Norman Korpi Teases The Real World 30th Anniversary On Instagram
The Real World's first LGBTQ+ cast member, Norman Korpi, recently took to Instagram teasing future content celebrating the show's iconic 30th anniversary coming up on May 21. The ground-breaking reality show featuring seven strangers living in a house and having their lives taped over several months became a cultural phenomenon in the early '90s, spawning several spin-offs including Road Rules, The Challenge, and most recently, The Real World Homecoming on Paramount+. The Real World produced seasons on MTV until 2017 with season 32 before airing its 33rd and latest season in 2019 on Facebook Watch.
The show's legacy speaks volumes as the first reality television show mentioned by a sitting president when Bill Clinton spoke of San Francisco cast member Pedro Zamora's activist work as an HIV/AIDS educator until his untimely end with AIDS drawing light on a national discussion largely ignored prior. Zamora isn't the only significant Real World-er to garner national attention, as Boston cast member Sean Duffy decided to step into politics as former U.S. Representative of Wisconsin while his wife, San Francisco alum Rachel Campos-Duffy, is now a co-host of Fox and Friends. Back to New York cast member Mike Mizanin would be known professionally as wrestler «The Miz» and become the highest grossing Real World-er at an estimated $14 million.
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In the May 11 Instagram post, Korpi highlighted that he would be celebrating The Real World's 30th anniversary in the coming weeks with several RW-inspired posts revealing details about the series, "I'm going to have some interesting posts coming up about The Real World because as May 24th comes around that will
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