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Rissa

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Grooch, I saw an interview that said basically the same thing. Evan's parents live in a very basic, blue-collar area and have for a very long time. They and Evan's friends all deny he has anything to do with the Hotel Marriot's and the reporters with all their resources have been able to turn up absolutely no familial link. It's just one more rumour making the rounds as we all try to justify something about this deadhead that merits his getting his own show. RFLMAO!!!!

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i did find the words 'a comfortable life' about his growing up years...i think he was pretty well off.

around here, blue collar just means they don't work at IBM. LOL (all IBM employees used to have wear black suits, white shirts and whatever dark tie colors IBM stated they could. then they started being mistaken for religious youth on their missions, and.....wait, i think i made up the reason they quit dressing like stepford husbands, but...gosh, where was i going with this?)

tells self: michaela, go back to bed, why don't you!?
'OK'

Fruitbat

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes Neko, that does sound good. :)

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
one thing to ponder is--'modest by the standards of its neighborhood'--could mean it only had 5 bedrooms and 4 baths as opposed to other homes having maid's quarters, clay courts and someone to buttle for them!

where i grew up, modest meant just that, especially when everyone else was outrageously well off. i thought we we poor compared to all the kids i knew--and we had 7 bedrooms, a swimming pool, 3 acres, a horse, my mom drove a lincoln, we went to private schools, and our collie dog came from the lassie kennels.
everyone i knew,however, had parents who were both doctors or attorneys, and they had au pairs before having an au pair meant a live-in nanny and still meant 2 pieces of strangely shaped fruit. we lived down the street from alfred hitchcock and yehudi menuhin (sp?) and some guy that i am now sure they made the 'sopranos' into a hit show after...

i had a boyfriend from virginia beach once. it seemed like we dated 3 or 4 months, but i think it was really just one long, boring evening.

Abbynormal

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok so he has modeled in Paris and New York. Guess he never paid attention or had an even semi decent meal. This guy didn't even know what a frickin salad fork was. Please.

Something is fishy alright. Wonder if he retained what wine goes with that!

I don't like him, he is just dumb. Even if he's not really dumb, then he's even dumber for acting like he is. I feel so much better now.

Almost forgot, can't wait til next week. :)

Fruitbat

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
:) Tabby.

Demeter

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think Alex was "bad" last night. She only had one line and seemed to stumble over that and sounded incredibly stiff.

Although this is a reality show, I'm sure they do retakes on things like her making her announcement. (afterall, it is not live).

She probably just couldn't get it right and is truly not a good "actress" OR "host". A host who has any kind of interaction time with the guests, should be able to handle one line.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
andohmigosh, the guy i dated was named HANK!! i remember now. he wanted to go to reno. i was just 21, and it was about a 3 hour-drive. he said he would give me gambling money. he gave me a cupful of pennies and nickels and headed off to the tables. when he was broke, we drove all the way back home about 4:00 a.m. that was our date. our first date. our last date. our only date. he even took the nickels back to buy a cup of coffee ;>)

Sunshinemiss

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 02:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This guy is rude and crude...class is not only in the amount of money you make. He seems shallow and a wanna-be-somebody-in-Hollywood.. he has been schmoozing all of the entertainment/news shows every day, and seems to regard "his" show as just a stepping-stone. I don't believe anything he says, from his "aw-shucks" just a blue-collar guy lines, to his "finding the right girl" schtick.. he out and out said he is not even looking for a long term relationship (on ET), so why the heck was he on the show anyway? (although I answered my own question above..)

But yes, I intend to keep watching.

Faerygdds

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok... try this article I found...

A regular guy?
Oh, that's rich

'Joe Millionaire' a model and actor



By FERNANDA SANTOS in Virginia Beach, KATE BERRY in Capistrano Beach, Calif.
and TRACY CONNOR in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS


He's hardly an average Joe.

The spin on Evan Marriott, star of the smash hit reality TV series "Joe Millionaire," is that he's just an ordinary construction worker content to scrape by on $19,000 a year. While he poses as the $50 million man for a gaggle of gold-digging women on Fox each week, he really had a "humble" upbringing and lives in "poverty," the storyline goes.


But a peek into Marriott's background reveals the 28-year-old green-eyed hunk is more Hollywood than hardhat.

Marriott's father is a banker, he was raised in a gated community, attended a pricey private school and vacationed in Europe.

Barely out of his teens, he was signed by a top modeling agency in New York and worked with a famed fashion photographer, living in a W. 68th St. pad with other models.

And while he does drive a bulldozer — he was even back at work on Friday — he set his sights on showbiz, trying to break into wrestling and acting.

"I wouldn't say it's a rags-to-riches story," said Kevin McKeon, who graduated from high school with Marriott in 1992.

