The Real World: Austin
Cast of The Real World: Austin
Format	Reality
Created by	Bunim/Murray Productions
Starring	Johanna Botta Wes Bergman Danny Jamieson Melinda Stolp Nehemiah Clark Rachel Moyal Lacey Buehler
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 minutes including commercials
Broadcast
Original channel	MTV
Original run	June 21, 2005 – November 22, 2005
Chronology
Preceded by	The Real World: Philadelphia
Followed by	The Real World: Key West

The Real World: Austin is the sixteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. The Real World: Austin won "Favorite Season" at the 2008 The Real World Awards Bash.^[1][2]

[edit] Assignment

Almost 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, continued participation in which has been mandatory to remain part of the cast since the Back to New York season. The Austin cast had to shoot, edit and direct their own documentary on the South by Southwest music festival.

[edit] The residence

The San Jacinto Boulevard warehouse where the cast resided.

This season the cast was housed in the west half of a 23,552-square-foot (2,188.1 m²) warehouse at 301 San Jacinto Boulevard at East 3rd Street in Austin, Texas, 8,000 square feet (740 m²) of which were used for filming. The interior used for the series was designed by Austin designer Joel Mozersky. Construction took three and a half weeks. 44 cameras were mounted on walls for filming. After filming ended, the warehouse was completely gutted. The west half of it was turned into a Mexican restaurant called The Rio Grande. The east half was leased to a printing services company.^[3][4]

[edit] Cast

Note 1: Age at the time of filming.

[edit] After filming

The four female cast mates posed in lingerie for a cover feature in Stuff magazine.^[12]

When filming ended Melinda moved to Boston to be with Danny. A film crew followed them in New York City as they took a carriage ride through Central Park and he proposed before the reunion show. On August 2, 2008, they married at Castle Hill outside Boston, with most of their former cast members among those in attendance.^[13]

Wes and Johanna announced during the reunion show that they began dating several months after the conclusion of filming the show. They appeared together in Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat, and Wes promised to use his prize money to pay for her engagement ring as he won the Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel. As of the Gauntlet 3 reunion show Wes and Johanna are no longer together. During the reunion special for Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island, which premiered November 5, 2008, it was revealed that Kelly Anne Judd from The Real World: Sydney was dating Wes at the time.

At the 2008 The Real World Awards Bash, the Austin season won "Favorite Season" Danny and Melinda won "Favorite Love Story" and Johanna won "Favorite Dance-Off".^[1][2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• MTV's The Real World: Austin official site
• The Real World: Austin Warehouse
• The Real World and Road Rules Blog