David "Puck" Rainey

David "Puck" Rainey
Born	Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation	Reality television personality

David "Puck" Rainey is an American reality television personality who first gained fame as a cast member on The Real World: San Francisco in 1994. A bicycle messenger during the show's shooting, he became notorious as the second Real World cast member ever to be evicted from the house, due to his increasingly antagonistic relationship with his housemates, most notably with Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive AIDS educator. Rainey's conflict with Zamora is credited with helping make The Real World a hit show, for which Time ranked it #7 on their list of 32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History.TV Guide included him in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.

Rainey was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has characterized his mother as a "hippie". He and his sister are of partial Swedish descent through their grandfather.

Rainey was a cast member on the MTV reality TV series The Real World: San Francisco in 1994. He and his castmates moved into the house at 953 Lombard Street on Russian Hill on February 12 of that year. Among the cast, Rainey was an eccentric center of attention. In the season premiere he arrived at the house last because he was detained by police for a traffic incident. He incurred many minor injuries while bike riding, and kept photos of them, which he showed to his housemates. Although the producers informed the housemates that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, they did not reveal who it was, and as a result of these injuries, which included scabs on his face, some of the other castmates incorrectly assumed the HIV-positive cast member was Rainey. Rainey frequently clashed with his roommates over hygiene, being repeatedly criticized for poor hygiene. His housemates also complained of his lack of consideration for others, and his need to monopolize conversation. Rainey's Jewish housemate Judd Winick took offense to Rainey's wearing of a T-shirt that depicted four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika, and his refusal to take the shirt off, a confrontation only revealed in the MTV book The Real World Diaries and depicted in the 2009 film Pedro, not the series itself.

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