Are You the One?
Are You the One? (often abbreviated as AYTO?) is an American reality television series on MTV, in which young singles try to find love. A group of men and women are secretly paired into couples by producers, via a matchmaking algorithm. Then, while living together, the contestants try to identify all of these "perfect matches." If they succeed, the entire group shares a prize of up to $1 million. All couples in the first seven seasons were male-female, while in the eighth season a contestant's match could be someone of any gender. Over  the course of each season, the contestants go on dates with partners determined by competitions (or, in the seventh season only, by the "fate button"), and have the opportunity to learn in the "truth booth" if a given couple is a correct match. Once the truth booth confirms a perfect match, that couple will go to the honeymoon suite and will automatically be paired up for the remainder of the match ceremonies. At the end of each episode, the contestants pair up in a "matching ceremony" and learn how many perfect matches they have, but not which matches are correct . From season 3 onward, the prize was reduced any time that the house failed to identify any matches other than those already confirmed via the truth booth. On June 26, 2019, the eighth season began broadcasting on MTV. This series was marked as the first to exclusively feature openly LGBT and sexually fluid contestants, a decision that was met with critical acclaim. Production is set to resume in 2022, with the ninth season branded a global edition that will premiere on Paramount+. Season 1. Filmed in Kauai, Hawaii. Season one premiered on January 21, 2014. Unconfirmed Perfect Match Progress. In  Week 5, Ryan Awarded the house two Truth Booths, which gave the house their first perfect match in Dillan and Coleysia. MTV.com Clue Truth Booths Week 9: Wes and Kayla didn't win the challenge. But Ryan Devlin mixed things up saying that the members not going on the dates would be the ones up for the truth booth. Week 10: Dre was the ultimate winner of the massage challenge, therefore he was given the power to either send himself with a woman of his choosing or he could choose 2 others from the previous ceremony to send to the  truth booth. He ultimately chose John and Jacy who were not a match. After filming. Baby Special and Reunion. Baby Special and Reunion aired on September 29, 2014. During this reunion, the gender of Ethan and Amber's baby was revealed to be a girl. Both parents-to-be got emotional when they found out they were having a girl. There were also conflicts between Scali and Jacy, Shanley and Chris T, and Ryan and Adam. The end of the episode resulted in most conflicts being resolved. Jacy stated that she would be moving to New York (where Scali is  currently based) and they would take their relationship from there. Brittany told the camera that she would be taking Ryan home to meet her parents. Shanley McIntee appeared on the first season of the American version of "Ex on the Beach". Season 2. Filmed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Season two premiered on October 6, 2014. This time, one guy has two matches which means that there will be eleven girls, but only ten boys. Christina is revealed as the first girl of the threeway couple. It is a race between Christina and another girl to find her perfect match  and be confirmed as such in the Truth-Booth. The first couple of the threeway-couple to do so will end up in the honeymoon-suite. The other girl will have to leave empty-handed. However this only applied if one of those two matches were confirmed in the Truth Booth. If neither Christina nor the other girl get sent home, and the group wins the money by getting 10 matches at the matchup ceremony, then all 21 contestants will win money. Progress. Unconfirmed Perfect Match This girl was not chosen in the match-up ceremony Truth Booths After Filming . Nathan "Nate" Siebenmark & Ellie Puckett returned for the "Are You The One?: Second Chances" and finished in 9th place. Anthony Bartolette appeared on the third season of the MTV dating show "Ex on the Beach". Season 3. Filmed in Kona, Hawaii. Season three premiered on September 21, 2015. Progress. Unconfirmed Perfect Match Due to the blackout in Episode 2, the whole cast lost $250,000, lowering the total money at the end to $750,000, instead of $1,000,000. In Episode 9, Mike was removed from the competition due to an altercation that turned violent with Amanda. The girls were  still able to choose Mike that week and Kiki chose him during her turn (as he was the only available guy that has not already been confirmed as not a match for Kiki in the Truth Booth). In the end it turned out that Mike and Kiki were perfect matches. Truth Booths After Filming. Mike Crescenzo was later a cast member of the of "The Real World". Devin Walker-Molaghan & Rashida Beach returned for the "Are You The One?: