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Joe Millionaire was Fox’s answer to ABC’s reality show, The Bachelor. The Fox featured twenty single women who flew to France to win the affection of a handsome American man they believed to be worth $50 million. However, the twist was that the man, Evan Marriott, was actually a 28-year-old heavy equipment operator. Two decades after airing, a producer expressed regret over the show. Keep reading to find out why.

Joe Millionaire Producer Expresses Regret Over Show

The show was popular and ran for two seasons. The first season threw Evan Marriott into the public unprepared for fame. After the show, he returned to a private life and started his own construction company. One of the contestants, Sarah Kozer, appeared on another reality show before leaving the spotlight. The winners of the first season, Evan and Zora Andrich, broke up soon after the show.

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Season one of “Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer” has wrapped, but you can still watch full episodes on Fox. This first season is the newest spin-off of Fox’s original “Joe Millionaire” reality show from 2003. Episodes are also available to stream or purchase on Tubi, fuboTV, Hulu Plus, Vudu, and Google Play. We’ve gathered all the info you need to know about the “Joe Millionaire” series, including the latest news about the most recent season finale couples.

What Is “Joe Millionaire” About?

“Joe Millionaire” is a reality dating show created by Fox producers in the early 2000s. In the original series, 20 women competed for the affection of one man they believed was a rich millionaire. The joke was on them because he was just an “average Joe.” The show begged the question: would the women contestants love the man for himself or for his money? “Joe Millionaire” was a huge success among viewers,...

You don't know Joe! Not only did Joe Millionaire forever transform the landscape of reality television when it first premiered nearly 20 years ago, but the dating competition's leading man, Evan Marriott, saw some dramatic changes as well since appearing on the Fox series. Recently, the 47-year-old Virginia native—who was marketed as a millionaire looking for love, but was later revealed to be a construction worker with an annual income of $19,000—was photographed looking almost unrecognizable from his once clean-shaven self. Instead of the well-coiffed 'do that captured America's attention, Evan stepped out in a long ponytail and bushy beard. For the outing, he kept...

Joe Millionaire, the controversial reality dating series that launched on Fox in 2003, is being rebooted.

Fox is putting a new twist on the series that saw a group of women date a man that they believed was a millionaire but turned out not to be.

Produced by SallyAnn Salsano and Fox Alternative Entertainment, Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer will debut in January. Watch the teaser below.

The original’s first-season finale, which was produced by Rocket Science Laboratories and Fox World, drew more than 40 million viewers and was the most-watched entertainment show of the 2003 season and Fox’s most-watched entertainment show in its history at the time.

Originally created by former Fox reality chief-turned-Warner Bros TV alternative boss Mike Darnell, Joe Millionaire followed bachelor Evan Marriott, who was thought to have inherited millions of dollars and was searching for a bride. The competition series saw a group of women...

The slurp that rocked TV two decades ago is making a comeback. Fox is dusting off the “Joe Millionaire” franchise to launch “Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer,” a reboot of the franchise that will debut in January 2022. (Scroll down to watch a promo.)

Fox Alternative Entertainment and 495 Productions’ SallyAnn Salsano (“Jersey Shore”) are behind this new iteration, which will this time will feature two single men — one an actual millionaire, the other one dirt broke. Fox Entertainment’s Rob Wade, president of alternative and specials, announced the project on Wednesday, and Fox was set to reveal the show’s first trailer on Wednesday night (presumably during the latest episode of its No. 1 hit “The Masked Singer”).

“This revival of ‘Joe Millionaire’ represents a potent combination: one of the most innovative and popular dating shows of all time with SallyAnn Salsano, who ranks among the most fearless producers in the business,...

Joe Millionaire is coming back to Fox, and he’s bringing his less-well-off pal with him.

The network is reviving its short-lived reality show, TVLine has learned, but there’s a twist: This time, 20 the female contestants will vie for the affections of two men… one of whom is a millionaire and one of whom is an average Joe.

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“The Glass House”

ABC put 14 contestants into a house, and let America vote to decide who would be evicted and who would win $250,000. But with low ratings and a lawsuit from CBS claiming the show was a ripoff of “Big Brother,” “The Glass House” lasted just one season.

