Within days of arriving at The Real World Hollywood house, Brianna Taylor was contacted by police in her home state of Pennsylvania and notified that there was a warrant out for her arrest. That was just the beginning of the craziness this season.

Our friends at BuddyTV recently talked with Taylor about the season so far…

Why did you try out for The Real World?

Well, actually, my roommate from home had been talking about it for a few weeks. My ex-boyfriend and I, he wanted us to go, so we were like, “Alright, why not?” It was kinda weird how it happened. The auditions were at 7 o’clock in the morning and I didn’t get to bed that night until 4 in the morning. When he called me that morning to wake up and go, I kinda really didn’t want to.

You know when you’re sleeping how nothing else is important no matter how important it really is? I really didn’t wanna go and I was thinking about not going. I felt bad for him. I didn’t want him to go by himself. So I was like, “Alright fine, I’ll just get up and go with you.”

So we got up in line and my ex-boyfriend and I actually made it through the first cut so I thought that was pretty cool. I didn’t really expect anything and I guess that kinda helped in me making it because I kinda just BS’d my way through it, pretty much like, “I really don’t care, it’s kinda cool”, having a good time. I really didn’t get my hopes up for anything. I guess when you least expect something, that’s when it happens, you know?

Were you surprised by how quickly the drama exploded in The Real World house? It was pretty early on, this season, that everybody started fighting.

Oh yeah, absolutely. Walking in there, meeting everybody, it was so weird. I really thought they were all actors because everybody was so excited. Everybody thought that about me, too. They thought that I was an actress. Come to find out, everybody is really real. It’s pretty cool – the fact that we are so much alike but yet, we’re all so different.

We all walked into the house thinking, “It’s the 7 of us, we have this awesome opportunity, we’re all best friends” and then to come find out, I really, absolutely hate these people. I cannot stand these people.

We learned to live with one another, we learned to grow with one another, and a lot of us experienced people and things that we’ve never experienced in our lives.

Read the full interview now.

While it may seem as though Big Brother has been on forever, it’s only churned out half the number of seasons as MTV’s The Real World. Below, we recap both reality TV mainstays…

The Real World Hollywood: We first met Joey, 24 years old from Chicago, who wants to be an actor. He’s very concerned with his looks, feeling that a good body is the key to success in Hollywood. Kimberly, a 24 year old from South Carolina, is introduced next. She wants to be an entertainment reporter for E! News… — BuddyTV

Big Brother: We start with booming announcer guy reminding us that everyone left hates Nat. Moose and Ryan say that it might be smart to keep someone who would automatically lose in the final two, but come on… — TVGasm

The Real World: Hollywood marks this reality show’s 20th season, making our staff feel very, very old.

On top of the usual sex and drunken antics this season, the cast will be made up of aspiring musicians, actors and others wishing to make it big in Tinseltown.

“On this 20th anniversary season we wanted to get back a little to the show’s origins by casting people who were pursuing dreams of careers in the entertainment business,” said Jon Murray, Chairman and President of Bunim-Murray Productions.

Here are a few other spoilers for the upcoming season of The Real World: Hollywood:

• Brianna falls for Joey;
• Kimberly and Dave spend some quality (naked) time together;
• The roommates become worried when Joey displays overly aggressive behavior;
• The police respond to a fight involving Brianna;
• Dave receives news from home that brings him to tears.

The fun begins this Wednesday!

At a party held on Los Angeles for former cast members of The Real World, a pair of often-scantily clad females showed up, looking rough… but fully dressed!

Tonya Cooley nude sex scenes are common on Cinemax. But the past Chicago resident wasn’t having intercourse with anyone in this photo.

Wanna see Trishelle Cannatella nude? You may be better off than the older, clothed version above.

MTV will be reuniting cast members from all 20 seasons of The Real World for a Real World awards show and roast, dubbed The Real World Awards Bash: Roast ‘Em and Toast ‘Em. This tremendous idea will air on March 29.

The show’s 20th season - The Real World: Hollywood - premieres in April. Cast members from the new season, The Real World: Hollywood, will participate in the program.

Viewers will have a chance to vote for their favorites in 13 categories, including “best fight,” “best meltdown,” “hottest male,” hottest female,” and “best season.”

In addition to the awards, MTV will comb through the Real World archives, selecting the most memorable moments for clip packages addressing issues such as racism, homophobia, eating disorders and addiction.

Visit realworldawards.mtv.com right now to watch clips of all the nominees and vote for through February 29.

