Steve has a habit of making these girls’ lives (and dates) hell, and this week, hell was a soupy mess dropped in all their laps. To see how well they could handle a terrible situation and whether or not they can laugh at themselves, the challenges were all about having a sense a humor. So who had the last laugh? Let’s find out.
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Master Matchmaker Steve Ward is back for another season of Tough Love, and each week, he’ll be giving us an exclusive look at what went down behind the scenes on the series. This week, we talked to Steve about Tiffany’s abrupt departure from the show, and Elizabeth’s issues with sex.
This week you got rid of Tiffany because it turns out she was married. Tell me about what really went down with that situation.
I try to be the best advice-giver I can be and stay true to my character and be that loud and unapologetic personality that demands accountability, and that comes out very much so in this episode because I was completely flabbergasted by Tiffany. That this girl has the balls to refuse to get up on the hot seat, it’s like okay, now you’re really pushing my buttons. At least try to go out in a dignified fashion. She couldn’t even do that. [click to continue…]
Lots of shocking announcements this week. Tiffany was ousted, sure, but Elizabeth is opposed to masturbating! I mean. That’s a lot to absorb in one episode.
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Master Matchmaker Steve Ward is back for another season of Tough Love, and each week, he’ll be giving us an exclusive look at what went down behind the scenes on the series. This week, a rare treat: we talked to Steve and JoAnn to find out what they thought of the women’s behavior on their night out, and during the cotillion.
This week was the cotillion episode, so how did you think all the girls did?
JoAnn: I think it was good, the girls did everything they were supposed to, but they were thrown for a loop. They didn’t know what foods they would be served and it was interesting how they all dealt with that. I was at one end of the table and Steven was at the other, but I think the girls took away a lot of knowledge they never learned before. Like how to use their forks and where to put their napkins, I was blown away by how clueless they were about that stuff. I mean like, not to blow your nose in a napkin.
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Elizabeth is still struggling ever since last week because she has a lot of deep-rooted family issues that are getting in the way of her progress. And there’s nothing more soothing after a dose of “Break Down And Cry Love” than some motherly advice from JoAnn.
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Steve and JoAnn Ward are Master Matchmakers, it says so right there in the name of their business. And with years of relationship and matchmaking experience under their belts, not to mention four successful seasons of Tough Love, they’ve set the bar for realistic, no-B.S. dating advice. And now they’re offering their advice to viewers on the VH1 Blog. We asked Tough Love Facebook fans this week to submit their relationship questions and you all really had a lot of them, so we picked some of our favorites for Steve and JoAnn to address, and we’ll be posting their answers every week. If you’d like to submit a question, just become a Facebook fan and leave a comment here! Here are this week’s questions.
Natasha Blas asks “What’s the best way to go about finding someone special when you have kids?
JoAnn Says:
Go to places and events that you know parents take their children. Some examples would include: amusement parks, single parent support groups, sporting events, school functions, ice cream parlors, parks, etc. Just also be sure to check for a wedding band!
Tresina Moore Hansen asks “I have a 10-year-old son who has seen two men in my life come and go and it has been so hard on him. How is a single mom supposed to balance the time necessary to get to know a potential partner with protecting her son’s heart?”
Steve says: Don’t introduce your son until you’re ready to be in a committed relationship with a man. Once you’re in the committed relationship with him, you guys can spend all your time together, as a family.
This morning, Steve and JoAnn Ward stopped by the Big Morning Buzz Live studio where they talked about all the various ways they’ve dished out their Tough Love recently. (Most notably, when they used a zapper in last week’s episode to condition the girls to stop behaving badly by shocking them.) Also interesting to note, Steve think this New Orleans cast is the hardest batch of women that they’ve ever worked with.
But things got even more interesting when the Wards tried to help BMBL correspondents Jason Dundas and Janell Showden create successful online dating profiles. It didn’t go so well. Steve even calls Janell’s profile (jokingly…we hope) the worst he’s ever seen in his life. Check out the clip and tune in to Tough Love on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Jimmy Fallon doesn’t necessarily have a reputation for asking the really tough, journalistic questions on Late Night, but he certainly made Steve Ward sweat during last night’s show. (Literally.) Jimmy poked around to find out about Steve’s love life, a topic that anyone who watches Tough Love has wondered about, and Steve and his mom JoAnn admitted that there’s a “special girl” in his life that he’s been seeing. For five years! Unfortunately, when Jimmy asked Steve to propose to her on-air, the room got a little stuffy for Steve. Not so easy being in the hot seat now, is it, Steve?
Tough Love: New Orleans, Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT right here on VH1.
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Master Matchmaker Steve Ward is back for another season of Tough Love, and each week, he’ll be giving us an exclusive look at what went down behind the scenes on the series. This week, we talked to Steve about Tiffany‘s surprising progress, and the return of the zapper.
You guys have done a game show every season, so how did you think “Turned Off” stacked up to past seasons’ game shows?
All the other seasons of game shows were also done in front of a studio audience, and for this one, the audience was really the guys on stage, and then the girls became the audience. I think “Turned Off” was very insightful for the women.
Were any of the women truly shocked by how they came across to the men?
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Despina admits that she’s always wanted to be on a game show, and this week on Tough Love New Orleans, her dream comes true. Steve has arranged for all the women to be contestants on Turned Off, a game show that’s sweeping the nation, where women admit something about themselves and a panel of men tell them whether it’s a turn-on or a turn-off. Okay maybe this game isn’t quite sweeping the nation just yet. The men respond to what the women say by hitting a red light or a green light (green for turned on, red for turned off), so the women can see just how good or bad their conversation skills are.
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