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This season, The Real World cast members find themselves jetting off to Europe for a stay at a chateau in the romantic setting of Paris, France.
We first meet Mallory, an 18 year old virgin from Chicago, who finishes packing her bags while her mom worries about her new adventure. This athletic girl gave up a soccer scholarship to do something spontaneous, like say, for instance…live in Paris for five months.
Next we encounter CT who is from a suburb of Boston. Mallory's initial impression of CT is that he seems little bit full of himself. The two greet and then attempt to find the Paris trains. Mallory looks embarrassed as CT brazenly approaches many people asking directions to the Paris trains. The duo finally finds the train to the Le Vesinet neighborhood, where their chateau is located. On the train Mallory talks about visiting the Louvre, while CT uses the ride as an opportunity to hit on her. First to arrive, CT and Mallory bound up the steps of the chateau and they explore the ma
The new roommates are out partying until the wee hours of the morning at a club called Le Paris. The girls get wild by dancing on the bar and Leah, puffing on a cigarette, flirts with Ace. She informs him she wants to bite his butt, but probably should kiss him first. Ace makes it clear that he's not into girls who smoke and rebuffs her advances. Meanwhile, Adam flirts fruitlessly with Mallory. His ""subtle"" advances are not winning her over.
Back at the chateau, Ace reveals to Leah that his mother died of breast cancer a few years ago, which prompts Leah to make a decision to quit smoking. She tells Mallory that she feels like she's spitting in Ace's face every time she lights up. Ace is proud of Leah for trying to quit.
Adam finally comes to the realization that he doesn't have a ""snowflake's chance in hell"" with Mallory, so instead of being mature about it, he proceeds to act bitter and angry towards some of his cast mates. Mallory shrugs off his antics, but later it's Leah who ends
Christina insists that she'd much rather date a guy who can cook her eggs exactly the way she likes them, rather than a guy who's good in bed. It's got something to do with attention to detail… Yeah, the roommates don't buy it either and faster than you can say ""Egg McMuffin,"" sexual tension begins to sizzle between Christina and CT. Christina says CT has the hottest body in the house and we all know what CT thinks of Christina's bangin' bawdy. Oh my Gawd.
Christina takes her analogy a step further and demonstrates to CT exactly how she likes her eggs fried. CT gets the distinct impression that she's giving him a step-by-step manual on how to get to her heart. CT enjoys flirting with Christina and admits he's been practicing making her egg…just in case.
Meanwhile, southern-fried Ace is having a hard time adjusting to the Parisian lifestyle and cuisine. He'd much rather be driving a SUV while sinking his teeth into a Royale with Cheese that's ""super-sized with America."" He looks like he
Ace and Mallory frolic in the snow like two lovebirds. Mallory later insists to Simon that she will not act on her feelings for Ace. Translation: She's not going to act on her feelings while she's sober or while the cameras are around.
Unhappy with the tension that's building in the house, Ace decides to bring some of his Southern home to France and that apparently involves a garbage can and an ""ass-load"" of alcohol. Being a professional bartender, one would expect that Ace could mix a drink in a large IKEA garbage can with the best of them. He doesn't disappoint. The Trash Can Saloon is open for business and Ace challenges Mallory to a drinking contest. Others soon join in, but Mallory is confident she can drink everyone under the table.
Adam steals Leah away for a moment to apologize to her. A stone-faced Leah does not make it easy for him, plus she explains that in ""real life"" she would just cut him out of her life and not feel bad about it. She has never forgiven anyone for anythin
Wondering when things were gonna get petty in Paris? How about, like, right now. ""You know, I haven't taken a hot shower since I've been here,"" Leah barks at CT. CT doesn't seem to show much consideration for his roommates and Leah just loves bossing people around.
Still pleading ignorance, Mallory tells Leah that she had no clue how disrespectful she was the other night. Ace says that it's the best time he had since scarfing down a Quarter-Pounder at Mickey Dees. OK, not really. But he did say it was the best night out that he's had since he arrived in France. This makes Mallory happy and she temporarily forgets about how out of control she was.
