The Real World: Las Vegas (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

The Real World: Las Vegas was the twelfth 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. First airing in 2002, the Las Vegas cast lived in a converted penthouse suite on the 28th floor of the Las Vegas Palms Casino and Resort. The Las Vegas season was the second highest-rated season of the series after 2002's Chicago installment. This was the fourth season of The Real World to be filmed in the western United States (after The Real World: Los Angeles in 1993, The Real World: San Francisco in 1994 and The Real World: Seattle in 1998).

Production

The owner of The Palms Casino Hotel, where the season was filmed, asked for production to cast exclusively people over 21 years old. Thus this was the first season in which all the castmates were at least that old.

The Palms demolished six rooms to make the hotel suite that the season was filmed in, at a cost of over two million dollars. The suite is now called the "Real World Suite", and is available for stays by guests.

During the weekend preceding the debut of the Denver season, MTV re-aired the Las Vegas season. The marathon ran November 18-19, 2006. The entire season was again re-aired on May 26-27, 2007, preceding the airing of the miniseries Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas.

Assignment

Every season of the The Real World, beginning with its fifth season, has included the assignment of a season-long group job or task to the housemates. The Las Vegas housemates had various jobs throughout the season involving the Palms Casino and Resort in which they lived, including promotional work for the night club, "Rain in the Desert", cocktail waiting, and go-go dancing.

Cast Members

Cast Member	Age	Hometown
Arissa Hill	22	Boston, Massachusetts
Frank Roessler	22	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Trishelle Cannatella	22	Cut Off, Louisiana
Brynn Smith	21	Portland, Oregon
Alton Williams	22	San Diego, California
Steven Hill	23	San Marcos, Texas
Irulan Wilson	21	Bronx, New York

Season highlights

Trishelle and Steven had an on-again-off again sexual relationship (even though Steven was in the middle of a divorce), which at one point resulted in a pregnancy scare for Trishelle (due to their seemingly utter refusal to use condoms). Trishelle later posed for Playboy magazine after the show and is one of the more well-known Real World cast members.

On the castmates' third day in the suite, three of them (Steven, Trishelle and Brynn) had a threesome.

Alton and Irulan began a romantic relationship, which resulted in the break up of Irulan and her boyfriend back at home, Gabe. Alton and Irulan were still together by the time they both appeared on their first season of the spinoff show Real World/Road Rules Challenge, but later broke up.

Arissa had difficulty trusting her roommates, and at times exhibited a temper. She also had a strained relationship with her family, including her mother and her uncle who would frequently call and upset her. Arissa would later pose for Playboy magazine after the show.

Brynn experienced emotional outbursts, including one in which she threw a fork at Steven. This incident sparked major controversy in the suite, and Steven was adamant about having Brynn thrown out until they had a heart to heart discussion; showing Steven that Brynn was just like him when he was younger.

Frank searched for love while in Las Vegas, starting with Trishelle though ending quickly after Trishelle made out with Steven in front of him. He later started dating a girl from out of town, but he admitted cheating on her over the telephone. Frank also applied for business school at USC and was accepted.

Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas

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In early 2007, every cast member signed a contract to appear in a mini-series that reunited them as they once again lived together in the very same suite at the Hotel. Filming began on April 9, 2007, and lasted three weeks. MTV began airing the six-episode spinoff series, Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas in May 2007.

The cast all signed contracts to reunite five years later and filming began on April 16, 2007.

MTV aired a six-episode series surrounding the group starting at the end of May 2007, occurring between the airing of The Real World Denver and The Real World Sydney.

Trishelle was hesitant in filming the reunion series, worried that it would interfere with projects she was working on. She was also the only castmember who didn't make it to the reunion taping that aired right after the series ended.

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