Jason Daniel “DANNY” ROBERTS is an actor, recruiter, and television personality best known for appearing on The Real World: New Orleans in 2000. Prior to beginning the show, he had recently begun a relationship with Paul Dill, a US Army captain stationed in Vicenza, Italy. Because of the U.S. Military “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Paul’s face was obscured on TV and much national attention was brought to the issue. 

In early 2004, MTV aired a special where Paul (then out of the military) revealed his face for the first time and the policy and its effects were discussed. In November 2006, Roberts announced in The Advocate magazine that he and Dill had split up.

Roberts made a few post-Real World appearances on television such as Dawson’s Creek, Netflix’s DTLA, and hosted the DVD collection of gay-themed short films, Boy’s Briefs.

Roberts spoke at schools across the country on diversity in sexuality, coming out, public policy, and the military’s “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy for several years after his first TV appearance in addition to other LGBTQ advocacy work.

After spending 10 years in New York and Seattle, Roberts returned to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked in human resource recruiting for an email software company called MailChimp, where he worked from 2014 until 2017. He previously worked as a recruiter for Redfin, a residential real estate company. As of 2017, Roberts is a Senior Talent Recruiter at InVision App, the digital design tool, in Boston, Massachusetts. Roberts currently lives in Grafton, Vermont.

Danny divorced Wes Pereria in 2018 Boston, MA. Together, they are the co-parents of an adopted daughter. In 2018, Roberts revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he was HIV positive since 2011. 

Roberts, now 44, has returned to television for “The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans.” The third season of the unscripted spinoff series, sees him reuniting with his original housemates in the Big Easy for a second chance to “stop being polite and start getting real,” as MTV’s original tagline declared.