Amazingly enough, we’re up to the 20th season of MTV’s The Real World. And the upcoming edition - The Real World: Hollywood - is unique in a handful of ways.

This edition will incorporate environmentally friendly household and lifestyle choices, including a solar-heated swimming pool, energy star appliances, bamboo flooring, recycled glass counters, some sustainable furniture and energy efficient lighting.

The Real World: Hollywood is also the first season in which a cast member was chosen by the fans via multistage online poll from a pool of 20,000 applicants. His identity?

Greg Halstead, a 20-year-old model from Queens, New York.

Here are the other six members of Hollywood’s cast:

• Kimberly Alexander, a 25-year-old aspiring reporter from Columbia, South Carolina
• Joey Kovar, a 24-year-old aspiring actor from Evergreen Park, Illinois
• David Malinosky, a 22-year-old aspiring actor from Hagerstown, Maryland
• Brianna Taylor, a 20-year-old singer from Warminster, Pennsylvania
• William Gilbert, a 25-year-old music producer from Oak Park, Michigan
• Sarah Ralston, a 21-year-old aspiring reporter, Nick Brown, a 23-year-old model from New Rochelle, New York
• Brittini Sherrod, a 22-year-old model from Janesville, Wisconsin

The Real World: Hollywood is expected to premiere some time this spring.

Jamie Chung from the Real World San Diego season now has a recurring role on Days of Our Lives.

Chung began her role as Cordy Han on the daytime drama on September 28.

She previously appeared on Veronica Mars, while also portraying a Hooters girl in the movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Jenn Grijalva was known as the hardcore partying rock star on The Real World: Denver.

Now that the show has aird, MTV Reality News sat down with Grijalva. Here are highlights from the interview:

 MTV Reality World: How did you end up on The Real World? Had you always wanted to be on the show?
Jenn: Well, when I was 18 and close to graduating from high school, I applied for The Real World. But I wasn’t ready for the process. I was trying to typecast myself and wasn’t honest with the whole process. I made it to the finals, but I was cut. When I was with the Raiders, I was there for four years. After that, I was at a transition. It’s hard to find something as appealing and exciting for a regular job. The Real World presented itself again. There was an open casting call at a pub in Berkeley. I went down there and made it 5 minutes before they closed. I just went in there and from that point on, it was interview after interview. There was lots of self-examination. They were asking a bunch of questions that I never would have thought about. It wasn’t my lifelong goal to be on TV or be an actress. I just didn’t know what to do next.

MTV Reality World: Do you feel that you were accurately portrayed on The Real World?
Jenn: I think reality TV can portray you how they want you to be portrayed. And ideally, everyone wants to be portrayed a certain way. But I do think I was accurately portrayed. I was a single, 22 year-old wild child girl when I was there. I did make bad decisions. I did cry over the wrath I brought upon myself. As far as the show defining me as a person, no – that’s definitely inaccurate.

It was a very short period of my life. All my roommates had their freshman and sophomore years in college away from their parents and got it out of their systems. For me, I went right into being an NFL cheerleader. I was representing the organization. I wasn’t given the opportunity to go out and party and get away with it without a camera. This was kind of like my first time graduating from a scheduled lifestyle. It’s out of my system now.

MTV Reality World: Was there anything that you wish MTV had shown that they didn’t?
Jenn: Well, the idea of a documentary is to portray the accuracy of your real life. What frustrated me the most is I lost my grandfather during filming. He was only the second. person I lost in my life that I was close to. I left the show for four or five days and went home to comfort my family and to watch my grandfather die from cancer. When I returned, I was a different person. I learned a lot during that time – to live life to the fullest. But it was completely wiped out of the show as if it had no importance. They wanted to portray me as a party girl, not show a person losing someone and being really vulnerable. That wasn’t fair. They also didn’t show that I got my first tattoo when I got back to Denver. It’s the nickname that my grandfather gave me.

It was a big step. I took the plunge and they even taped it. I shared my story and opened up and I’m frustrated that they threw it away with the extra tape. I wish they had shown it. It was important and very personal. I went through several interviews about my family and my grandfather and they wiped it out. It didn’t fit in my character’s role. I was the tough girl who spoke her mind and to show me in a vulnerable state didn’t fit. They also cut out when I stopped drinking. At one point they offered me AA classes and I said I’d cool it myself. I stopped partying, lost a relative and they cut out my turnaround. I ended it as a party girl

MTV Reality World: Is there anything that you wish they had not shown?
Jenn: There’s a ton of stuff. No one wants to have themselves on TV having sex. But I went into the experience doing it the way you’re supposed to do it: be honest with yourself. Be honest with the cameras. It’s a documentary on my life - of the things I did. I could probably in a few years say maybe I shouldn’t have done this or that. But there’s nothing I could pick through that I wish they hadn’t shown.

