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To help celebrate the premiere of the The Real World's upcoming Hollywood-set season where the series can abandon the already-flimsy pretense its houseguests are there for any reason other than attracting the attention of personal-appearance agents who find mall-opening star-quality in their ability to fight with and/or fuck their castmates, MTV is throwing The Real World Awards Bash: Roast 'Em and Toast 'Em on March 29. It's an awards show! And a roast! And a...toast! Polling is now open on MTV.com, where viewers can vote for their favorite melodramatic phonecall that messily ended a long-distance relationship, drunken altercation with law-enforcement officials annoyed by the presence of a camera crew, and hot-tub orgy that threatened the reproductive health of all involved. (We're really pulling for the Vegas season's Steven, Trishelle and Brynn three-way for that last category.)
Unfortunately, the Bash won't be all slurred insults masquerading as good-natured roast material; MTV plans to "show how the series brought attention to socially-important causes, including AIDS, racism, homophobia, addiction, abortion and eating disorders," probably in the form of a minute-long montage that the producers will quickly abandon in favor of the weave-endangering catfight spontaneously breaking out between two disappointed runners-up.
- Real World Awards [MTV.com]
