“MTV called up out of the blue and said, ‘Listen, this is what we’ve been looking for,’” Gary said.įilming for the full season started in early April, shooting at several local businesses including Casey Key Fish House and Tiki Bar, where Trautman and new cast member Kelsey Owens work. It took about a year before they heard back from MTV. Then there’s Alex’s longtime friend Chloe Trautman, 21, who attends a cosmetology school in Sarasota his high school girlfriend Madisson Hausburg, 23, who recently graduated from Southern Methodist University with an engineering degree and their friend Juliette Porter, 19, a sophomore at Florida State University.Īfter finishing the pilot, the senior Kompothecras and his son sent it to various networks, who did not respond. Alex said the pilot was pretty similar to what they’ve currently been filming, following his relationships with friends and family.īesides Alex, the initial cast featured his cousin, the 25-year-old Pauly Apostolides who moved to Sarasota from Washington, D.C. Gary paid for a Jacksonville production company to film a pilot. I said this would be a good story because when I was growing up, you had ‘Father Knows Best,’ you had ‘My Three Sons,’ you had people with values and I didn’t see that in the TV of late.” Plus they’re good kids, so that was the main thing, they weren’t bad kids. “I said this would be a good reality show. “I go, ‘You guys are really having a hell of a lifestyle,‘” Gary said. "Siesta Key” originated about two years ago as Gary watched Alex and his friends’ life of boating, fishing, going to the beach and partying. The question is now how will the masses receive him. Soon he’ll welcome the public, perhaps millions of eyeballs from across the country, into his house. “This is where we hang out though, you know what I mean? I’ve always been the one that has everyone come over.” “I’d call this pretty much the headquarters of where a lot of filming is done,” Alex said.
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