Second Chances" and finished in 1st place earning themselves $170,000. Season 4. Filmed in Maui, Hawaii. Season four premiered on  June 13, 2016. Progress. Unconfirmed Perfect Match Due to the blackout in Episode 8, the whole cast lost $250,000, lowering the total money at the end to $750,000, instead of $1,000,000. Truth Booths After Filming. Asaf Goren & Kaylen Zahara, Cameron Kolbo & Mikala Thomas, Giovanni Rivera & Francesca Duncan and Morgan St. Pierre & Tori Deal returned for the "Are You The One?: Second Chances". Rivera and Duncan finished in 8th place after Duncan stole all of the money from Rivera. Goren and Zahara finished in 6th place. Kolbo & Thomas finished in 4th place. St. Pierre and Deal finished in  2nd place earning themselves $25,000. In addition to his appearances on MTV programs, Asaf Goren has also competed on "So You Think You Can Dance 12", "" and "Celebrity Big Brother Israel 3". He also appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race as a member of the Pit Crew prior to Are You the One? Cameron Kolbo appeared on the first season of "Ex on the Beach". Section::::"The Challenge". Challenge in bold indicates that the contestant was a finalist on The Challenge. Note: Tori made an appearance on "" for an elimination. Season 5. Filmed in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. Season five premiered  on January 11, 2017. This season featured 2 big changes. When a couple gets sent into the truth booth to see if they are a perfect match, the rest of the house can either vote to see if they are a perfect match, or earn $150,000, and not see the result of the couple. This only will pertain to certain weeks. Also, if the house blacks out at a match-up ceremony, their money will decrease by 50% each time instead of $250,000. Progress. Unconfirmed Perfect Match Confirmed Not A Match (correct Matching is in parentheses). Due to  the blackout in Episode 2, the whole cast lost $500,000, lowering the total money at the end to $500,000 instead of $1,000,000. In Episode 9, the cast decided to take the trade offer instead of finding out if Derrick and Tyranny were a perfect match, which increased the total money at stake to $650,000 In Episode 10, the cast decided to take the trade offer instead of finding out if Joey and Casandra were a perfect match, which increased the total money at stake to $800,000 In Episode 10, the cast did not find all  their perfect matches, winning no money at the end. After the reunion, final Perfect Matches were revealed as the following: Truth Booths Note: In Episode 9, the cast decided to take the $150,000 trade instead of finding out if Derrick and Tyranny were a match. The result of their match is unavailable. Note: In Episode 10, the cast decided to take the $150,000 trade instead of finding out if Joey and Casandra were a match. The result of their match is unavailable. Note: Look at the revealed perfect matches this will give you the results of the Derrick /Tyranny and Joey/Casandra Truth Booths. After Filming. Derrick Henry & Casandra Martinez, Hayden Weaver & Carolina Duarte and Mike Cerasani & Alicia Wright returned for the "Are You The One?: Second Chances". Henry and Martinez finished in 10th place. Weaver and Duarte finished in 7th place after Weaver stole all of the money from Duarte. Cerasani and Wright finished in 5th Place. Alicia Wright, Andre Siemens, Derrick Henry, and Taylor Selfridge appeared on the first season of "Ex on the Beach". Shannon Duffy appeared on the third season. Tyranny Todd appeared on the . On April 22, 2020, Selfridge and her "Ex on  the Beach" costar Cory Wharton welcomed their first daughter, Mila Mae. A "Teen Mom OG" special episode was planned for the occasion, but was pulled off the air after some 2012 racially insensitive tweets from Selfridge resurfaced online. Section::::"The Challenge". Challenge in bold indicates that the contestant was a finalist on The Challenge. Sexual assault allegations. In April 2021, cast member Gianna Hammer alleged that one night while filming in 2016 she was drugged by production, and then later sexually assaulted by a male cast member whose name she requested be withheld. Hammer was on the prescription drug Zoloft during  filming, which she usually took in the morning. Prior to the incident, while extremely intoxicated, she was in an argument with another cast member. Lighthearted Entertainment producers pulled her aside and gave her a second dosage of Zoloft "to calm her down". Other cast members witnessed her telling producers that she was not supposed to take the drug while drinking, something her doctors advised her about. She ended up taking it after producers convinced her by saying it wasn't a high enough dosage. The assault occurred later that night while cast members were in bed, and she ended up  sharing a bed with a male cast member. Other cast members had to stop the assault from happening after hearing her say "no" and "stop". In