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The Real World: Miami

The Real World: Miami is the fifth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It is the first season of The Real World to be filmed in the South Atlantic States region of the United States, specifically in Florida.

The season featured seven people who lived in a house on Rivo Alto Island and was the first season filmed in the United States outside of New York and California. Production for the season started from February to July 1996. The season premiered on July 10 of that year, consisted of 22 episodes.[1] This is the first of two seasons filmed in Florida. Ten years later, the show set its seventeenth season, returning to the state in the Key Haven neighborhood of Key West.

Season changes

This was the first season in which the housemates were given a season-long assignment or task, an aspect of the series that would continue in almost all subsequent seasons; the Brooklyn and D.C. seasons dispensed with it. This season the cast was given $50,000 startup money to begin a business of their choosing. The cast's efforts were marked by much disorganization and conflict, and while ideas such as a dessert delivery service and a fashion line were floated about, they were ultimately not able to start the business.

The residence

The house is located at 445 E Rivo Alto Dr, in Miami Beach, just north of the Venetian Causeway on affluent Rivo Alto Island. The four bedroom, three bathroom house is on 3⁄10 acre (1,214 m2) of land, and is 4,976 square feet (462.3 m2). Its current owner is former Ford CEO Jacques Nasser.[2]

Cast

Duration of cast

Notes

Episodes

After filming

In 1998, Joe Patane published his memoirs about his experiences on the show, Livin' in Joe's World: Unauthorized, Uncut, and Unreal: The Memoirs of Joe Patane from the Miami Cast of MTV's The Real World.[16]

During The Real World Reunion 2000, the first reunion show that involved the Miami cast, Flora revealed that she and Mitchell got married. Joe revealed that he and Nicole broke up, to which Mike expressed relief, because, as he told Joe, Nicole was a "bitch".[24]

At the 2008 The Real World Awards Bash, Dan received a nomination for "Best Meltdown" because of his fight with Melissa, while Flora received one in the "Best Phonecall Gone Bad" category.[25][26]

Flora Alekseyeun appeared nude in the May 2002 issue of Playboy magazine, along with other alumnae of The Real World and Road Rules: Beth Stolarczyk, Veronica Portillo and Jisela Delgado.[27][28][29] In 2020, she appeared on E! reality series Botched.[30]

Cynthia Roberts appeared in "Floating Deck", a 2008 episode of the DIY Network show Yard Crashers, which depicted the renovation of her back yard.[31]

After a career in runway and print fashion modeling, Dan Renzi became a model scout for a Chicago agency, a field researcher with the Los Angeles Department of Epidemiology and director of AIDS/HIV program at the Kansas City Gay and Lesbian Center. He has made appearances at celebrity Spring Break parties in the Bahamas.[32] He has also contributed to the New York Post and the Miami New Times, and chronicles all his adventures at his own blog, How Was Your Day, Dan?[33] He later became a registered nurse based in his home state of Kansas, and worked on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.[34]

After leaving WildStorm Productions, Sarah Becker worked for Disney Publishing.[35]In June 2024, she committed suicide at her Illinois home at age 52. She had had recently moved there from California to take care of ill family members. She had reportedly "struggled with mental health in recent months" and a recent skateboarding accident exacerbated the problems she was dealing with.[36][37] Colleagues who offered public tributes to her included DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee, who had hired her at WildStorm Productions when he was the owner of that studio,[35] and artist J. Scott Campbell, who worked with her during their early days at WildStorm, having once drawn Becker as a character in a scene in an WildStorm comic.[38]

The Challenge

Notes

  1. ^ Age at the time of filming.
  2. ^ Melissa voluntarily leaves the house in Episode 20 after an argument with Sarah.

References

  1. ^ "The Real World: Miami: Episodes". MTV. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  2. ^ Rivo Alto Island House at realworldhouses.com
  3. ^ Freeman, John (July 9, 1996). "A Real Whirl". Lifestyle. The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. E-1.
  4. ^ a b c Biography page for Sarah Becker, MTV.com, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Ba-Bye" The Real World: Miami, Episode 22, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  6. ^ a b c "Meet The Renzis!" The Real World: Miami Episode 13, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  7. ^ Biography page for Dan Renzi MTV.com, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  8. ^ "Lesbian Ggay Biseuxal Ttransgender Issues", Wolfman Productions, accessed January 16, 2011.
  9. ^ a b c "Welcome to the Picture Show" The Real World: Miami Episode 1, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  10. ^ a b c d "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" The Real World: Miami, Episode 16, MTV, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  11. ^ Ambiente: Herb Sosa, "An Interview with Johnny Diaz," June 2007 Archived March 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 6, 2011
  12. ^ a b "Act Out", The Real World: Miami, Episode 12, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  13. ^ a b c "Liars and Lovers", The Real World: Miami, Episode 18, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  14. ^ a b c Biography page for Melissa Padrón at MTV.com, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  15. ^ a b "Everyone Gets the Jackson", The Real World: Miami, Episode 20, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  16. ^ a b c Livin' in Joe's World: Unauthorized, Uncut, and Unreal: The Memoirs of Joe Patane from the Miami Cast of MTV's The Real World at Amazon.com, 1998, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  17. ^ a b Biography page for Joe Patane at MTV.com, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  18. ^ "Say It Ain't So Joe", The Real World: Miami, Episode 9, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  19. ^ a b c Biography page for Cynthia Roberts, MTV.com, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  20. ^ a b Guthrie, Marisa (July 3, 1996). "Television Unreal World". Features. Boston Herald. p. 39.
  21. ^ Biography page for Flora Alekseyeun. MTV. 1996. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  22. ^ Biography page for Mike Lambert at MTV.com, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  23. ^ "Lies, and Videotape", The Real World: Miami, Episode 17, 1996, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  24. ^ The Real World Reunion 2000, MTV, May 6, 2000
  25. ^ "The Real World Awards Bash: Nominees" Archived March 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. MTV.com. 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  26. ^ "The Real World Awards Bash: Winners" Archived September 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. MTV.com. 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2008.
  27. ^ "Real Nude in the Real World". Playboy magazine. May 2002.
  28. ^ "Real Nude in the Real World". Playboy magazine. Archived via the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  29. ^ Dehnart, Andy (April 2, 2002). "Flora, Beth S., Veronica and Jisela in Playboy this month." Reality Blurred.
  30. ^ Ray, Alyssa (March 16, 2020). "The Botched Docs Hear All About Real World Alum Flora's Uniboob in New Sneak Peek!". E! News.
  31. ^ "Floating Deck". Yard Crashers. DIY Network, 2008
  32. ^ Spring Break Celeb — Dan Renzi, Student City, Accessed November 7, 2010.
  33. ^ "'The Real World' Stars: Where Are They Now?" Archived October 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. HuffPost/AOL TV. March 4, 2008.
  34. ^ "Real World Miami Alum and Kansas Nurse Dan Renzi Details Coronavirus Fight in NYC". Too Fab. April 11, 2020. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
  35. ^ a b Lee, Jim (June 26, 2024). "(Untitled)". Instagram. Archived from the original on June 26, 2024. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
  36. ^ Young, Matt (June 23, 2024). "Cast Members Speak Out After 'The Real World' Star Dies by Suicide at 52". Daily Beast. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
  37. ^ Danhauer, Whitney (June 23, 2024). "MTV's 'The Real World: Miami' Star Sarah Becker Dead at 52, Cause of Death Revealed". In Touch Weekly. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024. Retrieved June 23, 2024 – via Yahoo! Entertainment.
  38. ^ Campbell, J. Scott (June 23, 2024). "(Untitled)". Instagram. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2024.

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