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Still, the nHolly woman Ryan Sutter as the winner, former reality stars make and the couple were mar- sure to take time to nur- auditioned ried on Dec. 6, 2003. ture their relationship. for ‘The Bachelor’ As of 2016, the Sutters Source: people.com Photo: www.gazettereview.com By Hannah Ball On dating shows, a man or woman usually meets a dozen or so suitors and rejects con - testants one by one until there’s one left. It’s televised, it’ s dramatic, and it receives high ratings. People speculate about the authenticity of shows like “The Bachelor,” “Married at First Sight” and more, but some of these productions actually help people find love. E News tabulated which dating shows are the most successful. The criteria included having at least three seasons, a mission statement about finding true love, and it couldn’t be a one-season series like “I Love New York.” The most successful dating show is “The Bachelor- ette.” With seven out of 14 couples still dating, engaged or married, “The Bachelorette” has a 50 percent suc - cess rate. Current star Becca Kufrin is engaged to her winner. “The Bachelor” has a 14 percent success rate with three out of 21 couples still together. Nichelle Curtis of Holly auditioned in Royal Oak in July 2015 to be on “The Bachelor .” She filled out numerous forms, waited in line for a while, and then had a two-minute interview. “It was so fake feeling. Definitely no one actually look- ing for love. Everyone wanted to be ‘that person,’ for the show, either the funny one or the crazy one or the super buff one,” she said. “Those shows are just such money (Top) Ryan Sutter proposes to Trista Rehn during the inaugural season of “The Bachelorette” in early 2003. (Bot- grabs on a truly beautiful concept and emotion — love.” tom) Ryan and Trista Sutter have been happily married since December 2003 and live with their two children in See DATING SHOWS on 2B Vail, Colorado. Expires: September 30, 2018 TCT 2B Sunday, September 2, 2018 LOCAL LIVING tctimes.com Just sayin’... [email protected] time at the Rowena Theater where they Remembering saw mostly westerns and serials that kept them coming back week after week. Par- Mr. Ivar Strom ents didn’t worry about ratings and what their kids saw on the screen because the Driving around the city of Fenton shows were censored. today, it’s hard to imagine what life was “The first swear word we heard on the like in the early 1900s. I had the good screen came from Rhett Butler in ‘Gone fortune in mid-1995 to interview a man With the Wind,’” he said. That would named Ivar Strom, who shared his won- be when Rhett said to Scarlett O’Hara, derful stories of days gone by. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Until his death a few years after we Strom also recalled the first time he met, Strom lived in a big white house was spanked in school, which at the on the east side time was allowed. of Adelaide “I was gonna fix that teacher,” he Street, between said. “He wasn’t going to hit me like Rockwell and that. So I went home and told my fa- Nichelle Curtis, 25, waits in line at a Royal Oak bar July 2015 to audition for “The High Street. He ther, who to my dismay, gave it to me Bachelor,” the popular reality TV dating show. Photo: Times file photo told me he came worse than the teacher. I never told on to Fenton in that teacher again.” ning money, might not have a high re- 1918 at the age DATING SHOWS Strom told me that many children Continued from Page 1B lationship success rate for that reason. of 5 and vividly walked into town from the rural areas to She won’t watch “The Bachelor” or On “Married at First Sight” on A&E, recalled a child- attend school. “Kids from as far away “The Bachelorette,” but she does enjoy three couples, paired by relationship hood filled with VERA HOGAN as Linden and Argentine would come shows like “Rock of Love” or “Flavor experts, get married the same day they many joys that in on the train and stayed for five days of Love,” which she calls “parodies of meet. They go on a honeymoon and then small town living during the week,” he said. “They lived themselves.” return home to live together as a mar - provides. with friends and relatives or in rooming “I wa nt to b e entertained, not ried couple for eight weeks. After that, “Recreation was what we made for houses. They would go back home on the feel secondhand embarrassment for they choose whether to get a divorce or ourselves,” he said more than 23 years weekends to work on the farm. There was people,” she said. stay married. ago. “Kids in those days had nothing. a high drop-out rate in those days. Kids On “The Bachelorette” and “The With a 22-percent success rate and But between our many chores, school- left school after the eighth or ninth grade Bachelor,” one single person meets a four out of 18 couples still together , work, fishing, swimming, ball games, to work on farms full time.” group of potential wives or husbands “Married at First Sight” isn’ t the best reading books and other games we The last thought Strom shared with and eventually dating show to go on to find love. made up for ourselves, we didn’t have me during that interview was, “The chooses one enough hours in the day we were so whole attitude of people has changed to have a rela - Those busy. And we had nothing.” over the years. In those days, a man’s tionship with. SOCIAL MEDIA Strom talked about winters when all shows are word was his bond. You shook hands While the first ‘‘ DATING SERVICES the kids would climb to the top of the hill and it was a deal. If he broke his word, is the most suc- just such at Adelaide or LeRoy Street and fly down AND SHOWS it spread all over town that he couldn’t cessful, and money grabs the road on their toboggans without a Snapchat Discover current- be trusted.” the second has worry about their safety. Winter fun also on a truly Really? If only it was still that a 14 percent ly hosts a dating show called included hours spent on skating on the simple! success rate, beautiful Phone Swap, where potential millpond and ice fishing, he said. Opinions offered in Just Sayin’ are the author’s alone and do not neces- sarily reflect the opinion of the Tri-County Times or its staff. Email Vera at contestants on concept and love interests decide whether Strom said the townsfolk spent a lot of [email protected]. the show often emotion — to date each other based on bend the rules. what they find on their phone. In a dramat- love. The show will soon select Fox Nichelle Curtis ic finale, Brad stations. Womack se - Holly resident, auditioned’’ for Facebook is currently lected neither “The Bachelor” of his two final developing a dating app, and women in the is testing it on employees now. first season. Jason Mesnick broke off With the app, users will be able his engagement to his winner in the to create a separate profile for “After the Final Rose” special, and dating. When two users like then proposed to the first runner-up. each other’s profiles, you can They are now married. Arie Luyen- contact them. dyk Jr. did the same as Mesnick. Despite a 2.9 rating on IMDb, “The Bachelor” regularly has mil - lions of viewers, according to variety. com. However, the women on “The Bachelorette” have a better chance of finding love than their bachelor counterparts. “Bachelor in Paradise,” a spin-off show, has a 25 percent success rate, OTHER, MORE QUESTIONABLE, with three out of 12 couples still to- DATING SHOWS gether, and “Married at First Sight” has a 22 percent success rate.