Ivana Young Man
Love Trumps All in Oxygen's New Reality Special "Ivana Young Man"
Ivana Trump Selects Younger Boyfriend for 40-year old Millionaire Bachelorette Saturday, April 29 at 8PM*
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*, 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 New York's most elegant restaurant and providing $2500 to the finalists to buy Kathy an appropriate gift.
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).
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By Reality TV World staff, 09/07/2004
Add the Trumps to the growing list of America's multi-reality show families.
Following in the footsteps of families like the Hiltons and the Hilfigers, Fox has announced that it has signed a deal with Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of Apprentice star Donald Trump, to star in a reality dating special tentatively titled Ivana Young Man.
Adding a new twist to the May-December romance theme, the two-hour Ivana Young Man special will give a successful but lonely 40-something woman the opportunity to find a 20-something man who can complete her lavish lifestyle.
"For years, rich older men have traded in their wives for pretty young women with bigger 'attributes,'" Mike Darnell, Fox's own "vertically-challenged" reality programming vice president, explained in making the announcement. "Thanks to women like Ivana Trump, Demi Moore and Cher, the social norms are changing, and mature women are finding that true love can happen with younger men."
Ivana, who coined the famous phrase "don't get mad, get everything" during her divorce court battle with The Donald, will hand-pick eight eligible 20-something bachelors who will vie for the affection of a more mature, well-to-do lady. Some will be young gigolos seeking the easy life, while others will be young men who have spent their time climbing the corporate ladder.
Serving as a "teacher, expert and guide," Ivana will assist in weeding out the competition until only two are invited behind the velvet ropes of the jet-set search for romance, with the final choice being made by the lovelorn socialite. Casting for the series is currently underway.
A native of Czechoslovakia, Ivana earned a master's degree in physical education and languages at Charles University in Prague, then immigrated to Montreal, Canada, where she began modeling. After a chance meeting with Donald Trump in New York, Ivana and Donald began dating and were married a year later in 1977. Rumors of marriage trouble hit the front pages of publications nationwide, and the Trumps eventually separated in 1990, with their marriage ending in divorce in 1992. The couple has three children.
Ivana Young Man is executive-produced by Scott A. Stone, Sharon Levy and Anthony Ross with Jonas Larsen serving as co-executive producer. Ivana Young Man is the first show to be produced under Stone's still yet-to-be-named production company. Together with co-founder David Stanley, the duo's Stone Stanley Entertainment produced reality shows such as The Mole, The Joe Schmo Show,Popstars, and Fame until Stanley left the company this summer.
With mother Kathy and father Rick also joining daughter Paris in receiving reality series of their own, the Hiltons still hold the current record for most reality series in a family, however with 22-year-old daughter/model Ivanka Trump walking the catwalks, we suspect that it will only be a matter of time before the blusterous Donald also seeks to claim this prize as well.
Hopefully Fox will have better luck with this reality special than they did with their last one, theSeriously, Dude, I'm Gay reality special that was cancelled after outraged gay groups protested at the program's premise.
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 Parkland.
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 United States Media Television, a production company based in Coral Springs. The plan, he said, is to get back in front of the camera as host of an entertainment program.
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 Florida working for a living.
Tom Jicha can be reached at tjicha@sun-sentinel.com
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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 Parkland.
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 United States Media Television, a production company based in Coral Springs. The plan, he said, is to get back in front of the camera as host of an entertainment program.
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 Florida working for a living.
Tom Jicha can be reached at tjicha@sun-sentinel.com
http://twitter.com/tvtomj
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 New York’s most elegant restaurant and providing $2500 to the finalists to buy Kathy an appropriate gift.
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.
Manhunting with Ivana
Apr. 15, 2006.
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 New York models, and they positively salivate at the mere mention of Kathy's riches. The program notes talk about a "new twist to the May-December romance theme" - but when did 40 become December?
"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 (U.S.) and seeing what the three remaining candidates will do with the money in the way of a gift for Kathy. One guy gets her roses and a $250 shirt for himself, which shows his "gigolo" light is already flashing. Ivana's instructions are more basic. "Get some balls!" she orders one man. And far from making up her own mind (assuming she has one), Kathy defers to Ivana. Is that because Ivana is footing the bills, or what? It is Ivana who keeps lining up the studs to mutter, "You are not desired!" Excuse me, but desired by whom? Kathy hasn't said a thing and is as surprised as the rest of us by Ivana's choices. "This is silly!" snaps the usually composed Kathy after Ivana eliminates the clear favourite. Silly? How about sordid? And at the dragged out ending my thoughts can be summed up in this heartfelt plea: "Ivana get outta my life."
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 America for the right older womanseeking a younger lover, because many ex-husbands objected to the concept of the series.
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."
'Ivana' may not fit with Fox's reality
By MARISA GUTHRIE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER http://twitter.com/MarisaGuthrie
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 forty something 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 Manhattan. But the network has no plans to air it, according to a Fox spokeswoman. 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 forty something 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 Minnesota. 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 Las Vegas high-rise, complete with a $35 million, 20,000-square-foot penthouse. Work on the 82-story tower begins next year and is scheduled to be completed by 2008. "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."
Fox says 'you're hired' to Ivana Trump
NEW YORK (AP) — Another famous Trump is getting a reality TV show. This time, it's Ivana's turn.
The ex-model, ex-CEO and ex-wife of real estate mogul Donald Trump will host a two-hour dating reality special — the working title is Ivana Young Man— this fall on Fox. Trump will select eight twentysomething bachelors who will compete for the affection of a successful but lonely fortysomething woman.
"For years, rich older men have traded in their wives for pretty young women with bigger 'attributes,'" Mike Darnell, executive vice president of specials and alternative programming for Fox, said in a statement Thursday.
"Thanks to women like Ivana Trump, Demi Moore and Cher, the social norms are changing, and mature women are finding that true love can happen with younger men."
The Trumps' tabloid-frenzy relationship goes something like this: Donald divorced Ivana in 1992, after 12 years of marriage. Following the much-publicized split, Ivana received a hefty sum from the divorce and coined the phrase, "Don't get mad, get everything."
On the show, fiftysomething Ivana will serve as a teacher, expert and guide to the "mature" bachelorette, who will narrow the field of eight down to two and eventually to one. According to Fox, the final choice will be made not by Ivana but by the lovelorn socialite.
Casting for Ivana Young Man has already begun.
Donald Trump's The Apprentice returns for its second season on Sept. 9. He coined the phrase, "You're fired," on the hit NBC reality show.
Ivana Young Man finally airs this weekend
by Andy Dehnart / April 28, 2006, 9:53 AM
Ivana Trump’s reality special finally airs on Oxygen this weekend, debuting Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. On the show, Ivana helps a middle-aged woman select from “six hunks”
The show was originally commissioned by FOX, which later decided not to air it last August. But Oxygen picked up the two-hour special.
Ivana makes decisions in a bedroom, and there’s a cash prize for the winner, instead of just a failed relationship. That makes the show a “a cross between The Bachelorette and The Apprentice,” and includes “physical and mental challenges as well as a personal interview and a private date,” according to The Sun-Sentine’s Tom Jicha.