The Real World heartthrob with an indie band is still a long-haired rocker at 55... can you guess who?

A star of The Real World who won the hearts of fans with his boyish good looks and his indie band surfaced last week aged 55.

He rose to fame in 1992 on the first-ever season of the series, which has since earned a reputation as a forerunner of the reality TV explosion.

The MTV program proved to be a platform for his band, which performed on the air, and his breezy charisma earned him further affection from the audience.

Although the group he was in at the time has since broken up, he is still a rock musician and recently released a single called Wonderful Ride.

Days ago, he was spotted out and about in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, wearing a casual outfit of a green t-shirt and trendily frayed denim jeans.

Can you guess who he is? 

He is none other than Andre Comeau, who on season one of The Real World was roommates with his fellow musician, rapper Heather B.

When he was glimpsed recently in Echo Park, he retained a rocker chic mane, although its dark brown hue of the 1990s has changed to grey.

The Real World was the primogenitor of the reality TV format in which a group of young people are flung into a joint living situation and filmed as drama ensues.

Comeau's rakish magnetism and bohemian life as the frontman of a small-time rock band called Reigndance endeared him to many viewers.

He confessed to having trouble sustaining a 'steady relationship' because he would 'feel too tied down' and become susceptible to 'the wandering eye thing.' 

His likability was enhanced by his close bond with his mother - herself a musician from a family band - and his self-deprecating sense of humor.

When the police broke up a Reigndance jam session because of noise complaints, an officer snidely asked if the band took requests and Comeau retorted by suggesting: 'How about I Fought the Law and the Law Won?' 

MTV sold him then as 'the prototypical Gen X guy,' and in retrospect he was more witheringly dubbed the 'embodiment of Gen X slackerdom' in the New York Times.

He himself was sufficiently embarrassed by the show that he canceled his cable subscription 'because I couldn’t stand to see myself on TV,' he said nearly two decades later in an interview for the blog Generations of Gotham.

Comeau went on The Real World to bring 'exposure' to Reigndance, only to discover the listeners he drew there 'were teenyboppers who bought our album and then threw it away as soon as the next flavor of the month came along,' he said.

His bandmates were simultaneously 'grateful' for the notoriety and 'resentful' insofar as 'the attention we were getting wasn’t the right kind.'

Reigndance dissolved in 1997, but Comeau remained in the music industry, first in a folk group called River Rouge that disbanded in 2016 and then as a solo artist signed to a label whose owners included Megadeth bassist David Ellefson.

In an interview he gave a few years ago about his music career, Comeau was able to take a more philosophical attitude to his early reality TV fame than he previously had.

'The Real World thing, for a long time, was something I disconnected with, and at the time, it was really its own thing. For a long time, I didn’t even talk about it,' he said.

'But as the World has evolved into the reality based, unscripted, instantly-gratified place it is now, it’s easier to look back and see the importance of The Real World, and what we were all a part of,' he reflected to the website Brave Words.

'There were times it definitely felt like a counter-active force, but in hindsight, it truly was incredible to be a part of what would become the ground zero of the almost complete evolution and transformation of entertainment as we know it.'