The Real World: Sydney

The Real World: Sydney
Created by	Bunim/Murray Productions
Starring	Cohutta Dunbar Isaac Kelly Anne Parisa Shauvon Trisha Ashli
Country of origin	USA
Production
Running time	30 minutes, including commercials
Original release
Network	MTV
Release	August 8th, 2007

The Real World: Sydney is the current and nineteenth 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.

Production lasted from February to May 26, 2007. The season was set in a contemporary 20,000-square-foot, waterfront house at 19 Darling Walk in Darling Harbour. The season premiered on August 8, 2007.

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. This season, the cast is assigned to work for Contiki Tours, a vacation travel package planning company, creating a Sydney tour package.

Cast

Cast members were first photographed and identified by the media while participating in a Contiki tour at the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park.

On August 1, 2007, the New York Daily News reported that according to MTV, Persian cast member Parisa Montazaran is the show's first Muslim. Mohammed Bilal, of the 1994 San Francisco season, however, is a Muslim.

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Cast Member	Age1	Hometown	Biography	RW/RR Challenges
Cohutta Lee Grindstaff	23	Blue Ridge, Georgia	As shown in the premiere episode, Cohutta builds log homes for a living. He has done very little traveling away from home, and characterizes his home town and family as being "slower", because they take the time to sit down to eat together and enjoy the moment. Consequently, he feels out of place whenever he visits a city.
Dunbar Flinn	22	Natchez, Mississippi	Dunbar's family lost everything after a money-laundering scandal, and Dunbar was forced to negotiate his own financial situation, and take responsibility for his life. He has two brothers, aged 27 and 19. He enrolled in the military in order to pay for his education at the University of Mississippi, where he belonged to a fraternity. He is committed to his girlfriend back home. MTV.com describes him as "well-spoken, opinionated on political issues, literature and poetry, arrogant, and hot-headed." In the premiere, he claims to be more proud of being Southern than of being an American. In Act 2 of Episode 7, he says that his father used to beat him and his older brother, and that he had himself emancipated at age 15. In Episode 8, he reveals that his grandfather tried several times to molest him when he was a child. While attending private school at age 16-17, he was forced to take anger management classes in order to stay at the school.
Isaac Stout	21	Cleveland, Ohio	Isaac is from Cleveland, Ohio and a business major at the University of Arizona. As he explains in the season premiere, he is an artist and a musician with a history of juvenile delinquency, having been put on probation for robbing 15 houses and shooting off fireworks through someone's window. Given the choice between nine months in jail and a "treatment center", he chose the latter, in order to reevaluate his direction in life. He is Jewish. In Episode 16, he reveals that he used to take a lot of LSD, from which he still suffers from occasional hallucinations of birds, and that when he sees a black bird, he interprets it as a premonition that someone has died.
Kelly Anne Judd	20	Georgetown, Texas	Kelly Anne, as she explains in the season premiere, grew up very poor, particularly compared to those she grew up with, and as a result, did not feel she fit in. She claims that if she feels someone is walking all over her, she fights back fiercely. For her entry video, she stripped down to her undershirt and panties, on which she had written, "Make it Hott: Pick Me!", explaining that she likes the attention, and is not used to other girls getting more attention than her. She is of mixed heritage that includes Italian and Irish.
Parisa Montazaran	21	New York City, New York	The daughter of Iranian immigrants who grew up in Long Island and Commack, New York, and an aspiring singer, Montazaran told the New York Daily News that the experience of living with cameras was an "exaggerated existence", which amounted to "partying seven days a week", but that she did nothing during her stay that would embarrass her or her family, though she did call home one night when she drank too much. Parisa says in the premiere that she recently graduated college early in order to concentrate on her music.
Shauvon Torres	24	Sacramento, California	Shauvon is a 24-year-old journalism major at the California State University Sacramento, and as she says in the premiere, wants to be a news reporter. She has her own dating and relationships column called "Sexcapades". She insists that she is not the blonde bimbo that people may think she looks like. She recently ended a long-term relationship with a man who told her she had to choose between a career and marriage and children. She later reconciles with him, and moves out in Episode 14 in order to return home.
Trisha Cummings	19	Fresno, California	In the premiere, Trisha says that she and her friends are the stereotypical "hot preppy girl" clique. Her parents gave her a promise ring when she was twelve, as a symbol that she would retain her virginity until marriage, but as her boyfriend Jarod states in her home video, they have not upheld that resolution. From early in the season, and repeatedly during it, she comes into conflict with Parisa. In Episode 18, she is sent home for shoving Parisa to the floor during a heated argument.
Ashli Robson	19	Huntington Beach, California	Ashli is a 19-year-old from Huntington Beach, California who moves into the house in Episode 15 as a replacement for Shauvon. She explains when moving in that she is currently single, but "ready to mingle". When she moves in, it is apparent to her, Trisha and Parisa that she and Trisha are very much alike and have similar interests. She is attracted to Dunbar, and laments that he has a girlfriend.

