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[B]By Tenley Woodman[/B]
Age isn’t the only difference between Beth Stolarczyk and the other contestants on MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Gauntlet III,” debuting Wednesday night at 10.
“I was cast a long time ago,” said Stolarczyk, 38, part of “The Real World: Los Angeles” house in 1993. “The casting was done differently. A lot of these people are trashy, low-class people. They aren’t educated. I don’t fit in with that crowd.”
This season the opinionated reality star must out-wrestle, claw and fight a crop of “Real World” and “Road Rules” alumni at least 10 years her junior for a chance at $400,000 in cash and prizes in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The competition includes Charlestown’s Chris “CT” Tamburello (“The Real World: Pa ris”), Billerica’s Danny Jamieson (“The Real World: Austin”) and Coral Smith (“The Real World: Back to New York”).
Stolarczyk, an Ohio University graduate, has a reputation for being a shrew from previous “Real World/Road Rules” challenges. “A lot of horrible things have happened to me on these challenges, but I’m a very positive person and I have hope that this could be the time where the rules will work to my advantage, where it will be based on (skill), not popularity,” Stolarczyk said. “I mentally prepare myself for the worst.” One of those moments occurred on “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II” when cast mate Tonya Cooley (“The Real World: Chicago”) threw Stolarczyk’s luggage into a swimming pool. But that didn’t prepare her for her first day on “Gauntlet III.” “I was surprised to see CT there,” Stolarczyk said.
Tamburello, 27, was kicked off “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno III” for punching Davis Mallory (“The Real World: Denver”) in the face. Stolarczyk’s season of “The Real World” was the first to send a cast mate home for questionable conduct. “He (Tamburello) should not be there. He clearly has problems. He should not be participating in a show where he could hurt somebody,” she said. Attempts to contact Tamburello were not successful.
“It’s one thing to go and play a game and be strategic and figure out a way to win, but it is another thing to cross the line and do things that could really hurt somebody. I am definitely against that,” Stolarczyk said. “I look at these people and think, ‘Who raised these people?’ ”
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