Randi Coy

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Randi Coy was a 23-year-old elementary school teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, when she participated in the 2004 reality tv show My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance.

For the show, Randi was offered $250,000 for herself and $250,000 for the rest of her family if she took part in a fake wedding engagement to a man named "Steve Williams". However she had to convince her family of the engagement and have a wedding arranged in 12 days time with all her family members attending in order to win the money.

By the first episode, things got complicated as the fake fiance who is part of the scam was revealed to be the very annoying and unattractive man who fits the show's title. The revelation of the engagement to Randi's family intentionally caused tension. The episodes after continued to follow Randi, Steve, and the Coys as they prepared for the wedding. To make matters more crazy, the Coys met Steve's family.

On the wedding day, Steve and Randi arrived at the altar and announce that the whole wedding was a setup. At the same time it was revealed that Steve was in fact actor Steven W. Bailey, and his "family" were also all professional actors - something that even Randi did not know. When Steve reveals that "it's fake" and that he's an actor, Randi began crying.

Because nobody caught on to the entire scheme, and because Randi was unaware that Steve was part of the scam, she and her family were presented with double the amount of money that Randi expected - $500,000 for herself and $100,000 each for her father, mother and three siblings.

The end credits of the final episode revealed that Randi's family had forgiven her for putting them through the ordeal. [1]

In the wake of the airing of the show, Randi resigned from her job as a first grade teacher at Pope John XXIII Catholic Community School in Phoenix. (She had in fact only taught at the school for two months before taking unpaid administrative leave to film the show.) [2]