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Before writing Looking
for Love, I researched a number of reality romance television shows. Of
course, everyone knows about The Bachelor/Bachelorette. (You’d practically have
to live in a cave not to see the daily gossip/news stories about current or
former contestants.) But…what about some other crazy ideas that tried to
capture American women’s love of romance.
There was a show on Fox that recruited American girls to
compete for romance. The girl who won would get to be Prince Harry’s
girlfriend. (Okay, obviously, this was way before he married Meghan Markle.) Now,
you’re probably saying, “Prince Henry really agreed to do this?” And of course,
the answer is no. The guy only looked like Prince Henry. The whole thing was so
bad that it was cancelled after only four episodes.
Then there was the MTV show on which a guy or a girl went on
three blind dates to choose a romantic partner. The twist: The dates were all
with the potential suitor’s mother. (Yeah, right. That works?)
Another MTV reality romance
show had ten men and women move into a
house in Hawaii for three weeks. (Okay, so that part wouldn’t be bad, right?) However,
before the show began, each met with match-making experts who had picked their
perfect match. If during the show, all ten couples paired up and at the end, each
couple had chosen the person selected as their perfect match, the twenty contestants
got a million dollars to share.
Safe to say, I didn’t use any of these show ideas in Looking for Love! Fortunately, kind readers have given the book
a thumbs up.
As to reality TV… stay tuned…America loves romance, and who
knows what crazy concepts will show up next.
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