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Grooch

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 11:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No problem. :)

From the Denver Post:

Boulder grad vies for ‘Joe


By Bill Husted
Denver Post Columnist



Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - Who wants to marry a millionaire - who's not really a millionaire?

Maybe Zora Andrich, a 1991 Boulder High grad and homecoming queen. She's one of the 20 bachelorettes on "Joe Millionaire," which debuted Monday night on Fox 31. The show passes off a $19,000-a-year construction worker as a Paris multi-millionaire.

Zora, 29, was sworn to secrecy Monday, and the Fox publicity people weren't letting her gab. She just told me that she's living in New Jersey, working as a model, actress, caregiver to the elderly and as a substitute teacher. And that she had fun.

Her mom, Boulder astrologer Vava Andrich, does gab, however. She said during the November shoot outside of Paris, "Zora had some of the best times of her life - and she also wondered what the heck she was doing there. My daughter is psychically gifted, so she really didn't buy it."

Grooch

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 11:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Macon woman eliminated from reality show
By Thomas W. Krause
Telegraph Staff Writer

Jennifer Snell might not have gotten the $50-million man - or even the $19,000 man - but though she lost out after the first episode of Fox's new reality show, she said she certainly enjoyed the experience.

"I would do it again tonight," she said from Wagers sports bar, where she watched the show Monday night with family and friends.

Joe Millionaire, set in a French chateau, offers 20 women the chance to date a man who just inherited $50 million. The catch? There is no inheritance. He really only makes $19,000 per year as a construction worker, a fact withheld from the women until the show's ending.

Monday night, viewers were introduced to Evan Wallace Marriott and the 20 women competing for his heart. Snell, a Macon office manager, was one of the 20 women selected. At the end of Monday's inaugural episode, Marriott chose 12 of the women to continue and gave eight the ax.

Snell said she didn't mind being cut early. She still speaks to several other contestants and enjoyed her little time with Marriott. Even if she had been picked, Snell said, she doubted the result would be true love.

"I had it in the back of my mind that it was a show," she said. "But he was a sweetheart and treated everyone very special."

At Wagers, more than a dozen of Snell's family and friends cheered her on. None knew the outcome.

"She's really been tight-lipped about it," said high school friend Natalie Carden, 24. "She had to sign a real big confidentiality agreement."

Snell's parents were just as oblivious.

Before airtime, her mother, Debbie Snell, said she just hoped she wouldn't see her daughter kissing a stranger on national television.

"I hope not," she said. "I just don't want to see any hot tub scenes. I told her to remember that her grandparents would be watching."

Jennifer Snell's father, Dean Snell, dodged the question when asked if Marriott would make an appropriate son-in-law.

"It's strictly up to her," he said. "I just want her to be happy."

As the show began, the barroom erupted with applause, hoots and hollers. The second shot of Snell showed her crying, which brought on the ribbing of friends. When the announcer told the audience Marriott only makes $19,000 per year, Snell laughed it off.

"He can't even buy my shoes," she joked.

Web sites discussing the show have quoted television industry insiders who think the real joke is on the audience. Some have suggested that Marriott might actually be rich and that little tidbit will be revealed on the last episode. Snell said she doubts it.

"If there is a double secret, and he really is wealthy, he deserves an Oscar," she said.

Sanfranjoshfan

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 11:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just couldn't stand The Bachelor and watched only one episode of the entire first one and none of the second season. I was expecting something similar here, but the idea that it was a joke on gold diggers made me tune in. Turns out it was a LOT different form what I expected.

I expected it to put a bad light on many of the women that were gold diggers (which it seemed to do somewhat) but what I *didn't* expect was that the show is as much (more, actually) about Evan and HIS role in the big scam than about the women's reactions. I didn't expect to see Evan having issues about lying as he participated in the big deception. I guess I was just thinking of him as being "the mole", just another contestant that had been recruited by the producers to play this role. It never occurred to me that I'd see him feeling bad about the lies or that he might even become emotionally invested by the time the game got going. (I'm referring to that preview when he is telling some guy in the dark, seen thru what appeared to be a night vision camera, that he might have "genuine feelings for this girl" and seemd upset at the lies he's now a huge part of.)

I think this might just prove to be a VERY interesting and entertaining show after all. :)

C1mag

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 11:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This show is cruel! I feel guilty for finding pleasure/entertainment in it, but I'm gonna ride this one out to the bitter end. I think thats what I'm most interested in.

Funniest moment: "So whats your middle name?" Uh..Uh...Uh.. Looks like Mr. fake is a bit slow on his feet. I'm not a great liar but even I could have ripped out a fast answer to that one. Mr Fake also needs to do something with those caterpillers he calls eyebrows. Holy crap I wanted to personally shave those suckers the entire hour.

The other funny moment was anything with Heidi in it. Some may dislike her attitude but these are the types that we love to hate when watching these shows. Without them it would be a complete snooze fest. Heidi is competitive but gives this viewer exactly what I expected from some of them. The lust to win!

Over all the eye rolling is constant and the cringe factor is about a 9 knowing that in the end someones gonna be real hurt! That isn't necessarily a good thing but I'm curious enough to watch. However, the great thing is that they can never do this one again.

Webkitty

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 11:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
~SanFran has a craa-ush!~ Missed you!

Conejo

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 11:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Which one was Heidi? Anyone care to post a picture of her to jog my memory? (I think I know which one everyone is talking about but not sure without a visual image)!

C1mag

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 11:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
She was the one that checked out his palm when she was introduced to him.

Sanfranjoshfan

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 12:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heidi was the one that grabbed two dresses at once and wouldn't share.

