Almost everyone has done something in his youth that they wanted them to take back.
Perhaps newly beaten transport secretary Sean Duffy has more regretted than others.
DUFFY – A week ago approved by the Senate as President Donald Trump's Secretary of Transportation – was put into spotlight by the deadliest air accident in the province almost 24 hours after his confirmation.
Duffy, 53, stood in front and in the middle of the briefing room of the White House on Thursday, and insured Americans confidently that the American air travel is safe and promises to determine how an American military helicopter crashed against a shuttle eater above Washington DC – in which 67 were became people killed.
For some it seemed like Duffy was being made for this job. He is certainly no stranger in the public eye as a former FOX News employee and fellow Gastheer of the Bottom Line on Fox Business. But he first stood in front of cameras on another network: MTV.
Duffy appeared in 1997 The Real World: Boston, Where he strengthened his reputation as a reality TV party boy, thanks to his on television on television sexcapades and apparently inappropriate behavior.
On Monday, Daily Mail reported about again received video of a 20-IS Duffy during his forgotten reality TV days that a Raunchy Striptease performed in a hotel room-over his modesty with just a towel.
Almost everyone has done something in his youth that they wanted them to take back. But perhaps newly beaten transport secretary Sean Duffy (photo) has more regret than others.
Daily Mail again reported on the video of a 20-IS duffy during the forgotten reality TV days, a Raunchy Striptease performed his modesty with only a towel (photo) in a hotel room.
The video then cuts to a woman Real world Cast member, Montana McMlynn, who is on a bed and plays suggestively with her shirt.
Duffy dances to her and McMlynn licks his nipple.
Now, in an exclusive interview, McMlynn breaks her silence to defend Duffy against those who question his judgment.
“We were in the early twenties and went through a unique and exciting experience,” says McGlynn, “so I think we were all just looking for pleasure and exploring what it meant to be young.”
Although even then Duffy had higher ambitions and perhaps had had reason to be a little more careful – especially on the camera.
“He always said he would hold a public office,” McMlynn tells the mail. “His brother was the mayor of his small city, so we all thought that his political ambitions could be a reality.”
McMlynn, however, states that Duffy never exceeded the border in his relationships with women: “I don't think he was or is a Womanizer.”
That is of course not what everyone says about him in the past of Duffy.
The slogan for the MTV show from the nineties was: 'This is the true story of seven strangers chosen to live in a house, to work together and let their lives take out to find out what happens when people no longer Be polite … and really start to be. “
The TV series documented Duffy together with six others who live and work together during an after-school program in Boston.
Duffy's 'Meet the Cast' Biography for The Real World: Boston characterized him as a 'typical Midwestern Boy' and a lumberjack champion from Hayward, Wisconsin; But his castats knew him better as a man who likes to 'party'.
Duffy eventually met his now-wife, colleague Fox News-Gastheer Rachel Campos-Duffy, on a spin-offshow, Road rules: all starsHe followed the real world alumni when they participated in a series of missions in the United States and New Zealand. Before he met Campos-Duffy, he was accused of Philandering.
One of his storylines about the real world revolved around his apparent romantic interest in Castmate Genesis Moss, who identified himself as a lesbian. Despite the repeated rejection of Moss of Duffy's advance, his flirting persistent and regularly offered disturbing pick-up lines such as 'Feel My Noodle'.
The video cuts to a female cast member of the real world, Montana McGlynn, who is on a bed and plays suggestively with her shirt. Duffy dances to her and McMlynn licks his nipple (photo).
“We were in the early twenties and went through a unique and exciting experience,” said McGlynn (depicted in 1999), so I think we were all just looking for pleasure and exploring what it meant to be young. '
“He always said he would hold a public office,” McMlynn (now shown) told The Mail. “His brother was the mayor of his small city, so we all thought that his political ambitions could be a reality.”
Moss called him 'a ** hole of the year' after the couple had argued about the cleanliness of the house in the TV program.
Duffy was also apparently bullying other castats. In an episode, he mocked Cast member Elka Walker for having 'Crusty Undies' – Dirty Underwear.
In another he was filmed by running the house and pretended to have sex with roommate McMlynn to make Walker up region, who was pronounced religious and was obliged by her father to sign a contract before he filmed the show that promised no pre -marriage to have sex.
One clip seems to show that Duffy exposes himself to a female roommate before he walks away in a patriotic pair of American flag underwear.
“I have never seen drunk people so rough and vulgar in my life, even during the spring break,” Walker once said about Duffy's behavior.
Towards the end of the season, the real world had a crossover episode with MTV's Road Rules, in which Duffy, when 25, reportedly had sex with the 22-year-old cast member Erika Ruen.
Another cast mate described the romantic encounter of the couple: 'They went to the city. They went into the bathroom. Had her against the wall. You know what I say.
It was a different road rules, Campos-Duffy, with whom Duffy eventually settled. Together they had nine children.
On top of endless drama with the ladies, Duffy was a controversial cast member in many other ways.
He brought problems while working at the after -school program for children when he – what his boss described – as a 'melodramatic outburst' for the children to have Castmate Kameelah Phillipps ended with sex in the house. Later he was reportedly caught drinking alcohol for the students.
Duffy and Phillipps, who are black, bump heads again during a heated argument in which he called her a 'b *** h'. Compared to her with Adolf Hitler and accused her of reversed racism.
The argument came from Phillipps who reportedly said another roommate that “blacks are the king and queen of society.”
During a conversation with Castmate Jason Cornwell, Duffy said about Phillipps 'comments:' That is the mentality of the white man of the 1850s, that we are the King Race and we will place the black man in slavery. She wants racism now and the same mentality for the black people against white people. That is a 'Master Race' idea, that is what Hitler thought. “
It was a different road rules, Campos-Duffy, with whom Duffy eventually settled. Together they had nine children.
Despite these antics, Duffy continued with a career in politics.
In 2002 he was appointed Ashland County, the public prosecutor in Wisconsin, but his reality -TV days were still not over.
While he served as Da, Duffy appeared next to his wife in a filmed segment at the Real World Awards Bash in 2008.
He subsequently served as a member of the American House of Representatives for the seventh district of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019, and in November 2024 Trump called Duffy as his candidate for Transport Secretary.
In an interview from 2019, Duffy himself admitted that his behavior in the show was 'embarrassing', but -luckily for him -his broadcast past will not stop him to serve under the administration of colleague -reality -tv star, President Trump .