The 25 Most Annoying "Real World" Cast Members Of All Time

Unlike many others who have appeared on the show, The Real World would not be the pinnacle of Kevin Powell’s career; he would go on to be a senior staff writer for Vibe in the mid '90s, publish numerous books, and make two runs for New York's 10th congressional district in Brooklyn.

Still, that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be on this list; Powell is here mainly for the fact that he was the originator of the “angry black man” stereotype that the show employs to this day. Throughout the season, Kevin was the serious roommate who didn’t mind dwelling on racial issues. His “angry black man” stereotype reached its zenith when he famously bickered with Julie, who claims that Kevin, a true firestarter, threw a candleholder at her. That's better than a TV, crazy.

For this list, it's important to not just include an individual’s actions during the show; his or her post-Real World career also matters. So yeah, Dan was kind of a douche on the show (the screaming match he had with Melissa was epic), but his full bitchiness didn’t come out until after the season ended and he started doing all of those shitty Real World/Road Rules Challenge spinoffs and then later started blogging about, well...himself.

What really put him over the edge, though, was the incident in 2004 where he reveled his inner Pee-Wee Herman in a public movie theater in Kansas. A true narcissist if we've ever seen one.

Nehemiah’s major asshole moment came during the patented reunion show. He took center stage to publicly call out Danny for changing and acting like “Ben Affleck” once the show was over.

It was a move that came off as completely self-serving; things like that could be done in private. Besides, there’s not a bigger "fuck you" than being compared to Ben Affleck. There just isn’t.

Bossy, bitchy, and "burn book"—the three best words to describe Janelle’s time at Key West. The first two need no explanation; the back-story on the third, however, describes the book that Janelle made with fellow roommates Tyler and Jose, and it documents all the stupid shit Svetlana said and did. As we’ll explain later, Svetlana was a whiny brat—but still there has to be some kind of girl code against this level of bitchiness, right? Other than the multiple Real World challenges she would later show up in, Janelle also made an appearance on The Real World: Hollywood, dating Will while the cameras were on and then breaking up with dude the second they shut off.

We’ll never lie to you, people: Wes really wasn’t that bad. He was your typical over-aggressive, wrestling, corny white dude that The Real World's producers love to have. Wes making our list is really just our inner hater coming out, because somehow he managed to bag Johanna, one of the BADDEST Real World chicks of all time. It was an affair that started late in the season and really took full steam once the show was over. There was a point where the two were even engaged. How the fuck does this happen? It was a relationship so incredibly disproportioned that even Jermaine Dupri couldn’t believe it.

Arissa was just so uptight and way too square for Vegas. To make matters worse, MTV spent a lot of time telling her story. This included struggles with her boyfriend, beefing with her family back home, and nagging about all the little shit her roomies were doing (flipping out on Frank for smashing in the “Confession Room” was pretty lame). However, she does get some cool points for deciding to go nude in Playboy a couple years after the show’s run. Arissa's long road to redemption began with airbrushed booby shots.

Tyrie has an unexplainable annoyance about him. To be fair, we don’t think he’s a bad guy (even though he had two separate steroid-induced fits aimed at Davis and Jenn). He just annoyed us because he claimed to have all this charisma, but dude was just swaggerless, man. Tyrie had zero game when it came to picking up the ladies, and he had an irritating tendency to pretend he had dual personalities. Example: He called himself the sexual Dark Kent and Leroy Jenkins...ugh, you see what we’re talking about here?

Parisa might be the only girl in Real World history whose hotness descended with each passing episode. Having no swag does that to a chick. Seriously, how did she make the show? Did the producers forget to watch her tape? Shorty was boring as shit. She barely partied, or hooked-up with anyone, or got trashed, basically, Parisa did nothing throughout the season but get into it with Trisha, bitch about her roommates on the phone, and brag about her so-called blossoming singing career. Unsurprisingly, Billboard still doesn't know anything about her.

