Out of all the forgotten VH1 dating shows from the 2000s, “Megan Wants A Millionaire” definitely had the darkest conclusion. The show, which featured a former “Rock of Love” contestant looking for romance, was taken off the air after the news broke that one of the contestants had murdered his wife and killed himself.
Real estate developer Ryan Jenkins was also a contestant on VH1’s “I Love Money 3” and both shows had wrapped by the time he killed model Jasmine Fiore. Megan Hauserman, the eligible bachelorette on “Megan Wants A Millionaire” had actually wanted to pick Jenkins initially but producers told her he came across as very different and far less charming in his solo interviews. “I figured that I would just call him and explain to him that, you know, it’s a TV show,” she later told Entertainment Weekly. “… And then I would just meet up with him afterwards.” After he was kicked off the show, however, Jenkins had met Fiore in Vegas and talked her into a spontaneous wedding. Their whirlwind romance quickly soured, thanks to his jealousy, and the model’s body was found in a gory scene five months later.
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Critics blamed VH1 for not catching that Jenkins had a criminal record already: as TMZ reported, he had already assaulted a girlfriend in Canada. And the fallout led to a decline in the popularity of the network’s dating shows, although they continued to produce countless reality TV programs.
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