Norman Korpi (born in Wakefield, Michigan)[1] is an American painter, fashion designer, filmmaker[2] and reality television star.
Korpi studied photography at New York City's Cooper Union; and in 1988 he received full fellowship at Yale's Norfolk program.
The show was filmed in New York City, where Korpi was placed in a loft with six strangers (and his dog Gouda, the namesake of his design firm).
His housemates included a female rapper, a fitness model, an alternative music singer and an aspiring dancer from Alabama.
[4] Korpi revealed on episode four of The Real World Homecoming: New York that during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 he had fallen into financial ruin, having lost all streams of income.