{"id":17831,"date":"2020-01-13T23:59:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-signs-on-for-reality-tv-dating-game-with-moon-trip-as-the-prize\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T23:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:59:06","slug":"japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-signs-on-for-reality-tv-dating-game-with-moon-trip-as-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-signs-on-for-reality-tv-dating-game-with-moon-trip-as-the-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa signs on for reality-TV dating game with moon trip as the prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_542064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-542064\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-542064\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/200113-maezawa-630x368.jpg\" alt=\"Yusaku Maezawa's pitch for a moon date\" width=\"630\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/200113-maezawa-630x368.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/200113-maezawa-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/200113-maezawa.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-542064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa tweeted a casting call for a woman to go on a round-the-moon trip with him, for a streaming-video documentary. (Yusaku Maezawa via Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What do you get when you cross \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d with \u201cSurvivor,\u201d and then throw in a round-the-moon trip? You might get the reality-TV project that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has signed on for.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pitch made waves over the weekend when Maezawa, 44, tweeted a plea to \u201ccome to the moon with me.\u201d As in, apply to be a contestant for \u201cFull Moon Lovers,\u201d which is billed as a \u201cserious matchmaking documentary\u201d for AbemaTV, a Japanese streaming-video channel. Applicants must be single women, aged 20 or older, with a bright, positive personality, an interest in space, and a desire for world peace.<\/li>\n<li>Maezawa\u2019s objective appears to be to find a companion to accompany him on SpaceX\u2019s Starship super-spaceship for a round-the-moon journey that\u2019s set for as early as 2023. He\u2019s paying SpaceX an undisclosed multimillion-dollar fare to reserve Starship for his use. When the deal was announced 16 months ago, Maezawa said he would take along artists and performers, but apparently he\u2019s now saving room for a love connection.<\/li>\n<li>Would-be contestants face an application deadline of Friday, Jan. 17, and the \u201cfinal decision on partner\u201d is due by the end of March. Maezawa\u2019s pitch has drawn plenty of ewws and WTFs (check out the comments on Gizmodo\u2019s story for a sampling), but you have to remember this is basically reality TV, which is not the same as reality. The concept is in line with the kookiness that surrounded boy-band singer Lance Bass\u2019 unsuccessful campaign to go into space in 2002, or Maezawa\u2019s million-dollar giveaways in 2019 and 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa tweeted a casting call for a woman to go on a round-the-moon trip with him, for a streaming-video documentary. (Yusaku Maezawa via Twitter) What do you get when you cross \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d with \u201cSurvivor,\u201d and then throw in a round-the-moon trip? You might get the reality-TV project that Japanese billionaire Yusaku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[625,4879,316,4328,4880],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-moon","tag-reality-tv","tag-spacex","tag-spacex-starship","tag-yusaku-maezawa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}