In 2008, a year after Keeping Up with the Kardashians first changed reality TV, The Millionaire Matchmaker came out. It was long sooner than Netflix's experimental relationship collection hosted by means of Nick and Vanessa Lachey like The Ultimatum and Love Is Blind.
It featured The Millionaires Club, an unique millionaires' matchmaking agency run by way of host, Patti Stanger along side her assistants, married couple Destin Pfaff and Rachel Federoff.
The Bravo dating show was eventually canceled in 2015 and has since been ranked 4.5/10 on IMDb. In a featured assessment, a user gave the show a 2, saying it is "Very Offensive at Times!"
"Yes, I'm a liberal woman but I'm appalled by Patti Stanger and this show of setting up people for marriage," they commented. "Her clients are all superficial, lame, and vain."
They persisted: "They all think highly of themselves and expect the same. The men or women who come to the social gatherings are nothing special."
Could or not it's the reason the display ended after eight seasons? Here's a more in-depth glance at that time, as well as an replace on the current lives of Stanger, Pfaff, and Federoff.
In May 2015, Stanger drew flak after being accused of not doing thorough background exams and putting in place Real Housewives of Atlanta big name Kenya Moore with the flawed individual. She was once it appears matched with a married man whom she most effective dated for a brief duration due to the fact.
That summer season, the matchmaker also referred to as off her engagement together with her boyfriend, David Krause. It was once a public cut up that took a toll on both her private and professional existence.
Stanger's different guest stars additionally had their very own scandals that introduced the display down with them. In 2015, LA-based John Bonavia used to be arrested for beating a lady, only a 12 months after being accused of choking his female friend.
In September that year, some other former visitor star, businessman Michael Leslie Bernback was arrested and charged with the sexual attack of three women at his Sherman Oaks home.
In July, Stanger announced the show's end on Twitter. "After 8 seasons I've decided to leave @Bravotv Thank u 4 the great ride," she wrote. "Stay tuned for exciting news as I move to a wonderful new network!"
In 2016, the host had some other truth dating show on WE tv LLC called Million Dollar Matchmaker. The show ran for two seasons until 2017. It went off-air after low viewership ratings.
As of this writing, Pfaff and Federoff are listed on Love and Matchmaking's website as an "internationally renowned Five Diamond VIP Matchmaking, Date Coach, Relationship Coach and Love Expert team." A "multi-hyphenate power couple, they are also entrepreneurs, performers, filmmakers and philanthropists," according to their bio.
The site also clarified that the two are "not therapists, but practical love coaches" who "now help as many as they can in everything from matchmaking to fixing love lives to relationship strengthening to helping people navigate online dating. They’ve even officiated weddings, helped with prom-posals and written best man speeches!"
The pair stepped out of Stanger's company and display in 2013. At that time, Federoff instructed The Daily Dish: "Well, honestly, we hated to leave. We loved Bravo and we loved the show and everything about it. It just was time for us to take a bit of a break. The clients can be very draining, so it's a lot of babysitting and hand-holding and craziness that goes with it. And so we just needed a big break to breathe a bit."
Pfaff added that despite Stanger being "an important part of our life," they'd to step clear of her and the industry as they "knew if we hung around Patti we'd get sucked right back in." He also shared that as a non-public particular person, he used to be to begin with hesitant to megastar in the fact sequence.
In 2019, Stanger produced the crime series, Matchmaker Mysteries. She additionally produced the TV film Advice to Love By in 2021. That year, she confirmed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen that she used to be discovering a fit for Millionaire Matchmaker former contestant, Leah McSweeney of The Real Housewives of New York City.
"I'm actually fixing her and [new cast member] Eboni [K.Williams], and the whole New York cast has called me," she informed Cohen at the moment. "There's a show there, Andy. All of them have called me, even Ramona [Singer]. Let's go!"
It's been her venture to assist Bravo celebrities with their love lives, together with Cohen himself. "Andy Cohen to set up. OK, that's done," she as soon as stated. "He is the no. 1 person I want to fix up. He knows that. And I don't think there's anybody I wouldn't set up. I think everyone needs love. So I don't have a nobody. Maybe Ramona would be my most difficult, I think."
Stanger continues to run her Millionaire Dating Club to at the present time. It reportedly has a 99% success charge. In February 2023, she showed on Behind the Velvet Rope podcast that she's finally found her match on a dating app; ironically some other David.
"David just showed up when I was about to get off the app," she wrote on Instagram alongside a selfie of them together. The photo has now been deleted, so it's unclear if the two are still together at the moment.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTErZ%2Bippeoe6S7zGiuoZmkYrK3sdFmn5qooJq7prCMraZmrJiaeq61y6WgqKaRnr%2Bmecyaq5ygnZa4pr6MqZitrJliwLWtzaCcq2c%3D