'Real World' Star Danny Roberts Reflects on Life After 'New Orleans' and Getting Closure (Exclusive)
etonline.com’s 30-year history, Danny Roberts is one of the more memorable roommates to appear on the MTV reality franchise. And now, 22 years later, he’s reuniting with his castmates -- David “Tokyo” Broom, Melissa Beck, Jamie Murray, Matt Smith, Julie Stoffer and Kelley Wolf -- for season 3 of on Paramount+. “It brought up lots of memories and things that had been nicely tucked away in a closet, no pun intended,” Roberts tells ET’s Lauren Zima about the upcoming installment of, which may prove to be the most dramatic yet as he and other roommates finally unpack issues that forced them apart over the past two decades.
During their time together, he also revisits what it was like to become one of the most popular gay men in America at the time, thanks to the groundbreaking story that played out on the series at the time.
While on, which ran for 23 episodes in 2000, Roberts was a fresh-faced 22-year-old gay man from Georgia. As one of seven roommates from very different backgrounds, Roberts faced many opposing views over who he was, as a member of the LGBTQ community, from the Mormon Church, which Stoffer was a part of at the time, and Smith, who was a devout Catholic with a narrow point of view on issues of gender and sexuality.
During his time in the house, Roberts was in a relationship with an officer named Paul Dill, whose face had to be blurred out during filming to protect his identity.
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