—u/twozedzed “Right?! How were they allowed to do so many procedures in such a short time while completely isolating these women from their families? Making them diet and exercise while healing from a tummy tuck, breast implants, and veneers?! The ’therapy’ sessions were a joke and were just for show while these poor women with low self esteem were preyed upon for entertainment. Just out of a safety and medical perspective…wow.” —u/Snoo-8746 —u/0dilon —u/thenightshifters There’s Something About Miriam was a show where six guys dated 21-year-old model Miriam Rivera. At the very end of the show, Rivera revealed that she was transgender. The contestants ended up suing for defamation, personal injury, and conspiracy to commit sexual assault, and later settled. —MichaelJAwesome The Moment of Truth was a show where contestants answered 21 sensitive and personal questions, the truth of which had been proven or denied by a lie detector test. Several contestants answered questions that would clearly ruin their relationship with partners and family members, such as Lauren Cleri (above), who admitted to sleeping with at least one of her husband’s friends. My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé was not only offensive to its only real contestant and her family, but extremely fatphobic. Basically, schoolteacher Randi had to convince her family she was actually going to marry someone who was “fat and obnoxious,” who (unbeknownst to her) was actually an actor trying to sabotage her. —u/heshecowboy —u/ottodidakt “Turned out the whole thing was staged (big surprise), and the nerdy contestants were all struggling actors.” —u/DudebroggieHouser —u/poppingcandylights Joe Millionaire misled women into believing they were dating a wealthy heir, only to reveal in the end that the bachelor was working-class. While this is certainly not the worst entry on this list, misleading women with the intention of making them look vain and materialistic on-air is not a good look. A version of the show does still air today, called Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer, where 20 women date two men — one of whom is a millionaire and one who isn’t. So…I suppose we can’t say it wouldn’t air today, but at least the women in the new show know one of the men isn’t rich.
