DC ExtraTime: The Life of Daddy Adam

From during The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars III; updated 

to include additional videos not featured in original post

BY DC CUEVA                     

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As we watch Tony on this Champs vs. Stars season and Cory on Ex on the Beach, we are reminded of how hard life can be of juggling being on an MTV show with being a father in your late 20's and early 30's. CT and The Miz now are in this same spot as them in The Challenge community as are so many other MTV alumni who are now entering the profession of parenthood, which always is the game changer in whether castmates can keep on doing these shows or retire and settle into the real "Real World." And it's with this in mind that we focus this brief bit of ExtraTime to perhaps the most surprising member of the Parents Club...

In 2011, The Real World jetted off to Las Vegas for its 25th season: it's the only RW season in this decade to have its entire cast head onto a Challenge afterwards, and it gave us Leroy, Nany, the Dustin porn scandal, and a guy from Maine who might be called one of the worst roommates we had ever had on the Trifecta. Adam Royer came to the Hard Rock Hotel as that college kid who didn't do much other than get in trouble with the law, with a hobby of dealing drugs and a robbery that went wrong that saw him spend time in a juvenile detention instead of getting down on senior prom night.
   When he went on Real World, Adam was kicked out of Hard Rock's Vanity nightclub a few times, smashed a few bottles, hooked up with girls and even rode a bull. His relationship with Nany drew much ire, as did Leroy... and a night of him treating the Hard Rock suite as his own smashing gallery cost him his keys to the house. And then, Adam went onto The Challenge: Rivals with Leroy, and after they and fellow rookies Jasmine & Jonna won that first challenge (which also signaled the rookie revolution that would follow), Adam got into a drunken fight with fellow fire-starter Ty, threw a punch at him, and was kicked off an MTV show for a second straight time: the first one to do so.

That was then, this is now: the Adam we saw on TV is now a distant memory to him now being many years older and much more mature, and being a full time law student who aims to be a lawyer and help those in need... something that would've been crazy to think considering how wasted he got on TV and how often the drunken side of him made him the least-liked member of his Real World cast - one who even had the chance to party with the Jersey Shore cast at their Vegas premiere party.
   He also has the most demanding job of all of being a dad: a couple years ago and without the fanfare that accompanied Tony, Cory and most other MTV alumni, he became a new father. Not only that, he has two kids to become daddy to: 2-year-old Harlow and 1-year-old Hudson. The good news about all this: Adam does not have to hear haters go off on him for televised bad behavior while his kids are back home the way we've seen with Tony before "Tony Time" began.
   Knowing that so many moms document their everyday lives of being parents on YouTube, inspired by what we've seen on Teen Mom (for which Adam became friends with Maci Bookout and Amber Portwood's ex Gary Shirley and gave them clothing from his clothing line), Adam relaunched a YouTube channel this spring to document life as a single dad. Below is his first YT vlog as he spent some quality time with his two kids, the first of regular videos he's posting there.

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DC ExtraTime: Real World Las Vegas - The Game Changer

BY DC CUEVA                           

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The next chapter in the ongoing story that is the MTV Trifecta is already ongoing with season 31 of The Real World taking place in Las Vegas, NV. Among the shows that make up this triple, if you consider The Challenge to be the main course with all that competition and Are You The One? the dessert with all that lovin', then The Real World is the appetizer, and the one that's steeped in history. It's not only the longest-running show on MTV but the longest-running primetime entertainment series in all of cable and, of course, the pioneer of the reality television genre, as the show is in Sin City for Go Big or Go Home.

   The Real World's way of having told the stories of the generations who've been documented on this show serve as a template to ExtraTime and to our position of covering these shows in a unique way. From personal hardships and great moments, to the people of this unique franchise, we've been able to tell the kinds of stories that sometimes get shuffled in the limelight but proves that there's more to them than what you see on TV. And the show's long and storied history provides a vault full of stories that makes it unique among MTV shows, which for this post provides a perfect example.

On this dedicated edition of ExtraTime, DCBLOG will look back at the first time The Real World set foot in the city that never sleeps. When it came to Las Vegas in fall 2002, the show was, pure & simple, a documentary series documenting the MTV generation going through this transition into adulthood, and in many ways it still is. But when the cast moved out of the Palms Hotel at the end of Season 12, it was in a whole new level with a memorable cast that rewrote the rule book and set the pace for every season that followed to emulate its kind of wild excitement, big time drama and hookups aplenty.

   After the jump, DC ExtraTime presents a special, unique retrospective of the season that changed the game of television's longest-running reality-based series: The Real World Las Vegas.