And here they are: Bachelor No. 1 is a filmmaker, while Bachelor No. 2 sells international steel!
Martha Stewart’s Match.com suitors made their national TV debuts this morning on NBC’s “Today,” explaining why they want to date the world-famous domestic diva.
“I’m slightly apprehensive, but not nervous,” Stewart said.
Stewart’s Match.com profile has received more than 20,000 page views and she’s received 1,000 date offers, the famed businesswoman said.
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She’s sliced that overwhelming list down to two Mr. Right candidates.
Both movie maestro Stan Schofield and steel trader Larry Traub are 68, and now ticketed for casual dates with Stewart in coming days.
Traub said Stewart’s online profile jumped out at him, because of her stated anxiety about online dating.
“She expressed the same feelings I think all of us at this age have – lot of trepidation, fear of it,” Traub said of online dating. “We’re usually not afraid of much.”
Schofield makes commercials and independent features, and once did a Kmart spot for the 71-year-old Stewart, though she didn’t remember him from the shoot.
When Schofield spotted Stewart’s online profile, he had no idea that her dating experiment was the subject of a “Today” show project.
“When I saw your picture on Match.com, I said ‘Well that’s a very familiar face,’ ” Stan said. “Then we had a little correspondence.”
Traub said his only reservation about dating Stewart would be the public’s potential view of him as a gold digger.
“I would look more like an opportunity or I would look more like an opportunist and that’s not me,” Traub said.
Stewart said she knows skeptics will believe her Match.com experiment is nothing more than a tacky publicity stunt. But she insisted it’s all real.
“I just want to stress .. this is real reality, this is not fake,” Stewart said. “None of these have been set up. None of this is fake.”
“Today” co-host Matt Lauer laughed at his new matchmaking role, comparing himself to the old “Dating Game.”
“It’s now official, I’m [‘Dating Game’ host] Jim Lange,” Lauer said.
Stewart said she’s in no hurry to find Mr. Right — but would like to have someone on her arm.
“I have so many great things to go to, you want to take someone with you,” she said.