| Season Number: | 31 |
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| Num Episodes: | 12 |
| Network: | MTV |
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| Next Season: | Real World Seattle: Bad Blood |
Real World: Go Big or Go Home is the thirty-first season of MTV's reality television series Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships. It is the fourth season to be filmed in the Mountain States region of the United States, specifically in Nevada after The Real World: Las Vegas (2011).
The season featured a total of eight (initially seven) people who lived in a penthouse suite in Downtown Las Vegas and follows a twist from the previous two seasons. Las Vegas was first reported as the location for the 31st season by the website DTLV.com on September 15, 2015. It is the third season of Real World to be filmed in Las Vegas and the ninth season to take place in a city that had hosted a previous season, following the twelfth and twenty-fifth seasons, which aired in 2002–03 and 2011, respectively. Production began on October 9, 2015, and concluded on December 16, 2015 totaling up to 70 days of filming.[1]
On January 13, 2016, Entertainment Weekly reported that the season will be titled Go Big or Go Home. An additional twist is that it features the cast members performing Road Rules-type missions in order to remain on the show. Unlike Road Rules, some missions will be individual-based, some will involve a portion of the group, and some will be team-based.[2] [3] The season premiered on March 17, 2016, and concluded on May 26, 2016, with the season finale, consisting of 12 episodes; it is the first season of the series to premiere simultaneously on MTV and the MTV app's livestream.[4]
On this season, cast members have to undergo missions to stay in the house (either by an individual, some or all), similar to the missions based on Road Rules. If one cast member chose not to do or fail to complete the mission, they are forced to leave the group.
Beginning in the 28th season, certain jobs in the area were approved by production that the cast had the liberty to apply for independently if desired. Kailah and Chris worked at Downtown Podcast in Downtown Las Vegas, but this went unaired.[5]
In contrast to the previous two seasons in Las Vegas, which were filmed in 2002–03 at the Palms Casino Resort and in 2011 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, the residence for this season was in a converted penthouse suite at Gold Spike in Downtown Las Vegas.[6] [7]
This was the fifth season of Real World to feature a roster of eight roommates living together. The season started with seven cast members until the additional roommate was introduced in the ninth episode.
| Cast Member | Age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| CeeJai' Jenkins | 23 | Atlanta, Georgia |
| CeeJai' is an aspiring lawyer and actor who recently earned her associate degree from Thomas Nelson Community College. CeeJai' primarily grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois and was faced with tragedy when her father killed her mother then the police killed her father in a domestic dispute. Because of this, CeeJai is an outspoken advocate of gun control and tries to have a positive outlook on life. CeeJai' finds herself facing off with Jenna from time to time because of her views about race. In episode 10, CeeJai' gets into a physical altercation with Jenna after they both get riled up from each other. In episode 12, the two get into another altercation after Jenna's friend tells her to "pick cotton" on ooVoo. CeeJai' was sent home early due to her altercations with Jenna. | ||
| 23 | Brooklyn, New York | |
| Chris is an atheist considering officially declaring becoming an Ex-Mormon due to the exclusionary views of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He recently dropped out of Brigham Young University, moved to the East Coast and settled in Brooklyn to discover himself and shed his upbringing and clean-cut ways. He is the first pansexual cast member in the history of the show. Chris was originally friends with Jenna, but have a falling out after Jenna says that gay sex is disgusting. In episode 5, Chris reveals that he leaked information about what Jenna has said in the Real World house through a friend. In episode 6, Chris heads out to Utah with Kailah to officially resign from the LDS Church. Note: Hall would later change gender identity - Identifying as Non-Binary on (going by the nickname "Ammo" and competing with male contestants). Currently, Hall identifies as female (going by the name Amo Elizabeth). This page will reflect the male identity of Hall at the time of the filming of this programme. | ||
| Dean Bart-Plange | 25 | Los Angeles, California |
| Dean is an actor currently going through divorce proceedings with his wife. He is the third cast member in the history of the series to have already been married at the start of his or her season. Dean grew up in Ghana until he was 5 and then moved to Las Vegas before attending the University of Nevada, Reno.[8] | ||
| Dione Mariani | 24 | Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Dione is an unemployed drifter. He previously appeared in the documentary Under the Electric Sky as an attendee of the Electric Daisy Carnival. Dione hooks up with Kailah in the beginning of the season, but then ignores her after he gets his ex, Amanda, mad when he told her. In episode 8, Amanda visits the house, and she later clashes with Kailah. | ||
| 22 | Easley, South Carolina | |
| Jenna is an aspiring singer and self-proclaimed tomboy. Jenna has had a sheltered life with little exposure outside of pro-southern views and past struggles with a broken home. She is Mormon. Jenna has a boyfriend named Austin while being on the show. The roommates feel that he is holding Jenna from having fun. Jenna's views on sexuality and race has put her against the rest of the house. Jenna gets mad at CeeJai' in episode 3, when she makes a stripper have a lap dance on Jenna. In episode 7, she gets yelled at by CeeJai' due to not giving as much of a tip as the other roommates did during a dinner out. When the new roommate, Dylan, arrives, Jenna starts to develop a romance with Dylan even though she is still with Austin. She gets into two physical altercations with CeeJai' in episodes 11 and 12, and is sent home early. | ||
| Kailah Casillas | 22 | Fort Myers, Florida |
