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SPECIAL
IVANA YOUNG
MAN
Ivana
Trump Selects Younger Boyfriend for 40-year old Millionaire Bachelorette
Saturday, April 29 at 8PM*
The special follows Kathy, a millionaire and divorced mother of two, who wants
to date a young man but doesn’t know where to start. Enter Ivana Trump. The
former model, world-class skier, novelist and famous ex-wife handpicks six
20-something suitors for Kathy and gives them several challenges to prove if
they have the sophistication and the sincerity to win the millionairess’ heart.
The challenges include testing the handsome but socially inexperienced men at
Matchmaker
Ivana even goes as far as planting her own young boyfriend (AKA Paolo) among the
group to get the scoop on every word said in Kathy’s absence. The bachelorette’s
future is in Ivana’s bejeweled hands as she eliminates Kathy’s favorite suitor
and outs one of the cocky gents when she learns he still lives with his
parents. Ultimately, the unlucky contenders not up to Ivana’s standards are
dismissed in The Bedroom with her very own catchphrase that rivals the
Donald’s.
“We
love Ivana because she loves men, she knows exactly what she wants and is not
bashful about getting it,” says Debby Beece, President, Oxygen Programming &
Marketing. “Ivana Young Man puts
the women in control of their relationships … and they have a lot of fun doing
it.”
Ivana
Young Man
encores on April 30 and May 1 at 8 pm. The special is produced by Stone &
Company Entertainment and executive produced by Scott Stone,
Sharon Levy, Jonas Larsen and Anthony Ross. Stone is
one of television’s leading independent producers (The Mole, Popstars, Fame, the Man Show, The Joe Schmo
Show, Shop ‘til You Drop). Among the company’s current projects
are Hi-Jinks for Nick @ Nite,
TLC’s
Ivana Trump turns
tables on date scene
Reality show lets her
rich pal pick a younger man.
Published April 29,
2006
Ivana Trump knows what it's like to be
thrown over for a younger woman. When the same thing happened to a close friend,
The Donald's ex-wife decided to do something about it. She created a reality TV
show to find her pal, 40-year-old millionaire Kathy Dahl, a younger guy.
The program, Ivana Young
Man, turned out to be too cheesy for Fox, which commissioned it as a
series, so it will air at 8 tonight on Oxygen as a one-night special. One of the
candidates to become Dahl's boy toy is 25-year-old Evan Golden of
Like many who appear on reality shows,
Golden hopes to use the program as a springboard to a bigger show business
career. His major credit to date is A-List
TV, which had a brief run on Pax. He's currently working as an
Associate Producer for US Media Television, a production company based in
Nevertheless, Golden went into Ivana Young Man, a cross between The Bachelorette and The Apprentice -- in place of a boardroom,
decisions are made in a bedroom -- with an open mind just in case he became
Dahl's choice. "I never dated an older woman but age is just a number and her
money was enticing," he said.
Golden competed against five other
candidates for Dahl's attention. They went through physical and mental
challenges as well as a personal interview and a private date. The extremely
self-confident Golden said his strategy was to be himself, "cool, quirky and
outgoing."
He can't reveal the outcome but says he is pleased: "I
couldn't be happier with the results."
This doesn't mean he won. After all,
he's back in
Tom Jicha can be reached at
tjicha@sun-sentinel.com.
Ivana Trump's Reality
Women Scared Away From Show by Jealous Exes
4/12/06
The producers of Ivana Trump's new reality
TV show were forced to scour
The former wife of Donald Trump will help
a "mature lady" hunt for a suitable toy boy on Ivana Young Man, but she admits
finding the right star of the show has been tougher than
expected.
She says, "My producers saw about 5,000
ladies. It was very difficult because some of the ladies, the ex-husband would
say, 'If you're going to go on any kind of variety show, I'm gonna take (the)
children away from you.' It was like power play."
The producers of the new show also spent
the best part of a year looking for the six guys who will compete for
Trump's favor and her guest's heart.
She adds, "We went through guys from all
walks of life - some of them are fun, some of them are really good guys, we have
a few jerks."
Manhunting with
Ivana
Apr. 15, 2006.
01:00 AM
JIM BAWDEN
In the crazy world
of "Unreality TV" nothing can possibly be quite as wacky as the special Ivana
Young Man. It plays like a desperate satire on all those terrible shows like The
Bachelor except everything here gets turned upside down. First, the host is
Ivana Trump. Women are usually offered as bait on these things with very little
to say. Ivana is offered up as a sage marital counsellor who intervenes in the
love affairs of forty-something wealthy divorcée Kathy Dahl.
