On Nov. 22, exactly a decade will have passed since MTV premiered the 18th season of its long-running reality trainwreck “The Real World,” which chose the Mile High City as the backdrop for its 2006 incarnation.

Cast members Brooke, Tyrie, Colie, Davis, Stephen, Jenn and Alex lived, worked, partied, hooked up and fought out of a converted brick building at 1920 Market St., which had been the home of a B-52s Billiards bar, and which has since been a succession of restaurants and retail shops (it’s currently Brothers Bar & Grill).

Production company Bunim-Murray kept a tight lid on the proceedings during summer filming, restricting access to the 21,297-square-foot house and making anyone who appeared on camera at the LoDo-area bars and restaurants the cast visited sign waivers that muzzled them from talking about the show.

Naturally, The Denver Post went out of its way to track every movement of the cast and crew via the (since-shuttered) website GetRealDenver.com. As much a gossip blog as an advocate for the show to do right by Denver — which at the time had a bigger cow-town complex than it does now — the site was (for a time) DenverPost.com’s most popular offering and was even featured on the cover of the New York Times Style section.

In advance of the 10th anniversary cast reunion at the new Bowlero bowling alley in Lone Tree at 7 p.m. on Oct. 21, we’re stumbling down memory lane and revisiting the places the cast frequented, as well as catching up with cast member Davis Mallory, who went on to work in the music industry as a publicist and Nashville-based songwriter, and who will be in Denver for the reunion.

The Denver Post: What are your abiding memories of appearing “The Real World: Denver”?

Davis Mallory: I had only been (to Colorado) one time before, which was during high school when I came for a Young Life trip to a camp called Frontier Ranch in Buena Vista. I was really in love with the layout of downtown Denver, the proximity to the mountains, the views and scenery and the overall feel and energy of Colorado. I also fortunately had a close friend from college who lived in Denver who took the cast out our first night of filming to several night clubs, which we wound up going to for most of the show.

Q: How much freedom did you have to do what you wanted?

A: Despite the fact that we lived right across the street from Coors Field, we were never allowed to go to a game because clearing all the logos would have been a nightmare. We were also unable to see a show at Red Rocks for clearing the licenses of the music. We joined the Denver Athletic Club — whenever we worked out alone the camera crew did not come with us, which was a nice and rare escape from 24/7 filming… one of the only moments in four months where I was not being filmed.

Q: What were your favorite spots?

A: I loved Larimer Street. There was a wine bar we often went to — it has been a long time now since the show finished, so I forget the names of all the clubs we went to — but the ones I do remember include Vinyl, The Church, Mynt, LoDos, Crimson and Tryst. We were given gift certificates to Wild Oats food store and I was a big fan of Flying Dog beer and toured the brewery — they gave me a case of my favorite beer, In Heat Wheat. We went rock climbing at Turtle Rock, hiking in Boulder, went on wilderness excursion in Leadville for Outward Bound and skiing at A-Basin.

Q: Do you feel you were portrayed fairly on the show?

A: I felt that my behavior and actions were accurately portrayed on TV — pretty much anything that I did both bad or good was shown on TV. I felt that I was given a fair edit. For instance, my fight with Tyrie (which wound up being ranked as the Biggest Fight of the first 20 Seasons of the “Real World,” and was featured in VH1’s Top 40 Reality TV Moments) showed both the escalated aspects of the fight as well as reconciliation and forgiveness in one episode. One of my biggest complaints is how little we were paid ($10,000 each to film “The Real World: Denver”). In the end less than 1 percent of what we did on the show actually made its way onto TV. The show was an accumulation of 28 episodes (30 minutes each), and these 14 total hours were accrued from four months filming.

Q: What do most people ask you about the experience?

A: “Did the show provide free alcohol?” We were never provided any free alcohol from the producers, and in fact they began to put alcohol restrictions on us if we were becoming too intoxicated. Which was in part a fault of the altitude.

Q: Do you and the cast keep in touch?

A: After Denver finished filming I took part in three “Real World/Road Rules: Challenges”: “The Inferno 3” (2007), “The Duel 2” (2009) and “Rivals: (2011). My “Real World: Denver” co-stars were on several of these shows as well: Jenn (“Inferno 3,” “Duel 2” and “Rivals”), Tyrie (“Inferno 3” and “Rivals”), Colie (“Inferno 3”) and Brooke (“Duel 2”). For the two years after Denver aired (2006-2008) I gave speeches and lectures at over 40 colleges — often paired up with my “Real World” co-stars discussing topics ranging from Alcohol Awareness to LGBT rights and issues. I saw Brooke Labarbera the most after the show — we are both from the South (I’m from Georgia, she’s from Tennessee) and we visited each other’s hometowns often. I currently live in Nashville, where Brooke also resides, and I have seen her several times.

Q: What are they all up to?

A: From what I know about everyone, Colie Edison is engaged to be married and is Vice President of Marketing at Bowlmor AMF in New York. Jenn Grijalva is a Fitness Director at P2P Transformation Center in Pleasanton, Calif. Brooke is a licensed therapist who graduated from NYU with her Masters and presently lives in Nashville. Stephen Nichols is Vice President of Diversity Engagement for National School Public Relations in Sacramento, Calif. Tyrie Brown is a coach at UFC Gym in San Francisco and just had a baby girl, named Diem Brown. Alex Smith… I actually do not know what he’s up to!

Q: How would you rate the experience overall?

A: I think The Real World was a great experience — I was 22 years old when I filmed the show. Before filming I made a list of goals I hoped to accomplish by going on the show, and one of them was to be a positive role model of a gay man on TV. Something I had not seen other than characters on “The Real World” with Chris Beckman of “The Real World: Chicago” and Karamo of “The Real World: Philadelphia” as influencers for my decision to go on the show. After the show aired I received hundreds of emails and MySpace messages by young gay men saying I inspired and encouraged them to come out of the closet, which I felt was a personal accomplishment.