“I Wanna Marry ‘Harry'”

More than a few dating competition shows involve some kind of deceit, but few were as ridiculous as the one at the center of Fox’s “I Wanna Marry ‘Harry.'” Starring a male lead with only a slight resemblance to the British prince, the show pushed the limits of credulity.

“Joe Millionaire”

Attempting to expand on the format perfected by “The Bachelor,” Fox debuted “Joe Millionaire” just one year later, pitting contestants against each other for the affections of an average Joe whom they believed to be rich. Over a decade later, star Evan Marriott is still apologizing for deceiving those women.

“Picture this: Sicily,” jokes Evan Marriott, invoking Estelle Getty’s signature Golden Girls preamble to set the scene for his surreal experience filming Fox’s Joe Millionaire 13 years ago. Actually, the location was France’s Ruhr valley countryside, and Marriott recalls that most nights, he’d be sitting with the windows swung open. “I had this beautiful view, and I would sit there every night with a beer in my hand and the phone in my ear. I was talking to a girl named Amy, who I broke up with before I went to do the show, because I was trying to get back together with her.” It can’t be, you might say. After all, the whole premise of Millionaire was for Marriott to be wooed by 20 women led (falsely) to believe he was worth seven figures when, in reality, their sugar-daddy dreamboat was a construction worker earning $19,000 a...

Wtf is she wearing?! Heidi Montag raised some eyebrows at We tv's "Evolution Of The Relationship Reality Show" event in Los Angeles on Thursday night, for sporting some very usual arm accessories. The former "Hills" star stepped out with strips of black tape on her right arm as she posed for pictures -- and packed on the Pda -- with hubby Spencer Pratt. Doesn't that look like the tape they use to treat sports injuries?! Whoa! See "Joe Millionaire" Star Evan Marriott Now! The blonde bombshell paired her strange accessory with a black tank top, leather pants and a hair-raising 'do that swept her long locks away from her face. Another former reality star to turn heads was Darva Conger, who you might recognize from 2000's "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" The now-49-year-old beauty famously "won" the show, marrying Rick Rockwell on the season finale. Two months after the show aired,...

Is this the newest castmember of Duck Dynasty? Nope, it's Joe Millionaire's Evan Marriott!  Over a decade after the former reality star became a pop culture phenomena on the 2003 Fox series, which was canceled after just two seasons, Marriott attended the Evolution of Relationship Reality Shows discussion at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, on Thursday, where he appeared completely unrecognizable, shocking former fans of the short-lived show.  Sporting a bushy beard and a fuller figure, Marriott grinned as he posed for pics in a basic white tee and jeans, looking nothing like his former clean-shaven self, who stole women's' hearts as one-time reality show...

Twelve years have passed since Joe Millionaire tricked 20 women into thinking they were in the running to marry the heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, and star Evan Marriott looked every inch the average Joe this Thursday at We tv's Evolution of Relationship Reality Shows panel at the Paley Center for Media.

Now 40, the construction worker – and, briefly, underwear model – was not particularly talkative at the Beverly Hilton-hosted event and did not stop for reporters on the red carpet.

When asked about his beard, Marriott joked that he "grew this overnight. All I do is think about a beard and it comes in.

Twelve years have passed since Joe Millionaire tricked 20 women into thinking they were in the running to marry the heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, and star Evan Marriott looked every inch the average Joe this Thursday at PaleyFest's Evolution of Relationship Reality Shows panel. Now 40, the construction worker - and, briefly, underwear model - was not particularly talkative at the Beverly Hilton-hosted event and did not stop for reporters on the red carpet. When asked about his beard, Marriott joked that he "grew this overnight. All I do is think about a beard and it comes in."He did not...