Middle-class guy

The home where Marriott grew up isn't some swamp shack, but a handsome two-story Colonial on a half-acre lot at Great Neck Farms, an upper-middle class area of Virginia Beach.

His father, Robert, is a senior vice president at Old Dominion Trust and his mother, Charlotte, has a job at the fanciest linen shop in town, Yves Delorme.

Marriott went to local public schools until seventh grade, when he was packed off to Hargrave Military Academy, a $12,000-a-year boarding school for rambunctious teens.

The ex-Marines and retired Army officers couldn't stifle young Evan's spirit.

"He was kind of the class clown. He had a hard time knowing when to be serious," said McKeon, recalling Marriott as a prankster who booby-trapped doors with water buckets. His dark good looks also made him popular.

"I remember that girls were chasing after him even back then," McKeon said.

In his senior year, he jetted off to England and France for 10 days with his school chums. In the classroom, he had trouble buckling down.

"I know he had problems with studying and that he struggled a lot academically," said ex-classmate Robert Petty.

College wasn't in the cards. After graduation, he went to Paris to break into modeling, but was back in Virginia within a year.

"It didn't pan out for him," said Kathy Keeny, a Virginia Beach photographer who met Marriott when he returned from Europe looking for work.

Keeny and fashion editor Kim Wadsworth set him up with his first paid gig, four shoots at $50 a pop. But the strapping stud seemed more interested in beef than beefcake. "He said, ‘Man, you guys should try the steak fajita. I wish I could have one right now,'" Keeny remembers.

"He likes hanging out, drinking beer, watching football and working construction," Wadsworth said. "Just a regular guy."

After some small jobs, Marriott — by then working for his godfather's construction firm — sent his pictures around New York. A premiere agency, Click, signed him in 1994. His chiseled face caught the eye of Bruce Weber. He also worked for Macy's, Calvin Klein and catalogues, said Click President Joey Grill.

He lived in the Click models' apartment on W. 68th St. and worked as a doorman at the Paramount Hotel between shoots.

Ever the practical joker, he would call the Click offices using fake voices and names, and tell people he was the heir to the Marriott hotel fortune.

"He was one of the most delightful, funny, charming guys I ever represented," said his booker, Jules Birnbaum.

But his 6-foot-5 frame was an impediment to fashion work, and after two years, Marriott quit Manhattan for Los Angeles to give acting a try.

Modeling left "a bad taste in my mouth," Marriott told the Daily News.

A brief history

His success on the West Coast was more modest. He worked construction, sculpted his body at Gold's Gym in Venice, Calif., and went on auditions.

In March 2000, he landed a part as "Mover Number 1" on "Days of Our Lives."

The next year he pocketed $1,000 to pose in racy underwear — gladiator briefs, anyone? — for the California Muscle catalogue.

In May 2001, he enrolled in classes at Ultimate University, a $125-a-month school for wanna-be professional wrestlers, using the nickname Duke Elder.

"After a few months, we put him on scholarship because he was one of the four or five most natural guys I'd ever met," said coach Rick Bassman.

For seven months, his schedule was building-demolition by day and smackdowns by night. "He had some financial struggles, but he wasn't on the brink of poverty," Bassman said. His shot at stardom in the squared circle was cut short by a bigger break, when he met a producer for "Joe Millionaire" at a Christmas party in 2001.

The popularity of the show has fueled speculation that the audience is somehow being hoodwinked, along with the women on the show, that Marriott may be hiding assets. Rumors of his background have floated onto Internet discussion groups and radio talk shows.

Fox says it didn't pay Marriott for his work on "Joe Millionaire," where he tries to con 20 women into believing he's a multi-millionaire aristocrat with a castle in the French countryside.

Which could explain why he showed up for work at R.B. Holt Inc., a construction firm in Capistrano Beach, five days after he finished a promotional tour.

Holt office manager Amy Houlihan said that after his run at reality TV, Marriott wanted a dose of actual reality. "I think he just wanted to get back to work."


With Donna Petrozzello

Originally published on January 11, 2003

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/50826p-47591c.html

Car54

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 02:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, do you have a fever?

Curlyq

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 02:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm wondering if Alex is going to take over all of the hosting duties now that they're leaving the mansion. The butler isn't going on the trip, is he? I was surprised to hear the butler in an interview say that he also was not told that Evan wasn't a millionaire. Wasn't he the one who taught him how to choose the perfect wine and how to dress and everything? He should've been the first to catch on.

I think his final choice will be either the girl with the curly black hair because she's got that girl-next-door thing going on, or Mojo because he's been after her ever since he saw her in that cowboy hat. I like Zora but she's a little too under-the-radar and he seems to be responding more to the outgoing women.