There were bad decisions, tears arguments, foolish moments that I think people can relate to. I put myself out there completely. I think that sets me apart. A lot of my castmembers don’t talk about having sex. They said that they had just been “making out.” I pride myself that I didn’t do that. Watching it myself has taught me a lot. It’s kinda nice to get the reality thrown in your face and learn from it.

MTV Reality World: How close are you to your former roommates?
Jenn: I’m really close to Brooke and Davis. I talk to them the most. Tyrie and I are good friends too. Colie and I don’t talk often. I don’t talk to Alex or Stephen. My socializing friends that I text and talk to are Davis and Brooke. Tyrie and I are pretty close, too.

Frankie Abernathy, the punk rock-adoring former Real World: San Diego housemate whose struggle with cystic fibrosis helped to further raise national awareness about the chronic lung disease, died Saturday evening in her mother Abbie Hunter’s Shorewood, Wisconsin, home. An official cause of death has yet to be determined; Abernathy was 25.

According to Hunter, Abernathy was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis — a hereditary disease that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive tract — at the age of 3. She is survived by a sister, Mamie; her mother; stepfather Perry, and her dad, Joe Abernathy, who now resides in Texas.

“It was very sudden,” her mother said. “It wasn’t something that was expected. She was doing fine, and we really don’t know very much yet. It still was kind of a shock, and it just wasn’t how we figured things would go. It seems like her little body just gave out.”

Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common life-shortening, childhood-onset hereditary diseases, and every year in the United States alone, 1 in 3,900 children are born with it. Difficulty breathing and insufficient enzyme production in the pancreas are the most common symptoms, and thick mucus production — as well as a weak immune system — often results in frequent lung infections, which are treated, though not always cured, by oral and intravenous antibiotics.

Hunter said Abernathy, who was born in Blue Springs, Missouri, on December 21, 1981, moved to Wisconsin last fall with her family, and, while she wasn’t working full time, she was designing purses forged from old vinyl records. This winter, her health began to worsen.

“It was a day-by-day thing,” Hunter said. “Some days she felt good, and some days she felt bad. We were kind of hoping to get her [on a list] to see if she would qualify for a lung transplant, because the disease does get progressively worse. In the winter, most [people with cystic fibrosis] usually have a rough patch, and she had a rough patch this year. She had been sick more this last year than she’d ever been in the past. I am very grateful that it was very quick for her. It certainly made it hard for the survivors. She’s just our little girl.”

Abernathy — who had said at one point during her time on 2004’s The Real World: San Diego that “Tomorrow is a privilege, so live today like tomorrow isn’t happening” — helped put a face to the disease. Abernathy didn’t stay for the entire season; she left because of several problems she had with her roommates and because she missed her boyfriend, Dave, terribly.

“Her experience on The Real World taught her about what she needed to do, and it helped other people as well,” Hunter said. “I know several people weren’t aware of the cutting epidemic at the time” — Abernathy cut herself intentionally with a kitchen knife during the show’s taping — “and I know several people wrote Frankie and thanked her.

She was a different person for The Real World realm, and I think she touched a lot of people and made an impact on a lot of people’s lives. That’s what you want when you have a child — you hope they do that. I wish it had been in a different way, but I am proud of her, and as I said, she got a lot of personal growth out of her experience, and she was very fortunate to have had the experiences she did.”

Less-than-stellar ratings for MTV’s The Real World: Denver may have observers wondering if the show has legs, but don’t count Denver officials among them.

Nielsen Media figures show the Denver season has averaged 2.2 million viewers per episode, compared with last year’s The Real World in Key West and its 2.6 million viewers per episode.

The Denver season seemed to be little more than watching the seven housemates engage in drunken, trashy behavior, fans and bloggers noted. We’re not sure how this is any different from the past few years, however.

But Denver’s civic and business officials praised the chance for national exposure, even if The Real World plot was a bit thin.

“Any time something of that caliber comes to Denver, whether it’s the NBA All-Star weekend or the Democratic National Convention or The Real World, it exposes a different side of our city,” said Paulina Szafranski, marketing director for Lotus Entertainment LLC, which operates the upscale bar Monarck, a watering hole that had a lot of screen time on the show.

Ginger White, senior economic development specialist for the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs said the city’s seen an increase in filming this year over last, “and that’s everything from commercials to small independent films.”