A blast from the past: My brief time on "The Real World Miami"

A broadcast TV friend who is a big fan of The Real World sent me some of these old Real World Miami clips which feel like another lifetime (and hairstyle) ago compared to the new Real World cast. If you watch closely in the clips you'll see a younger familiar face with a crew cut wondering what the heck is he doing in this crazy house with seven complete opposites off the Venetian causeway and dating Dan Renzi.

In the video below, I appear in the beginning and then later on at 10:38.

In this one, I appear at the 4:12 mark.

And this was the last episode of the Miami season. I appear at the 13:38 mark when I pick up Dan from "The Real World" house on Rivo Alto Road on the Venetian Islands in Miami Beach as everyone packs up and moves out. I then again pop at the 16:16 mark when we say our goodbyes (at the time) at Miami International Airport (I was an emotional mess) before he headed to Milan to model.(Of course, the producers set the goodbye scene to a George Michael song.) There is a reason I no longer sport this short-cropped, Ceasar haircut (because of this show!) In all, I was in six episodes of the Miami season.

And here are two fun clips from "The Real World You Never Saw" which was basically a blooper reel episode of the first six seasons of the show including Miami where Dan and I were goofing around in the confessional room and he was trying to get me to take off my shirt. (He succeeded!)