Some of the roommates get ready for the opening of the club, which means Ace will be donning his monkey suit for the occasion. Leah is now barking hair styling orders at CT while he fixes Ace's hair. Ace looks embarrassed to be in the middle of such a fuss. Leah chooses this as her opportunity to unload all of her frustration onto CT. CT says
The roommates receive their first assignment for Frommer's. They must review different shopping districts and stores in Paris. Brice instructs them that he must receive all of their assignments together by a 6 p.m. deadline. Adam wonders what the odds are that they will get their assignment done on time. ""Zero, zilch, slim or none?"" Adam votes for none and it looks like his prediction will come true. Most of the roommates are seen procrastinating on getting started on their projects. Princess Leah has been crowned as the point person, meaning it is her job to collect the roommates' completed assignments and email them to Brice before their deadline. A phlegmy Mallory and Simon get an extension on their shopping reviews since they are both terribly sick. They manage to keep their spirits up by goofing off at home.
If you're a woman in Paris, watch out, Adam's on the prowl. Actually, if you are within a 50 mile radius of Adam, watch out; he could be throwing his digits your way. It reall
Valentine's Day is near and if amour with a side of drama tickles your fancy, then there's plenty of that at The Real World chateau on this lover's holiday.
Pre-V-Day, CT knocks down the girls' straightening iron in his morning stupor. Leah tells him to pick it up. CT makes fun of Leah because she's telling him what to do. Leah thinks CT has no regard for other people's things. Christina chimes in that CT is the most difficult person to live with in the house. Despite Leah's insults, CT refuses to pick up the straightening iron. Ah, love is in the air.
CT says he feels like the girls have been on his case too much and he doesn't understand what he needs to do to get them to like him. Ace suggests that he should just be a little more understanding and considerate of his roommates. Leah calls her mom for comfort and complains about the difficulties she's been having with CT's hygienic care, or lack thereof. She wonders, ""Should I still be nice to him even if I don't mean it?"" Still be ni
Adam is still trying to pull chicks wherever he goes. Here a chick; there a chick; everywhere a chick-chick. The roommates are still wondering what Adam is trying to prove by meeting so many women. He says he is in constant search of ""that feeling"" that he gets when he's around girls. He claims that he is at his personal best the first 15 minutes people meet him, then it's all down hill from there.
Adam meets Talayeh at a Paris club and is quickly smitten. He invites her back to the chateau and into his bed, but she informs him that she has been in Paris for six months and hasn't hooked up with anyone yet and she's not going to sleep with him that night. Adam's response to her confession? ""It's hard cuz you're really, really hot."" On their second date Adam spends the night at her house, but as they get closer, he's wary of the word ""exclusive,"" so he goes out another night and kisses some chick named Anna.
On the work front, Christina is worried about what Brice thinks of her reviews.
Mallory is tip-toeing around the house lately because she's afraid of Leah's evil looks and her wrath that ultimately follows. Mal confides in Tina about Leah's brashness and wonders what she should do about it. When the two get locked in the Frommer's office, Leah theorizes that they just wanted to get out of cleaning the house.
Back at the house, Leah is orchestrating a massive clean-up of the chateau in preparation for her brother Pascual's visit. Leah gushes over her brother like he is the best thing since sliced baguettes. Among the things she calls him: her hero, a good soul, and her favorite person in the whole world.
Behind her back, Leah calls Mallory lazy and dirty. Ace defends her honor by saying that Mallory is still young and will learn eventually. To Mallory's face, Leah isn't much nicer. ""Mallory, I love you and I don't want to pick on you, but when there's a dish of candy out could you not put your apple core in it."" Mallory does not appreciate the public humiliation. B
Christina concludes that although they live together and work together, the roommates don't really know a lot about each other on a personal level. Ace illustrates her point by quizzing Christina on his little sister's name. She has no clue, yet CT informs her it's Kathleen. She is disturbed that CT knows a bit of information that she doesn't, but Ace lets her off the hook by telling her he doesn't really have a little sister. As punishment for the prank, Christina begins a flirty ketchup fight with Ace that ends with some huggin'.
