• 'Fraternity Life' frat has "recognition" permanently revoked by university

  June 17, 2003
  The student newspaper of University Of California at Santa Cruz reports that the university has announced that it has "revoked recognition" of the Delta Omega Chi fraternity over an incident last month that resulted in the death of a campus koi fish. The revocation, which is permanent, means that the campus has severed all ties to the fraternity. Without UCSC affiliation, the fraternity will no longer have access to campus services or facilities.

• 'The Osbournes' premiere ratings down almost 50% from last season

  June 14, 2003
  The Hollywood Reporter reports that MTV's hit "The Osbournes" plummeted in its third-season premiere, drawing just more than half the audience that tuned in to last season's debut episode.

• Producers pull the plug on filming 'Real World/Road Rules Challenge' in Newport, RI

  June 12, 2003
  The Newport Daily News is reporting that "unresolved zoning issues" (and apparently not neighborhood protests) have forced MTV to pull the plug on their previously announced plans to film the upcoming edition of "The Real World/Road Rules Challenge" in Newport. Newport mayor Richard C. Sardella announced that MTV was pulling out of Newport after Wednesday night's Newport City Council meeting. "Newport is out of the question for this year," Sardella said. "I'm disappointed. I think it's something the city will miss." "We were looking at (Newport) locations probably up to an hour ago," Julie Pizzi, co-executive producer for Bunim-Murray Productions, said about 9PM Wednesday. The show is scheduled to begin shooting its seventh season June 27.

• Donell Langham of 'Road Rules: South Pacific' facing domestic violence charges

  June 12, 2003
  Another day, another reality TV contestant scandal. Just two days after uncovering the sexual misconduct past of "For Love Or Money" bachelor Rob Campos, The Smoking Gun reported today that Donnell Langham, age 21 and currently appearing in MTV's "Road Rules: South Pacific," was arrested last July for assault and battery after allegedly striking his teenage girlfriend and throwing her to the ground and dragging her several feet.

• Ritzy Newport neighbors protesting MTV's plans to film 'Real World/Road Rules Challenge' in Newport mansion

  June 11, 2003
  Well, perhaps we spoke too soon when we compared the enthusiastic reaction that Newport, Rhode Island mayor Richard C. Sardella expressed upon discovering that MTV and Bunim/Mrray Productions planned to film the latest edition of their "The Real World/Road Rules Challenge" series in Newport with the lawsuit that local Chicago residents filed after discovering the Bumin/Murray planned to film their new sundicated "Starting Over" series in their ritzy Gold coast neighborhood. Apparently the location might be different, but the reaction of the local snobby would-be neighbors remains the same, as the Providence Journal is reporting that Newport neighbors are now mounting opposition to MTV's plans to film one of its popular reality programs at a Bellevue Avenue mansion later this month.

• MTV's 'Fraternity Life' in trouble with the law again

  June 11, 2003
  Two seasons of MTV's show Fraternity Life, two fraternities in trouble with both their universities and the law. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that two members of the Delta Omega Chi fraternity at the University of California -- Santa Cruz ("UCSC") have been charged with a pair of misdemeanors for a stunt performed for the MTV cameras. The two allegedly stole a fish from a UCSC reflecting pond on May 20, fried it, and then forced fraternity pledges to eat it,

• 'Real World/Road Rules Challenge' looking to film in Newport, RI starting June 27th

  June 7, 2003
  The Providence Journal is reporting that MTV and Bunim/Murray Productions are hoping to film the latest edition of their "The Real World/Road Rules Challenge" series in Newport, Rhode Island starting on June 27th. Filming would last about a month with the series tentatively set to premiere on MTV on September 22nd. As in previous editions, the program would feature 28 former cast members from two MTV programs, "The Real World" and "Road Rules," competing in a series of sports and endurance events. MTV staffers, who are already in Newport, have been scouting out spots for the show's competitions, including Newport Harbor, Fort Adams, and Navy facilities. The winner will take home $300,000.

• Kelley Limp of 'Real World: New Orleans' engaged to actor Scott Wolf

  June 5, 2003
  In a "where are they now " update, US magazine is reporting that Kelley Limp from "The Real World: New Orleans," age 26, recently became engaged to 34-year-old actor Scott Wolf (best known for his FOX "Party Of Five" Bailey role.) InStyle Magazine first reported that the two were dating in its August 2002 edition.

• 'Road Rules: South Pacific' cast member Mary Beth Decker has 'Playboy' posing past

  June 1, 2003
  The New York Post is reporting that about a month before Mary Beth Decker spent weeks traveling through Fiji, Tahiti and New Zealand in a tiny RV with five castmates last February as part of MTV's new "Road Rules: South Pacific" series, she was the Playboy Cyber Girl of the Month. The magazine reportedly originally discovered her for its 2002 Girls of the Big 12 pictorial.

• 'Real World: Seattle' houseguest Rebecca Lord joins band with Keanu Reeves

  May 20, 2003
  Who says that reality TV stars are allotted only 15 minutes of fame? Kimberly Potts of E! Online reports that MTV's Real World: Seattle houseguest Rebecca Lord, a Virginia native who was an aspiring 19-year-old singer during that show, is now fronting a group named "becky." The bass player in becky is none other than Hollywood matinee idol (and star of The Matrix trilogy) Keanu Reeves.

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