Where Kathy comes from is never really
explained. Why she would want to flaunt her loneliness in front of the cameras
is passed by, although she's so wealthy she possibly could buy the TV production
company making this special.Where Ivana finds the six twentysomething "studs"
(the press report's description, not mine) is even more problematical. They all
look like vacuous
"She's a hot lil' mama" is one stud's
reaction to Kathy. Another frets that national TV viewers now know he still
lives with his parents.
One stunt has Ivana doling out $2,500
(
Tuesday at 9 p.m. on W
Network.
When it comes to men, Ivana Trump’s motto
is “I’d rather be a babysitter than a nurse.” In Oxygen’s new two-hour reality
special, Ivana Young Man, produced by Stone & Company, the famous socialite
and businesswoman uses her mantra and life experience to help a 40-year-old
millionairess bachelorette select a younger boyfriend of her very own. In Ivana
Young Man, premiering Saturday, April 29 at 8 PM ET, Ivana makes it her mission
to expose the gold-diggers and find the guy with the heart of gold.
The special follows Kathy, a millionaire
and divorced mother of two, who wants to date a young man but doesn’t know where
to start. Enter Ivana Trump. The former model, world-class skier, novelist and
famous ex-wife handpicks six 20-something suitors for Kathy and gives them
several challenges to prove if they have the sophistication and the sincerity to
win the millionairess’ heart. The challenges include testing the handsome but
socially inexperienced men at
Matchmaker Ivana even goes as far as
planting her own young boyfriend (AKA Paolo) among the group to get the scoop on
every word said in Kathy’s absence. The bachelorette’s future is in Ivana’s
bejeweled hands as she eliminates Kathy’s favorite suitor and outs one of the
cocky gents when she learns he still lives with his parents. Ultimately, the
unlucky contenders not up to Ivana’s standards are dismissed in The Bedroom with
her very own catchphrase that rivals the Donald’s.
“We love Ivana because she loves men, she
knows exactly what she wants and is not bashful about getting it,” says Debby
Beece, President, Oxygen Programming & Marketing. “Ivana Young Man puts the
women in control of their relationships … and they have a lot of fun doing it.”
Ivana Young Man encores on April 30 and
May 1 at 8 pm.
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'Ivana' may not fit with
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Donald
Trump may have the Midas touch when it comes to television.
The same cannot be said for his ex-wife
Ivana - not yet, anyhow. Last summer, the former and first Mrs.
Trump starred in a reality TV project of her own for Fox. But "Ivana Young Man,"
in which the Czech-born former model helped a fortysomething divorcée choose
from among a gaggle of young male suitors, has yet to see the light of prime
time. And it's unclear if it ever will.
Fox commissioned the project as a two-hour
special. It was shot early last fall in Producer Scott Stone ("The Mole," "The Joe
Schmo Show") said he has not received an official no from Fox, but he conceded
that it doesn't look promising. However, he said, he is happy with the way
the show turned out. "It's really, really funny," said Stone.
"If it doesn't air on Fox," he said, "I
will do everything in my power to see that it airs somewhere else.
"I am a champion of the fortysomething
women in this world who deserve to date younger men," he added.
The show has six men vying for the
attention of Kathy Dahl, a fortysomething divorced mom from Trump acts as her fairy godmother, guiding
Dahl through the romantic minefield. The men perform a series of challenges,
physical and intellectual. At the conclusion of each challenge, Dahl chooses one
of the suitors to spend quality time with alone. "Thousands and thousands of guys applied
to be on the show," Trump told the Daily News last fall. "Some of them were
crazy. Some of them were so much into themselves." Trump's thirtysomething boyfriend, Rossano
Rubicondi, an Italian dancer and model, was also involved in the show. He was
one of the six suitors whom Dahl was to choose among.
He was given the stage name Paulo and,
according to Stone, his true identity would be revealed to Dahl, but not to the
other contestants, enabling him to act as Dahl's informant.
"Ivana loves the show and she stands
behind it," said Stone, adding that he is talking with Trump about other
projects. "I think of my relationship with Ivana as one that is going to last a
long time. I've attached myself to the more lovable Trump."
Trump, meanwhile, is following in her
ex-husband's footsteps, having recently ventured into real estate with a
multimillion-dollar "There is tremendous interest from Ivana's public [about the show]," Trump's spokeswoman, Catherine Saxton, said yesterday. "And we want to make sure they get to see it."
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