Ace admits he'd try and kiss or hook-up with Christina, but he'd never date her. Wasting no time, Ace crawls into bed with Christina to snuggle and asks for a kiss. She obliges, but when he asks if he can kiss her stomach, she denies him of the privilege. She boosts his ego by telling him that he's the best roommate she's ever had, though.
Between flirting and partying, some work has to get done. CT does not attend a meeting at the Frommer's office, which pr
After the night of the rowdy pool game, the roomies must get their assignment done and emailed to Brice by 6pm. No one, not even the goldfish, has confidence that CT (the point person) will get their reviews in on time.
Christina continues to give CT the cold shoulder and is still bristling about the consequences of having a bed one floor beneath the pool table, so she talks to Adam about moving into his room. Of course, Adam welcomes the idea of having a hot chick as a roommate, but doesn't want any bad blood between him and CT as a result of the switch.
Ace confides in Leah about Christina's issues with him and admits that sometimes the only person he thinks of is himself. She closes the conversation with what some might describe as excessive kissing and straddling of the Ace-miester who looks extremely uncomfortable.
With an hour and thirteen minutes to go before the assignment is due Leah and Christina turn their reviews in and leave the chateau. Turns out, the group is short four
The roommates gather at the Frommer's office with advisor David, and in a conference call with boss man Brice, they learn they won't receive a bonus due to their incomplete assignment. CT puts on his best ""What did I do?"" face. Simon complains about the ""all or nothing"" rule and tells Brice that they actually gave CT all the ""Tips & Finds"" -then an argument ensues. Brice reiterates the need for them to communicate, while he probably has his secretary get the cast of Road Rules on the horn.
Poor David tries out his best travel cheer to bring the group together, but there is too much tension in the air, and the roommates need more than a scribe to help them sort out their issues. Raising his voice, David chants, ""Can we say that our energy is going to get positive now?"" Leah shoots back a quick ""No"" and storms out, grumbling about not getting her 250 Euro bonus. Still reluctant to add the word ""forgive"" to her vocab, Leah wonders why she should let someone off the hook when they do somet
Ace is ready for a visit from his girlfriend Kate. ""The roommates in the house are getting hotter and hotter,"" he jokes. ""By god, Simon is starting to look good to me."" His attraction to Simon aside, Ace is fairly confident that the drunken kisses he's shared with Mallory and Christina don't count and will not be an issue with Kate. He talks about how serious his feelings are for Kate and tells his roommates that, not only is she the prettiest girl he's every dated, she's the only girl he has dated that he can see marrying.
Ace and Kate share an awkward greeting at the airport and he brings her back to the chateau to introduce her to the roommates. On the train ride to the house, Kate describes Ace as ""kind of a boyfriend"" which upsets Ace and sets the tone for the entire visit.
Meanwhile, back at the chateau, Mallory tells Simon that she was supposed to clean Ace's room for 20 Euro, but since she's busy (doing what?), she asks Simon if he can fill in for her. Before he can say ""Tkisco
The roommates receive information about their upcoming vacation and learn that they have the power to plan the entire trip. Prophet CT believes that this trip has the potential to either bring them all together or tear them all apart.
Ace is excited to see the French Riviera for his birthday. Leah is psyched to go shopping at all the outlets in Italy. And the boys are looking forward to snowboarding in the Swiss Alps. But before they leave for their trip around Europe, they have another Frommer's assignment to complete.
They are assigned to write about nightclubs and bars, which should be a piece of cake for these nightly party-goers. Christina is the point person and Brice encourages them to budget their time wisely and be in the office everyday so they can finish their work on time. Unfortunately, Mallory's cousin and aunt have come to Paris for a visit, but she's frustrated because she won't be able to spend much time with them.
