A reason to watch non-Philly ‘Real World’

I finally caught the season premiere of The Real World last night and I have found my reason to watch this year: Svetlana. The 19-year-old (last name Shusterman) is a sophomore biology major from Richboro who totally seems like she should live in Northeast Philly. Like any good Philly resident, she goes to a city school, namely Temple.

Svetlana, who’s been called Slutlana — ho ho! — by another cast member, is the youngest cast member and also the neediest. In the premiere, she walked over to two of the guys and asked them if they wanted to play charades. Charades. A cast member on the show said she was totally a Russian mafia daughter.

She told the Temple News that she “left the experience a new person. The one on the show is not necessarily [one] I like,” although on the show she seemed like hundreds of other Northeast Philly girls I’ve met — uhh, we guys are worse, just in case you were about to fire off an angry letter — although her accent wasn’t that strong.

Anyway, with a nickname like Slutlana and a Northeast Philly girl attitude, she’s clearly the highlight of the show — which includes a guy who walked in with a blow-up doll (hi-larious).

After the jump, a kinda sorta maybe not safe for work clip (if you work in a chapel or a place that doesn’t like cleavage). It’s from the pilot.

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