Wes Bergmann is probably one of
The Real World's most hotly debated characters - do you love him or hate him? Despite his rocky behaivor on
The Real World: Austin, he has matured over the years, appearing on
Fresh Meat and most recently
The Duel, where he took home the grand prize of $150,000. Wes took time from his busy week at Arizona State to talk to BuddyTV about how his life has been changed by MTV, his new entrepreneurial ventures and the possibility of an MTV Wedding Special.
BuddyTV: So, how sick are you of interviewing about The Real World?
Wes: You know what? I never get tired of it.
Really?
I don’t know. I think it’s fun every once and a while to talk to people from all over the United States. Because everyone’s got different points of views, whether they like me or dislike me. It gives me a chance to talk about upcoming projects of mine and stuff like that, which is always helpful. I knew I was going to be talking about
The Real World for the next decade of my life before I signed up to do the show, so it’s not like I didn’t know what I was getting myself into.
So you began back in Austin when you were 19, I believe, and now your 22?
Yes I am. I was cast when I was 19 and I actually started filming the show right after I turned 20. So I was 20-years-old for the whole part of that show and then 20 through the first challenge, the Fresh Meat challenge. Since then, I’ve grown up a little bit.
I was going to ask how MTV sort of shaped your young adulthood, so to speak?
Oh yeah, MTV has definitely shaped a lot of things. I can honestly say, with the exception of my friends and family, every single aspect of my life has changed. And the school I go to. So I still go to the same school, I still have the same good group of friends and fraternity brothers and then my family is also the same. But literally, I live in a different place in the city, I go to different kinds of nightclubs and bars, I take different kinds of classes. Everything about me just kind of changed after I saw the world and met hundreds of thousands of people on appearance tours and speaking engagement tours and stuff like that. I’ve had to grow up quite a bit.
So congratulations on winning The Duel.
Well thank you. I never get tired of hearing that.
Who was your toughest competitor on that challenge?
It’s between
Brad or
Evan. I’m going to have to give it to Evan on that one. Evan is a legitimate athlete. He’s a Division 1 hockey player that the only reason he’s not still presently playing is because he was injured; got a hernia during one of the shows that I was on with him. So he’s quite the athlete and very versatile and I got lucky to not have to be the one to take him out. And then Brad is also an athlete, I mean, he’s got a lot of attributes that an athlete has that I don’t have. Like there were certain things that we’d go into, like certain challenges, and I’d be like, “I don’t think I’m going to be good at it.” The exact ones that I was like, “I don’t think I’m going to be good at,” Brad was good at. When both of those two guys made it into the top 4, it was pretty packed with people that at any point in time could get me off.
Now who did you like the least on that show? Who just drove you absolutely crazy?
I’ll be honest with you, there were times obviously, I mean if you watch the show you can’t really see otherwise, that people disturb me a little bit more than others. It’s an “at the present time” type of thing. There’s not been one of those people that I was mad at on the show, that I’ve been seen on television like yelling at or something like that. There’s not one of those people that when get in real life with, when I get around the United States, and I’m not on camera that I actually dislike…They’re all genuinely wanting to be good people it’s just all of them need to change a little bit when the cameras turn on and change a little bit when there’s a whole lot of money at stake and change a little bit when you’ve been living in the conditions they make you live in for over a month. So sometimes that kind of stuff gets difficult.
I heard you bought a bar with your $150,000, is that correct?
My girlfriend,
Johanna and I, we both invested in a bar that’s going to be going into Los Angeles.
So what’s your favorite place so far, in all of your MTV travels, to have visited?
Let’s see, well my girlfriend and I went to Peru and Peru was really cool. We went to Matchu Pitchu; the mountain range in Peru and that was amazing. In the United States, my favorite city, the most fun one to go to, is Chicago. Chicago’s got everything that Los Angeles and New York have, only with good people.
(Interview Conducted By Cameron Curtis)
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