Ivana Young Man

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Ivana Young Man.jpg | image_upright = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | alt_name = | genre =  | creator = | based_on =  | developer = | writer = | screenplay = | story = | director = | creative_director = | presenter = Ivana Trump | starring = {{plainlist| * Ivana Trump * Jeff Lindell * Evan Scott Golden }} | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons =  | num_episodes =  | list_episodes = | executive_producer = {{plainlist| * Anthony Ross * Scott Stone * Sharon Levi }} | producer = | news_editor =  | location =  | cinematography = | editor =  | camera =  | runtime = 120 minutes<ref name=All/> | company =  | budget = | network = Oxygen | released =  | first_aired = {{start date|2006|4|29}} | last_aired =  | related =  }} '''''Ivana Young Man''''' is a two-hour American reality television program hosted by Ivana Trump, who aids a divorced 40-year-old woman in finding a younger man. The program consists of six men, who are gradually eliminated from the competition by Trump.

The program was announced in September 2004, with its premiere scheduled for that fall on Fox, before being changed to January 2005. The program did not air as scheduled, and Fox later confirmed that it had shelved the project. Oxygen acquired the program from Fox in February 2006, and broadcast it on April 29, 2006.

==Overview== ''Ivana Young Man'' is hosted by Ivana Trump, who aids 40-year-old Kathy Dahl in finding a younger man. Dahl is a wealthy divorced mother from Minnesota. Trump chooses six men, ages 22 to 32, for Dahl to choose among. Trump also offers her advice to Dahl. The men perform several intellectual and physical challenges over the course of several days, including rock climbing. At the end of each day, after a challenge, one of the men is chosen by Dahl to join her in a hotel room so they can spend time together.<ref name=Nov1/><ref name=Aug24/><ref name=Courant/> The men are gradually eliminated from the competition by Trump, who tells them, "You're not desired."<ref name=Courant/><ref name=Stud/> Jeff Lindell, a model, won the competition.<ref>{{cite news|title="Ivana" set the record straight ... |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=The Dallas Morning News|date=March 21, 2007|via=NewsLibrary|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Trump's younger boyfriend, 32-year-old Italian dancer and model Rossano Rubicondi, appears as one of the six men. For the program, he was given the name of Paulo, to keep his identity secretive from the other men. Dahl was made aware of Rubicondi's true identity, and he served as an informant to her regarding the other men.<ref name=Aug24/>

==Production and broadcast== ''Ivana Young Man'' was announced in September 2004. Casting had already begun at that time, and the program was initially scheduled to air on Fox later that fall.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fox says 'you're hired' to Ivana Trump|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-09-03-ivana-trump_x.htm|access-date=November 29, 2017|agency=Associated Press|work=USA Today|date=September 3, 2004}}</ref> Scott Stone, Sharon Levy and Anthony Ross were executive producers for the project. Stone devised the idea for the program while going up a ski slope, saying "It was in the zeitgeist, with Demi and Ashton, and Madonna and Guy Ritchie. And I have a lot of female friends always looking for me to help find men for them, but the men their own age are (sometimes) intimidated by their success." Stone then discussed the program with Trump, who enjoyed the idea of hosting it.<ref>{{cite news|last=Adalian|first=Josef|title=Inside Move: Trump card|url=https://variety.com/2004/scene/markets-festivals/inside-move-trump-card-2-1117909914/|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=Variety|date=September 1, 2004}}</ref> Stone said, "The reason we went to Ivana for this show is she is the prototype for this type of relationship." Stone also said, "We really matched the guys up with Kathy's interests. We wanted to give her the gamut. We have kind of the all-American hunky quarterback-looking guy. We got the quirky, funny, great-sense-of-humor guy and we got the hot European sexy guy."<ref name=Nov1/> Thousands of men auditioned to be on the program.<ref name=Aug24/>

Filming had concluded by November 2004, after seven days of shooting in Manhattan, and the program was scheduled to air on Fox in January 2005, with the potential to become a regular series.<ref name=Nov1>{{cite news|last=Guthrie|first=Marisa|title=Fox Fires Up Ivana's Fountain of Youth|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/fox-fires-ivana-fountain-youth-article-1.658279|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=New York Daily News|date=November 1, 2004}}</ref> However, the program did not premiere on its scheduled air date.<ref>{{cite web|last=Guthrie|first=Marisa|title=Her Trump Card is Role of Ivana|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/trump-card-role-ivana-article-1.623590|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=New York Daily News|date=February 24, 2005}}</ref> In August 2005, Fox confirmed that the project had been shelved with no plans to air it. A reason was not disclosed for the decision.<ref name=Aug24/><ref name=People>{{cite news|last=Bonawitz|first=Amy|title=Passages|url=http://people.com/archive/passages-vol-64-no-5/|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=People|date=August 1, 2005}}</ref> Trump said she did not know why the project was shelved.<ref name=People/> Stone said that Fox had not definitively ruled out broadcasting the program, but that such a possibility was unlikely. Stone also said that if the program did not air on Fox, "I will do everything in my power to see that it airs somewhere else."<ref name=Aug24/> Stone further stated that he and Trump were satisfied with the program.<ref name=Aug24>{{cite news|last=Guthrie|first=Marisa|title='Ivana' May Not Fit with Fox's Reality|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/ivana-not-fit-fox-reality-article-1.643171|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=New York Daily News|date=August 24, 2005}}</ref>

Oxygen acquired the program from Fox in February 2006,<ref>{{cite news|title=Inner Tube: Oxygen breathes life into Ivana Trump show|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=New York Daily News|date=February 15, 2006|via=NewsLibrary|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and premiered it in the United States on April 29, 2006.<ref name=Courant>{{cite news|last=Catlin|first=Roger|title=Ivana Trump Turns Matchmaker|url=https://www.courant.com/2006/04/29/ivana-trump-turns-matchmaker-lets-hear-it-for-lion-sperm-banks/|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=Hartford Courant|date=April 29, 2006}}</ref> Ivana Trump said she did not care about suggestions that she was trying to compete with her ex-husband's reality television series, ''The Apprentice''.<ref name=Stud>{{cite news|last=Peyser|first=Andrea|title=Ivana: Give Me a Stud; Boy-Toy Joy On Her Dating Reality Show|url=https://nypost.com/2006/04/30/ivana-give-me-a-stud-boy-toy-joy-on-her-dating-reality-show/|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=New York Post|date=April 30, 2006}}</ref> ''Ivana Young Man'' was not picked up as a full series because of low ratings.<ref name=All>{{cite web|last1=Erickson|first1=Hal|title=Ivana Young Man (2006)|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/ivana-young-man-v350864|website=AllMovie|access-date=November 29, 2017}}</ref>

==See also== * ''The Ultimate Merger''

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477016/ ''Ivana Young Man''] on IMDb

Category:American dating and relationship reality television series Category:2000s American reality television series Category:Oxygen (TV channel) original programming Category:English-language American television shows