Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy defends new reality show amid backlash

[Dulcinea]

(NBC News) Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is making a controversial road trip back to reality TV.

“The Great American Road Trip,” a five-part reality series set to air on YouTube in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary, follows Duffy as he travels across the country with his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children.

“The motto is: To love America is to see America,” Duffy says in the show’s trailer. “It’s more than a road trip. It’s a civic experience. It’s one of the most powerful ways to understand the vast, beautiful, complicated place we call home.”

The project marks a return to the couple’s reality-TV roots. Before entering politics, Duffy was a cast member on MTV’s “The Real World: Boston” in 1997, then joined the channel’s reality game show “Road Rules: All Stars,” on which he and Campos-Duffy first met.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-defends-203129285.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. NINE CHILDREN? Keep it in your pants, Duff-Boy.

[tanyev]

2. Aw, Sean, this is what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.

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Cast of The Real World, Boston

[Wild blueberry]

3. Indefensible