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"Joe Millionaire" Can't Spare Buck
Joe Millionaire is broke.
No really. Not only does the hard-up star of Fox's reality bait-and-switch series not have a million bucks, he doesn't even have the pocket change to pay a toll-booth fee.
The California Highway Patrol caught blue collar "Joe," Evan Marriott, blowing through a toll booth in Orange County last September.
The 28-year-old construction worker may have been driving a 2001 Ford truck but apparently he didn't have the couple of dollars needed to drive on the toll road. Depending on where Marriott was coming from the toll is estimated at somewhere between 50 cents and $2.50.
A copy of the traffic ticket issued by the CHP for "toll evasion" on State Road 73, near Irvine, California, is online at The Smoking Gun Website.
Marriott, who's listed on the ticket as living in Capistrano Beach, later pled guilty and had to dip into his piggy bank to pay the $104 fine issued in connection with the infraction.
News of Joe's dire cash straits couldn't come at a better time for Fox (where one imagines executives encouraging the strapping star to reveal further displays of poverty). The perverse Bachelor-esque series that asks "What's more important, love or money ?" premieres Monday on Fox.
In case you've missed the incessant Machiavellian TV promos running on the network, here's the premise: Twenty single women travel to a stunning chateau in France where they're wined, dined and dazzled by a young millionaire looking to share his $50 million inheritance with a lucky missus. Cue the inevitable cleavage-ripe outfits and cat fights.
But this fairy tale has one twisted ending. Once Joe the millionaire whittles the bevy of beauties down to his one true love he must reveal that he is in fact Joe the humble construction worker of limited means and hope that the duped lady sticks around regardless.
"It's the gold diggers and the ditch digger," quipped one Fox insider to Daily Variety last month.
Given that the devious nature of the series would be almost impossible to duplicate Fox Entertainment president Gail Berman has told Variety that this was "a one-time-only thing."
Meanwhile, Marriott, who treats the women to romantic horseback rides through the French countryside, private dinners at the Eiffel Tower and expensive gifts, manages to maintain the millionaire façade with his rugged good looks. And that's where the story starts to unravel.
The humble laborer who supposedly earns $19,000 a year is apparently more suave than Fox has revealed. According to the Virginian-Pilot, what the network failed to mention is that the Virginia Beach-born pretty boy was also a part-time model, jetting to photo shoots between New York and Paris. Marriott reportedly moved to Los Angeles in 1999 to pursue his modeling career more seriously.
Attempts to reach the show's publicist were unsuccessful.
Regardless, the seven-episode special from the brain trust that brought viewers Temptation Island, airs Monday night.
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