Did anyone else see the premier of Millionaire Matchmaker?

[jewelz617]

ETA: The new season premier
I know it's a shallow and superficial show, but I find myself unable to change the channel. I have a Patti addiction! No good shots of her honkin 4 carat heart shaped engagement ring, but I'm liking her better without bangs.

 

[trillionaire]

lol, I totally vegged out and watched the marathon from 5pm-11pm.

The show is addictive, especially watching interesting pairings and people who just can''t get over themselves or their own issues. There was chick I saw on the show today that was a Scientologist who couldn''t pronounce Malibu and didn''t know that the Getty was a musuem. Where do you find such vapid people? She asked how the Hollywood sign stayed so white...

Oh man, the guy who took his date to pick up trash, that was so out of control. I hope Patty is happy and excited about getting married, and is not just doing to to validate herself as a woman and matchmaker. She seemed ambivalent about marriage in many episode, and unsure, but also insecure about being unmarried. I''m happy for her. I enjoy her no nonsense style.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

I''m wondering if the engagement is legit. She''s taken a lot of heat for preaching monogamy and serious commitments and yet she wasn''t married or even engaged. I think people had a hard time taking her advice seriously because of that (and because their head''s were up their butts!). I didn''t see last night''s episode, but I DVR''d it so I''m going to watch it tonight. I love most of those bravo shows, they''re major guilty pleasures for me.

 

[allycat0303]

So I don''t watch the show, but I saw Patti on Oprah. It was the first time I had heard of the show. What I found intresting was that on the Oprah show, they kept on insisting that there were NO GOLDDIGGERS allowed. To me this is a complete contradiction of terms. You are on a show/website where you ONLY meet men that make a certain income and you are NOT a golddigger? I was really irked by that. It struck me as a type of hypocrisy. Like, "oh money doesn''t matter to me in the least, but I''ll only date a man that makes xxx money."

In any case, Patti said things that made a lot of sense to me on a practical level (there was this women who had a HUGE list of *deal breakers* that included, a man can not sip from a straw. So, I like her, but I don''t like the premise of her show or her website. I think if your intrested in money, you should be up front about it. She would make a great matchmaker though. I have some friends that would need her tough love approach.

 

[jewelz617]

Trash guy was CRAZY!!! I would have been out of there so fast.

I agree about the "no golddiggers" rule. These girls are in the service to meet a MILLIONAIRE, how are they not golddiggers??? Although I do think a lot of them are financially independent so it could be more about matching successful singles.

Either way it makes for awesome television

 

[elrohwen]

I couldn't figure out what was different about her - didn't even notice the bangs! I agree, I like it better now.

I don't think this show is quite as trashy as some others I watch

I like it. Patti's such a character and I love when she just nails the millionaires and tells them how ridiculous they are. They seem so shocked that anybody would tell them to just get over themselves.

Omar was cute - he seemed genuine and wanted a girl who wasn't a total shallow bimbo (I haven't gotten to the trash date yet, so maybe I should reserve my judgement). Though he couldn't get past the fact that they only wanted to meet him because he was rich ... well, what do you expect when you join the Millionaire's Club?

eta: About the "no golddiggers" thing - I think it means that they don't tell the girls how rich the guys actually are. Your worth could be $1 million and that's not actually that much, especially in LA. Sure, it's a nice amount of money, but you're not going to live in a $10 million house and drive 5 cars. Or the guy could have $20 million to his name. But obviously, most of the girls are probably hoping they get the $20 million guy.

 

[Laila619]

I felt SO bad for that poor girl who had to haul junk and get all sweaty when she'd dressed up and gotten a manicure. What a jerk! Patti should have been harder on him for breaking her rules.

 

[elrohwen]

Ok, I just saw the junk haul part - Seriously, dude?! What were you thinking? It was so awkward after that! At least he learned his lesson.

I can see what he''s getting at - he doesn''t want a high maintenance girl who''s too typical, but really, his date idea crashed and burned. There are plenty of other things he could''ve done to make sure she wasn''t a high maintenance gold digger.

 

[janinegirly]

I watched last season, but haven''t caught any of this one--sounds like a good one!

I also question her engagement''s timing...seems to legitimize her a bit more and I wouldn''t be suprised if she had alot of input on that ring!

i agree the no gold diggers premise is ridiculous...this is exactly what it''s about, maybe with the secondary goal of finding love. Sometimes I also wonder why these guys sign up for this--it can be pretty humiliating!

I like the millionaress episodes too..I hear that one ice queen is back this season?