He starred on one of the most trashy (and totally addicting) reality TV shows of all time ... but then Evan Marriott vanished. The former construction worker was selected for the 2003 Fox reality show "Joe Millionaire," where he tricked 20 women into thinking he was actually loaded. If the final woman decided to still stay with him after he revealed his lack of fortune, the couple would be surprised with $1 million. Fyi: Zora Andrich was the "lucky" lady. She stuck with Marriott and they split the money ... before splitting from each other. He all but vanished after the pop culture phenomenon ended though ... until now! Marriott, now 40, stepped out to We tv's "Evolution of Relationship Reality Shows" event at the Paley Center on Thursday night, looking very different than he used to. Sporting a grizzly beard, white t-shirt, blue jeans and much shorter locks, he was almost unrecognizable! During the panel (via...

Still your average Joe! More than a decade after Joe Millionaire hunk Evan Marriott captivated America's attention, the former reality star attended the Evolution of Relationship Reality Shows discussion at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, on Thursday, Mar. 19, where he looked completely unrecognizable. Marriott, now 40, was a working-class construction worker in 2003, when he was plucked out by Fox to portray a millionaire with 20 women competing for his affection. (The last woman standing by Marriott in the series finale was Zora [...]...

Even 11 years later, network TV has never aired anything else quite like Joe Millionaire, Fox’s groundbreakingly cruel, incredibly popular Reality 1.0 experiment. The basic premise, as if you could ever forget: 20 money-hungry airheads arrive at a gorgeous French chateau to compete for the affections of Evan Marriott, a man who has just inherited more than $50 million. They have no idea that Evan’s money is as fake as their eyelashes – he’s actually a blue-collar construction worker.

Joe piled artifice on top of artifice: Its breakout character was Marriott’s “butler,” played by professional actor Paul Hogan. The Smoking Gun...

Tonight, on Fox’s new reality series I Wanna Marry Harry, 12 hot, young, British-history-adverse Americans will compete for the affections of Prince Harry! The catch? This British ginger isn’t really Prince Harry, as anyone with a half-decent monocle can already tell, although we’re told that he does score a 99 percent match with his royal counterpart using facial recognition technology. (Science!) Not to worry, though: In case you forget that Matt Hicks is just an impostor, the show helpfully identifies him as “Matt Hicks, Not Really Prince Harry.” Apparently, it’s all part of some benevolent master plan: “I...

As a connoisseur of fairy tale-fueled Fox shows from "Joe Millionaire" to "Forever Eden" to "Paradise Hotel," the network's punctuationally challenging "I Wanna Marry 'Harry'" was right in my sweet spot. And, after watching the premiere, I knew I definitely wanted to talk to series star Matt Hicks about the series, in which he has to convince a giggling coterie of love-starved American party girls that he's royalty, specifically that he's Prince Harry. It also struck me that since Hicks' claim-to-fame for this series is his resemblance -- 99 percent, according to the show's facial recognition software -- to the man who is fourth in line to the British throne, merely doing my standard Q&A interview might give depth, but it wouldn't let you look at a guy who looks a bit like another famous guy. Several things to keep in mind as you watch: Matt does, indeed, look somewhat like Prince Harry,...

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AMC has ordered a pilot for a Kevin Smith talk show. The weekly show would adapt Smith’s podcast Hollywood Babble-On for TV which Smith describes as “Entertainment Tonight but filthy.”

Think you’ve seen Kit Harington naked thanks to that Game of Thrones scene in that rock pool? In a GQ profile, Harrington admits that scene featured a butt double. “I had a broken ankle… so the only time you saw my ass, it wasn’t my ass.” Instead a crew member with curly black hair and a great backside was asked to get a haircut to match Harrington and fill in.

The abs are definitely real, tho.

Get ready for another Joss Whedon alum to show up on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Amy Acker will appear as a woman with a key role in Agent Coulson‘s past, reports TV Guide.

