In what could be the only socially weirdest accommodation we’ve seen in all this crisis of the year, and counting-oh-god-still-counting, TVLine points out that Real world roommate Eric Nies didn’t really live in the show’s home during the recent filming of the next one meeting season, The Real World: Homecoming New York. Instead of serving as a loft mate, Nies was, instead, a screen mate, which had been streamed via a video monitor in the loft where the other cast members from the series left ‘that famous first season, at least in part as an effort. to make everyone suffer a curse on Paramount Plus, please“They were alive.” Given that the whole point of The real world, depending on who you ask, is to see how rude humans can get to each other for an extended period of forced room, this kind of opposite seems contrary to the apparent purpose of the show, but Nies says it wasn’t his call , noting that the setup “was not my choice, but I accepted the result.”
The explanations promised by Nies will be forthcoming, but the immediate assumption probably has something to do with COVID’s quarantine requirements, as it would be a pretty bad thing for MTV to push 7 people into a house and see what happens when they stop being educated and start getting more infectious. The other six participants in the show – Becky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi and Kevin Powell – formally reunited, however, living together in the SoHo loft, where the groundbreaking reality was first shot. show 29 years ago.
The Real World: Homecoming New York will air from tomorrow, March 4, along with the launch of Paramount Plus.