the morning, Hammer was told by production what had occurred, and then asked if she wanted the male cast member kicked off the show. In response to Hammer's questions about the producer's thoughts, she alleged they made comments such as "He flew all the way out here, we did all this testing for him, he has a perfect match in this house ... he’d have to spend the rest of the time  in a hotel by himself". Hammer said she wasn't sure how to answer and said she didn't want to be reason he got kicked off the show, which producers took as a sign that she was okay with him staying in the house. Afterward, the male cast member was no longer allowed to sleep in the bedroom the other cast members used, and slept on the couch the rest of filming. Both the male cast member and Hammer were cut off from booze for the rest of the show which Hammer felt was a punishment for her. "The  Daily Beast", who first reported the story, says they spoke on the record to five other cast members of the season who all confirmed parts of Hammer's story. Following filming, Hammer says she felt "disrespected" after she was never contacted by anyone from Lighthearted Entertainment production or MTV about the assault. Fellow castmate Hayden Weaver emailed their MTV representative Lauren Zins alerting her to Hammer's assault and questioning the situation, to which Zins replied via email with "I am not a magician, I can't erase the past..." Since the story was released, MTV has taken the season  off of streaming platforms and stated they "take these issues very seriously and have paused production/casting to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations, the third party production company and further review our internal safety protocols." Lighthearted Entertainment has denied these allegations, and claimed that "Throughout the eight seasons of the show, no contestant has reported an incident of sexual assault to Lighthearted." They also state they plan to cooperate with full transparency with any investigation. Season 6. Filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. Season six premiered on September 20, 2017. = Unconfirmed perfect match Progress. Truth Booths After Filming . Joe Torgerson appeared on the first season of "Ex on the Beach". Diandra Delgado, Malcolm Drummer and Nurys Mateo appeared on the second season. Geles Rodriguez and Anthony Martin appeared on the third season". On January 9, 2020, Alexis Eddy died from cardiac arrest in her West Virginia home at the age of 23. Ethan Cohen appeared on Season 10 of "Wild 'N Out", under the pseudonym E-Money. Uche Nwosu and Clinton Moxam got married on September 4, 2021. Season 7: "Season of Fate". This season featured a change in the rules to get a date, the contestants no  longer had to compete against each other to win a date. Instead Terrance would choose two people, one guy and one girl, to come up and press a button stopping a scrolling wheel of faces at random of the opposite sex. Two guys and two girls would be chosen at random to go on a four-person date to couple off as they choose. Everyone back at the house then voted whichever couple they thought most likely to be a 'Perfect Match' into the Truth Booth. Filmed in Kona, Hawaii, Hokukano Bayhouse. Season seven premiered on August 15, 2018. Progress . = Unconfirmed perfect match Truth Booths After Filming. Tevin Grant and Kenya Scott appeared on the third season of the MTV dating show "Ex on the Beach". Maria Elizondo appeared on "Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D and Vinny". Cali Trepp and Tomas Buenos, despite not being a perfect match, remained in a relationship after the show. They announced their engagement in November 2021. Season 8: "Come One, Come All". Filmed in Kona, Hawaii. Season eight premiered on June 26, 2019. For the first time on "Are You the One?", all cast members were bisexual, with no gender  limitations on their potential perfect matches. = Unconfirmed perfect match Progress. In episode 7, it was shown onscreen that Basit and Jonathan were a perfect match. This marked the first time in the series' history that the audience was given information that was unknown to the house. Truth Booths After Filming. While this season did not include an official reunion episode, a majority of the season's cast members opted to participate in a reunion special hosted by "AfterBuzz TV" and confirmed a number of their post-finale relationship statuses. Section::::"Are You the One? Second Chances". On March 22, 2017 , spin-off "Are You The One: Second Chances" premiered. The series, filmed in Melbourne, Australia and hosted by Karamo Brown, featured ten perfect matches from previous seasons returning to compete in tasks designed to test the strength of their bonds. Each week, teams could add to their potential winnings, but individual contestants had the opportunity to take their team's winnings from their partner and remove their team from the game.