Coral Smith

Coral Jeanne Smith (b. January 19, 1979) is an American reality television personality known as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: Back to New York, and for her appearances on various seasons of The Real World's spinoff show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Her most recent Challenge appearance was on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III, which aired in early 2008.[1] On April 2, 2008, Smith appeared on the first ever Real World Awards Bash as a nominee for "Roommate You Love To Hate".[2] She won and accepted the award for this category.

Smith was a 21-year-old part-time student and nanny living in San Francisco when she decided on a whim to audition for MTV's two long-running reality TV series, The Real World and Road Rules.[3] She and two dozen finalists were housed together for a casting special leading up to the selection. During her stay at the casting house, Smith came into conflict with finalist Ellen Cho. Smith was ultimately selected as a cast member for The Real World, which would be set in New York, the first season of the show since 1992 to be set there.

During Smith's season on The Real World, which aired in 2001, she came into conflict with Mike Mizanin over views he related to Smith from his uncle, who opined that African-Americans were slow and uneducated. Although Mizanin attempted to disown the comments as merely those of his uncle, Smith and their other housemate, Malik Cooper, who are both African-American, were offended. Coral and the other housemates went on to teach Mizanin about African-American culture, such as the life of Malcolm X.