With Coral, it's mainly an issue of exhaustion. We actually didn’t mind her so much during her Back to New York days. And we kind of enjoyed how she used to punk Mike (who’s now a freakin WWE wrestler going by the name The Miz). But DAMN: Ever since the first season ended, Coral has been in six Real World/Road Rules Challenge seasons, with her latest appearance coming in 2008. Six! That is just a ridiculous amount of reality TV overexposure.

Even though he’s not quite as big of douche as the other Ryan in the house, Knight still had his moments. He gets into it with several of the roommates and he even says a homophobic slur to his gay roomy, Preston. Dude also wants to be called Knight, which is officially the douchiest nickname of in Real World history.

If Parisa was the boring chick in the house, Trisha had to be the bitchy one. The two mixed like oil and water, constantly arguing throughout the season. The vocal exchanges turned serious when Trisha physically attacked Parisa, which led to the latter demanding that Trisha be taken off the show. What was their big clash about? A man, of course—well, a man, and a phone. What sealed the annoyance deal for us, however, wasn't her beefing with Parisa but her complaining earlier in the season about an Asian-Australian worker in McDonalds not knowing how to speak English correctly. Apparently, Trisha forgot that she wasn't even in America. Epic fail.

This one's too easy, man. David Broom gave us one of our favorite unintentionally funny moments ever when he unleashed the musical masterpiece “Come On Be My Baby Tonight.” It’s a song that, regretfully, we couldn’t find a full version of anywhere. However, we’re confident this 36-second clip will get the D-bag point across sufficiently.

Of course we had to find room for comedian David Edwards. He was a trailblazer, being the first Real World cast member to ever get kicked off. Well, technically, he was asked to leave. David got a little too frisky with Tami, and he thought it would be a good idea to pull off her blanket while she was still in her underwear. Expectedly, Tami freaked the hell out. With Tami feeling uncomfortable, and Beth’s instigating ass yelling "rape" (we got something for her later), the roommates felt like they had no choice but to get him out of there.

Ryan Leslie—perhaps the most homophobic Real World cast member ever? We’re not sure; all we know is that he said some really hateful shit during his 15 minutes of fame. The other R-Les (not the actually talented singer-songwriter) beefed with his openly gay roommate, Preston, calling him a “fag." Then, last year on Twitter, he typed gay slurs to someone who tweeted at him. Our prediction for Ryan: By 2012, we get the coming-out-the-closet tweet that we've all been waiting for.

There’s a moment during the Denver season where the Brooke LaBarbera we first met ceases to exist. She goes from a high maintenance southern belle to a devil woman. Brooke gets into an argument with Jenn about some stupid shit, and Jenn makes the mistake of calling her a whore. Words. Can’t. Describe. What. Happens. Next.

If only Svetlana never talked, because holy hell was she gorgeous! Every time she opened her mouth, though, she was whining about something, whether it was the abuse she got in the house or the issues she had with her boyfriend at home. At 19, she was the youngest in the house and was she damn sure acted like it (and got treated as such in the process). Svetlana also didn’t win us over by having MTV film her Super Sweet 21 Remix birthday party years after the show was over. That ish was lame. But man—she’s still great to look at.

For people who hate the “angry black man” stereotype that has clouded the show (and this list), your boy Ty didn't help the cause. This dude would LOSE IT. Seriously. His anger really came out whenever he had too much to drink, which happened quite often. The scariest drunk moment occurred when Ty tossed Andrew off of a balcony while they were horsing around. The incident led to Ty promising he wouldn't drink for the remainder of the show…only for him to get shit-faced a couple of days later. Long live the “angry black man!”

First of all: A big "Fuck you" goes out to the entire Chicago crew and staff for putting on that whole charade during the 9/11 attacks. When the plane crashed into the buildings, the cast wasn’t huddled up in front of a TV crying, like the show made it seem. Instead, they were posing for a photo shoot at Wrigley Field. Not cool, MTV.

