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The Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's no-nonsense dating tips.
Last night on Patti Stanger's The Millionaire Matchmaker, we met a new millionaire, Mateo, and a former player/millionaire from last season, Jimmy D. Mateo, is an older man and "original Microsoft millionaire" who literally whipped out an extensive list of all the required attributes he wanted in his future wife. Jimmy D. is a Chicago nightclub owner, who preferred clubbing to commitment last season.
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 … Read More
The Bachelor Jake picks Vienna over Tenley. Plus: The Dancing With The Stars surprise.
Oh, we may have to agree with the immortal words of The Bachelor host Chris Harrison: last night was, indeed, the most dramatic rose ceremony yet. Drama, of course, is judged on a spectrum. Last night's The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love final rose ceremony wasn't as harrowing as, say, rescuing a victim of the Haitian earthquakes. It was more harrowing than, um, buying milk. Perhaps the best way to describe it was that true emotions seemed to erupt from two highly groomed people in a highly cultivated, stage setting. We witnessed two people who proclaimed—and we must take … Read More
A new dating show brings viewers yet another version of speed dating.
Just last week, we wrote about the possible benefits of mobile dating, the most attractive of which is plain and simple convenience. But at the warp speed at which technology moves, this is suddenly not convenient enough for us anymore. I mean, why get your man off an iPhone app or the Internet when you can more easily get him off... a conveyor belt, in much the same way you retrieve your luggage at airport luggage carousels!
At least that's the premise behind Conveyor Belt of Love, a new dating show on ABC (actually a British remake) that … Read More
Jon and Kate's tabloid feud rages on, but what about the Plus 8?
Guess what? Kate Gosselin has finally realized that her and Jon's ridiculous, never-ending battle for the spotlight is negatively affecting her children. Give that woman a kewpie doll! (Actually, you might want to give her eight or there will just be more fighting.) How To Minimize Kids' Anxiety During A Divorce
The woman with the most famous hairdo since Jennifer Aniston recently confessed to Vanity Fair's Nancy Jo Sales that the stress from her impending divorce (and Jon's removal from the show's "equation"), along with the constant media frenzy (appearing on tabloid covers … Read More
Kate on Today Show: "I can't sleep at night. I can't pay my bills"
Kate Gosselin went on The Today Show this morning to discuss the weekend's latest Jon-is-a-jerk news, that he emptied out a joint money market account the couple used for household expenses, leaving her with only $1,000. And it's not the first time he's taken food out of their kids' mouths. "A few days before I filed for divorce, he had [taken funds out of the joint account]," Kate said in an emotional interview. "He didn't empty it completely, but it was enough that I was afraid of not being able to pay my bills…. I have a … Read More
Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy were the dance world's prime duo. Tweets explain the split.
The jig's up for Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff.
According to People, Karina's rep confirmed yesterday that the pair have called off their engagement.
Dancing With the Stars' Maks, 28, proposed to Karina, 31, in January of this year. The diamond appeared to end Maks' reputation as the show's untouchably macho stud and Karina's misfortune in love (remember her embarassing fling with dance partner Mario Lopez?). They began dating around this time last year, and Maks told reporters that he'd secretly loved Karina for a long time. For years she'd laughed off his advances but finally … Read More
Take The Real Housewives and dip it in shimmer.
It's no secret that we at YourTango are big fans of The Real Housewives series. In fact, we'd go so far as to say they're our television version of pizza. Even when it's bad it's still pretty good, but no matter how great, we feel a little bloated afterward. Real Housewife Sex Tape Scandal
So just imagine our excitement when we read that The Real Housewives are...turning into gay men!
Oh, child! At last! We've been thinking all along Sheree, Kim, Lisa, Kandi and NeNe should take the day off and give Gay Husband … Read More
Overweight reality T.V. contestants look for love, but is it working?
FOX's More To Love, which premieres tonight, July 28, follows the typical reality TV dating show formula, except with one main difference: there's an added layer of vulnerability to the contestants and—dare-to-say-it—a different shade of neurosis in these bachelorettes, who range in ages from 21 to 37 years and in weight from 180 to 270 pounds.
It's a combination that sits in your stomach in different, sometimes conflicting ways; none more so then when the show bounces back and forth portraying its characters' weight as something to be celebrated, and at others times, something to be overcome (or worse, gawked … Read More
Candy Spelling takes to Web to call daughter Tori and son-in-law Dean McDermott bad parents.
Don't you just hate it when moms get computer-savvy?
Candy Spelling took to TMZ yesterday to blast daughter Tori for setting her up to be part of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. Candy felt she was invited to meet Tori's daughter for the first time as a publicity stunt for the show, an enticement for America to tune in and witness how Candy would react to meeting her granddaughter Stella for the first time. The meeting was to take place at Stella's first birthday party in front of lights and cameras, and apparently Mrs. Spelling hates … Read More
"I Married A Stranger" hopes to discredit the idea that seeing is believing.
We believe in love at first sight but the theory doesn't work quite as well if you take vision out of the equation.
Imagine falling for someone you've barely met let alone never laid eyes on? This is not the premise for a faceless Facebook application. It's the new Fox reality television show titled I Married a Stranger.
"Production has already been completed on the pilot, which centers on a woman who is in her late 30s and is eager to get hitched," reports Variety. "A group of friends and family are presented with five eligible men, … Read More