet, The Gauntlet II |
| Genesis Moss | 20[2] | Gulfport, Mississippi | (b. April 19, 1976) Genesis is a lipstick lesbian and has had a troubled past and says during her childhood she sometimes lacked basics like food. She has a long-distance lover. She becomes friends with a gay drag queen named Adam and spends a lot of time dancing/partying at a gay club. After a child at the daycare center says that she hates gay people, Genesis overhears this, and Kameelah telling the girl that homophobia and bigotry are not acceptable, and is brought to tears. | Battle of the Sexes, Battle of the Sexes 2 |
| Sean Duffy | 25[2] | Hayward, Wisconsin | (b. October 3, 1971) Sean is a conservative Republican and an aspiring lawyer who often clashed with the liberal-minded Kameelah. He later says he feels for Genesis because she is so hard on herself. After the show ended, he met Rachel Campos of The Real World: San Francisco, and they married. They've had two daughters and two sons, and are currently expecting their fifth child.[3] | Road Rules: All Stars, Battle of the Seasons |
| Kameelah Phillips | 19[2] | San Diego, California | (b. September 20, 1977) Kameelah is a student at Stanford University. Like Montana, she never knew her father. She tells her mother she is not having sex, but the housemates hear what sounds to them like her and a man having sex in the house. When a young girl at the daycare center tells Kameelah that she hates gay people, Kameelah tells the child that homosexuality is acceptable, and that homophobia and bigotry are not. Later, the daycare program's staff calls a meeting and tells Kameelah that it is not appropriate for her to discuss the topic with the children. | Extreme Challenge |
| Syrus Yarbrough | 25[2] | Santa Monica, California | (b. September 12, 1971) Syrus is named after the Egyptian god Osiris, and is an African-American. Syrus gets in trouble for dating a mother of one of the kids. The director tells Syrus to cease this immediately. Syrus acknowledges this, but keeps dating the mother a little while longer. After the show, he went on to star in more than one season of the spinoff, Real World/Road Rules Challenge and did video game work that appeared in an edition of the basketball game series March Madness. | Extreme Challenge, Battle of the Sexes, The Inferno, The Gauntlet II |
Note 1: Age at the time of filming.
[edit] Season highlights
- The cast's performance in working at the afterschool program is a recurring element during the season. Syrus gets involved with a parent from the afterschool program, which stirs conflict with his superiors and his housemates. Montana gets fired from the afterschool program because she allows one of the children to taste alcohol during a field trip to Philadelphia. Kameelah and Elka are reprimanded for arguing in front of the child about Kameelah's sex life. The cast is given poor evaluations mid-season, spurring them to improve.
- Sean educates himself about the issue of race, claiming that Syrus and Kameelah are the only two black people he really knows. Conflict arises between him and Kahmeelah throughout the season.
- Genesis deals with her sexuality. She befriends "Eve", a drag queen that she meets and is oddly attracted to.
- Montana has a relationship with a Boston man named Matt, despite having a boyfriend named Vaj, who visits the house at one point, and learns about Matt.
- Some conflicts include problems with Syrus bringing friends home at all hours of the night, including two people Kameelah finds making out in their bathroom and tells to leave. Outside of the house, Syrus says all the women in the house are "bitches" except for Genesis.
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