Azlen

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 12:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SanFran, I still don't completely buy yet that the scenes of him having issues about the lie aren't scripted or staged. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the scene with the night vision camera was completely set up.

Realfan

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 12:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, I won't feel bad at all if the one who is "hurt" at the end turns out to be Heidi Ho (is that an accetable moniker, mods?) after she clawed her way to the "win"! Hah! The joke would SO be on her.

Heidi's the one with the bad perm (blond) in the fugly pink dress with her bra strap showing, who had another contestant bite her pearl necklace to see if it was real.

Conejo

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 12:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks guys! That's who I thought (hoped)you were talking about. That had palm incident was just too fake. If they spend any time alone I wonder what she will be "checking out"?

Yes, it would be nice to see her win and then find out all that gold digging was for nil! HeHe

Don't know a man could stand to be around some of these women...just don't know how!

Realfan

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 12:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BTW, did anyone else notice that with Evan's fake middle name, his initials are EEW? If he'd been on the ball, he could have given that as a reason he avoids hi middle name, but he probably never realized it.

Does anyone else here love the Masterpiece Theater butler? what's his name, Jeeves?

Ariasmum

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You guys are too tough on poor Evan. He's just Joe Average. I like that he is bumbling around and claiming ignorance on the finer things in life. I liked seeing him riding up on the horse and practically falling off and then missing the stirrup and bumping his chin on the saddle. The fact that some of the women were commenting on how smooth he is and how he really knew how to handle a horse was just too funny. I couldn't help but chuckle. They thought he was a good dancer too. He looked kind of stilted to me but what do I know. I guess they must have blurred vision through those starry eyes. I was wondering too if Heidi noticed any callouses while she was checking out his construction worker hands but perhaps it can be explained in next weeks stable chores. It doesn't look like some of the princesses are going to enjoy it and I believe our beloved Heidi is one of them. I'm curious to know if they let Evan watch the tape of the girls fighting over the dresses. They should have.

C1mag

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The masterpiece theater dude is funny. I have to listen real close cause I can't always understand everthing he is saying.

I also have to agree about the idea that if Heidi was the final choice that it would be funny. She'd be the perfect example of a true gold digging competitive SUCKER! She would be tailor made to have it written all over her face! Like she said, she likes to win! :-)

Neko

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It was so funny when they were going on about how smooth he was at riding the horse.

Obviously, these women have never ridden a horse.
That poor boy and practically falling of that horse the whole time, even if it didn't seems like it.
He was too stiff in his riding so he jolted alot and couldm't even really sit down on the saddle.

I just thought it was funny, and had wished my friend who does riding had been here to watch it with me cause she would have been just falling over laughing.

But, for a guy whose never rode a horse, he did pretty good.


Oh, and I would usually like his hair, cause we all know I like the fluffy hair, if it wasn't so greasy looking.

Sanfranjoshfan

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 01:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Azlen - I dunno....he seems fairly unassuming to me, even in his tv interviews. When I had the idea in my head that he was simply an undercover mole and that it was just a fun game for him, I'd forgotten something that happened in the first season of "The Mole". The woman who actually WAS the mole (I forgot her name) had some real emotional highs and lows.....at one point when she was in her hotel room all alone during a challenge, she was so frustrated and emotionally drained that she was crying her pretty little eyes out. I remember how she later talked about being surprised at how emotionally invested she had become with the other players and how she felt really guilty sabotaging them and how it was a lot tougher than what she'd bargained for.

Even if Evan is just a hottie that they hired to do the show to help play the BIG JOKE....he's still a real human being and could easily become emotionally invested in the relationships he forms there.

I'm just giving him the benefit of the doubt for now.

As for his horse riding...I thought he did okay, but he certainly didn't come across as an expert. I used to ride horses when I was a kid on the farm in West Texas....and I do know that if the horse is *trotting*, you need to remain fairly rigid in the saddle and you WILL bounce up and down just like Evan did. It *was* funny when he hit his chin on the saddle and muttered "oh lordy", which might arouse suspicion in most people....but those girls seem to have a tendency to overlook any inconsistencies. I guess 50 million bucks might make a lot of us overlook a few obvious clues, too! LOL

Sanfranjoshfan

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 01:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty - MEEE? A CRUSH????

Moondance

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 02:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SanFranEvanFan!

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 02:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
neko, when evan was riding the horse and flying up and down off the saddle, i kept thinking of sean rector screaming, "my balls!" on surviivor....lol

Ladytex

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 02:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Edited to remove url for the pics ... never mind

Hootyhoot

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 02:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ooooh, I missed it! My own Real Life seems to have distracted me from reality tv (at least for a moment!).

Does anyone know if it'll be broadcast again?

Puttergirl

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 03:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard on a radio show that the biggest scam will be on us at the end... that he really did inherit alot of money and after he tells the last girl that he is actually poor and gets her reaction, to see whether she likes him for himself or not, he will disclose that he really is rich. It would be the perfect ending. So who knows. Maybe he won a big lottery.

Grooch

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 03:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe Fox pays him a million at the end for doing the show, and he doesn't get it till the show is done being broadcast.

That would explain why he has to speed through tollbooths without paying.

Rissa

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Grooch, that was my thought as well. He tells the girl that he is really poor... the girls says she loves him anyway and then Fox gives them a million as a wedding present (after show is done and when they are doing live finale I mean). LOL

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 04:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i think he wakes up in a bathtub full of ice with a sign on his belly that says, 'call 9-1-1, you have had your kidney removed and need medical attention; however, we have left you 10k as payment'...oh! wait--that is a different urban legend. never mind!