Sydney Casting Special: The alumni discuss the new seven strangers

Blair (The Quest), Randy (San Diego), Colie (Denver), Wes (Austin), Paula (Key West) and Svetlana (Key West) start by sitting around the couch, discussing the season.

Issac (Sydney) is first and he talks about the calamity that is his life. He talks about the stuff that he pulls, how he gets high, how he gets drunk. He’s a “boob guy”. He says that he can always find good things about everyone.

Shavoun (Sydney) has her own column called “Sexcapades”. She wants to be an entertainment reporter. She’s single and she got out of a long-term relationship where her boyfriend made her pick between her career and him.

The alumni talk about how Issac and Shavoun might hook up. Blair shows a sneak peak, where the two of them are flirting heavily throughout their season. The two are making out in the confessional and are caught by roommates. The two end up fighting later in the season.

The alumni discuss the two. They’re excited about the impending fights. Randy thinks she’s pretty, but she’s not his type. Wes thinks that he could be friends with her and she looks intimidating.

Dunbar (Sydney) is next. He’s more proud to be Southern than he is to be American. His girlfriend Julie is something accidental, but he acknowledges it to be special because she is willing to do anything to make him happy.

Parisa (Sydney) is from New York City. She knew since she was little that she was different. Her friends think that nothing fazes her, that she’s the “tin man”. Parisa used to have trouble rejecting guys. She used to put a lot of self-worth in her relationships.

The alumni girls seem to love Dunbar. Parisa takes herself too seriously, according to Colie.

Dunbar and Parisa meet each other. Parisa said that if Dunbar is single, it would be a fairytale. Parisa flirts heavily with Dunbar and he responds by treating her differently than the rest of the cast. The two end up fighting because he seems to be disrespectful toward her.

The alumni feel like the relationship between the two is unrequited. They think that Parisa is finally learning what it is like to be rejected. Paula calls him a beefcake.

Cohutta (Sydney) is up. He’s from a “different country” where everyone knows everybody. He introduces us to his family. He’s looking for a “good mama” that he can “take back to the mountains” and raise some children with.

KellyAnne (Sydney) doesn’t like guys who talk about their families, bad kissers, bad teeth, people who have different opinions of her. She wrote “Pick Me” on her underwear in her casting video.

Paula says that Cohutta seems genuine and he’s going to get rocked the most. Colie says it’s weird that he’s living in 1976. Paula says he won’t be used to these kind of girls that show up on the show. Colie says that this Real World harkens back to the “social experiment” because there are different people reacting to each other.

KellyAnne hears Shavoun and Parisa talking about her in the bathroom. Parisa doesn’t want to babysit and KellyAnne flirts heavily with Dunbar, which irritates Parisa. KellyAnne calls herself a “co$%tease”. KellyAnne and Cohutta seem to be crushing on each other later in the season.

Wes says that he hates girls that are teases. Colie says that she’s gonna get picked on by the other girls, but the other girls says that she may want to get picked on.

Trisha (Sydney) comes to the house with a boyfriend and a chastity ring, kind of. She got the ring when she was 12 years old, but she lost her virginity. Trisha is trying to “get it all out right now”.

Wes likes Trisha more than he likes KellyAnne. He thinks that he’s trying to figure out what she’s about.

Trisha and Parisa start a fight. The tension seems to mount. Trisha starts to flirt with Cohutta, which irritates KellyAnne. Trisha seems to try and hit Parisa.

The alumni think that this season will be good. Blair can’t wait for the Sydney cast to see the casting special and talk about the alumni.

"Going Down Under: A First Look at the Real World" airs tonight; Post your reactions here

The casting special "Going Down Under: A First Look at the Real World" airs tonight. We will be introduced to the seven strangers, most likely a brief snippet that has a couple of interviews, and shows what life is like at home. They'll also be sure to interject some of this season's drama in the preview tonight.

Post your reactions in the comments section to what you think about the seven strangers first appearance on MTV. Are you going to enjoy this season? Do you like how this season was cast? What are you looking forward to? Can you wait to see these faces on future Challenges?

This episode airs tonight at 10pm.

Parisa says that she does nothing in the upcoming season that would embarass her

Although KellyAnne (Sydney) says she's nervous about how she will be portrayed in the upcoming season, Parisa (Sydney) offers a different take. Although she did party "seven days a week", there's nothing that "wouldn't be proud for my family to see."

Parisa is a New York native, who attended NYU, and went to a casting call because she thought it was a sorority gathering. Although she didn't think much of it, she talked a little more than usual during the casting session, and she was asked to stay after.

