By Jamiyla Bolton
The Black Ink recently caught up
with “the guy from Road Rules”
better known as Shawn Sealy.
Staff writer, Jamiyla Bolton sat
down with Shawn to ask what
everyone else has been wondering
about his experience on the show.
Do people call you out as
Shawn from Road Rules on a
regular?
My most common response is “
you look very familiar.” People
think I might have went to high
school with them. I don’t want to
be Mr. Celebrity. I think more of
the freshman class this year
knows who I am. Since they were
seniors when the show aired and
they probably kept up with it
more than the people who were in
college. I don't mind people asking
questions. It's better to ask than
to stare and whisper like some
people do.
Why did you want to be on
Road Rules?
Well, I just got tired of watching
the show and being like “man, I
could do that" and I decided to put
my money where my mouth was.
What is it about Road Rules
that you don’t think people
know?
Folks don’t know that it’s real,
but edited. Everything you see
that happens on the show happens,
they don’t
tell us to do
anything.
But at the
same time,
it’s a soap
opera. They
have people
in L.A. who
review all
the tapes and
figure out a
story line.
They script out what was said and
take specific clips to form each
show. We do interviews where
they ask us specific questions
after two weeks of taping. We’d
sit down for like three hours
answering questions about every
thing that’s happened, to keep the
story going. With that, for exam
ple, if you get in a fight at the end
of the trip, they’ll show every
confrontation you’ve had with that
person from the time you got
there. A small argument in the
beginning, a little attitude in the
middle, a brushing of the shoul
ders at the end, all in the same
episode. It’s a lot of cutting and
pasting.
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