The Eagle Eye

Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: Features

(Top) Kelly Anne, together with her castmate Dunbar (bottom) spoke with LHU students about the show and shared the lessons they had learned while filming.

Debuting in 1992, The Real World is a television show that our generation has grown up with. Two of the show's past participants, Dunbar Flinn and Kelly Anne Judd, brought their experiences to an audience of campus students.
The Real World has 19 seasons and a total of 436 episodes.
The reoccurring themes in the show where strangers are thrown into shared living quarters include prejudice, politics, religion, romance, sexuality and more. The group has to learn to live with each other's differences and also deal with a job and working with their roommates.
The crew started filming the seven roommates for the new season in February of this year and premiered the first episode of the season in August, according to www.mtv.com.
Dunbar Flinn and Kelly Anne Judd, two members of The Real World: Sydney visited our campus on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007.
According to www.buddytv.com/articles/the-real-world/, Dunbar Flinn was 22 when the season was filmed. He is from Natchez, Miss. His family lost everything due to a money laundering scandal.
His father abused him and his brother, and his grandfather tried to molest him on more than one occasion. Due to these horrifying experiences, he had himself emancipated when he was 15.
He graduated from high school and joined the military in order to pay for tuition at the University of Mississippi, where he belonged to a fraternity.
He was forced to take charge of his own financial situation since he had himself emancipated. While at a bar, he ran into the casting director of the Real World: Sydney and after talking to him, Flinn was given a position on the show.
Kelly Anne Judd was originally from Texas. She was 20 during filming, and she told the audience on Thursday that she turned 21 as the cast was finishing the filming and heading back to the states. When she was a child, her parents divorced, and she grew up very poor, as a result she didn't fit in, according to www.buddytv.com/articles/the-real-world/.
She loves attention, and is willing to use her looks to get what she wants. She is part Italian and part Irish.
Kelly Anne was cast into the house when she randomly found the open audition; she went in and charmed the casting director with how different she was.
The event took place in Price Auditorium, and to ease everyone's anticipation and anxiousness, the SCC had music playing while the audience waited for Kelly Anne and Dunbar to arrive. There were mostly girls present waiting patiently for Dunbar, but there were a few guys trickled through out the scattered crowd.
As 7:00 p.m. approached, the lights dimmed, and the audience started to grow more impatient with every minute that Dunbar and Kelly Anne did not arrive.
Eventually, Dunbar came out to set up his DVDs in which he brought of the episodes. He informed us that they were running late due to having to eat, and that Kelly Anne was in the back preparing to come out.
When she finally did come out, she made a cute remark about wanting to eat a banana because they are supposed to ease your nervousness.
Dunbar started the discussion with defending his "character" on the show. The camera crew film almost constantly, but the editors and the producers choose what goes on air, and this creates the character that is portrayed.
Dunbar is portrayed as an intense jerk. He played one of his "famous" arguments with one of the other housemates and told the audience that she had only really cleaned the house a few times, and that they decided to show her cleaning that day.
He also informed us that she had been talking a lot of nonsense about him in the confession room, again, in which did not make television appearance.
They discussed things in which they couldn't believe really happened, f or example, Kelly Anne's fight over a guy who she and another housemate were "interested" in.
Kelly Anne and Dunbar were really down to earth, and were very thankful to have been on the show.
Kelly Anne was dating one of the housemates, and the audience received all of the gossip.
For the ladies who would like to know: Dunbar is currently living with his girl friend, Julie. Kelly Anne and Cahottah are taking a little break because of the distance between them.
They were asked in which ways being on The Real World has changed them.
Kelly Anne quickly remarked, with "Money". Laughing, Dunbar agreed, but went serious as he discussed how he learned that what he does and says really affects people around him.
Kelly Anne had never had any roommates, until she was cast for the season. She learned to try to be less judgmental and now, she is a little better at meeting new people.
Dunbar and Kelly Anne explained to the audience that they were really happy to have been privileged enough to have been cast for the show.
They were both really happy to have met everyone. Both of them still talk to most of their housemates (and, yes, that does mean that Kelly Anne and Cahottah are still talking).
They ended the evening signing pictures and talking with the audience. Surprisingly, the cameras didn't change anything about them.

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