The Roomies: Willow Creek

***The Roomies: Willow Creek*** is the first season of *The Roomies*.

## Assignment

The assignment for the inaugural season of *The Roomies* was relatively simple for each roommate. The goal was for each roommate to hold a career, perform freelance work, or attend university. While doing these tasks at a full-time capacity was encouraged, the roommates were not held to a specific requirement so long as they held work or maintained hobbies while at home.

## Residence

The cast resided in a newly renovated colonial mansion in the Pendula View neighborhood of Willow Creek. It was updated to include an outdoor pool and hot tub, as well as expanded the bedrooms upstairs. While Umbrage Manor served as the house for the roommates this season, they frequently ventured off the home lot and were filmed at bars, museums, and the gym as well.

## Synopsis

The seven female roommates moved into their luxurious mansion, meeting each other for the first time. Immediately, sparks flew and tensions began to build as Ingrid Rowley warmed up to Patti DeLouis, who happened to feud with Amabella George. This set the season off to a negative tone which featured two cliques, the smokers and the artsy folks. The smokers, made up of Amabella, Ingrid, Carmelita Neumann, and Mykaela Breckenridge, bonded over their "party girl" pasts. Meanwhile, Rose Lehtonen was the de facto leader of the artistic trio.

Ingrid finds herself at odds with Carmelita in the second episode after an accidental fire is started, extinguished by none other than Britta Patrovsky. The girls further distance themselves and the claws continue to come out, but Ingrid and Patti later make their "flirtmance" an official relationship. Rose's selected assignment is to become a surrogate mother, as she has a daughter at home already. Rose had already found a placement family prior to filming, so she begins the process of starting her pregnancy, which begins in the midst of the season.

Mykaela struggles after being taunted over her weight and begins to commit herself to the gym. Between her party animal ways and poor eating habits, Mykaela has a difficult time keeping up, but makes a promise to stop smoking and drinking in order to benefit her physical fitness as best as possible. She also hooks up with her fitness trainer, Ricky.

Despite a full-fledged relationship to Ingrid, Patti finds herself in hot water after hooking up with a pen pal she made during her stay on the show. She confesses her infidelity to Ingrid and later discovers that she is pregnant. This leads her to making a difficult decision to not keep her child. Joined by the full-term Rose nearing the conclusion of the season, Patti visits a specialty doctor and is no longer pregnant. Ingrid moves out of the house in the penultimate episode.

Rose later delivers her surrogate son, struggling with giving him away to the new family but ultimately fulfills her duties. Amabella, on the other hand, feels isolated from the house and considers moving out, but her career is soaring in Willow Creek. Britta, who found herself in petty drama the entire season, is voted to be kicked out of the house in the final episode, following a physical altercation between herself and Patti. Ingrid rejects Patti during a reconciliation and reveals she is moving to Champs Les Sim once filming concludes.

The women then move out of the house, going their separate ways in life. Amabella, Carmelita, and Mykaela remain and are lucky enough to meet the men who will be participating in season two.

## Post-Filming

A reunion special was not filmed for *Willow Creek*, however the roommates often appeared in television interviews to discuss their appearances on the show. Ingrid revealed that she does not keep in contact with her roommates and has no interest in fixing her relationship with Patti. Amabella and Rose moved into an apartment together with Rose's daughter just down the road from the mansion, while Mykaela moved to Sunset Valley. Carmelita accepted a full-ride art scholarship to Foxbury Institute.