{"id":44604,"date":"2021-02-15T00:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=44604"},"modified":"2021-02-15T00:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:21:40","slug":"real-world-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/real-world-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Real World Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a young gay boy growing up in a Boston suburb, 1992 was a big year.&nbsp; That was the first time I regularly saw a gay person on TV.&nbsp; When <em>MTV <\/em>launched <strong><em>The Real World<\/em><\/strong>, they also started a reality craze that continues to this day.&nbsp; Sure, we all lusted after <strong>Eric Nies<\/strong>, but <strong>Norm Korpi <\/strong>was out and proud and usually in a tub!&nbsp; <em>Paramount Plus <\/em>is staging a reunion with the entire first-season cast.&nbsp; <strong><em>The Real World Homecoming: New York<\/em><\/strong> drops on March 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dolly Parton <\/strong>is going to pop up on the final season of <strong><em>Grace and Frankie<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Or is she?&nbsp; Most media outlets say it will happen, but I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a done deal. &nbsp;<strong>Jane Fonda <\/strong>and <strong>Lily Tomlin <\/strong>have long discussed wanting to write something for Dolly, but it\u2019s happened.&nbsp; Last week, Dolly was on the UK chat show <strong><em>Lorraine<\/em><\/strong> and said, \u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to write me in somehow.&nbsp; So when it\u2019s safe for us to actually do a production when they\u2019re back, I\u2019ll probably get around to doing that.\u201d&nbsp; Meanwhile, Lily was talking to <strong>Hoda <\/strong>and <strong>Jenna <\/strong>on <strong><em>Today<\/em><\/strong> and said, \u201cWe have a great role for her this time.&nbsp; I think she will do it.&nbsp; I\u2019m just hoping she will.\u201d&nbsp; Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a young gay boy growing up in a Boston suburb, 1992 was a big year.&nbsp; That was the first time I regularly saw a gay person on TV.&nbsp; When MTV launched The Real World, they also started a reality craze that continues to this day.&nbsp; Sure, we all lusted after Eric Nies, but Norm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44605,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604\/revisions\/44605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}