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OMG, It’s The Real World—in Washington!

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The long-standing MTV reality show is finally making a stop in the nation's capital—for better or worse.

By Emily Leaman   Published Tuesday, June 09, 2009

At long last, MTV’s The Real World is coming to Washington. We’re still deciding if we should be excited or terrified, but we do know that after 22 seasons of the show, it’s about time the cameras and binge-drinking twentysomethings descended on our fair city. Filming is said to start June 20.

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, here are all The Real World: DC facts, gossip, excitement, and hatred floating around the Internet:

• DCist and Wonkette speculated—and the Washington Post’s Reliable Source confirmed—that the cast will be shacking up at the giant brick house at 2000 S Street, Northwest. Someone posted photos of the interior space here, which is being remodeled from drop-ceiling offices to what will likely become an über-mod fraternity-style house with a hot tub, shag carpet, hanging bubble chairs, and communal showers. But that’s just a guess. Also, this guy appears to be their new neighbor.

Here's the soon-to-be The Real World: DC house at 20th and S, Northwest.

• Borderstan’s Matt Rhoades wandered over to the house to check out the digs and reports that “at least one of the cast members will be a gay man and apparently one of the local venues for the drama-to-come will be Halo Lounge.” Bonus points if the gay cast member is also the token minority of the group.

• Predictably, a Facebook group titled The Real World DC, has cropped up and ,as of this writing, has 47 members. So far, the forum looks to be the place for pro-Real Worlders to post ideas on how they plan to stalk the cast. Well, except for member E. E. Guild, who wrote, “I am here only as a witness to what no doubt will be a plague upon our houses.”

• Also predictably, an anti-The Real World: DC blog called, er, The Anti-Real World DC, launched on Saturday and already has 17 posts, 11 contributors, a Twitter feed, and 31 followers. The authors, who say the show will be filmed “20 feet from their house,” describe themselves as “sarcastic DC-ites” and intend to “chronicle their hecking and distaste with MTV’s newest season of The Real World.”

• In case you’re looking to seriously overload your social-networking faculties, there’s also a The Real World: DC Twitter feed aptly titled RealWorldDCNEWZ. Recent tweets include such gems as one about the supposed layout of the house: “1FL: Bedroom, Pool Table. 2FL: Kitchen, phone rm, office, bathroom, livingroom. 3FL: 2 bedrooms & gym.”

• Why.i.hate.dc blogger Anne is taking bets on everything from the first bar the cast will wander into (Wonderland) to the “first blog to snap photos of supposed cast members but it’s actually a bunch of interns looking to get high” (14th and You).

• And Brightest Young Things reminds us that there’s not one but three DC-based reality shows in the pipeline: The Real World: DC, the CW’s Blond Charity Mafia, and The Real Housewives of DC. Washington, get ready for your closeup.

We’ll keep you posted on all the lastest news and gossip as the 24-hour DC reality-show news cycle unfolds. Stay tuned!

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Comments

Anyone know who is the cast for the Real Houswives of DC?

Courtney

Posted by: Courtney Dunbar, Jun 12, 2009 04:18:04 PM

i think its funny that you are either for or against this. why not just let it happen... worst comes to worse your property value goes up, your business probibly get a few frames in the picture and the economy is boosted by all the people wanting to get a glace of these twenty somethings. all i know is i wish i owned a bar in dupont.

Posted by: economy, Jun 12, 2009 12:55:54 PM

Wow whoever shot those interior pics deserves a pat on the back. As an Architect, I will be interested to see what becomes of that amazing space. Looking at the pics I can cubes so I see guess the place was destined to be an office of some sort. As a professional of the type I definitely feel for those hammer-in-hand pros that will have to rewire the place to feel like home. In the end, I imagine the actual owners will be pretty glad the place was retro-fitted back to residential, I can only imagine how much rent will go for in January when all said and done and its chopped up in to studios. I also def agree DC was ready for the Real World 10 years ago. Heck, 10 months ago woulda been a great time to document anything in this town considering the historic events of last Nov.

Posted by: W, Jun 11, 2009 12:06:02 AM

mr. hard worker, i think you took fugazi and bad brains a little too seriously. we’re all from somewhere, but right now, we’re all from here.

so if you’re going to be self-righteous throughout AN ENTIRE COMMENT, "live and let live" is not a good way to end it. just a thought.

Posted by: live and let live?, Jun 10, 2009 08:57:51 PM

hey matt, do you live in anacostia so you can you really speak on behalf of us native washingtonians? are you even from here? im sorry your poor little "new & improved" dupont office cant handle a few tansplanted 20 something kids for 3 mths. btw, have you been to the hill lately, completely overrun by self absorbed 20 somethings, trans-planties that use this city a endless hipster frat party (see u st, et al), that continues to culturally ruin this city - dont see you campaigning against that.

do you know even know what your new & improved dupont use to be like; what kind of actual neighborhood it was, who made it so nice that you and all the whiny self absorbed, yuppie, transplanted, breeders could came here to live and work...so before you start telln who can live in "your neighborhood" that you only work in, think about that the history that existed way before you claimed that area as yours...especially on your commute to home...where-ever that is...

so really who cares if they come here or not, mtv cant be any worse than all those transplants already here wielding their entitlement swords in the name of manifest destiny, telling folks who can and cannot live here...get over it. dc is a great that city is made up of folks from around the world, just leave your nativism attitude from home behind; and live and let live...

Posted by: mr hard worker, Jun 10, 2009 02:44:13 PM

I work next door to the Real World house and I don’t want them in my neighborhood. Why should I be glad that self-absorbed, attention-craving twentysomethings are going to be living next door to where I work? I couldn’t care less about MTV or the Real World. If they want to be ’real’ they should try living in Anacostia, that’s as ’real’ as it gets.

Posted by: Matt, Jun 10, 2009 07:10:10 AM

its about damn time that real world comes to a black city! its gonna be great! next is atlanta!

Posted by: mka, Jun 10, 2009 06:36:14 AM

I don’t see why people have a problem with the Real World coming to their neighborhood. Be glad they even want to come!

Posted by: Shannon, Jun 09, 2009 12:48:57 PM

I’ll be in the oven if anybody needs me

Posted by: dablyputs, Jun 09, 2009 12:21:41 PM

I’ll be in the oven if anybody needs me

Posted by: dablyputs, Jun 09, 2009 12:21:01 PM

www.vevmo.com is the one website for people actually interested it the "Real World: Washington, DC" show, and not the Dupont Circle drama.

Posted by: vevmo.com, Jun 09, 2009 12:20:30 PM

I don’t know if June 20th is realistic. They are still gutting the house and removing sheetrock.

Posted by: freemanh, Jun 09, 2009 11:34:23 AM

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