Julie also did this same level of dirty to former housemate Danny Roberts, one of the first "out" gay men on reality television whose boyfriend at the time was in the military during the "don't ask, don't tell" era.ĭanny's not gonna giggle Julie's ignorance away this time.īefore she's even had a chance to put her yoga mat in her room, Julie takes Danny into a tearful embrace that is absent of actual tears and stage whispers an apology into his ear that Danny later refers to as performative. You see, Julie and Melissa were thick as thieves during their initial season, and for a short time after, but there was a permanent falling-out caused by Julie unfairly dragging Melissa's name through the mud in an effort (which she denies) to bogart speaking gigs post-season. (Akasha Rabut/Paramount+©MTV ENTERTAINMENT 2022, All Rights Reserved.) THE REAL WORLD HOMECOMING: NEW ORLEANS - Melissa, Julie and Danny in THE REAL WORLD HOMECOMING: NEW ORLEANS streaming on Paramount+. How are you?" by one-time close friend Melissa Beck (then Howard) who is, I'll just say it right here in print, the best one out of any cast of "The Real World," in perpetuity. Charles Avenue they shared in 2000, as it's now privately owned, she's met with a curt "Hi. Stepping foot into the house in New Orleans, which is in the Audubon Park area of New Orleans and not The Belfort Mansion on St. In Episode 1 we're not given the story behind that, but God, I bet it's good.
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She's inexplicably wearing head-to-toe exercise gear and sets off to promptly get her ass handed to her by a house full of people she did incredibly dirty over 22 years ago.Ī formerly staunch Mormon who boasted and giggled about never seeing a penis, never having any interest in knowing a gay person, and never befriending a single Black person, Julie has now fallen from those lofty prejudicial heights and identifies as an atheist.
In the premiere's cold open, Julie manically exclaims, more than once, that she "just wants to have fun" before departing from the home she now shares with her husband and three kids to show her face in New Orleans again. We're not given the story behind that, but God, I bet it's good.
She hasn't come out with any outright racism just yet, but you can all but feel the collective audience bracing for it. But yes, Julie Stoffer did say those things and watching her in the first episode of "Homecoming" it would not be wholly unjust to say she doesn't seem to have changed all that much. If you had asked me if just 22-years ago people were still walking God's green earth referring to people as "colored," or describing it to be normal practice in their family to cross the street whenever they saw a Black person coming their way, I would not have believed you. Rewatching the original "Real World New Orleans" season prior to their "Homecoming" was, for me, an example of how the Mandela effect can work in reverse. Related: "The Real World Homecoming: New York" is a beautiful suspension bridge between past and present Seeing how fans reacted favorably to watching this jar of bees get shaken up anew, they did it again later in 2021 with "The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles," and are back at it now with New Orleans. In 2021 Paramount + debuted "The Real World Homecoming: New York," which reunited the cast of MTV's first "true story" for the first time since the show aired in 1992. Matt Smith, David "Tokyo" Broom, Kelley Wolf, Julie Stoffer, Jamie Murray, Danny Roberts, and Melissa Beck in THE REAL WORLD HOMECOMING: NEW ORLEANS streaming on PARAMOUNT+ (Akasha Rabut/Paramount+©MTV ENTERTAINMENT 2022, All Rights Reserved) But what we learn in this latest cast reunion, "The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans," is that nostalgia is no match for deep-seated grudges and a level of holier-than-thou ignorance that seems to have first taken root within the womb.įrom the moment Matt Smith, Melissa Beck, Jamie Murray, Julie Stoffer, Kelley Wolf, Danny Roberts, David "Tokyo" Broom come together for the first time since 2000 we see pretty quickly that the personalities of the people who comprised one of the most popular seasons of "The Real World" have not changed one bit and for a few of the people, that's a bad bad look. " The Real World Homecoming" is a great opportunity to dip a toe back into the gloriously nostalgic "fly-on-the-wall" days of early MTV programming without having to fully submerge in all the problematic issues attached to the years in which it originally took place.
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