How Patti Stanger's advice is great at producing ratings but ineffective at producing results!
Patti Stanger has done well at marketing the fact that as a third generation matchmaker she has a high rate of successful matches. She has successfully held her own Millionaire Match Maker show for 5 seasons on Bravo television as she runs a Millionaire Matchmaking Club in which she helps mostly millionaire single men come closer to finding love with women who are looking to be matched with a millionaire. Ms.
Though it's obvious the outspoken reality show star clearly believes what she said.
On Sunday night's episode of Watch What Happen's Live, Bravo's live talk show hosted by Andy Cohen, Patti Stanger managed to offend pretty much everyone when answering called-in questions from fans of her show. In particular, she had choice words to say about gay men and smart women who are single and dating in New York
She's playing by the rules she teaches her clients, but are they working?
Patti Stanger has made a living off of setting people up. She has her own millionaire matchmaking service, a hit reality show on Bravo, a love advice book, and owns an online dating site, psxoxo.com. You'd think she"d be an expert at love and finding the perfect mate, but even she's having trouble!
Star reports that John Mayer and Kate Winslet are an item. Really?! Say it ain't so!
At this point, the more relevant story might be who John Mayer hasn't hooked up with yet. From Taylor Swift to Jennifer Aniston to Miley Cyrus to Jessica Simpson, the swinging singer has been linked to just about everyone in Hollywood at one point or another. Yet his latest supposed hookup has more than a few people scratching their heads in disbelief: according to Star, Mayer is indulging in secret rendezvous seshes with none other than Oscar winner Kate Winslet!
The Millionaire Matchmaker herself opens up about what she's personally looking for in love.
Matchmaker and Bravo TV diva Patti Stanger has gone bicoastal to couple successful men and women with the loves of their lives. But because she's considered the ultimate yenta, many an eyebrow was raised when she called off her own engagement last summer. Now, Stanger has married her breakup experience and priceless relationship advice together in her new DVD, Married In a Year: Your 12-Month Action Plan for Finding Love. She took some time to chat with us and revealed the quirky lessons she learned from Jewish grandmother, why limiting your "non-negotiables" is a must, and what she discovered from therapy this past year.
The Millionaire Matchmaker dishes on unfriending your ex on Facebook and recent celeb breakups.
Third-generation matchmaker Patti Stanger does not pull punches. Any fan of her Bravo show, Millionaire Matchmaker, knows Patti's not keen on a redheads and she'll kick a guy's butt for prioritizing his "bros" above all. But there's a method to her caustic madness. In her new DVD, Married In a Year: Your 12-Month Action Plan for Finding Love, the love pro explains her rules of the relationship-finding road, so you can serve as your own successful cupid. She recently shared her thoughts on what you must ditch before you begin your journey to true love, how to get your guy to make like Prince William and pop the question, and the recently single stars she would go to singles boot camp with.
Plus, Jon Hamm refuses to wear underwear. We're guessing his female co-stars don't mind!
Pumped about all of the political campaigning this week? No? Neither are we! We'd much rather read about the catfight beween the Sister Wives than the one going on in California between Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina. So if you're like us, enjoy this extra dose of celebrity news links that we compiled from around the web, including a couple you might have missed this week here on CelebLove.
You don't embarrass your friends and other signs of a good matchmaker.
Matchmaking is equal parts fun and tricky. One the one hand, you'd think that the equation of two lonely people plus springtime would equal eternal bliss; on the other hand, when working with two people who have a slew of separate histories, tastes and intentions, you might as well be a puppet-master attempting to manipulate Chucky and his bride. Here are our tips for playing matchmaker, so you can get two compatible people to meet without pressuring (or embarrassing) either one of them.
The Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's no-nonsense dating tips.
Jimmy D. swore up and down that he was ready for a real, deep woman (and for once, he wasn't talking about her cleavage). After a near-death experience (he was beaten and lost…an eyelid?) he was ready to find real love. Mateo swore up and down that the most important thing to him was his woman's religion; he wanted to raise a Christian family. What did both guys do at the mixer? The exact opposite of what they said!
Reading Patti Stanger's book and putting the matchmaker's dating advice to the test.
When it came to my dating life, I wasn't sure I should listen to Patti Stanger, host of Bravo's The Millionaire Matchmaker and author of the book Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate. Could someone hoisting a gold, ruby-encrusted Cupid's arrow on her book cover, whose ample bosom was jammed into a white Liberace pantsuit, help me, an outdoorsy New Yorker with an A cup seeking a sweet, humble, non-cologne wearing guy with no roommates?