After last night's show I too was turned off by Evan. I thought it was crummy that he dismissed those girls' genuine frustrations with Dana not pulling her weight as just jealousy. I hate when men do that. And to then tell Dana! Was he trying to stir up bad feelings? I also thought it was pretty lousy that he ignored 3 women so he could keep listening to Mojo. As their "date" it was on him to talk to each of these girls and not just wait for them to interrupt. Instead he just asked a vague blanket question about how the other girls were doing. Way to make a girl feel special! I'd rather date the butler.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, that cold medicine you are on must be

REALLY, REALLY GOOD!!

bwahahahahaaaa!

I think we know that Alex can walk and talk and put together a sentence on camera, probably better than many of us.. last night's one brief scene was awful, but if she's being cut out of things, there could be all sorts of reasons. Too bad she couldn't get them to completely remove her from the show because there is nothing about it (except the butler) that is worth much.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 03:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i am not on any meds, but i need them. even though i had my flu shot 2 months ago, the whole family ended up sick this week. i am sneezing and blowing my nose, with no results, and my eyes are watering and i can't sleep.also, my throat is scratchy and i am coughing... and i can't take any meds because i am still on coumadin for a blood clot. i think i am just wiped from needing to sleep! not that i made anything up, i just 'overshared'...lol

Crazydog

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, the butler probably also bought into the story that Evan had just inherited a lot of money and needed proper schooling.

Curlyq, yikes the two Melissas are the ones I dislike the most. The curly haired one with the big smile is annoying and fake. And Mojo, well, words cannot describe how horrible she is.

I thought Evan's "how are you doing over there" to the 3 ignored girls was poking fun at the fact that of the 5 people on that train, the only one talking was Mojo. I wouldn't doubt if the producers made him pick her.

Neko

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 03:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Fox says it didn't pay Marriott for his work on "Joe Millionaire," where he tries to con 20 women into believing he's a multi-millionaire aristocrat with a castle in the French countryside."

Bullsh~t I say...
They paid him, even if it was in all the dates and flying him to Paris and buying him new clothes.

Oh they paid him alright...

Car54

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 03:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aw Tabby! Go have some hot tea, honey, you sound like you feel like crap! Feel better soon, kid!

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 04:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks, car....sounds like a plan. that's with a shot of brandy in it, right?!

Car54

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 05:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
But of course!

Fruitbat

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 05:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
....and maybe we should all hit the brandy when we watch this show. Or maybe Evan should. Well someone should.

Grannyg

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Bat!! Us or them!! Certainly one should!!

Seamonkey

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Brandy sounds just perfect!! {{{Tabby}}} you didn't overshare at all; it was cute.

Hermione69

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 06:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You guys crack me up. I have the best time reading your posts. Hope you feel better soon, Tabby. :)

Babyjaxmom

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 08:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been seeing this Evan guy all over the entertainment shows, and he is a DORK of the highest caliber. If I was on this show, I think I'd go after the butler. He's the cutest!

The biggest thing Evan said that was a turn-off to me was when Mary Hart (on ET) asked him if it was emotional for him to have to dash the dreams of the girls he didn't choose (ala Trista who sobs when she has to eliminate someone). His answer was, "I just have this iron emotional wall that I've had since I was a kid." Can we all say "emotionally unavailable"????? This guy is a loser!!! And then he goes and invites Mary Hart to go to the Super Bowl with him (ahem, she's married Evan--no class!!!). Obviously he didn't end up hooking up with any of the girls. If he did, she's already dumped him.

Alison and Zora are my two favorites also (wasn't Alison the "horseshit" girl from the dresses?). Melissa M. just has one of those smiles that shows way too much gum. Ew! And what's up with that hair???? Hmmmmm, maybe she and Evan are made for each other after all.

Muse

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 09:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree, Babyjaxmom. I personally don't mind Evan too much on Joe Millionaire itself, but I'm really not impressed by what I've seen (or heard about) on these entertainment shows. I also don't get why we should buy the idea that he went onto JM to find a woman who would love him for *him*, and not his money. Um, that might work if he was a rich guy posing as someone who was poor, but it doesn't work the other way around. They should have coached him to say that he was going on it for the experience and to meet new people (and possibly the woman of his dreams), blah blah blah. And that the show idea just was part of the package that he agreed to go along with.

I hope that Evan chooses Melissa M. in the end. I dislike her the most, and I think she'd be really angry to find out that he wasn't worth 50 million. :) Mojo annoys me as well, but at least she never pretended to be something that she wasn't. And I think I like the others well enough, so hopefully they'll get to go home with their dignity intact. Or, well, kind of. As intact as it can be considering the fact that they signed up for the show in the first place. lol