| Season Number: | 32 |
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| Num Episodes: | 12 |
| Network: | MTV |
| Prev Season: | Real World: Go Big or Go Home |
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Real World Seattle: Bad Blood is the thirty-second 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 ninth season to be filmed in the Pacific States region of the United States, specifically in Washington, and is also the third season to be filmed in the Pacific Northwest after .
The season featured a total of fourteen people, consisting of seven original roommates and seven additional permanent roommates who lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. This season follows a theme, similar to the past three seasons. It is the tenth season to take place in a city that had hosted a previous season, as the show's seventh season was set in Seattle in 1998. Seattle was first reported as the location for the thirty-second season by the website Vevmo on May 22, 2016. Production began on June 30, and concluded on August 27, 2016 totaling up to 58 days of filming.[1]
The season premiered on October 12 of that year on MTV and the MTV app,[2] and concluded with the season finale on January 4, 2017, consisting of 12 episodes. This is the last season to air on MTV before the show changed to distribution via Facebook Watch through MTV Studios and Bunim/Murray Productions.[3]
Most seasons of Real World have a phone room so the cast members can make calls. On this season, the production crew provided the cast members smartphones so they could take their own pictures, have calls, and send text messages to families, one another, and close friends. This is the first time cast have been given personal communication devices since the cast of the tenth season were given two-way pagers and limited cell phones the cast of the Philadelphia season got to use when out of the house.[4]
During shooting, the cast lived at the Ballou Wright Building located at 1517 12th Avenue between E. Pike Street and E. Pine Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.[5]
This was the first season of Real World to feature fourteen cast members consisting of seven original roommates and seven additional roommates. The season started off with seven roommates, and then the cast was joined by seven additional roommates. The additional roommates are "Bad Blood", people who the originals once got along with but now have a rift with due to various issues. The Bad Blood were told by production they were cast for Road Rules until they arrived for filming.[1] [6]
| Age | Hometown | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Anika Rashaun | 24 | Harlem, New York | |
| Anika is an aspiring television host and Pace University graduate who sees herself as a social outgoing person. Her Bad Blood, Will, is her ex-boyfriend of three years with whom she shares a tumultuous on-and-off relationship and shaky friendship. She resents that Will is good friends with her brother, and that he did not immediately tell her when he got another girl pregnant. | |||
| Jordan Anderson | 21 | Chicago, Illinois | |
| Jordan is a model and part-time hairstylist who sees being on the show as a way for her to be more independent from her parents. Her Bad Blood is her former best friend Orlana. Their relationship turned sour after Orlana's jealousy over a guy, and after Jordan failing to acknowledge Orlana's struggles with depression and thoughts of suicide. She develops a romantic relationship with Mike while filming. | |||
| Katrina Stack | 23 | Micanopy, Florida | |
| Katrina loves to hunt and fish and is looking to be outside her small town. Her bad blood is her sister, Anna. The two both claim to love and support one another, though they share a complicated relationship with issues of jealousy, over-protectiveness, and years of fighting in their past. | |||
| Mike Crescenzo | 25[7] | Manhattan, New York | |
| Mike is a model and former stripper. His Bad Blood is his former roommate, Peter. Mike has admitted to owing Peter $2000 from living together, and has yet to repay him. In Episode 8, Mike reveals that he has struggled with drugs in the past, ultimately serving 15 days in jail where he claims that he joined the Aryan Brotherhood to avoid getting raped. He develops an attraction to Jordan during filming. Mike chooses to leave the house Episode 8 after saying multiple racial comments and fearing that he'll be seen as a racist. Mike was a cast member of the third season of Are You the One?. He was removed from that show before filming ended after a heated confrontation between him and a female cast member turned physical. | |||