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Fox made a big spring and summer scheduling announcement on Wednesday (March 26) afternoon, but the only thing anybody on my Twitter feed wanted to discuss was the fact that after this Friday, "Enlisted" is off the schedule, at least for the foreseeable future. So let's get that out of the way. Fox had already scheduled an hour-long series finale for "Raising Hope" for April 4, so "Enlisted" was off the schedule for next week anyway. But Fox revealed on Wednesday that "Kitchen Nightmares" will premiere on April 11 in that 9 p.m. hour. This isn't a huge shocker, folks. "Enlisted" no longer had a comedy partner for that hour, so was Fox going to air "Enlisted" and an "Enlisted" encore? "Enlisted" and a random repeat? Who would that benefit? So "Enlisted" will return. Fox emphasizes this. We just don't know when.  Now let's get down to the business of Fox premieres from May on.

“I share a name with Mark Wahlberg and I look like Chris Harrison, so I’m lost in the shuffle of their success,” Mark L. Walberg likes to joke. Despite these notable handicaps, Walberg remains a recognizable TV face, having hosted public television’s Antiques Roadshow for the past ten years. What PBS subscribers may not remember is that Walberg was once Fox’s go-to host for reality shows. The veteran game-and-talk-show host brought us the infamous TV experiment Temptation Island (2001–03), on which couples were separated and tempted to cheat on one another; The Moment of Truth (2008), which allowed contestants to win money by confessing embarrassing secrets; and the final episode of Joe Millionaire (2003), when the “real” Evan Marriott was supposedly revealed. (More on that below.) In connection with our Reality Rumble bracket-style competition, which concludes today, Vulture asked Walberg to share his unique expertise. Here, in his own words...

On Monday night, E4 launched a new dating show that involved fairytale fancy dress, power ballad singing and catapults.

My Little Princess is the latest in a long history of bonkers dating shows that have made it to the small screen and in tribute to the TV commissioners who considered them wise ideas and in any way romantic, we've collected together our 15 personal favourites.

My Little Princess

Men dressed as princes, who must impress an evil king to secure a date with his daughter. Standard. Throw in lots of mud, talking horses, power ballad sing-offs and men being thrown off bridges. Obviously. My Little Princess blends Tool Academy and Takeshi's Castle to make the ultimate dumb dating show.

Singled Out

The classic MTV series hosted by Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy in the Us featured a wild audience of contestants, who looked like they'd been dragged in from a booze-laden Spring Break wet T-shirt contest.

It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a jam-packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, December 3rd 2012.

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The Dark Knight Rises (DVD/Blu-ray)

It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival...

The Simpsons: The Fifteenth Season

Stars (the voices of): Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria, Pamela Hayden | Created by Matt Groening

“The Simpsons reside in the town of Springfield. Homer works as a safety inspector at the local nuclear power plant; Marge tries to keep the peace in her family; Bart is the mischievous 10-year-old hellion; 8-year-old Lisa is the intelligent, saxophone-playing vegetarian member of the family; and baby Maggie conveys emotions via pacifier sucks. Viewers also have come to know and love the rich, and sometimes quirky, universe of characters who inhabit Springfield.”

The Simpsons have been a perennial TV favourite for years but the show has not been without it detractors, in fact many say that the three seasons before this feature some of the worst episodes of the show ever produced (and yes, that includes some of the more...

Money and fame doesn't always lead to bangin' more chicks ... at least according to "Joe Millionaire" Evan Marriott ... who tells TMZ he used to get laid more frequently Before he became a celebrity. The former reality TV superstar -- now 38-years-old -- was leaving Lax last night when he told us he's back in the construction biz ... and still on the hunt for a Mrs. Millionaire. Evan says the show had a massive impact on...

Back in 2003, "Joe Millionaire" star Evan Marriott ruled reality TV. Nine years later, Marriott is older, wiser, and pretty apologetic.

In the nature of "The Bachelor," Fox's "Joe Millionaire" focused on the life of Marriott as he wooed women with his "money" and took them on extravagant dates. The catch? Marriott was actually a working class construction worker.

The series -- and a scandalous slurp in the woods, in particular -- recently made HuffPost TV's list of Fox's Most Shocking Moments Ever in honor of the network's 25th anniversary.

"Joe Millionaire" didn't exactly humble Marriott, and he went on to say no one on the show was his "type." Marriott listed the qualities of his "dream girl" to People magazine: "Blonde, big boobs, a little waist and a big, thick bubble butt."

