It’s based on the 2003 reality dating show"Joe Millionaire.
The twist in the 2022 version is that one of the two men is a genuine millionaire.
However, the women aren’t told if the millionaire is McBee or Sowers.
“Kurt Sowers and Steven McBeeonly considered it after a casting agency approached them through Instagram.
They’d never pictured themselves on a reality TV show.
I don’t watch reality TV.
Kurt doesn’t even have a TV in his bedroom.
We’re not yourtypical reality TV show guys.
This is not something I ever dreamed of.”
Because of that, both men went on to the show without any idea what to expect from it.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into."
“They purposely didn’t tell us a lot about what we were getting ourselves into.
McBee was worried it would be a small project.
But, it didn’t take long to see that wasn’t the case.
There are cameras mounted to your bedroom walls.”
Sowers described the early parts of the show when there were 18 women competing.
“We see them for short spurts at a time; the conversations are limited.
Most of the time, their conversations are [interrupted] by other people and/or producers.”
However, as time went on, they all got more used to having the cameras and crew around.
Both men run companies, and stepping away from work to film the show was quite challenging.
We’d be shooting.
We were running off next to no sleep almost the entire time."
McBee remembered trying to catch some sleep in any spare moments they had.
And we’re like, ‘All right!’
I’d go jump in bed in a tuxedo and nap."
It was pretty crazy to watch that happen," McBee said.
New episodes of “Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer” air Thursdays on FOX at 8/7c.
Episodes are available on FOX NOW the following day.
