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Rslover

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Host, Claudia DiFolco was the co-host on Anything for Love.

Sanfranjoshfan

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anybody who was a "Joe Schmo" fan will "get" this show! Hey, this has "Jane Schmo" written all over it!

There is absolutley nothing cruel in setting a person up to trick her family in order to win them a quarter million bucks....only to find out that the prize will be awarded regardless of her success.

I cracked up throughout the whole program. :)

Bbfanatic

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought this show was hilarious. Steve is obnoxious, but very likable. I cant wait until next week.

Avrey258

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Could someone answer a question for me please?

Since American Idol ran over last night I missed a bit at the beginning. At the beginning of the show there were a bunch of "attractive" guys getting down on bended knee asking for Randi's hand in marriage. Who were they?
thanks,
Avrey

Curious1

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Avrey, the host introduced her to 10 (or so) "attrative" guys and then made her pick 3 of those guys that she thought would be convincing as her fiancee. After she picked the three guys the host told her that there was a twist and that they had already picked out a guy for her. So the "attrative" guys were all for nothing, just a hoax.

Adven

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There's actually a show with this title and premise? And Europeans say we have no culture.

Avrey258

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Curious1,
thanks. By the time I flipped back Steve was already in the picture. I figured it was something like that!

Ketchuplover

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 3:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is there any way to get Steve & Martha Stewart together?

Meme9

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I started watching this show, and laughed with Steve and with Randi! I assumed,(since they showed previews with her family included)that her family must have signed agreements for their faces to be shown...that in the end, it worked out for all. So, I'm going to enjoy the show, and laugh right along with them!

Azlen

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
An interesting article from the Arizona Republic.

HOLLYWOOD - Watching and listening to Randi Coy, the Scottsdale teacher taken for a ride on My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé , you wonder whether her stab at stardom was worth it.

The gist of the show, which premieres at 8 p.m. Monday on Channel 10 (KSAZ), is this: Coy thinks that, as part of a reality show, she must get her family to accept her whirlwind marriage to Steve. Steve is, well, a big fat obnoxious man.

If Coy can pull it off, she wins a million bucks. Joke's on her family, she emerges $1 million richer and, like every reality flash in the pan, presumably camera-ready for some low-rung TV gig (or at least an offer from Playboy).

But, no. Steve, it turns out, is an actor playing the most-obnoxious cretin possible. He tries to make himself unacceptable to Coy's family or any other member of the human race; the joke ultimately is on her. Unfortunately for Coy's parents, family and friends, they got caught up in the backwash of what certainly seems to be her ambition to be on TV.

This is, of course, not her take on things.

"My family is pretty fun-loving," Coy, here to promote the show for Fox , said. "So when I got into it, I thought, you know, this is going to be fun. It was an ultimate practical joke. And, I mean, it gets tricky, but they're a resilient family."

Are they? Coy didn't out-and-out say her family was mad at her, but a blind man could read between these lines:

"I think they're digesting it, as well as I am. . . . They're relieved it's over, but we're - you know, only time will tell what really happens at the end."

She doesn't sound overly thrilled herself.

"I'm not going to lie," Coy said. "I thought I was doing the ultimate practical joke, but then again, the joke was on me. So I'm digesting it."

Lots of digesting going on in that family. Hope they have plenty of Pepto-Bismol.

"I'm taking it day by day. . . . I definitely have some resentment."

Coy said she wants to go back to her teaching job. She also said, "I'm young, and I did this for the experience, and who knows what's going to happen?"

Who, indeed? But once you've played to millions, a classroom would be an awfully small audience.

Sanfranjoshfan

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
According to next week's TV Guide (Jan 24-30)....if Steve looks familiar to anyone, there's a reason....you may have seen him on TV. He played the cave demon that gave Spike his soul back in the last season of Buff the Vampire Slayer....and he was also a room service waitor on an episode of Will & Grace.

Hmmmmm....I can't tell if going from cave demon to big, obnoxious lout is a step up or a step down in an acting career! :)

Legalboxer

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 5:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
steve's profile at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047504/

and his homepage
http://www.stevenwbailey.com

Grannyg

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If I was Randi, I would just want to slip back into my hometown and hope no one knew I was back. I really felt sorry for her last night. I cannot imagine this being fun. Even though I think the show is a hoot, I would not want to be Randi.