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Episodes

For more detailed episode synopses, see Episodes of The Real World: Sydney.

Episode 1. "G'Day, Australia!"

The housemates meet and settle into the house. Parisa is disappointed that Dunbar has a girlfriend. Trisha rooms with Kelly Anne, and Shauvon rooms with Parisa, and thus friendships form. After Parisa greets Kelly Anne and Trisha, she goes off to explore the house, and Kelly Anne and Trisha, who have already done this, see this as standoffish. The men agree that Kelly Anne is the most attractive of the women, though Dunbar thinks Parisa is the deepest and least shallow. The housemates go to a nightclub, where Isaac and Shauvon flirt, and Kelly Anne gets drunk. At the hosue, Kelly Anne flirts with Dunbar in the hot tub, which tests Dunbar's loyalty to his girlfriend. Parisa and Shauvon are appalled by Kelly Anne's behavior.

Episode 2. "Hittin' The Hot Tub"

Parisa and Shauvon discuss Kelly Anne's behavior the previous night, and Kelly Anne confronts them, later accusing them of jealousy. Trisha and Parisa argue over a mess in the kitchen. Later, Trisha relates an incident at McDonald's in which she criticized an Asian employee's less-than-perfect English,, which offends Parisa, who has experienced anti-immigrant bigotry. Kelly Anne and Trisha try to gain Dunbar's sympathy in their conflict with Parisa and Shauvon, but he remains neutral. Shauvon and Isaac flirt. Kelly Anne makes amends, makes amends with Shauvon and Parisa.

Episode 3. "Suddenly Single"

Trisha argues with her boyfriend, Jarod, saying she wants to take a break. She invites a man named Alex to the house, but Cohutta and Isaac disapprove. She also helps set up a date for Shauvon, who regrets having flirted with Isaac, and wants to take advantage of local men. At a group dinner, Trisha and Alex flirt, and Parisa gets drunk, and is carried home by Dunbar. Trisha expresses dislike of her, but Shauvon defends her. Shauvon has a romantic interlude with a local man named Ky, much to Isaac's lament, and eventually, Shauvon's regret. Trisha decides to slow down to decide what she wants out of her love life. She and Parisa then get into a heated argument over the use of the email computer.

Episode 4. "They’ve Got Chemistry"

Parisa and Dunbar flirt, but Kelly Anne disapproves. Shauvon observes chemistry between the two, but feels a relationship is unlikely because of Dunbar's girlfriend. Dunbar insists that he is not flirting, because he does not like Parisa, and the two later exchange more unkind words. Isaac meets an Irish woman named Noirin, and they later share the hot tub and Isaac's bed. Parisa vents her frustrations to Dunbar in a letter, but Dunbar sees a contradiction between Parisa's statement of having a crush on him, and of disapproving of Kelly Anne's flirting with him.

Episode 5. "Mini Crush"

Kelly says that she and Dunbar and only friends. Dunbar, incredulous that Parisa doesn't see that he isn't interested in her, tells her he will not respond to her letter until she shows herself capable of the relationship he'd like to have with her. Thinking that Dunbar thinks she has feelings for him, Kelly Anne regrets flirting with him. Dunbar criticizes Parisa’s singing, and she walks away from what she sees as abuse. Kelly Anne and Cohutta flirt, and when Dunbar walks in on them in bed, he calls her “a cock-tease.”

Episode 6. "Wet and Wild"

Kelly Anne ponders her feelings for Cohutta, and when discussing this with her ex-boyfriend Sutton, she is brought to tears. Trisha flirts with Cohutta, angering Kelly Anne, but Shauvon's is surprised by this. Shauvon and Isaac argue, during which he calls her a "drunk, stupid slut". Kelly Anne speculates that Shauvon, who had a dalliance with Isaac, is reacting to his relationship with Noirin. Isaac apologizes to Shauvon, who later regrets her behavior.

