My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance

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My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance is a one-shot television reality show on the Fox Network during the 2003-2004 season. The show consisted of six hour-long episodes.

1 Plot Summary
2 International
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot Summary

An elementary school teacher named Randi Coy is offered $250,000 for herself and $250,000 for the rest of her family if she takes part in a fake wedding engagement to a man named "Steve Williams". However she has 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 get complicated as the fake fiance who is part of the scam is 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 causes tension. The episodes after continue to follow Randi, Steve, and the Coys as they prepare for the wedding. To make matters more crazy, the Coys meet Steve's family.

On the wedding day, Steve and Randi arrive at the altar and announce that the whole wedding was a setup. At the same time it is revealed that Steve is 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 begins 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.

Reality Casting by Isabel Reyes

[edit] International

The German broadcaster Sat. 1 adopted the format and aired Mein großer, dicker, peinlicher Verlobter in late 2004. In France Mon incroyable fiancé was aired on TF1 in summer 2005.