 

[jewelz617]

Date: 1/20/2010 9:51:38 AM
Author: janinegirly
I watched last season, but haven''t caught any of this one--sounds like a good one!


I also question her engagement''s timing...seems to legitimize her a bit more and I wouldn''t be suprised if she had alot of input on that ring!


i agree the no gold diggers premise is ridiculous...this is exactly what it''s about, maybe with the secondary goal of finding love. Sometimes I also wonder why these guys sign up for this--it can be pretty humiliating!


I like the millionaress episodes too..I hear that one ice queen is back this season?

They were together for 5 years, and she requested a certified conflict free diamond from Israel (she is Jewish). He wants a traditional wedding. I have a feeling like he genuinely wanted to marry her, because she had said in the past she wasn''t sure if getting married was what she wanted.

 

[Bliss]

I posted this in the Celeb Ring Thread so here it is again for your viewing pleasure!

I forced DH to watch this show on DVR!

He was appalled that a man would take a date junk collecting - and she was dressed in full cocktail attire! It looked like a dangerous job for someone who's unprepared for that kind of thing. Did she get her tetanus shot? She was grabbing metal scraps and etc.

I find Patti endlessly amusing but there are times when I definitely think she is overly cruel to other women.

It's awesome that she's engaged and I'm happy that she gets to marry her love match!

 

[jewelz617]

It''s kind of a weird looking stone, but hearts notoriously don''t photograph well.

 

[elrohwen]

I''m surprised she went with the heart shape (assuming she had a say in it). I thought she''d go with something trendier - I don''t know when I''ve ever seen a heart shape except in a maul store. Maybe they''re coming back into style? Or maybe she wanted to do something really different.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

I think the heart is in relation to Patty being all about love and all of that BS.

 

[elrohwen]

Date: 1/20/2010 10:52:02 AM
Author: Hudson_Hawk
I think the heart is in relation to Patty being all about love and all of that BS.

I thought she only said that to cover for the fact that she hated the ring

 

[Dreamer_D]

Date: 1/20/2010 10:54:31 AM
Author: elrohwen

Date: 1/20/2010 10:52:02 AM
Author: Hudson_Hawk
I think the heart is in relation to Patty being all about love and all of that BS.

I thought she only said that to cover for the fact that she hated the ring

hahah... the diamond doesn''t look so hot, does it?

I was always sceptical of her being unmarried and being a matchmaker. I know you don''t have to practice what you preach to be a good advisor, but still...

 

[rierie26]

Ugh. Some of those guys (and gals) need serious help. Did you see the one with the plastic surgeon and the internet CEO from Florida? You could tell the Dr. was looking at some of the girls and thinking how he could fix them! And the man-child! He freaking pee''d in front of his date!!!

I don''t think it''s such a big deal that she''s a matchmaker and isn''t married. She matches people to fall in love/be together, not necessarily to get married. I haven''t seen the premiere yet, but I wonder if she got engaged just to have people stop bringing up her un-married state.

 

[whitby_2773]

ok. i''m normally a pretty mild person. there are few people i dislike, and virtually nobody i hate and even the people i dislike don''t rile me up normally. but i have to say...

I Cant STAND Patti.

she has an ego the size of texas. she is all about girls looking a certain way - yet it''s as plain as her oh-so-tightly stretched skirt that she would benefit greatly from losing 20 lbs. she has a face like the back end of a bus and she''s cruel to boot. (yes, this really IS whitby speaking - and i normally NEVER criticize a person for their looks.)

this woman has set herself up as the doyen of all things attractive in women, yet she herself is one of the least attractive women on television - both physically and in character.

i was up late one night and came across her show. an older (think 40) year old, very successful woman with a franchise of beauty businesses, i think it was, was being offered the chance to be the millionaire single person. apparently patti occasionally uses women as her millionaire. anyway, this woman made the FATAL mistake of trying to talk to patti like an equal. she said, via voicemail, that it''d be great if patti could help her find a husband, and she, in turn, would help patti with a makeover. it was said as a friendly, fun thing to do. well, i have NEVER heard such an insecure response! patti TORE HER DOWN behind her back, and when the woman finally came in for the interview, patti basically said to her - over and over - ''women your age will OF COURSE find it difficult to find anyone in LA, being so old as you are!'' (this from patti who, in my opinion, epitomizes ''long in the tooth'' - to say nothing of ''mutton dressed up as lamb'' (yes, roll out the cliches...). anyway, the woman in question - who was tiny and elegant and gorgeous just by the way - was very taken aback, but tried to take it in stride. then patti started asking why this woman was divorced - like - ''what did you do to make your husband leave you? you need to confront what it was you did and what your problems are to make you so unable to attract a man...i can''t help you, dear, if you won''t be honest about your own shortcomings...etcetcetc''. in the end, this lovely, classy woman was crying and left, and patti was left with her small, ugly victory.

i cant ABIDE that kind of crueltly, or the self blindness that precipitated the whole thing.

patti is a cow. moo.