Episode 7. "Whining and Dining"

Kelly Anne receives flowers from a man she met named Carey, but Dunbar is dismissive of this because Carey doesn't pay his own bills. He and Trisha then argue, and Dunbar storms out. Trisha and Shauvon later discuss Dunbar's anger. Dunbar later angers Parisa and Trisha over a discussion of Jesus and the Bible. Isaac speculates Dunbar's anger to be a result of lack of sex, and jokingly buys a pornographic magazine for him to aid in masturbation. Kelly Anne goes on a date with Carey, but finds she is not more attracted to him than Cohutta. She returns home, and share a bed.

Episode 8. "Mardis Gras Mayhem"

Going to Gay Mardis Gras provokes anticipation from the cast, except for Cohutta, who fears being perceived as gay, and Trisha, who has religious objections to it. The two of them stay home that night, and find a lot in common. Kelly Anne also keeps them company. Shauvon is offended that Trisha referred to homosexuals as "evil". Dunbar reveals his grandfather tried to molest him as a child. Trisha and Cohutta, while eating out with Kelly Anne, get into an argument after he lifts her dress.

Episode 9. “Boys Vs. Girls”

The group will plan vacation packages for Contiki Tours. Parisa's early wake-up call and singing the next day irritate Dunbar, Isaac and Trisha, who calls her singing “Christina Aguilera gone bad.” After meeting with their boss, Sarah, Trisha tries driving, but Dunbar criticizes her use of a cell phone while doing so. Trisha tells Parisa that Dunbar criticized her cooking as an excuse to socialize, and her singing as well, saying she's "not as good as Christina Aguilera". When Parisa confronts Dunbar, he says it is Trisha who criticized Parisa and her singing. Parisa expresses feelings of betrayal over this to Trisha.

Episode 10. “Love Triangle”

Isaac teases Cohutta for having sex with Kelly Anne. Parisa and Trisha become involved in a love triangle with Alex, Trisha's date from the prior night. Kelly Anne and Shauvon are sympathetic to Trisha's feelings, but feel she has no say in anything regarding Alex because she has a boyfriend. Parisa goes out with Alex, which Trisha sees as a violation of the "girl code". Shauvon observes both Parisa and Trisha making out with Alex. She reports this to Parisa, who continues seeing him.

Episode 11. “The Grilled Cheese Incident”

The love triangle between Parisa, Trisha and Alex continues. Shauvon relates her observations to Trisha, and when Parisa does the same with Dunbar, Shauvon sees this as a betrayal of trust. She later gets into a heated argument with Parisa, accusing her of cooking for the others and not her in order to curry favor with them. Parisa explains that Shauvon wanted something other than what she was cooking, which would've required other ingredients. Cohutta and Isaac try to defend Parisa, leading to a screaming match between Cohutta and Shauvon. Trisha later accuses Parisa get into another screaming match, during which Parisa excoriates Trisha for cheating on her boyfriend.

Episode 12. “Girl Fight”

Parisa and Trisha’s conflict continues. Shauvon has a fling with a man named David to get over her ex-fiancé, David, but she then regrets it, and is brought to tears when emailing David. Trisha ends her relationship with Alex. She does not object to Parisa continuing to see him, but when she asks her not to bring him to the house, she refuses. David and Shauvon share a tearful phone call. He asks her to come home, but she doesn’t want to cut her stay in Australia short.

Episode 13. “Anger Mis-Management”

Shauvon struggles between staying in Australia and reuniting with David. Dunbar and Parisa get into an argument over the cleanliness of the house, and he accuses her of being inconsiderate. Dunbar's girlfriend Julie visits. Shauvon discusses her situation with Trisha and Isaac. Parisa reacts in disbelief when Dunbar claims to have never been mean to her. He later screams at her profanely at Contiki, and is admonished by their supervisor, Chris. Dunbar says his behavior is simply how he is in life, that Parisa is far more hostile to him, and that his behavior is merely retaliatory.

Episode 14. “Second Fiddle”

Isaac and Dunbar advise Cohutta to cease his relationship with Kelly Anne, who still has a boyfriend. Shauvon tells her housemates that she's moving out, and leaves the next morning. Contiki sends the group to Cairns, Australia. Kelly Anne feels torn between Cohutta and Sutton. At a bar, she dances with a bartender named Prahn, and is angry when Parisa later does so herself, later calling her "slutty", but later admits this was mean. She regrets speaking to Sutton, and asks Cohutta if he likes her.

