The Real World: Back to New York (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

The Real World: Back to New York was the tenth 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 Back to New York season first aired in 2001, with the cast living in a four-floor loft at 632 Hudson Street in Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. As its title indicates, Back to New York was the first season of The Real World to take place in a city that had hosted a previous season, marking the show's return to New York which had been the setting for the show's first season in 1992.

Season changes

This season of Real World along with Road Rules: The Quest was the first and only season to be preceeded by a casting special in which 20 potential cast members spent time together for a week to see how they interacted. Among the goings-on during the special was conflict between Coral and Ellen (who would eventually be cast on The Quest).

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 Back to New York housemates were assigned jobs as receptionists for Arista Records during the day, and helped gain publicity for their up-and-coming bands at night. This was also the first season of the show in which a cast member would be ordered to leave the house and show if he or she were fired from the job.

Cast

Cast Member	Age	Hometown	Stats
Coral Smith	22	San Francisco, California	(b. January 19, 1979) Coral grew up as an only child, educated at some of the most prestigous schools. Ms. Smith maintains her stance as a strong feminist. Finds Mike ignorant of black culture and attempts to help him realize the extent of his ignorance and help educate himself. She has appeared in MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes II, and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat. It has been reported by an independent source, to a gay gossip magazine, that when asked why she was in attendance at an annual Bay Area event "Gay Day" she remarked that she was exploring her lesbian side.
Kevin Dunn
Nicole Jackson
Rachel Braband
Mike Mizanin	20	Parma, Ohio	(b. October 8, 1980) He grew up as an only child with divorced parents in a predominantly white upper middle-class neighborhood in the suburbs of Cleveland. Dropped out of Miami University to appear on The Real World. He is the most care free of all of his castmates, but finds himself embroiled in debates and arguments with castmates Nicole and Coral over race. Has an angry and confrontational wrestling alter ego named The Miz, which both annoys and amuses his fellow castmates. Besides The Real World: Back To New York, he has appeared in Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes II, and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II. Currently, he is working as an American professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Entertainment on its ECW brand.
Lori Trespicio	22	Roseland, New Jersey	(b. March 11, 1979) Her ethnically is half-Filipino, half-Caucasian (her father is Filipino). Ranked #72 in Stuff Magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World"(2002) Attended Boston College. She is 5'2 tall. She now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Malik Cooper

Season highlights

• In the first episode, while out at breakfast, Coral was taken aback by the antiquated views on race that Mike related from a family member, including the idea that blacks are "slow". Mike tried to explain that these were merely things that he was told, but Coral and Malik were visibly offended. Malik tried to help Mike understand black culture by teaching him about things like Malcolm X. Nicole was also critical of bi-racial Malik, who wore a Marcus Garvey t-shirt, but dated white women, which she saw as a contradiction, since Garvey was against race mixing.
• Eighteen-year-old Rachel experienced her first brush with city life, and because of her inexperience, endured ridicule at times from her fellow castmates.
• Lori developed feelings for Kevin, but he did not reciprocate the feelings beyond friendship.

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