Same Sex Couples
In the 2009–10 season, The Newlywed Game allowed same-sex married couples to appear on the show. The first such couple was Star Trek actor George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, playing in a special Celebrity Edition of the game against The Biggest Loser couple Damien Gurganius & Nicole Brewer, and My Fair Brady stars Christopher Knight & Adrienne Curry. This episode was the second to air for the new season on October 13, 2009, and had Takei & Altman winning the game and $10,000 for their charity, the Japanese American National Museum. The following 2010–11 season, episode air date June 17, 2010, marked the second appearance by a same-sex couple; Cameron and Garrett Jackson were the first non-celebrity same sex couple to appear on the 44 year-old game show, winning the game's honeymoon grand prize.
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“Could that old god rise up again
We’d drink a can or two,
And out and lay our leadership
On country and on town,
Throw likely couples into bed
And knock the others down.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)