Cupid is shooting her arrow once again for season four of The Millionaire Matchmaker. Patti Stanger moves her Millionaires Club to New York for new adventures in the Big Apple.
Windy City Times: Hi, Patti.
Patti Stanger: Hi. How are you?
WCT: Good. Jenny McCarthy wanted me to tell you hi. I talked to her last night.
Patti Stanger: Oh my BFF. I was in chapter 17 for her book Love, Lust & Faking It. Did you read it yet?
WCT: I did.
Patti Stanger: It's the best freaking book. I was in the chapter about threesomes and it's hysterical. It was funny, right?
WCT: Yes, very funny.
Patti Stanger: You didn't hear this but at the end of the lunch she says to me, "Would you have a threesome?" And I said, "Not in this body; talk to me later." I lost 25 pounds on Sensa, my diet, and now the running joke is I'm in threesome shape.
WCT: Great. Congratulations on that.
Patti Stanger: It's like the joke because when you're in the room with another girl and you're doing it with a guy you better be bringing it, because there's no way to get away from that.
WCT: Too true. I wanted to know if there are any gay match-ups on this season?
Patti Stanger: Yes; actually, there are two. And one of them is the worst. I mean there's a moment I have where the guy who's gay is Dr. Cookie—Dr. Siegel's Cookie Diet's son who runs the company. He is a homophobe and he's gay. I don't know if you can believe that but you've got to watch the episode. And I take him down. I take him down GLAAD style; let's put it this way.
WCT: Good for you.
Patti Stanger: He mocks his date, who I happen to think is adorable. I just go crazy on him. I mean, I was so angry. I'm against Proposition 8. I'm for gay marriage. I'm probably wearing my bracelet on Wendy Williams on Monday next week. I'm just so angry at the back and forth, the passive aggressiveness and the government should not be involved in the process.
I actually registered myself as a reverend, a non-denominational Order of Unity Church about 20 years ago, and I'm thinking about paying my dues again so I can marry people off.
WCT: Oh, that would awesome.
Patti Stanger: Yeah, I am really against it.
WCT: Did you do the Adam Bouska shoot?
Patti Stanger: Yes, I did the NOH8 photo. We did it on season three.
WCT: I must have missed that episode. I did it yesterday.
Patti Stanger: Go back in the archives and look at it. It should be on bravotv.com .
WCT: You have had some big changes in your life since last season. Is that reflected on the show?
Patti Stanger: It's not. Because the changes didn't happen when the season was—you know I was still dating Andy at the time. If you're talking about my break-up...
WCT: Yeah.
Patti Stanger: ...it won't be reflected. The only thing that'll be reflected which is really weird is my best friend is pretty much the top astrologer in the world, Terry Nazon at terrynazon.com, and she's a life-and-style astrologer. She predicted last season I'd break up. At the end of this season she predicted I break up, which I was, like, poo-pooing her and it was during the dinner that I have for Judith Reagan that you'll see on the show.
WCT: This happened during a dinner?
Patti Stanger: I'm writing a cookbook called Man Catch Your Meals. And I made this big dinner with Jill Zarin and Slate from the Housewives of Orange County and Judith Reagan.
She makes this announcement that I'm going to break up. I was not broken up then, so she saw it coming.
WCT: Do you think being in a relationship has anything to do with being a successful matchmaker?
Patti Stanger: Well, I think it sucks being in the public eye, as I saw [ recently ] with Courtney Cox and Christina Aguilera. Venus is in retrograde so lot of people are going to be breaking up for the next two months. You know, you're in a fishbowl, although I'm not A-list; I don't walk the red carpet every week. I'm more of a homebody. And it's really hard to date in my own little turf because I don't date my clients because that could become a sexual-harassment lawsuit. Okay, at the same time I can't go on match.com like I used to in the old days and find a nice guy. So I'm in a quandary.
I need help right now to be fixed up, too. So it is pretty rough right now even though I'm dating sporadically; a lot of ex-boyfriends are coming back. You know, I start to look better to them because I'm a famous person. But I'm still trying to find the right guy to be honest with you. And it's harder I think more when a woman has money than when she has fame.
WCT: How is dating different when you have kids?
Patti Stanger: Well dating differently with kids there's always the one rule. You don't bring them home to your children unless you're in an exclusive monogamous relationship. And that should be a good three to five months. Because if you start putting in the new guy every five months—every five months, the kids start to think that mommy has a revolving door and that she has no stability. And those children will grow up doing the same thing, so what you set is precedent.
WCT: That makes sense.
Patti Stanger: Why did you decide to move the show to New York?
WCT: I had been begging for three years to do other cities. We're probably going to do Miami next. I said you can't typecast the L.A. millionaire as the same type in the rest of the country because every city has a different type of millionaire. You have to remember there are five women to every one guy in New York. It's completely different than any other city in the United States. So we needed to show the millionairess in a light that was true to her form because nobody was getting that concept in L.A. It worked better, way better, in New York.
WCT: Well, come to Chicago with your show. We'd love to have you here.
Patti Stanger: Oh, tell that to Bravo. My favorite city, Oprah Land. When we did Oprah she put me up in this beautiful hotel. I said the streets are so wide apart compared to New York and they're so clean. Like your city is so clean compared to New York. So I would love to do that preferably in the summer though. Could we come in the summer?
WCT: Sure. See you in the summer.
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