Spot

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think he also looks like the actor on a current commercial. It is the one for "hungry man" or some such large, frozen dinner. Two men are in a locker room, and one is accidentally blown away by a hair dryer. He is the one who looks like Steve.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i totally agree, spot!! i think it's him, too.

Legalboxer

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spot I was thinking that exact thing today

Kellirippa

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm in the west....what Network is this show on?

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
it was on right after american idol...fox, i would say!

Watching2

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 12:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didn't hear the whole bit, but there was a blurb on EXTRA which said she got in trouble with her teaching job at a Catholic school. I think she may have been terminated. I caught something about the principal or someone saying it had more to do with her being a first-year teacher who missed a lot of time in the classroom. Then there was something from her saying she thought her "kids" would get a kick out of seeing their teacher on TV. I guess that depends on how raunchy this gets!

Cillysue2

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 1:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi everyone. I love this show. Do you think that this is going to make Randi look like a stuck up little brat that wouldn't give a fat guy a second chance? Or do you think she is really reacting to his behavior? I remember her face froze when she saw him, before he even opened his mouth.

And what do you think this will make her family look like if they act all snobbish and stuff? I am just curious.

I truly did love the part where they got a massage together. WONDERFUL acting on his part. LOL!!!

Julieboo

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think his obnoxiousness will "outweigh" his weight issue. So I don't think many people will fault her for not giving him a second chance. I think most people will see him as obnoxious before they see him as fat...

Tabbyking

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
well, if her catholic school pays like ours...she only makes about 2,000 bucks a month! if she went through with this show and actually pulled it off at the end, she made many years of teaching pay in one fell swoop!
didn't the article also say randi was terminated so 'the school could make way to hire "some gal named heidi", from an old survivor show'? oops, i think i made that part up! sorry:) LOLOL

randi could have left the school on her own. so many people teach at our school for only a year or two before they just can't resist the lure of public school pay and benefits! she won't have any trouble getting a job, i'm sure!

oh, the massage part was funny! i loved the breakfast scene where he had the tissue stuck in his nostril, too.
i also laughed where he pointed out the scrapes on the furniture from when he smashed the big vase. how could anyone think 'accidentally' breaking something would scar wood and scatter pieces so far?!
the preview made me giggle when i saw her face after he kissed her. any parent who sees that face will know she 'recoiled' from him!

Azlen

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 2:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It looks like she isn't teaching anymore, for the time being at least.

From the Arizona Republic

SCOTTSDALE - Scottsdale's newest reality TV star apparently has chosen fame and possible fortune over a career as a Catholic schoolteacher.

Randi Coy quit her job Wednesday as a first-grade teacher at Pope John XXIII Catholic School Community in northeast Phoenix.

Coy, 23, appears on the Fox show, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, which debuted Monday night with 19.6 million viewers nationwide.

Phoenix Diocese officials said Coy offered her formal resignation by telephone at 10:10 a.m. Thursday to Pope John XXIII Principal Bill Langley.

Langley said last week that Coy had to decide "which obligations come first," her teaching duties or her television duties.

Coy had been on unpaid administrative leave from the school since Thanksgiving.

Langley gave Coy a deadline last week to decide whether she wanted to come back, but Coy didn't respond until Wednesday, according to Phoenix Diocese spokeswoman Mary Jo West.

On Friday, Coy told The Arizona Republic that she was unsure about her future.

"I'm young and I did this for the experience, and who knows what's going to happen?" Coy said. "But right now, I'm just taking it day by day. And hopefully, yes, definitely I'd like to go back to teaching. I'm just going to see what happens."

But on the first episode of the six-episode series, Coy mentioned the difference between her teacher's salary and her potential $500,000 prize

Costacat

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm still on the fence about this show. Yeah, it's a giant practical joke, but practical jokes are often mean. I think Steve is hilarious, but honestly, do you know ANYONE who would want to marry him based on how he behaved on the opening show? I think parts of the show are funny, but I'm also cringing during parts of it.

I do love how Steve is playing to the camera, though. He's totally into the joke, which is amusing to watch. It's not so amusing to watch HER react to him, I think.

I guess I'll wait till the next ep to see if I cringe too much to watch!

Pamy

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was kinda on the fence too. I read the recap at Realitynewsonline.com and after reading it I have decided that this show will just get better

You should read the recap, the guy is funny and I love his take on everything!