Cast Members Arrive at D.C. Real World House

Posted by Tom in DC Life, DC News on 07 2nd, 2009 | no responses

As we noted in Go Home Already , the cast members of the Real World house officially made their way to their new Dupont Circle home today. And I was not the only “reporter” waiting for them on the corner of 20th and S Streets NW. There was videoblogger elizabethany and her friend, along with self-proclaimed soon-to-be blogger Martin, who was keeping us informed of all the latest RWDC news (presumably via tweets from #RealWorldDCNEWZ ), and a couple of other random stalkers. They brought me up to speed on what I’d missed a couple of hours earlier, principally that six cast members had arrived, without much fuss at all, despite some reports to the contrary. Around 4 p.m., Martin alerted us of the impending arrival of the two final cast members. Soon enough, the two remaining noobs were spotted at the corner of S and Connecticut. A guy sitting across the

street at the Safeway shouted “GO HOME!” several times as the pair of new arrivals walked along the opposite side of S Street with their accompanying TV crew. My fellow reporters countered with “Welcome to D.C.!” and one even asked “Do you think you’ll be welcome here?” to which the male cast member responded “I don’t think so…” As a budding paparazzo, I tried to remain respectful, using my telephoto lens to give the nouveau celebs breathing room. Unlike a dude in a white t-shirt with a very high end camera and accompanying flash, who got much closer to the new arrivals than seemed appropriate. Security didn’t seem to mind us gawkers being there at all — no hassles, no questions, nada. But if people start to get as pushy as the photog in the white t-shirt, I can see that changing pretty quickly.