 

[elrohwen]

Date: 1/20/2010 11:46:26 AM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
I was always sceptical of her being unmarried and being a matchmaker. I know you don't have to practice what you preach to be a good advisor, but still...

I was too, until I read an interview with Steve Ward, the matchmaker on the VH1 show Tough Love. He basically said it's so hard for him to find a woman because 1) he's a work-a-holic and knows it and 2) he knows so much about relationships that he knows a woman's hang ups before she knows herself. He makes some good points. It would be tough to date someone who admittedly thinks he knows it all in the dating world - he freely admitted that he would need a very self-aware woman who would also put up with him. It's hard to just enjoy a relationship when you spend all of your time figuring out other people's relationship issues and trying to fix them. However, the other family members in his matchmaking business (mom, brother, etc) are all married, so it's not impossible.

So I don't think it's so odd that Patti's unmarried when I thought about everything Steve said. I did, however, find it weird that she has been in a long term relationship for years, but always said she wasn't sure if she wanted to get married. *That* I don't get - how can you spend your life setting other people up to get married and not want it yourself? She might've been saying that as a cover because she and her BF weren't sure they were going to marry each other.

 

[whitby_2773]

elrohwen! look over there!

(heeeeeeeere otto otto otto!...good little bunny...heeeeeeeere otto....)

oh! sorry elrohwen - i...er...thought it was...um...never mind...

 

[elrohwen]

Date: 1/20/2010 3:30:49 PM
Author: whitby_2773
elrohwen! look over there!

(heeeeeeeere otto otto otto!...good little bunny...heeeeeeeere otto....)

oh! sorry elrohwen - i...er...thought it was...um...never mind...

Lol. I''ll have to work on getting some new Otto pics resized so I can post them. He is the cutest bunny ever, after all

 

[whitby_2773]

well, y''know...

when you did his first thread, back in may, i think it was, i *was* the first person to respond and welcome otto! so i''m pretty sure that makes me his PS godmother....sorta kinda...

i for one think it''s time for a pictorial ''otto-update''!

 

[elrohwen]

Date: 1/20/2010 5:12:26 PM
Author: whitby_2773
well, y''know...

when you did his first thread, back in may, i think it was, i *was* the first person to respond and welcome otto! so i''m pretty sure that makes me his PS godmother....sorta kinda...

i for one think it''s time for a pictorial ''otto-update''!

PS godmother. Lol

My dad sent me a ton of very high res pictures of Otto that he took over Christmas that I need to resize. It just takes forever because my computer is old and slow!

 

[jcrow]

i''m watching it now. the trash date was a terrible idea. terrible. ugh.

 

[purrfectpear]

Five years and she ends up with a heart shaped diamond. WTF? I thought she had better taste than that

Mama always said for every pot there is a lid

 

[vespergirl]

Sorry I didn''t respond earlier, but I had to DVR the show and watch it last night. He would kill me for saying it, but my DH also secretly enjoys the show so I saved it so we could watch together

We both thought that Omar was SUCH an idiot to take that girl on a trash haul. If I were her I would have just left when I saw that place.

 

[Bliss]

Date: 1/21/2010 1:51:24 PM
Author: vespergirl
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but I had to DVR the show and watch it last night. He would kill me for saying it, but my DH also secretly enjoys the show so I saved it so we could watch together

We both thought that Omar was SUCH an idiot to take that girl on a trash haul. If I were her I would have just left when I saw that place.

I thought Omar was an idiot, too! At first, when he was so insistent on taking his date junk hauling - I thought he was a misogynist. He just came off as someone who wanted his mate to suffer needlessly because he toiled so much in building his business. Also, he kept calling women golddiggers. Then as the show progressed, it became clear that he was just a harmless guy who happened to be very insecure.

Most of the time, I just feel so sorry for all the women there. They aren't treated very well by the men, who are almost all insincere. The men aren't really looking for love, they're looking for TV time, ego time and publicity for their businesses. *gag* Still, so hard not to watch!

 

[tyty333]

Date: 1/20/2010 10:52:02 AM
Author: Hudson_Hawk
I think the heart is in relation to Patty being all about love and all of that BS.

Yeh, I think she should have gotten a $ shaped diamond...I think that would have been more appropriate!