Joe Millionaire
2003
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 18 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Reality
Joe Millionaire is an American reality television show that was broadcast on Fox beginning in January 2003. It was broadcast in the UK that same year. A sequel, The Next Joe Millionaire, followed in October 2003.
The show, approved by Mike Darnell, was wildly successful and became a pop culture phenomenon, with an average of 34.6 million viewers in the United States tuning into the season one finale making it the most-watched episode of any reality show since the season finale of the first season, as well as the premiere episode and finale for the second season of Survivor.
Seasons
Season 1
The prize up for grabs is Evan Marriott, a man the ladies think is worth $50 million, but in acutality is a $19,000-a-year construction worker.Only the gal who wins over Evan and survives his weekly cuts will learn the truth, but before then producer Jean-Michel Michenaud hints that some ""very interesting tensions"" crop up among the curious competitors. The gold digging begins in this episode, where everyone convenes at the fantasy man's French chateau.
In the beginning of the episode, we learn about Evan. Evan is then trained in ways to act wealthy. Then at some point the girls arrive in horse-and-buggy and we learn about the girls. Afterwards, host Alex McLeod introduces them to the game and announces there will be a ball. Then, Evan comes to meet the ladies on a horse. Afterwards, the girls go to pick their dresses for the ball. Then the butler brings the girls in one by one. Evan dances with each girl individually. Then it is time for Evan to pick the 12 he wants to stay by giving
Season 2
Joe Millionaire a.k.a. David Smith, 24, earns $11,000 a year as a rodeo cowboy in Texas. Fourteen European women, from 5 different countries, vying for his attention (and fake $80 million oil fortune) don't meet him until the very end of the episode. However, the time leading up to that was still worth watching. If possible, these women appear to be cattier and more materialistic than the ladies from the original J.M. David is flown to a gorgeous villa in the Italian countryside and given a crash course by Paul, everyone's favorite butler, in European geography and greetings in the ladies' native languages. The women party it up (drinking so much champagne their first night Paul has to order more) in their anticipation to meet him and are, shall we say, disappointed when they find out he's a cowboy. Paul's observation that European women seem to like a wealthy man as much as American women is dead-on. That QUICKLY changes when they hear about his fortune. All in all, it looks like this
Network
FOX