Real world housemate accused of urinating on toothbrush

[proud2BlibKansan]

Real World New Orleans: Toothbrush-as-toilet scrubber sickens housemate, triggers police action

A MTV "Real World: New Orleans" housemate urinated on a rival’s toothbrush and used it to scrub a toilet, sickening the other resident during filming of the upcoming season of the long-running reality TV show, according to a police report filed on the incident.

The aggrieved housemate, Ryan Leslie, blamed the tainted toothbrush for a subsequent illness, and summoned police to the Uptown New Orleans house in the 1600 block of Dufossat Street. Though police conducted interviews and confiscated evidence, no one was arrested. (Read the official New Orleans Police report (warning: offensive language.)

The incident flies in the face of the producers’ penchant for secrecy. Typically, they try to keep hidden the location of the home where cast members live, and they prefer to keep the drama that inevitably unfolds inside the house from leaking into the public domain before the show airs.

But the police report resulting from Leslie’s complaint lays bare what is sure to be one of the season’s plot-lines. It also might serve as a yardstick for how reality TV has come - or fallen. “The Real World” essentially invented the genre 18 years ago, and typically zeroed in on conflicts between 20-something housemates over differences in attitudes, politics, race, gender or sexual preference. The toothbrush-as-toilet-scrubber resolution to an argument may be a new frontier.

more . . . http://www.nola.com/tv/index.ssf/2010/03/real_world_dirty_business_gets.html

[MineralMan]

1. You aren't supposed to do that?

Who knew? :shrug:

[Bicoastal]

2. Funny. Last night, I was talking to a friend who has an assistant job at MTV...

...and she said the network currently has the lowest ratings it's ever had due to reality programming like this.

It's become a showroom for the extremes of American culture--trashy lowlifes on one side, spoiled brats on the other, and not much in between...

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Yes this is pretty trashy programming

My kids used to watch it but even they got tired of it.

[Donnachaidh]

6. evidently Mtv hasn't figured out that this sort of programming is decomposing?

My teen watches channels that actually shows music *videos* and documentaries. He went thru a stage of watching the japanese ninja shows, but he avoids all the other stuff like mad. Jersey Shore is the absolute bottom of the bird cage programming.

[Bicoastal]

9. And to my surprise and initial disbelief, she told me that JS isn't bringing in the ratings...

...when I thought it MUST be making MTV a mint.

Just because Jersey Shore has achieved national notoriety, that hasn't necessarily translated into more viewers--especially when everyone can skip the boring filler and wait for the exploitative highlights to appear online.

That must be because the people who think it's so-bad-its-watchable "trainwreck viewing" outnumber the people who truly enjoy it. Thank God.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Am I a bad person for not really caring about this?

I hope everyone ever associated with this 'reality' show gets a rash that itches and never gets better.

[Robb]

8. I think they're way ahead of you on that. nt

[spanone]

5. good lord, is that stupid program still on the air? i'd piss on a toothbrush too

[LiberalFighter]

7. So they have a reality show about incidents that probably only happen

because producers are encouraging such behavior.

These reality shows are not reality shows. They are straight competition with an environment that is not the norm. Big Brother has a humongous house that requires a large group of people that need to get along, compete against each other, connive against each other with very strict limited access to the outside world. Survivor requires the same thing except it is in the outdoors.

[Stevenmarc]

10. Considering the people that find their way into a Real World hot tub the toothbrush has more appeal

[mcollins]

11. The only thing real about Real World

is the spelling.