The roommates take the train to Florence, Italy and step off into the Italian city de amore. They divide into groups to explore the city. Leah and Simon represent the shop-o-holics, while Ace, CT and Adam are the eating at a café exhibiting shop-o-phobic symptoms. Christina and Mallory fall somewhere between as they walk the streets of Florence while men flirt with them. They are surprised by how straightforward the Italians are.
Over lunch, Leah admits to Simon that if a guy she met didn't drive a fancy car, the chances of him talking to her were ""slim to none."" When she met her boyfriend, he changed everything. Nothing else mattered except that she had him. They dated for three and a half years and it was the happiest and most confident that she's ever been. She says that she now feels that she is being held captive by this feeling of wondering whether or not she'll have that again.
The roommates are excited to be in Rome and they tour the city with Leah's friend Matt from college and go out at night. ""CT's so dumb,"" Leah says to Matt, loud enough for CT to hear. ""I'm telling you, we live with seven people and six of us hate him."" CT looks sad, but barely bats an eye because he knows to expect this from Leah. CT has an unexpected defense attorney in Matt who tells Leah that CT has been nothing but nice and he doesn't understand why she would say such a thing. By the end of the evening, even this guy Matt is embarrassed by her actions.
Growing more and more pissed at Leah, Mallory thinks her comments about CT were ""completely out of line."" Christina has been avoiding being in Leah's presence because she is so loud. And Simon thinks Leah doesn't care about what other people think.
After a night of obnoxiousness and drinking Leah has a tough time getting up to leave for Zermatt, Switzerland.
The roommates return to a messy house after their trip around Europe. Ace feels like he cleans the house more than anyone, but it's a thankless job and no one every notices his good deeds. On a recent cleaning escapade, he picked up Christina's clothes and put them in her closet, not realizing that some items were clean and some were ready to be washed. Christina unleashes her wrath, even though he meant no harm, and Ace tries to apologize. She retires to her closet to let out a yelp of frustration. Mistakenly thinking he was helping out again, Ace put Leah's clothes in the dryer which shrunk a good portion of them. Now she is not happy and Ace is feeling like no matter what he does, he's not helping.
Feeling bummed about the tension in the house, Ace chooses not to show up to their Frommer's meeting, so CT and some of the other roommates, thinking they can get away with it, try and cover for him.
The guys of the house venture out to play basketball and Adam notices a lot of pent up anger and aggression in CT. CT complains that Adam is hacking the entire game and they argue. Later Adam confides in Ace that it's getting more and more difficult for him to be around CT because he ""acts like a pompous jerk all the damn time."" Meanwhile, CT is on the phone with his friend Knuckles telling him how Adam acts like a ""clown."" Where is the love? CT says he wasn't brought up the way everyone else in the house was brought up. Meaning he was brought up to be a ""pompous jerk?"" Not sure what he's getting at. Adam continues his rant and tells Ace how CT was wearing a pair of Adam's socks and trying to pass them off as his own; he theorizes that CT is a pathological liar. He may be right, he may be crazy.
CT and ex-girlfriend Jamie tour the sights of Paris and he says having her here is making his trip more enjoyable. He admits that he doesn't want to let her go because he feels less alone when she's here.
Christina learns that CT told Jamie's friend Wendy that he feels very alone in the house. This makes her sad, but Christina says she doesn't feel like she knows CT at all. She can't predict anything that he does, ever. Simon explains they are tired of getting their buttons pushed by CT. Mallory says she sees a good person in CT, especially when Jamie's here, but it's still hard to deal with him.
The rift between Mallory and Leah also continues. Mallory is tired of feeling like she's always being judged by Leah. Christina advises Mallory to decide whether her friendship with Leah is either worth saving or not.
Leah thought she lost that loving feeling, but with Giuseppe in her life, she realizes it's not gone, gone, gone, wooooh. For a long time, Leah really thought that no one was going to love her as much as her ex-boyfriend. Then she went to Florence and met Giuseppe. Then she is summoned back to Florence to spend time with the cutie-patootie (didn't he have a girlfriend?!) They smooch on the streets of in Italy. Leah says that with Giuseppe, she can let her guard down and be herself. He says he loves her and Leah says ""that's fun."" Ah, amore at its best.
