EXCLUSIVEWoman who performed bizarre act on Trump's cabinet secretary breaks silence to DEFEND Sean Duffy against those wild 'womanizing' claims
Nearly everyone has done something in their youth that they wish they could take back.
Perhaps, newly-minted Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has more regrets than others.
Duffy - approved by the Senate one week ago to be President Donald Trump's Secretary of Transportation – was thrust into the spotlight almost 24 hours after his confirmation by the deadliest air crash in the county in 20 years.
Duffy, 53, stood front and center in the White House briefing room on Thursday, confidently assuring Americans that US air travel is safe and vowing to determine how a US military helicopter crashed into a commuter jet above Washington DC – killing 67 people.
It seemed to some as though Duffy was made for this job. He's certainly no stranger to the public eye as a former Fox News contributor and co-host of The Bottom Line on Fox Business. But he was first in front of cameras on a different network: MTV.
In 1997, Duffy appeared on The Real World: Boston, where he solidified his reputation as a reality TV party boy, thanks to his televised sexcapades and seemingly inappropriate behavior.
On Monday, Daily Mail reported on re-surfaced video of a 20-something Duffy during his forgotten reality TV days performing a raunchy striptease in a hotel room - covering his modesty with only a towel.
Nearly everyone has done something in their youth that they wish they could take back. But, perhaps, newly-minted Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (pictured) has more regrets than others.
Daily Mail reported on re-surfaced video of a 20-something Duffy during is forgotten reality TV days, performing a raunchy striptease in a hotel room - covering his modesty with only a towel (pictured).
The video then cuts to a female Real World cast member, Montana McGlynn, who is lying on a bed and suggestively fiddling with her shirt.
Duffy dances over to her and McGlynn licks his nipple.
Now, in an exclusively interview, McGlynn breaks her silence to defend Duffy against those questioning his judgement.
'We were in our early 20s and going through a unique and exciting experience,' McGlynn says, 'so I think we were all just looking to have fun and explore what it meant to be young.'
Though even then, Duffy had higher aspirations and may have had reason to be a bit more careful – especially on camera.
'He always said he'd hold public office,' McGlynn tells the Mail. 'His brother was the mayor of his small town so we all thought his political aspirations could be a reality.'
McGlynn insists, however, that Duffy never crossed the line in his relationships with women: 'I don't think he was or is a womanizer.'
Of course, that's not what everyone in Duffy's past says about him.
The tagline for the 1990s MTV show was: 'This is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house, work together, and have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite…and start getting real.'
The TV series documented Duffy along with six others living and working together at 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 sports champion from Hayward, Wisconsin; but his castmates better knew him as a guy who 'liked to party'.
Duffy eventually met his now-wife, fellow Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, on a spinoff show, Road Rules: All Stars, which followed Real World alumni as they participated in a series of missions across the United States and New Zealand. However, before meeting Campos-Duffy he was accused of philandering.
One of his storylines on The Real World revolved around his apparent romantic interest in castmate Genesis Moss, who identified as a lesbian. Despite Moss's repeated rejection of Duffy's advance, his flirting was persistent – and regularly offered disturbing pick-up lines such as 'feel my noodle.'
The video cuts to a female Real World cast member, Montana McGlynn, who is lying on a bed and suggestively fiddling with her shirt. Duffy dances over to her and McGlynn licks his nipple (pictured).
'We were in our early 20s and going through a unique and exciting experience,' said McGlynn (pictured in 1999), 'so I think we were all just looking to have fun and explore what it meant to be young.'
'He always said he'd hold public office,' McGlynn (pictured now) told the Mail. 'His brother was the mayor of his small town so we all thought his political aspirations could be a reality.'
Moss dubbed him 'a**hole of the year' after the pair got into an argument about house cleanliness on the TV show.
Duffy also seemingly pestered other castmates. In one episode he mocked cast member Elka Walker for having 'crusty undies' - dirty underwear.
In another, he was filmed running around the house pretending to have sex with roommate McGlynn to upset Walker, who was outspokenly religious and required by her father to sign a contract before filming the show vowing to not have premarital sex.
One clip appears to show Duffy exposing himself to a female roommate before running away in a patriotic pair of American flag underwear.
'I have never seen drunk people be so crass and vulgar in my life, even during spring break,' Walker once said of Duffy's behavior.
Towards the end of the season, The Real World had a crossover episode with MTV's Road Rules, during which Duffy, then 25, allegedly had sex with 22-year-old cast member Erika Ruen.
Another cast mate described the pair's romantic encounter: 'They went to town. They went in the bathroom. Had her up against the wall. You know what I'm sayin'.
It was a different Road Rules castmate, Campos-Duffy, who Duffy eventually settled down with. Together they've had nine children.
On top of endless drama with the ladies, Duffy was a controversial cast member in many other ways.
He stirred up trouble while working at the after-school program for children when he had - what his boss described - as a 'melodramatic outburst' in front of the kids about having overhearing castmate Kameelah Phillipps having sex at the house. Later he was allegedly caught drinking alcohol in front of the students.
Duffy and Phillipps, who is black, butted heads again during a heated argument in which he called her a 'b***h.' compared her to Adolf Hitler and accused her of reverse racism.
The argument stemmed from Phillipps allegedly telling another housemate that 'Blacks are the king and queen of society.'
During a conversation with castmate Jason Cornwell, Duffy said of Phillipps's remarks: 'That is the mentality of the white man of the 1850s, that we are the king race and we're going to put the Black man in slavery. She wants to have that racism right now and that same mentality for the Black people against white people. That's a 'master race' kind of thought, that's what Hitler thought.'
It was a different Road Rules castmate, Campos-Duffy, who Duffy eventually settled down with. Together they've had nine children.
Despite these antics, Duffy went on to pursue a career in politics.
In 2002, he was appointed Ashland County, Wisconsin district attorney, but his reality TV days were still not over.
While serving as DA, Duffy appeared alongside his wife in a filmed segment on The Real World Awards Bash in 2008.
He went on to serve as a member of the US House of Representatives for Wisconsin's seventh district from 2011 to 2019, and in November 2024, Trump named Duffy as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation.
Duffy himself admitted in a 2019 interview that his behavior on the show was 'embarrassing,' but - luckily for him - his televised past will not stop him from serving under the administration of fellow reality TV star, President Trump.
