Last Updated on Monday, 30 July 2012 12:30 Written by skipro Monday, 30 July 2012 12:30

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Phil and Bob Soven are the newest addition to MTV’s list of original series coming to you as ‘WakeBrothers’. They both have enjoyed success as wakeboarding superstars, but the role as TV star is unfamiliar for both brothers. Although related by blood, their personalities are extremely different.

When asked if the show is an accurate dipiction of their lives, wakeboarding champion Phil replied, “There are some episodes that are wakeboard heavy and into our lives and then there are some that are totally random, just random antics and screwing around having fun. We put a lot a work into it and it was a long process to get to that point, so for it to actually work out and find out we were actually going to be doing it was almost a weight off of our shoulders, we were waiting for so long to find out if anything was going to happen with this and it did.”

Bob, 20, is often described as the “daffy clown” who often leaves his brother Phil, 23, behind at their home in Windermere, Florida. This is a reality show, but does the show actually reflect their true lives? The boys were asked to just  ”Do their things.”  So, “there’s parts where we amped it up, had some fun, and played some jokes, but our main goal is to have fun!”

Phil compares his brother to the well known Carrot Top, “No need to amp him up, that is pretty much how he is.” Bob concurs. “If it’s got red hair and says a lot of things that don’t make sense, then that’s me,” he said. “I think the show will show our differences and the peculiar way we interact.”

‘Wake Brothers’ debuted with back-to-back episodes at 11 p.m. Wednesday 7/25. “The biggest thing I hope is it brings the mass media to wakeboarding and grows an entire industry,” Phil said. Wake Brothers consists of 12 episodes  shot over 14 weeks.