In 1992, Eric Nies change into once the essential roommate to step into “a novel world.” Immediate-forward 29 years later: The Unique Jersey resident didn’t agree with the identical skills as his roomies all by a once-in-a-lifetime homecoming in January 2021.
Throughout The Real World Homecoming: Unique York premiere — now streaming on Paramount+ — the authentic solid members all traveled help to the Mountainous Apple in the heart of a world pandemic to reunite in their authentic Soho loft.
Becky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi, and Kevin Powell all arrived — and commenced to ponder Eric’s whereabouts. Rapidly, they had been greeted by an “Incoming Message” on their tv video display. And Eric’s face appeared.
“Guess what I agree with?” Eric asked the MTV team of workers, they customarily answered with a refrain of “No!”
“You examined certain?” Andre asked, relating to COVID-19. Eric simply nodded his head certain.
Understandably, the six in Soho had been dismayed.
“When Eric popped on the video display, I knew these are times of COVID. So yeah, I added two plus two beautiful mercurial,” Andre acknowledged in an interview.
Eric, who change into once keeping apart at a hotel, urged the team of workers he change into once feeling “okay” and didn’t agree with a fever.
“My vitals are actual,” he said. “I agree with to take one other test nowadays to leer the place it’s at.”
He emphasized that he loved all and sundry as Becky wiped away tears, an delivery-mouthed Julie listened intently and Heather cradled her face in disappointment.
“You all leer so engaging,” an emotional Eric urged them.
Kevin vowed that they would are trying to leer him and said that he had picked out their room (the boys had deliberate to bunk collectively). When the gang broke it to Eric that they had been help in their broken-down homestead, Eric grew to change into far more upset.
“I knew I change into once going to verbalize the total time,” he said.
But it surely change into once Heather B who brought some great-wanted levity to the pains.
“I brought all this organic sh*t that change into once towards my whole comfort zone,” “The Overjoyed Hour with Heather B” host declared to a sea of laughter. “I change into once ready for you, boo! You manufacture no longer attain this to a Dim girl. You manufacture no longer put me up, then let me down. I will leer you sooner than we circulate out!”
Everybody vowed to “signify” Eric, and he made several more cameos all by the inaugural episode. But his absence change into once noticeably felt, and Eric’s skills change into once no longer like any the others persisted.
“It change into once heartbreaking for me,” Eric nowadays urged Leisure Tonight. “I flew all this kind 29 years later. We had been coming help to be collectively and to search out out that I wasn’t gonna be there with them physically — that change into once correct heartbreaking. It change into once crushing.”
Be particular to employ watching the seven outmoded strangers on The Real World Homecoming: Unique York on Paramount+, with novel episodes being launched every Thursday.
