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In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, The Real Love Boat hosts Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn shared the process down coming up with their catchphrase, and what to expect from the show.
The Real Love Boat Hosts Talk Love astatine Sea: EXCLUSIVE
All aboard!
As hosts of The Real Love Boat, premiering Oct. 5 connected CBS, real-life joined couple Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn join the illustrious pantheon of reality-competition hosts similar Survivor's Jeff Probst and Project Runway's Heidi Klum. While hosting a beloved bid is nary casual feat, ascending to the precocious echelon of iconic hosts requires 1 important thing: a memorable catchphrase.
As 2 self-professed world TV aficionados, Jerry and Rebecca knew the task astatine manus was make-or-break.
"In those elimination ceremonies, Rebecca and I had to travel up with a send-off tag," Jerry exclusively told E! News. "'The people has spoken,' Probst already has that. 'Auf Wiedersehen,' that's Heidi Klum. Another 1 is 'Sashay away,' from Drag Race. So coming up with this elimination term, it had to beryllium nautical. We tried a batch of things."
Jerry revealed they tried "Get disconnected my ship," but yet said it was "kind of weird, radical weren't into that."
"We tried ‘It's clip for you to locomotion the plank,'" Rebecca said. "That's a small pirate-y."
Hard to reason with that.
"So this is wherever we ended up. Are you ready?" Rebecca yet revealed. "'I'm sorry, you've been eliminated. It's clip for you to shove off.' Which besides felt a small aggressive, not gonna lie."
Hey, there's nary clip for needless pleasantries connected The Real Love Boat!
On the caller dating series, an homage to the classical '70s drama The Love Boat, a radical of singles committee a luxury Mediterranean cruise looking for love—with challenges, destination dates and astonishment twists on the way.
For Jerry and Rebecca, it was a peek down the world TV curtain, which wasn't ever specified an casual transition.
"This is not a musculus that Jerry and I had ever truly flexed earlier due to the fact that we're utilized to watching these shows from the comfortableness of our ain sofa," Rebecca said. "So to beryllium determination successful the mediate of the play was a large learning curve for us. It was caller for us."
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Rebecca explained, "It was hard for america not to person affectional reactions," but said she was more palmy than her husband.
"Jerry had a harder clip with it than I did," she joked. "Jerry kept reacting. Every clip idiosyncratic would get eliminated, he'd go, ‘Nooo!' He'd person this large reaction. It was explained to america that we're expected to stay neutral. That was a existent situation for some of us, but particularly Jerry."
The Real Love Boat premieres Oct. 5 astatine 9 p.m., joining Survivor and The Amazing Race for CBS' All Reality Wednesday nights.
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