Teens affected by Hurricane Katrina interview for “The Real World” Denver’s Outward Bound trip. Photo from the Picayune Item.
– We’ve known for some time that “The Real World” Denver cast were working as guides for Outward Bound, a non-profit wilderness education group. Now a story in Mississippi’s Picayune Item has confirmed where they went during their long trip a few weeks ago, and where they’ll be going the first week of August…
– The story (which can be read here in its entirety) says the teens were hand-selected by Terri Bailey, a local social worker and author, who was approached by MTV for the task. She interviewed them, “for the chance to be on the show and win an all-expenses-paid trip to Outward Bound in Denver, Colorado for five days and four nights. The boys’ trip is scheduled for mid-July, while the girls’ trip is scheduled for the first week of August.” (emphasis added)
– She eventually selected ten boys and ten girls from the lot to “share their stories of loss, hope, and recovery concerning Hurricane Katrina.” But there were reservations: “…when Bailey was first contacted by … ‘The Real World’ producers, she had heard of the questionable nature of the show and was not sure if it was a good idea to send the children to the camp, where cast members from ‘The Real World’ would be acting as their counselors for the duration of the trip.
– “However, Bailey soon realized that these amazing children had the ability to bring a new, fresh view to MTV,” the article went on to say. “’It suddenly occurred to me the opportunity we had to change the face of MTV, if only by one episode,’ Bailey said.” (emphasis added)
– It seems like a noble thing for MTV to do, and Bailey was right to give these teens a chance to experience something outside of their storm-ravaged hometown, but the smell of exploitation is never far from “The Real World.” It’ll be interesting to see how MTV milks it when the show airs.
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John..had you done your homework you would have found this listing last month
MTV’s The Real World looking for youth group leaders/teachers
Reply to: job-170826176@craigslist.org Date: 2006-06-12, 4:31PM CDT MTV’s The Real World is looking to find students between the ages of 14-16 for a …
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/edu/170826176.html
Try Google it works
Comment by asley — July 27, 2006 @ 1:39 pm
asley — I try to spend about a few hours a day Googling various “Real World”-related things, but sometimes I don’t catch it all.
Comment by John Wenzel — July 27, 2006 @ 1:41 pm
So why didn’t you know this?
Comment by asley — July 27, 2006 @ 1:58 pm
Guess I missed it…
Comment by John Wenzel — July 27, 2006 @ 2:01 pm
You all need to stop being complete jerks to John. He doesn’t know EVERYTHING nor should he. I’m pretty sure he’s not claiming to be an expert on all things Real World. PS – If you haven’t noticed, since we can post comments, this is more of a message board than a source for facts. Feel free to attack this post, I know someone will.
Comment by Kris — July 28, 2006 @ 8:49 am