Episode 15. "The New Girl"

Isaac and Noirin continue their relationship. Shauvon's replacement, Ashli, moves in. Trisha and Parisa observe that Ashli is very much like Trisha, which pleases Trisha, but disappoints Parisa, having hoped the new roommate would be one she could relate to more. Ashli feels Parisa hasn't tried to get to know her, despite her own attempts to do so. Isaac socializes with three girls he met at a bar, but ends the evening when they fail to measure up to Noirin. Trisha says Parisa has been isolating herself from the others lately, and Parisa regrets that she has treated a total stranger as she has Ashli because of a first impression.

Episode 16. "The Birds"

Isaac finds out that his beloved grandfather died, and goes home for a few days, much to his housemates' worry. At Contiki, the housemates form two teams competing on an assignment, and the winner will receive a trip to Europe. Ashli laments that Dunbar has a girlfriend, in light of her attraction to him, and is bothered when a blonde girl named Greer flirts with him at a club, calling her a "slut" before walking away.

Episode 17. "Off the Hook"

Trisha and Parisa, who both wish to speak to their loved ones, get into a heated argument over the use of the phone. Dunbar misses Julie, but gets into an argument with her over her name-calling. Dunbar flirts with Ashli, who feels they would've had sex were it not for Julie. As the housemates clean up, Parisa says she'll do her portion later, which irritates Trisha. She and Parisa later get into another argument over the phone, and when Parisa accuses of Trisha of preferring to talk to Jarod over her own family, Trisha becomes incensed and shoves Parisa to the floor. Parisa contacts the producers to complain.

Episode 18. "Enjoy Your Flight"

Most of the cast feel Parisa should forgive Trisha. Kelly Anne predicts Parisa's remaining time in the house will be unpleasant if she sends Trisha home. Parisa feels they are unsympathetic to her point of view, and that Trisha was insincere in her apology. She sends Trisha home. Trisha sees this as confirmation that she is the better person, and accuses Parisa of sending her home because Trisha says what others think of her. Seeing this as confirmation that Trisha still looks down at everyone, Parisa responds, "Enjoy your flight. Take care." Kelly Anne and Ashli resolve to make life unpleasant for Parisa. At Contiki, Ashli and Parisa are placed on the same team, to their mutual displeasure. Dunbar tells Parisa he's happy she evicted Trisha, whom he did not like.

Episode 19. "Friends Again"

Isaac returns, and is pleased about Trisha's eviction, arguing that no one liked her. Kelly Anne insists that she did. Parisa is relieved at Isaac's statements. Not wanting to continue hating Parisa, Kelly Anne begins softening towards her, and apologizes to her. Ashli acknowledges she isn't privy to what went on before she moved in, and concedes Trisha's eviction was the result of what she did. Isaac takes a nude dip in the house's human-sized fish tank. The cast enjoys group dip in the hot tub. Dunbar has sex with Julie, but they regret it the next day.

Music

• Johanna Stahley, "I Can"
• The Superficials, "Graceful Lady"
• Jared Scharff and The Royals, "Confrontational"
• Pi, "When We Die"
• The Transition, "Air We Breathe"
• Jim Boggia, "Live The Proof"
• Alyssa Atherton, "Breakdown (Who I Am)"
• Jason Mattia, "Soar"
• The Superficials, "Stood Me Up"
• Soular, "You Taste You Feel"
• Vibrolux, "Impossible"
• Downlo, "Ain't It A Shame"
• We Are The Fury, "Now You Know"
• Shiny Toy Guns, "Le Disko"
• Lusine, "Everything Under The Sun"
• Amy Winehouse, "You Know I'm No Good"

• Prozac, "Direct Get Gone"
• Hockey Night, "For Guys Eyes Only"
• The Surftones, "Tiki Kiki"
• The Superficials, "Ain't It A Drag"
• Five Times August, "Better With You"
• Pi, "Monster"
• Cabin, "Less Than Equals 2"
• The Cherry Tempo, "Treble Is High"
• Howling Diablos, "Carwash"
• Lamakitasoma, "Spirit of 26th and California"
• The Gold Stars, "Babblin Brook"
• Three day Threshold, "I Must Admit"
• Sam Rhansum, "Little Lady"
• The Feeling, "Sewn"
• Secrets in Stereo, "Not Today"

External Links

• MTV's Official The Real World: Sydney Site