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Seamonkey

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks to all the spoilers and others who made this way more interesting than just watching it here :)

Mak1

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks to everyone for making this show seem to be WAYYYYY more fun than it actually was, lol.

Pamy

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Mak, I agree!

Wilsonatmd

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think we all knew this was gonna happen...the show had been pointing toward Zora as Cinderella and the others as the Evil Stepsisters ever since they got down to 4 left, so good had to win over evil at the end. Sarah is never gonna live this down, not only did all her dirty laundry get aired out to the US, she didn't get the guy or the gold watch at the end, and she'll be branded forever as a gold-digger or worse, based on the sock thing....

Jenhavins

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
tye1 for the spoiling!! It is appreciated.

Car54

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn...you are easy. $500,000 for going to France and eating goat cheese?

I would lie to my own mother for $500,000.

Think of those poor starving Survivors or the people on Big Brother literally losing their minds..or the Amazing Racers...running their a$$es off.

What a gyp.

Scorpiomoon

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with Mak too! :)

Mak1

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 06:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Enjoy your vacation, Jen!

Misslibra

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 07:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG! Ginger we agree on something. :) I agree with everything you said about tonight's show. I'm so glad he picked Zora, she seem like a very sweet person very geniune. I was very happy to see them both win some money. Him for making the right choice in picking Zora, and her for being the kind of person she is. I loved the ending myself. Now I'll just have to wait to see the aftermath show. :)

BTW I go out of my way not to read spoilers so I'm judging the show only by what I see on TV.

Jenhavins

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 07:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ty Mak!

Ark

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved the ending. I didn't want him to pick Zora because I didn't want her to have to deal with the lie but now I'm thrilled that he did. Whether the romance goes anywhere or not, I love that Zora got some cash.

I also thought that Sarah was saying that she gave Evan a hummer in the woods.

Wilsonatmd

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 07:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They might not have the money...an article from USA Today:

Robert Bianco, USA TODAY

Evan and Zora may not have found love on Joe Millionaire, but they did find money.

Evan Marriott, star of Joe Millionaire, chose Zora (right) over Sara on the show's two-hour finale.
Fox

As fans expected, Evan Marriott picked Zora over Sarah in Monday's extended finale of Fox's hit reality show, Joe Millionaire. After he told Zora he had lied to her about having $50 million and she told him she forgave him, and was actually happy that he didn't have the money, Joe revealed its final, long-promised twist. They were given a $1 million check in both their names, presented on a silver platter by the butler.

That makes them millionaires — if they stay together. Next week in a special detailing the show's aftermath, viewers find out if they did.

After more than an hour of recap Monday, Evan finally broke the news to Zora, telling her flatly, "I've chosen you." (Her response: "Are you serious?") He then owned up to the show's central ruse: "I don't have $50 million. I don't have $50,000. I'm sorry I lied to you." He asked an enigmatically calm Zora to give him her answer later that evening, then went to break the news to Sarah.

Though he said his time with her had been "really neat," he told Sarah she was not his pick, saying later that he feared she was more into Joe Millionaire than Evan Marriott. She was then reunited with the already rejected Melissa, and they had a laugh at Evan's expense, with Sarah calling him a "big loser without any money."

So, did Evan make the right choice? "Definitely," says Shannon Stewart, 34, of Norcross, Ga. "I have been a Zora fan since Day One." The pick didn't surprise her, but the twist with the money did.

Chris Johnson, 28, of Chillicothe, Ohio, had been a Melissa fan, but he switched to Zora. "This was kind of the ending I was hoping for. I wanted Zora, and I was kind of hoping the end would be them getting money themselves."

The two-hour special was the climax of a surprisingly successful run for Joe, which has averaged 20 million viewers since its Jan. 6 premiere. With much of the Northeast snowbound, Fox was hoping to top last week's 24 million peak, though the show did face stiffer-than-usual competition from NBC's two-hour Michael Jackson special and a repeat of ABC's interview with Jackson.


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Pamy

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wilson, couldn't you have posted that article 4 hrs ago and saved the east coasters all that pain?

Pamy

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 07:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It just started here and I can't believe they showed a pic of a girls feet tied up bondage style!!

