Dan Renzi is now a nurse and he's in NYC helping to fight coronavirus!

at around 6:00 in the video he cries happily seeing the people in NYC clap for healthcare workers and first responders

his instagram for those curious

He doesn't look too bad

He's a cunt.

I met him in Kansas City circa '99 and started to tell him that I really appreciated what he'd done for visibility on The Real World—which I did!—but he turned up his nose, acted aggrieved for being approached and walked away with no response.

R4, I'm sure he's been since humbled by what he's currently witnessing.

He's fat.

R5, he's now fat, balding and a midwestern nurse, so yes, I'd guess that he'd been humbled for a decade now.

Time is a BITCH, isn't it?

Oh wow, he really hit the wall at top speed. Still, good for him for what he's doing. Not a lot of people would.

This is SO Rachel Maddow to profile a "gay male icon" of the late '90s — when she was a self-proclaimed "big dyke" who "went up" to Oxford to do her dissertation — who was actually a vacuous total bitch (and arrested for jacking off in a Kansas City porn theater) who did nothing for LGBT people.

Dan now:

Dan then.

Be nice, or risk getting the face you deserve.

Damn, R8. So true.

Holy SHIT r11's link. He's only two years older than me and he looks like my father!

If you look at his IG you see he generally looks great for a 45 year old guy - in the latest videos he’s been working nights putting dozens of bodies into bags under wartime conditions while the DL brigade mostly sits at home in their caftans and snarks about the bags under his eyes.

Who’s the nasty cunt again?

He has a Tom Hulce quality to him now.

Well, he got a ton of opportunities for being a cute guy—and a nasty cunt—in the '90s.

So the chickens have come home to roost.

That's unexpected. Good for him. He's going to have some serious ptsd. I hope they gave him proper ppe.

I still hope Dan sits on Miami Melissa's face.

Who would of thought. DL once again rips apart an out gay man. This one was up all night caring for the dying and DL is only concerned with the bags under his eyes.

r20 you musn't have seen him on the Real World. He was a grade-A cunt back then.

Life happens, you know? At some point, though, he finished a nursing degree and started a career helping others. Now he's on the front lines where we need his skill set most, putting himself at risk. I'll say a prayer for him tonight.

[quote] Who would of thought.

Oh, dear.

He's a fat!

Wow. Good find! He was a star on the challenges. Battle of the sexes especially.

I knew him and all of the cast members from that time. The show was edited to bring out drama at a time when viewers weren’t so used to edited reality. They were all young, unprepared, decent people. I wish him well.

R26 did you lose contact after the show was over?

R27, I kept in touch with a few cast members via AOL email or message but we lost touch long ago.

The cunt is coming from inside the house

He’s fat now. Karma’s a bitch.

The ratio of selfies and TBT shots in his pre-Corona IG feed tells me all I need to know. Let him experience this karma for awhile and see what it does for him.

was he really that bad of a person? or just didn't know how to handle his brief and fleeting infamy?

He was a real little bitch when he was on The Real World, but he was young and attractive and full of himself. I'm glad he's turned his life around. He's still good-looking, and it sounds like he's become a noble person.

I tried to find the infamous Dan/Melissa fight on Youtube, no luck.

He was openly gay on MTV in 1996 before Ellen came out publicly and Will and Grace.

[quote] He was openly gay on MTV in 1996 before Ellen came out publicly and Will and Grace.

So what? Norm Korpi did it four years before him on the first season of The Real World, and Pedro Zamora did it two years after Norm and was also HIV+. By the time Dan rolled around, no one gave a good goddamn about there being a gay cast member on TRW.

R38 sucks to be you, doesn't it

No, not really.

Yeah okay

Name another cast member on Real World Miami without looking it up

Miami was one of the more memorable seasons to me.

Besides Dan, Flora, Joe (and his manly amazon girlfriend), Melissa all come to mind without looking at Wikipedia. I remember the guy who had the 3-some with Melissa and the other girl, but can't think of his name. And the dirty,skanky looking girl who skateboarded.