Patti Stanger questioned the overwhelming response to Jill Zarin‘s most recent appearance on Bravo’s Under deck.
“I knew about it. I think they’ve gone crazy. I saw her rider,” Stanger, 62, said exclusively Us weekly about Zarin’s preference list while promoting her new CW series, Patti Stanger: The matchmaker. “All she wants is Diet Coke. She is my best friend. My whole fridge is filled with Diet Coke for her.”
Stanger pointed out that Zarin “doesn’t like fancy things,” adding, “She likes frozen yogurt and a Diet Coke.” She could live on that for the rest of her life. So I don’t really understand what happened there.”
According to Stanger, the 60-year-old Zarin didn’t think the backlash to her episode was “fair.” Zarin debuted on Under deck earlier this month when she was a guest on a two-day charter. However, their demands quickly became too much for the crew.
“Jill is the first on her mind. She is overwhelming,” stew Barbie Pascual he said in a confessional before apologizing on social media after the episode aired. “I think she’s annoying and I think it’s too much. You are a copycat who is extremely demanding. That is too much for me. I need another stew just for Jill.”
After the episode aired, fans took to social media to share highlights from Zarin’s preference list. There was a page specifically dedicated to Zarin’s request for Diet Coke rather than Diet Pepsi.
“If you can’t get it in advance, let me know, I will bring it from the USA! “I drink at least 10 cans of Diet Coke a day,” she wrote, before mentioning it again in the spirits section. “Jill doesn’t drink anything but Diet Coke on the rocks.”
Before Zarin’s appearance on Under deck broadcast, chief administrator Fraser Olender said there were no hard feelings, recounting Us in February: “She’s cute. She is very lovable and very funny – but demanding. [But] All guests are demanding. They are charter guests and they have their preferences, and sometimes they can be frustrating.”
Zarin, meanwhile, blamed Olender for certain problems that arose during the charter.
“I went in with the mindset that I wanted to put on a good show. I was me, I was literally me. I was me as I am in my real life,” she explained on the Tuesday, April 9, episode of the “Juicy Scoop” podcast. “If I like my Diet Coke, I want another one. If I don’t like it, I’ll send it back. If I don’t like my food, I send it back. Most people do.”
Zarin continued, “When I think about the trip, it was the chef’s job to make sure everything went smoothly, and I kind of blame him for the trip being a total disaster.”…I have this Made the show because my friends wanted to go on TV – I don’t blame them. I didn’t mind doing it with them because as long as I’m myself, I’m good.”
When Stanger isn’t busy with Bravo, the businesswoman hosts a brand new show on The CW called The Matchmaker. Stanger, who has also worked with Eye of Love, said the project was a response to fans asking her how dating has evolved since the COVID pandemic.
“It’s a very different departure from Millionaire matchmaker. There are elements of Millionaire matchmakerand I’m so grateful to Bravo for that and you can stream it on Netflix now,” she said Us about their past show. “But it was more like, after the pandemic, everyone called me and said, ‘What the hell is going on?’ Why am I still single?’ We learned about the trauma of our ancestors, we learned about attachment styles, we learned about narcissism.”
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Stanger praised The CW for giving her “free rein,” adding, “[They allowed us to] Create a show that breaks all your love patterns. It’s really exciting. Television is breaking new ground. We have Love is blind and we have The bachelor. And even though my co-host is Nick Viall out of The bachelorthere were no shows to teach us anything [this]. It’s like a social experiment. What about the people at home who don’t leave the house and don’t see anyone?”
She continued: “Technology is changing, but not biology, and we are increasingly losing connection to one another. We live in a fantasy world. It will be an AI world. We are in a matrix.”
Patti Stanger: The matchmaker Premieres on The CW on Thursday, April 11 at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi