Most people join shows like The Bachelor or Love Island because they’re looking for love. But one woman found it through an early ’90s dating show, Love Connectionwithout even being a contestant.

In 1991, Ellen Smith, a 26-year-old single mother, had no plans to search for romance on national television. She was simply tagging along to keep a friend company at an audition for a wildly popular ...

Abby Meyers is a reality TV features writer at Collider. In school, her college majors in creative writing and gender studies prepared her well to watch and write about reality television. She has ...