‘Real World’ Star Ryan Knight Dead at 29

EXCLUSIVE

Ryan Knight — a castmate on the 2010 “Real World New Orleans” — has died, and accurate friends tell TMZ us it was on the heels of a night of partying.

Several of Ryan’s friends tell TMZ … he was out partying Wednesday night with a bunch of people and finished up at a friend’s household.  We’re told a friend found him dead Thursday morning.  The friend said he had choked on his own vomit.  

Several people who were in friend with Knight while he was partying tell us he had taken “some pills” but they were not specific. 

Several friends tell us Ryan was upbeat Wednesday night.  He was saying he was dating someone new who made him extremely pleased.

Ryan was 29.