| Robbie Padovano | 22 | Morganville, New Jersey | |
| Robbie is a DJ and party promoter who lives with his parents. Besides summer camp, he hasn't been away from home for more than a week. His Bad Blood is his ex-girlfriend Jennifer, whom he broke up with because he felt too young to be in a serious relationship. | |||
| Theo King-Bradley | 23 | Kankakee, Illinois | |
| Theo is a former college football player for Eastern Illinois University. His Bad Blood is his cousin Kassius. They shared a close relationship until a police incident where they were caught with marijuana in their dorm room they shared, and Theo took the heat for the situation. He lost his position as a result. He describes the incident as the single event that changed the course of his life, and blames Kassius for losing his opportunity to potentially play in the NFL. He was removed in Episode 9 after a physical altercation with his cousin Kassius. | |||
| Tyara Hooks | 21 | Alpharetta, Georgia | |
| Tyara is a Western Kentucky University student who spent part of her time growing up as a military brat. She grew up in England, and moved back to Georgia during high school. During high school, Tyara has dealt with bullying from other students, especially her Bad Blood, Kimberly, who she claims online bullied her for years and accused her English accent of being fake. She sees the show as a way to challenge herself to make new friends, something she struggles with as a result of mistrust due to bullying. In Episode 10, Tyara finds out that she is seven weeks pregnant with an ex from back home. In Episode 11, she decides to leave the house to deal with the pregnancy. | |||
| Name | Age | Hometown | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Stack | 25 | Orlando, Florida | |
| Katrina's older sister. Katrina and Anna love one another but struggle to communicate, disagree about aspects of their upbringing and past behavior towards one another, and constantly get in arguments that lead to hurt feelings and verbal attacks. | |||
| Jennifer Geoghan | 24 | Hoboken, New Jersey | |
| Robbie's ex-girlfriend. She is a hairstylist who feels Robbie did not give her proper closure in their past relationship and do not have a friendship. She reveals she later had an abusive boyfriend. Her and Anna get into a heated altercation, which ends up in Anna pushing Jennifer, and Jennifer pushing Anna to the floor, leading to Katrina to jump in and defend Anna. | |||
| Kassius Bass | 21 | Charleston, Illinois | |
| Theo's cousin and ex-roommate. He is a father and his child lives with Kassius's mother. Theo feels Kassius is responsible for his getting kicked off his college football team due to marijuana found in their shared room. He and his bad blood Theo get in a physical altercation during the show, which leads to Theo being kicked off the show. | |||
| 23 | Atlanta, Georgia | ||
| Tyara's former high school classmate. Kimberly started rumors about Tyara in high school. | |||
| Orlana Russell | 21 | Ypsilanti, Michigan | |
| Jordan's former best friend. In episode 5, Orlana reveals that she has had a past with suicidal thoughts and depression, and she felt that Jordan did not care for it. | |||
| Peter Romeo | 24 | Deerfield Beach, Florida | |
| Mike's former roommate. Peter is a bartender. He won $500,000 on the 2014 one-time MTV game show special Million Dollar Maze Runner. The special was produced by Bunim/Murray Productions on behalf of 20th Century Fox to promote the movie The Maze Runner.[8] He was removed from the house in the season finale after being physical and threatening towards numerous people in the house. | |||
| Will Groomes III | 24 | ||
| Anika's ex-boyfriend. He has a child with a different girl. | |||
Age at start of filming
| Seattle - Bad Blood Episodes | ||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| Anika | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Jordan | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Katrina | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Robbie | colspan="12" | |||||||||||
| Anna | colspan="8" | |||||||||||
| Jennifer | colspan="8" | |||||||||||
| Kassius | colspan="8" | |||||||||||
| Kimberly | colspan="8" | |||||||||||
| Orlana | colspan="8" | |||||||||||
| Will | colspan="8" | |||||||||||
| Peter | ||||||||||||
| Tyara | ||||||||||||
| Theo | ||||||||||||
| Mike | ||||||||||||
Notes
Peter and Jennifer moved in together right after the show, but reportedly called it quits in September 2017.[9]
Anika Rashaun moved to Los Angeles and launched a life coaching website.[10]
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