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Carnie Wilson Gets Unstapled for GSN

Carnie Wilson, who hosts GSN's The Newlywed Game, will headline her own reality series on the network, Carnie Wilson: Unstapled, GSN said.

The show is a departure from the network's usual fare of game shows, but GSN saw fit to expand its brand due to ...
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Carnie Wilson Gets Unstapled for GSN

Carnie Wilson, who hosts GSN's The Newlywed Game, will headline her own reality series on the network, Carnie Wilson: Unstapled, GSN said.

The show is a departure from the network's usual fare of game shows, but GSN saw fit to expand its brand due to ...
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Newlywed Game to Feature First Gay Couple: Star Trek's George Takei and Husband

Star Trek alum George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, will make television history as the first gay couple to compete on The Newlywed Game, GSN announced.

"What we want is to display the normality and the joy of having a happy union," Takei said, who married Altman last September. "To be included ...
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Carnie Wilson to Host Newlywed Game

The Newlywed Game has found itself a new emcee: Carnie Wilson will follow in Bob Eubanks' shoes as host of the revamped game show, which tests newlyweds' knowledge of one another, The Associated Press reports.

"I've always loved game shows," Wilson says. "My personality and ...
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Newlywed Game Gets Resurrected

Here come the Newlyweds!

GSN is moving forward with its revival of The Newlywed Game, ordering 40 half-hour episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

But don't expect Bob Eubanks and all his whoopee-esque questions to take center stage. "Marriage has changed over the years — what couples talk about, what they fight about," said executive producer Michael Davies (Who Wants to be a Millionaire). "So there will be a lot of updating just by the fact of our casting. In doing presentations, it's become clear to us that wives today are far more vocal than in the previous episodes. There's just a lot of guys looking concerned that they're about to get in trouble — and usually they do. It's thoroughly entertaining."

In a new twist, Davies added that he is casting for "goldyweds" ... read more

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Premise: Married couples compete for prizes by predicting the answers their spouses will give, often to fairly inane romantic questions that allow for plenty of double entendres and smirky follow-ups by host Bob Eubanks. What this long-running Chuck Barris-created game show trades in is contestant embarrassment (never, heaven forbid, good taste), and it's had numerous incarnations in daytime and prime-time, not to mention countless imitators.

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