Dan, Ruthie, Steven, Trishelle and San Diego cast weigh in on the new Philadelphia season

For those of you checking out the Blog before the Preview Special airs on MTV tonight, a preview of the preview special was aired on TRL today. In addition to Dan (Miami), Cameran (San Diego) and Jamie (San Diego), the preview special will hear what Ruthie (Hawaii), Steven (Las Vegas), Trishelle (Las Vegas) and what the rest of the San Diego has to say about the new Philadelphia season.

The cast shows up with Bon Jovi over at WireImage

If you head over to Wireimage, you can see photos of Bon Jovi and the Philadelphia cast at a press conference yesterday. (Search for Bon Jovi or MTV Real World.) The cast's job in the later part of the show was to build a playground with the Soul Community Outreach Program. They held a press conference to open the playground yesterday.

Preview episode of Philadelphia airs tonight; Coral and Abram may be dating

The preview episode of The Real World XV: Philadelphia will air tonight. Expect to see snippets of the new season and old castmembers talk, talk, talk about the new roomies.

And I've been receiving numerous sightings of two very suspicious alumni. We're all hearing rumors that Coral (Back to New York) and Abram (South Pacific) are dating. They actually started something secretly during the Inferno and apparently we're supposed to see something of their romance in Battle of the Sexes 2. However, many people have been catching both Coral and Abram out in public, schmoozing it up, in each other's arms. Well, the latest sighting was the most interesting as someone spotted the couple at Disney's California Adventure with none other than Abram's parents. Good luck to those two and we'll see them on the Battle this fall!

New York Post details Philadelphia cast; The cast may have two gay male castmembers

The NYPost published a very interesting article today. The castmembers moved out over the last two days and are currently in the middle of press week, so there will be lots of stories on the seven strangers over the next week. But the article does reveal some interesting tidbits about the new season.

MTV.com already confirmed that Willy was the gay castmember. But, The Real World will make history this season with two gay men on the show. (Chicago had two gay people, male and female.) However, you may seem to notice that the fact was left out of the MTV profiles, because the person "(as yet unidentified)... tackles coming out of the closet on the show."

This actually wouldn't be the first time someone "came out" on the show. If you remember way back when, five seasons ago in New Orleans, editors portrayed Danny as "straight" on the casting special. On the first episode, they made it seem like Danny "came out" in between the end of casting finals and the start of filming the show. (Viewers later found out that it was a ploy of producers and that Danny had came out before the casting of the show.)

There was speculation on The Real World Philly Boards that Karamo was gay and Sarah is quoted in the article as saying, "We have political debates, and there are issues of race and sexuality with two gay men in the house." She also comments on how all the castmembers are all over 21, five are all over 23. There is also talk about the fight involving Shavonda and Landon, a romance in the house, the set-up of the Seamen's Insitute, and how the cast got tattoos in Fiji. Check out the article here.

Philadelphia profiles are up; Yes is on the Driving Votes Caravan

Over the weekend, MTV posted up profiles of the seven strangers and should be posting information on Battle of the Sexes relatively soon. The premiere special with Dan (Miami), Cameran (San Diego) and Jamie (San Diego) (amongst others) will be airing tomorrow night.

And an update on a former castmember: Yes (Semester At Sea) is traveling with the Driving Votes RV Caravan. He's working hard to register voters in swing states just in time for the upcoming Presidential election. He left Seattle on Friday and will arrive in New York next week in time for the RNC after registering voters in Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Anyone and everyone is invited to come meet up with Yes at the Driving Votes RV at each stop! Here is a schedule of meet-up dates and locations.

For those of you that are American citizens and are over 18, be sure to register to vote in time for the Presidential election in November. Be sure to register especially if you live in the following states: FL, NM, WI, IA, OR, NH, MN, MI, OH, NV, TN, PA. Go to either Rock the Vote or Declare Yourself to learn more about how to register to vote.

Philadelphia promos begin to air on MTV

For those of you waiting for those Philly promos, MTV has started to air them. There are several different types of promos being aired at this time, but they're not in heavy rotation and probably won't be until the week before the season premieres in September. Probably check MTV.com's website as they will probably update fairly soon.

Bon Jovi issues a press release for the Real World Philadelphia

For those of you hardcore Jon Bon Jovi fans, Another official press release has been released over at Bon Jovi's site confirming that the seven strangers will be working with the Philadelphia Soul. The short bit says that there will be some Jon Bon Jovi and Philadelphia Soul footage, but it is unclear how much will be included. You can probably expect the band frontman not to have a vested interest in the Real Worlders job, but to have a presence similar to that of George Maloof in the Las Vegas season, where Maloof delegated supervision of the seven strangers to someone else... The article posted on the site also tagged on the press release that was at the Soul's webpage (see previous post), which cleared up some confusion which had the Real Worlders working with the Soul's community program after the football season ended during early taping of the show.