After reading an article written by The Gloss' Jennifer Wright on Tuesday about how Marriott was a "terrible...

Back in 2003, "Joe Millionaire" star Evan Marriott ruled reality TV. Nine years later, Marriott is older, wiser, and pretty apologetic.

In the nature of "The Bachelor," Fox's "Joe Millionaire" focused on the life of Marriott as he wooed women with his "money" and took them on extravagant dates. The catch? Marriott was actually a working class construction worker.

The series -- and a scandalous slurp in the woods, in particular -- recently made HuffPost TV's list of Fox's Most Shocking Moments Ever in honor of the network's 25th anniversary.

"Joe Millionaire" didn't exactly humble Marriott, and he went on to say no one on the show was his "type." Marriott listed the qualities of his "dream girl" to People magazine: "Blonde, big boobs, a little waist and a big, thick bubble butt."

After reading an article written by The Gloss' Jennifer Wright on Tuesday about how Marriott was a "terrible...

Evan Marriott vanished off the face off the earth after starring on Fox's guilty pleasure reality series "Joe Millionaire" almost 10 years ago ... so what happened to him?!For those who didn't watch, Marriott became famous after the wildly popular show in 2003. On the "Bachelor"-like competition, the construction worker tricked women into believing he was a millionaire -- only to reveal he wasn't rich at all at the very end. If the "winner" decided to stick with him anyway, they would be surprised with a million dollar check.Though Zora Andrich stood by Evan, the two split the money and then split from each other shortly after the show wrapped.In a new interview from Fox's 25th Anniversary Special, a very different looking Marriott materialized for the first time in years.Holding a cane and sporting some serious facial hair, Marriott explained how he went back to work as a...

It may have left the small screen five years ago, but "Friends" is still unbeatable. The NBC sitcom, which spawned stars out of six then little known actors, is TV's most watched show of the decade.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show's last episode titled "The Last One" averaged 52.5 million viewers on May 6, 2004. It was the most watched entertainment telecast in six years, and remains to be surpassed.

Next is "Survivor: Borneo," the first in the franchise that now reaches its 19th season. The reality competition show's two-hour ender on August 23, 2000, where Richard Hatch claimed to be the ultimate survivor, garnered 51.7 million.

In the era when "Bachelor"-type reality shows rule, "Joe Millionaire" was a breath of fresh air. Around 40 million viewers tuned in at the show's finale on February 17, 2003 to see which bachelorette would fake millionaire Evan Marriott choose, and who she would react when she learned that...

One of the great features over at the Internet Movie Database is the Bottom 100. Based on ratings viewers of the site give to various films, the worst of the worst films get put on this list. Some of them are on and off in a matter of days. Others stick around for the long haul, showing just how much suckage they truly emit.

It’s time to look at these movies and determine where they stand. Do they deserve to be on the Bottom 100 list? Are they not as bad as everyone says? Will they be off the list any time soon?

Here’s the breakdown for this week’s film:

Title: ‘Miss Cast Away’

Release Date: July 26th, 2005

Ranking on Bottom 100 (as of 7/7/2009): #84 (based on 1260 votes)

Why It’s Here: It actually means something, speaks volumes, in fact, when ones of these “Pop Culture” comedies, as they are called,...

Pop mega-star Michael Jackson's extreme legal problems may have thwarted his attempt to relaunch his career as a film star. The singer was delighted with his 10-minute appearance in director Bryan Michael Stoller's spoof Miss Cast Away - but distributors are anxious about the film since Jackson's arrest on child-molestation charges. The director explains, "We've sort of had to put things on hold. It's a shame because Jackson has an amazing vision." Stoller spent at least one day a week at Jackson's Neverland Ranch home "mentoring" him for the movie which also stars former Joe Millionaire Evan Marriott and depicts what might happen if a plane-load of contestants on their way to a beauty pageant crash-landed on an island. Miss Cast Away is already facing problems over its release - bosses at Twentieth Century Fox are attempting to keep the film out of cinemas because the title is too close to their hit Tom Hanks movie Cast Away.