Hey, you! Yes, you! Were you a fan of “Punk’d,” that show where Ashton Kutcher wore a trucker hat a lot and made Frankie Muniz and his very small ears cry when Ashton made him think his car was, like, STOLEN? Were you a fan of “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance,” the Fox reality show where a girl pretended to marry a horrible slob in order to win cash, and emotionally devastate her entire family in the process? Well, what if I were to tell you that Fox has a plan to COMBINE those two ideas in a single show? TELL ME YOU AREN’T SQUEALING WITH DELIGHT, AMERICA. From the Hollywood Reporter:
Fox's latest reality project has everyday singles bringing celebrity fiancees to meet their parents -- except it's all a prank.
In the show "My Parents Are Gonna Love You," participants will tell their folks about a wonderful new significant other who turns out to be a famous face -- and utterly obnoxious…
The longer the "couple" can pull off the ruse, the more money they win for the parents.
"It's big, noisy, fun and harmless," said Jean Michel Michenaud, co-CEO of producers Angel City Factory, who executive produces the series with Chris Cowan.
Michenaud and Cowan have produced "Joe Millionaire," "Temptation Island" and "Obnoxious Fiance" for Fox.
That last sentence in the article is perhaps the least surprising sentence I’ve ever read. Yes, of course this show is utterly harmless. Sure, the contestants will almost certainly put their parents through an emotional wringer. But hey, they get MONEY the more they’re traumatized, so it’s totally harmless! I dare you to counter such logic.
Anyway, I think this show is just the right vehicle for Sandra Bullock. Clearly, she has putrid taste in men. So it should be easy for her to trick her family into believing she’s planning to marry an unemployed, 500-lb Satanist. If anything, that would represent an improvement over her current future ex-husband. MAKE IT HAPPEN, RUPERT.
