The Real World Online Casting Winner
So who ended up winning the online casting competition for The Real World, season 20?
PretyBoy, aka Greg Halstead from Daytona Beach, Florida will be the seventh castmember for the show. The Daytona Beach News Journal published the following story yesterday:
Greg Halstead, 20, of Daytona Beach said he was in shock Thursday after being contacted by the cable station’s producers and told he was voted in an Internet poll as the seventh cast member for “The Real World Season 20.”
Halstead competed since May for a spot on the show where seven strangers live together with cameras filming their every move. He started with more than 20,000 others who submitted videos. MTV producers last week chose him as a top-10 finalist.
“I’m extremely happy. I started yelling and acting like a fool,” Halstead said via his cell phone in Gainesville where he is a student at the University of Florida. “I’m in disbelief that this is happening. I’m trying to take it all in and remain conscious. I hope I don’t pass out.”
MTV officials said on their casting site that Halstead worked hard to get where he is and “we are very proud of him. We know he’s going to be great for the show and can’t wait to see what the house has in store for him and the other six.”
Halstead said he would go to California in a couple of weeks to meet producers and take a drug test. Filming begins Aug. 26. The show would air next year.
Halstead, who plans to take a semester off from college, said he thanks everyone who voted and his mom and aunt who passed out fliers to gain votes.
“I want to meet some nice, new wonderful people and make friends and first of all just have fun,” Halstead said. “I hope I don’t embarrass (my family) too much, but I’m going to be myself.”
The news that Halstead was headed for California fueled speculation that season 20 will take the show “Back to Los Angeles,” much in the way it headed “Back to New York” for season 10 (has it really been THAT long since Coral and The Miz first entered the Real World house?). Furthermore, Lori from “Back to New York” was cast in a similar online contest for the final position in the house. Sounds awfully coincidental to me…
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The Real World - Hollywood Cast’s Job Revealed
Dec 14, 2007 at 1:38 am
[…] in case you were wondering what happened to Greg Halstead, the winner of the online casting competition held earlier this year - he has left the show. The Real World/Road Rules Blog has the scoop: Greg, […]
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