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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“A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. The forty hearts of those waving couples were beating as they had not done since, twelve months before, they had come together in similar jollity. For the time Paganism was revived in their hearts, the pride of life was all in all, and they adored none other than themselves.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)