Apparently not feeling a bit nostalgic about her trip to Paris, Jamie calls CT after she arrives home and asks him if he has been talking more s-t about her since she left. He said he felt like she was playing games with him. ""I said some dumb things,"" CT admits. Jamie says those ""dumb things"" hurt her feelings, but CT just wonders which one of his roommates ratted him out.
CT is on the s-t list again. Simon tells his roommates about how CT put him into a headlock while they were taking a picture. It wasn't a friendly, brotherly headlock, it actually hurt. Adam said CT was clearly aggressive and going after Simon, but thought Simon had himself handled because he walked away from the situation after telling CT to screw off. That wasn't good enough, though, because Simon wondered why Adam or Ace didn't back him up and tell CT to stop being such an idiot. Leah makes it known that she would have stepped in and said something to CT if she was there. Suddenly, the conversation turns to the incident in Switzerland where Mallory brings up the fact that people in the house have a problem with Leah. Apparently, Leah hasn't been able to let go of this, so she storms out at the room. Mallory tells Simon she is pissed that Leah can't let anything go, so Mallory speaks with Leah in the bathroom and asks why she brought up the incident in Switzerland again.
Adam is on the prowl again. Christina says Adam is such a pimp because he brings new girls in the house all the time. He has recently met a nice girl named Lamyae who is a German, studying ""tourism."" She doesn't speak English that well, but maybe that's for the best.
Adam and Lamyae make their way back to the chateau and crawl under the covers. Despite previous failed attempts at exclusivity, Adam confesses that he thinks they are getting closer to that exclusive type of relationship. When Adam turns into Nelly and tells her she's so hot, he wants to take her closes off, she says, ""Never."" Whoa! That throws him for a loop, but of course that makes her more desirable.
At the Frommer's office, Brice tells the roommates that their next assignment involves reviewing hotels and they need to make a reservation at one of them and all seven of them have to stay there so they can review it. The group arrives at a hotel in Paris to get a feel for the establishment.
Ever since Kate visited Ace in Paris, they have been having a hard time. When All-American Ace calls his sweetheart, he either gets an answering machine or she only wants to talk for a few minutes, so he's finally putting two and two together and is pretty sure that their time is up. To make matters worse, Kate sent Ace a strongly worded email that upset him so much that when Adam comes over to play around while Ace on the computer, Ace tells him he needs a second. Seriously. Unfortunately, this is not the first time a girl has ditched him that he really liked. So what does Ace do to cheer himself up? He spends a $1000 at the strip club and had a grand ol' time. Ace says he got 10 lap dances from a girl from Kansas. He told the strippers he was a multi-millionaire. After bragging about his escapades to the girls at the chateau, Ace crawls into bed with Mallory and asks to snuggle with her.
The weather is nice in Paris, so they all sit on their front lawn and get some sun.
What do you get when you combine an argument over who ate who's pizza and a super-sized order of sappiness unleashed at a fondue restaurant? Why, you get the season finale of Real World Paris.
All-American Ace sums up his experience in Paris by packing his things in a box that reads: ""Going back to Normalville."" Felling a little sappier, Christina writes ""Bye Bye Paris"" and includes a frown face to get her sentiment across. Once the packing is done, CT and Ace hit the hot tub and talk about how they miss gas stations and how great it will be when they don't have to see anymore croissants and girls who don't speak English. Ace is looking forward to southern belles, Georgia peaches, waffles and bacon--not necessarily in that order.
Leah coos over pictures of her and Giuseppe. She says she does not expect much from their relationship since she lives in NY and he resides in Italy, but it was a very romantic and fun time that she'll never forget.
Seven months after the cast left the Real World house, six of them, except for Simon, who was there via telephone, appear to discuss their experiences both during and since their time on the show. Hosted by La La Vazquez.
Seven months after the cast left the Real World house, six of them, except for Simon, who was there via telephone, appear to discuss their experiences both during and since their time on the show. Hosted by La La Vazquez.