Now, as far as Tonya—she was just a complete buzzkill to have in the house. She used to bitch when Aneesa would walk around the house naked (we didn’t mind, naturally). She never went out with the gang. And she gave little effort when it came to working at the summer camp. Tonya's thing was being cuffed to the phone, talking to her boyfriend all day, and telling anyone who would listen all of her sob stories. Boo f'n hoo.

Irene’s short stay on the show will forever be remembered due to an infamous confrontation that we’ll get to in a minute. It wasn’t easy living with Irene; she was moody, didn’t really click with her roommates, and suffered from Lyme disease. Irene would eventually leave the show due to illness—even though years later she claimed that she left because she didn’t like how the show was exploiting the cast. Yeah, whatever.

Question: Can one bitch-made moment in front of a camera instantly turn a person into one of the most hated people in reality TV show history? Uh, yes. Yes it can.

It’s the slap heard around the world and the most famous moment in Real World history. Irene was getting ready to leave the house for good, and before she left she had some choice words for Stephen: “A marriage between you and I would never work. You know that. Because you’re a homosexual, Stephen.”

Dude couldn't handle it: He grabbed his crotch, faked a laugh, called her a bitch, threw her doll in the water, and then ran up on her car, opened the door, and smacked her open palm style (it was a weak-ass smack, but a smack is a smack).

The best part: Irene would eventually be proven right. In 2008, Stephen finally came out of the closet.

C.T. is quite possibly the least stable Real World cast member ever. Dude was the ultimate asshole: rude, selfish, anti-social, confrontational, and not afraid to fight. C.T. earned his top five douchebag status by constantly picking on soft, 80-pound Adam. Tensions boiled over between them when C.T. rocked Adam with a Tyson-like right hand in The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Duel 2 season premiere. It’s a fight that instantly became an all-time classic reality TV moment.

Beth’s sliminess on The Real World: Los Angeles was enough to earn her such high placement on this list. But, her work after—appearing on seven of those Real World/Road Rules challenges—has shot her to the top.

In each show, she was easily the most hated participant, with her deceptive methods and drama queen ways. Plus, more irritatingly, she was still doing these challenges despite the fact that she was in her late 30s. If you're almost 40, and you’re rolling around a snake pit for 30 Gs, it might be time to start reevaluating things.

The Real World: Hawaii arguably had the coolest cast of all time. Well, with the exception of Amaya. There aren’t enough negative adjectives in the dictionary to describe this woman. But screw it, we’ll give it a try: needy, bitchy, annoying, two-faced, back-stabbing, spineless...eh, you get the point. MTV didn’t do us any favors either by constantly shoving her on-again, off-again relationship with Colin in our faces. (Sidenote: They had to be the Sammi and Ronnie of the late '90s, right? The stuff they did to each other was epic.)

Despite how different they were, Puck and Pedro’s names will forever be linked. While the late Pedro Zamora was the most sympathetic cast member of all time, his San Francisco roommate Puck remains perhaps the most hated.



He and Pedro famously went at it numerous times over subjects like Puck’s hygiene (he didn’t change his socks) and Pedro’s sexual preference and work choices (he was gay, and he worked with AIDS patients). Finally, Pedro, who had AIDS himself, felt like Puck was affecting his health, and he threatened to move out. Instead, the roommates voted to kick Puck out. Right after the season, Pedro would die from the virus, and Puck would keep making more spin-off Real World shows.

For the 20th season, the producers added a new wrinkle by letting fans of the show vote on the final cast member. Their choice? The king of all reality TV assholes, Greg Halstead. Dude was a snob who was obsessed with himself and walked around calling his roommates "peasants" on some 18th century Eastern Europe shit.

To top it off, he was a cornball. He'd play random corny tricks on his roommates and then steadily deny the pranks when confronted. Greg was eventually kicked off the show because he didn't want to be involved with the cast's mandatory improv class. Before he left, though, we got to see some sweet revenge when Will got some Becky from a chick Greg was seeing. It was a win for the inner peasant in us all.