This one was a hoot. Everybody was getting into the reality TV show game and this was Fox's turn. This just turned out to be a bad idea all around. I guess they meant it to be a combination run at February sweeps/take off on Valentine's day. It aired the day after, Feb 15, 2000. Women competed in a beauty pageant type format for a guy who was supposed to be a multi-millionaire, but whom the girls only saw in silhouette. The winner was a veteran of the first Gulf War. The groom was ....well not all he was cracked up to be. The couple actually did get married on the show. That multi-million was actually two million and included the groom's home which was an ordinary California starter home with a toilet seat in the backyard. It turned out that he was only semi-employed as a comedian/motivational speaker. The marriage was annulled in April and never consummated.

I remember the night it aired that all of the hosts - in what is now famous fast talking Fox style - were gabbing about it. One host - don't know her name but she had bleached blonde hair and all the collagen in the world pumped into her over 60 lips- kept saying "Oh it will last, it will last." Whoever you were, I hope you did not try a career as a psychic. There are pieces of it available on youtube.

Reality shows were so new back then. Half of the contestants were there because they wanted a free trip to Vegas (like the winner) and the other half were seriously there to get married. One finalist gave an interview to her local news after it happened. She said she was glad it was not her that got chosen since her boyfriend wouldn't have liked that! The beginning of the end of civilization.