| Kailah is an aspiring journalist with an outspoken personality who graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2014.[9] Although she was popular, Kailah was considered the "mean girl" in high school. Kailah describes herself as a sexual person. In the beginning of the season, she hooks up with Dione after an intense flirtation in episode 2. However, later in the season, Kailah clashes with Dione due to feeling left out of his friend group, which included him, CeeJai', and Dean. In episode 6, Kailah decides to write an article on the LDS Church through Chris's experience. | ||
| Sabrina Kennedy | 21 | Topsfield, Massachusetts |
| Sabrina is a student at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a singer with a sense of humor who hopes to build a fan base through appearing on the show and meet her biological mother sometime in the near future.[10] [11] Sabrina was initially attracted to Dione at the beginning. In episode 8, Sabrina is given the opportunity to write and release a song with Jenna through a mission. In episode 10, their song, "Fly", was released through a Las Vegas radio station and was later released as a free download on MTV.com. | ||
| Dylan Moore | 24 | |
| Dylan is an aspiring entertainer and 2014 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his time at UNC, he had his full scholarship for track and field revoked and was kicked off the team after a stripping prank in a lecture hall during a class using skills from his then-job as a stripper that later went viral online. After graduation, he moved to the Greater Los Angeles Area to pursue his entertainment aspirations and claims to have been a writer's assistant on the sitcom Ground Floor.[12] Dylan joins this season as an additional roommate twist in episode 9. Dylan is attracted to both Kailah and Jenna when he arrives, but he ends up getting close to Jenna. | ||
Age at start of filming
| Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| Chris | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Dean | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Dione | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Kailah | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Sabrina | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Dylan | [13] | colspan="3" | ||||||||||
| CeeJai' | [14] | |||||||||||
| Jenna | [15] | |||||||||||
Notes
| Episode | Mission | Description | Participant(s) | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Jump | Bungee jump from a hot air balloon. | CeeJai', Chris, Dean, Dione, Kailah, Jenna, Sabrina | Completed | |
| 2 | 2 | Drag | Dress in drag for a night out. | Chris, Dean, Dione | Completed | |
| 3 | Find | Call a number that will help you to find your biological mother. | Sabrina | Completed | ||
| 3/4 | 4 | Plunge | Participate in blobbing. | CeeJai', Chris, Dean, Dione, Kailah, Sabrina | Completed | Jenna was medically prohibited from competing due to a neck injury. |
| 5 | 5 | Phobia | Last 60 seconds with poisonous tarantulas on your body. | CeeJai', Chris, Dione, Dean, Kailah, Jenna, Sabrina | Completed | |
| 6 | Roll | Fly in planes and do aeroacrobatics. | CeeJai', Chris, Dean, Dione, Kailah, Jenna, Sabrina | Completed | ||
| 7 | Truth | Reveal the truth about the internet leaks. | Chris | Completed | Chris' mission was presented in private to him in the Confessional. | |
| 6 | 8 | Trek | Trek up a mountain in less than 90 minutes. | CeeJai', Chris, Dean, Dione, Kailah, Jenna, Sabrina | Completed | |
| 7/10 | 9 | Record | Write and produce a song together. | Jenna, Sabrina | Completed | Jenna and Sabrina's song wasn't aired until Episode 10. |
| 7 | 10 | Baller | Create a surprise divorce party for Dean. | CeeJai', Chris, Dione, Kailah, Jenna, Sabrina | Completed | |
| 8 | 11 | Spin[16] | DJ at a nightclub with The Stafford Brothers. | Kailah | Completed | Was edited to not be shown as a mission. CeeJai confirmed it was a mission on Twitter and Spin can be seen on the wall of missions. |
| 9 | 12 | Survive | Survive in a desert for 24 hours | CeeJai', Chris, Dean, Dione, Dylan, Kailah, Jenna, Sabrina | Completed | The cast received a new roommate, Dylan, who was able to become a roommate by completing the mission. |
| 13 | Flaunt | Perform at a male strip club. | Dean, Dylan | Completed | ||
| 12 | 14 | Soar | Soar over the Fremont Street Experience on the SlotZilla zip line | Chris, Dean, Dione, Dylan, Kailah, Sabrina | Completed | CeeJai' and Jenna had both been removed from the house prior to the mission. |
Additional missions Fear, Yes, Speed, and Fall also took part but were not aired. Fear required Kailah to be in a cave of bats, Speed involved the cast driving rally trucks, Yes required Chris to say yes to what his roommates asked of him for the day, and Fall required the cast to rappel down a cliff. Fall did not include CeeJai' and Jenna as both had been removed from the show by the time of the mission. Fall can be seen in the season's trailer.[17]
Sabrina Kennedy's first EP, Lioness, was released August 21, 2016.[18] In 2019, she released the single "Hold Tight", which was featured on Love Island and The Only Way Is Essex.[19] Her latest single, "The Other Side" was released in late 2020. Kennedy also made her acting debut in the movie Habitual directed by Johnny Hickey, which also featured Chris Tamburello from and Emilee Fitzpatrick from .[20] [21]
After their appearance on The Challenge, Ammo talked about being raped by a former partner and suffering PTSD, which caused their collapse after the elimination round against Jordan Wiseley from .[22] On December 18, 2018, Ammo released their first single, "Macy".[23] In 2019, Ammo (who now goes by the name "Amo") revealed they started taking hormones for transitioning.[24]
In 2019, Kailah Casillas appeared as an ambassador on MTV's Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club.[25] In the same year, she appeared on How Far Is Tattoo Far? with her then–boyfriend, Mikey P from From G's to Gents.[26] In 2022, Casillas married fellow reality star Sam Bird.[27]
| CeeJai' Jenkins | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris "Ammo" Ammon Hall | XXX: Dirty 30 | ||
| Dean Bart-Plange | |||
| Dione Mariani | |||
| Jenna Thomason | |||
| Kailah Casillas | Invasion of the Champions, XXX: Dirty 30, Vendettas, Final Reckoning, Total Madness, Ride or Dies | The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars (season 2), The Challenge: All Stars (season 3) | |
| Sabrina Kennedy | |||
| Dylan Moore |