| The Real World: Key West | |
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| Season Information | |
| Season No. | 17 |
| Location | Key West, Florida |
| Season Run | February 28, 2006 – August 15, 2006 |
| No. of Episodes | 25 |
| Cast | |
| Starring | Svetlana Shusterman John Devenanzio Paula Meronek Tyler Duckworth Zach Mann Jose Tapia Janelle Casanave |
| Season Chronology | |
| Previous | The Real World: Austin |
| Next | The Real World: Denver |
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The Real World: Key West is the seventeenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships.
In 2019, the season was made available for streaming on Facebook Watch (alongside the sixteenth and twenty-eighth seasons) ahead of The Real World: Atlanta's premiere.
Production[]
The production faced a lawsuit by tourism mogul Ed Swift, a neighbor to the Driftwood Drive house, who sought to stop filming at the location, on the grounds that the production's floodlights, commercial-sized air conditioners, and outdoor cameras capable of rotating towards his house were a nuisance, and that local zoning laws prohibit commercial use of Key Haven homes. After MTV threatened to cancel production in response to the lawsuit, a judge threw out the lawsuit and allowed Bunim-Murray Productions to continue filming the season, with some minor production restrictions put in place. During filming, Hurricane Rita made landfall, forcing the cast to evacuate to West Palm Beach. Subsequently, Wilma hit the area, forcing them to evacuate again, first to Ft. Lauderdale, and then to Orlando.
Assignment[]
The production faced a lawsuit by tourism mogul Ed Swift, a neighbor to the Driftwood Drive house, who sought to stop filming at the location, on the grounds that the production's floodlights, commercial-sized air conditioners, and outdoor cameras capable of rotating towards his house were a nuisance, and that local zoning laws prohibit commercial use of Key Haven homes. After MTV threatened to cancel production in response to the lawsuit, a judge threw out the lawsuit and allowed Bunim-Murray Productions to continue filming the season, with some minor production restrictions put in place.[4] During filming, Hurricane Rita made landfall, forcing the cast to evacuate to West Palm Beach. Subsequently, Wilma hit the area, forcing them to evacuate again, first to Ft. Lauderdale, and then to Orlando.
Residence[]
The cast lived in a nearly 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) Spanish Mediterranean-style, five bedroom, four and a half bathroom house at 32 Driftwood Drive in Key Haven, just north of the Key West city limits. The property spans 32,000 square feet (3,000 m2) of waterfront property, and includes a tennis court, indoor racquetball court, gym, and an open dock. The house, which, along with two adjacent lots, was leased from June 28 to December 30, 2005, also included a 12-foot (3.7 m) x 20-foot (6.1 m) indoor pool that was converted into a sunken lounge area for filming. The house also included an outdoor pool. The house sustained some damage from Hurricane Wilma.
Cast[]
| Cast Member | Age* | Hometown |
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| Zach Mann | 22 | Vashon Island, Washington |
| Jose Tapia | 20 | Brooklyn, New York |
| Paula Meronek | 23 | Meriden, Connecticut |
| John Devenanzio | 22 | Fullerton, California |
| Janelle Casanave | 23 | San Jose, California |
| Tyler Duckworth | 23 | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Svetlana Shusterman | 19 | Richboro, Pennsylvania |
Note: (*) Age at the time of filming.