Donut

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
gee whiz....i liked it too.. it was very sweet and i was really happy that he picked Zora, and was kept in suspense thinking he wouldn't, and the seemed like a much sweeter couple than on any of the other fix-up shows...i actually naively give them more chance of staying together than any of the other reality couples we have seen...(but then again i was rooting for eric and lisa)....
Watching it with hubby was a romantic way to spend a snow bound nite...it really is too bad, i think, that we become so jaded that we all expect a twist to be evil or mean or coniving.. i liked that the twist is that after all the meanness on TV , that it is an unusual twist to just have a nice sappy fairy tale for a change...
that said, i was really pissed at the first hour.. what a waste of time.. why would they think we would care to learn more about the loser girls tonite??

Heyltslori

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Run Pamy...and don't look back!!!!!!

Wilsonatmd

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy, the article didn't get posted until after 10:30 Eastern, (although Herc from Aint it Cool got an early look about 4 hours previous, he didn't give the winner but did tell about the money)

Magikearth

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey,Donut! I agree completely with your post.
Love happy endings!!

Curlyq

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I enjoyed hearing from the other girls tonight. It makes me wonder how many great girls he passed up just to keep the ones with the biggest breasts. I think Evan's every bit as shallow as any gold-digger when it comes to what he looks for in a woman.

I hope they don't have to stay together to get that money because that would be a little weird, getting paid to date somebody. Maybe the USA Today reporter misunderstood. I'd like to hear what Zora has to say now that she's seen what he was doing with the other women, especially Sarah.

They really made sure to show Sarah in the worst possible light, planting Melissa there to get her to revert to the snarky stepsister role again. It was like Sarah was keeping a pretty good poker face, so they brought in her partner in crime to goad her into spilling her guts. Funny how she went from pretending she didn't care about his financial status to calling him "a big loser" because he wasn't a millionaire.

I'm happy that Zora won some money, but I sure hope she ends up with a REAL Prince Charming in the end. Does anyone think she was tipped off about a possible reward if she didn't dump him? She looked pretty mad when she went off into the woods. Or perhaps she was afraid of being called a gold-digger if she left him. There really was no way out of that situation.

Magikearth

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe the walk in the woods was footage from an earlier timeframe and the editors wanted to make it look like she was running away from him? (To mislead us?)

Magikearth

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is just my take on the show,but they both look so happy-even before the huge check was presented to them.I wish them the best-whatever they feel that is.:)

Muse

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to admit that I liked the fairy tale ending. I'm a softie like that. :) My opinion of Evan went up a teeny bit when he picked Zora, and they were kind of cute together at the end. The twist was fun, too.

I don't expect the relationship to last, however. Reality show-based relationship barely ever do, and this one didn't seem to have a lot of emotional attachment on either end to begin with. Then factor in the fact that they've been separated for awhile...Zora has gotten the chance to see some of what went on behind her back...Evan's comments to the media... Just doesn't seem like there's much of a chance. Oh well.

I thought some of the rejected women came across better than they did on the show (MoJo, for example); some didn't (Heidi, Melissa M.). A few of the ones who were originally cut (whose names I *still* don't know) didn't really seem like real keepers to me, either.

Sarah looked most foolish whispering about something that went on with Evan that wasn't caught on tape than at any other time on the show. I *really* don't want to know what her gestures meant. :)

Magikearth

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heidi: "Maybe I scared everyone?"
My personal opinion: You certainly did!!!!!!!!!

Seamonkey

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 09:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, now that I saw the ending, I'm happy.. Evan did pick the right one and when he described her, he seemed to have captured what her good friends said about her. And he was correct about Sarah, too.

Then when he was waiting for Zora to come to the ballroom with her answer and then listening to her... he was so nervous and when she said yes, he smiled and it was real.. perhaps for the first time.. so.. maybe there is hope.

Also Paul's little speech seemed real.

Yeah, Heidi and Mojo are deluded and Sarah and Melissa are brittle brittle brittle..

Egbok

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 09:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just finished watching and I loved the fairytale ending! My favorite moment was when Zora asked Evan if she could kiss him.