Season 1 of “Joe Millionaire[: For Richer or Poorer]” has officially wrapped. Tell us about your experience on the show, and how you have felt watching it back.
Steven: Yeah, it’s a little nostalgic watching it back because it seems like it was yesterday and we’re staring down, what? Five months now?
Calah: Yeah.
Steven: It’s been five or six months. It’s been a while, but watching everything back, it’s so crazy to see that moment that we were in, that journey that we all took together and it’s really something that you can’t describe unless you’ve been in that scenario. It was wild.
Was the final TV cut the same as you remembered it happening?
Steven: For the most part, I don’t think there was any inaccurate portrayals. There was definitely some misconceptions [regarding] the way that it was edited to try and mislead the viewer for suspense, but as far as portrayals of people and how everyone was on the show, I think everything was pretty accurate.
Calah: I agree with that. They did leave out, to build suspense for the finale, a lot of our conversations and the connections that we had early on. Other than that, everything was pretty spot on.
Steven: For sure. Cal and I hit it off really early on and there was a lot of conversations that didn’t make the edit just because for suspense. Other than that, everything was good.
Were there any specific moments or conversations or anything that you wish had made the cut?
Steven: There was a few, I think one of them probably saved Kurt [Sowers] and I. After our movie premiere night meltdown, we wrote a song for the women and we played it for them at the campfire. It was called “Broken in the Bathroom.”
Calah: Oh, my goodness.
Steven: Kurt and I are horrible singers. I think Sally Ann and everyone over at 495 Productions tried to help us out a little bit and not embarrass us in front of America, so they didn’t put us singing there.
Calah: I promise you it’s definitely better that it did not make the cut. The lyrics alone were hilarious, and then trying to sing it and play it for us — it was funny.
