Real World Seattle’s Irene McGee on The Slap, Stephen, Homecoming

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jess is joined by The Real World Seattle's IRENE MCGEE, infamous for the season which she battled Lyme disease and was slapped in the face by cast member Stephen Williams. Irene discusses cast member David Burns' relationship with the show's casting director Kira and everything surrounding Stephen chucking her childhood teddy bear in the cold Seattle water, calling him a "homosexual" and Stephen slapping her across the face. Plus, Irene's reaction to Stephen's eventual coming out and arrest, the idea of RW Seattle "Homecoming," Irene's present life as a mom and Real Housewife of New York City, her comedy career and a lot more!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes Indeed Dives, and I am here with perhaps one of the most
0:19.6	infamous people to come out of the real world in a galaxy of infamous and controversial
0:25.0	moments on the real world. Entertainment Weekly named Irene McGee's slap with Stephen
0:31.0	Williams, the 46th most interesting event to happen that year. Irene McGee, I can't
0:37.8	wait to talk to you. I know you're here in New York City. Let's get a major life update
0:43.1	right at the top. Yeah, I'm going to be on the new season of the Real Housewives New
0:49.1	York. Could you imagine? We were all hoping for that. I couldn't be on that show because
0:55.4	you actually have to get dressed every day. Like just getting dressed to do this interview,
1:00.3	I still was like, yeah, I'm just doing a top knot. That's all I can commit to. But
1:04.8	at least the curls are still intact. Like I know that you originally went on the real
1:08.2	world for like curly hair representation and I feel like you and I are going really
1:12.1	strong together in this moment. I did. And I have to tell you, when I auditioned, I put
1:17.8	in the thing, there's an under-representation of curly hair women people on TV, which
1:25.1	is true. It was back then. And I'd like to think I was the boundary breaker for that.
1:30.7	And then they put me living on the water in the rainiest city in the world. That's like
1:37.7	curly hair abuse. It absolutely is. I relate to you in this moment more than perhaps I've
1:43.8	ever related to another human being. Ever. Are you kidding me? Like there's no, and Seattle
1:50.6	has the worst type of rain because it is either a mist or a light rain at any moment in the day.
1:58.1	And the worst part is like it's not like a rainforest where the word rain is in the forest.
2:03.7	It was just, yeah, so my hair the whole time I was like every follicle.
2:07.9	Where in New York do you live? I'm on the Upper East side. So what are you doing on the Upper
2:13.7	East side? I know you're married. You have a couple kids like paint the picture of just modern
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