Tonya Cooley born January 7, , in Visalia, California is an American actress and television personality. Cooley told the publication, "I am a genuinely happy person now. Tonya Cooley hails from Walla Walla, Washington. At the time she began filming The Real World: Chicago , she claims to have never interacted with African-Americans and gay people, and had rarely been apart from her boyfriend , Justin. She did not socialize as much as her housemates, who often alienated her because they felt that she could be judgmental and overly dramatic at times. She was hospitalized three times during the season because of kidney stones , and even left to go home for about a week.

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Parting is such sweet sorrow…unless you cause some serious mayhem in The Real World house, in which case parting is production-mandated expulsion. And on the finale of Real World: Atlanta , Clint sadly added to the expanding list. In the pantheon of banished Real World housemates, Puck has the honor of being the only one booted for being too annoying. He constantly tried to get a rise out of his roommates, played practical jokes that went way too far and was — according to his fellow San Francisco cast members — too disgusting to be around. Puck is a Real World legend of sorts, though more for notoriety than merit. Trisha, a self-proclaimed devout Christian, seemed to forget the religious values of peacemaking during her Sydney stay, and routinely caused fights with Parisa.


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Yes, we're talking about The Real World. If you were lucky enough to watch the series play out live on television in the '90s and into the early aughts, then you'll recognize many of these fan favorites. We dug deep into the past and present to bring you an update on some of the most popular The Real World roommates of all time, below. When Karamo Brown joined the cast of The Real World: Philadelphia in , it was a monumental moment, as he was the first openly gay Black man to appear on the show. He didn't return to TV until , when he began appearing on talk shows as a correspondent.




Details of the settlement have not been made public, but earlier this year MTV's parent company, Viacom, responded to Cooley's complaint by saying, "[Cooley] failed to avoid the injuries of which she complains. Cooley was originally a castmate on The Real World: Chicago , which aired in Before being cast on the show, she had been a foster child who had never found a permanent home before eventually aging out of the system.