She's now living on Long Island with her parents, pursuing a music career. Check out the full article here with the New York Daily News.

Issac does another interview with his school's newspaper which talks to the friend that dragged him to casting

The Arizona Daily Wildcat talked to Issac (Sydney) about being cast in the new season of the Real World.

Although he's given the same interview to several different newspapers, the school paper also talked to Molly Leibowitz, his friend that dragged him to the casting session.

The paper also reveals that Issac was able to backpack in Sydney after the show with the money he earned from appearing on the season, that he has a clothing line called "Stout", and that he would do a Challenge only to travel.

Check out the article.

RealWorldCasting will turn into VMACasting for the VMAs which are September 9th

Now that Real World 20 has found its seventh castmember, casting producers have decided to use the profiles that people posted for the Real World for people to get the chance to be correspondents on the upcoming Video Music Awards this September 9th at the Palms Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas.

This corroborates earlier reports from finalists who claimed that they were up for a hosting gig on TRL. Some MTV correspondents go onto larger duties, such as being a full-fledged news anchor or VJ.

All the profiles up on RealWorldCasting.com will be switched over to the new competition, which will go purely based on viewer votes and will have no casting rounds. The website is promised to be up soon.

Theo is on the syndicated show "Comics Unleashed" as a panelist

There's a syndicated show called Comics Unleashed where several different comics are invited on a show and shoot the breeze with host Byron Allen.

The episode is up online at the website for the show, where Theo (Maximum Velocity Tour) is a special guest. Theo talks about his southern roots, his father who was 70 years old when he was born, and a lot more.

You can actually check out the episode, which is airing on television, but check out the website to see what station the show airs on in your area.

Issac calls himself the "alpha male" of the cast, yet he's also "conceited and a little brain-damaged"

Issac (Sydney) seems to be making the rounds with the newspapers. He granted yet another interview with an Arizona newspaper. This time, he talked to the Arizona Daily Star.

Issac says that he was this season's "alpha male" and "party boy". He also throws it in there that he wasn't afraid of swimming naked in the fish tank. He talks about how the cast gawked at the amount of cameras in the house, but he wasn't worried he says, maybe because he's "conceited and a little brain-damaged."

This season's casting special airs August 1st. The series begins August 8th.

KellyAnne is worried about being the "crazy bitch... a la Brooke"; Arizona locals disapprove of Issac

KellyAnne (Sydney) has been profiled on MM Agency's website and she says that she has seen the first episode of the show and she's worried that she is going to portrayed like the "crazy bitch" of the house.

KellyAnne confesses to having ADD, which seemed to make her unstable in the house, and confront her issues much like last season's Brooke (Denver).

In other news, responding to the article that the Tucson Citizen wrote yesterday about Issac (Sydney), several UA students and supporters seem disappointed that Issac will be representing the UA student body.

Taking messages of its online community board, posts like "Please tell me that UA is not being represented by someone who poses like the Ali G of the trailer park." are showing up, which are disapproving of Issac's partyboy status. Read the article.

Issac tells a newspaper that he put himself in the emergency room to attend a casting call and stayed in Sydney a month after Real World

Issac (Sydney), the castmember who is already being labeled the quintessential joker of Sydney, granted an interview with the local paper in Tucson, the Tucson Citizen. Issac attends the University of Arizona as a business major.

Issac reveals some tiny tidbits for the paper. Most notably, he tells the paper that, of course, he had the time of his life. He was getting paid to live his life in a mansion. He spent an extra month in Australia, working at a restaurant and backpacking up the Australian coast.

He wanted to apply for the Real World, but the day of the casting call, he was scheduled to go into court for a DUI. So, being the asthma sufferer he is, he smoked cigarettes until it put him in the emergency room and the courts gave him a week's extension. The rest is history.

He says that the seven of them were "cool" people, he generally got along with everyone, and that he messed with Cohutta (Sydney) the most. The seven of them left as friends, he says. He also tells the paper that although he wasn't supposed to tell the paper, one of the castmembers dies.

Johanna posts pictures from the Gauntlet 3 of girls just being girls

Johanna (Austin), who is a part of the upcoming Gauntlet 3 Challenge, recently posted some new pictures on her MySpace of the Gauntlet 3.

There are other photos surfacing out there, but this one has a pretty good group shot of a large group of girls huddled around in their "costumes" for some sort of party the group had when they were in Mexico.

Check out her MySpace for more information.