Are You the One? (often abbreviated as AYTO?) is an American reality television series featuring a group of men and women that are secretly paired into couples via a matchmaking algorithm. 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.

Are You the One?
Genre
Presented by
Opening theme"Smooth Hand" by Heavy Young Heathens
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes98 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Running time60 minutes (including commercials)
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseJanuary 21, 2014 (2014-01-21) –
March 15, 2023 (2023-03-15)

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.[1] 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.[2] This series was marked as the first to exclusively feature openly LGBT and sexually fluid contestants, a decision that was met with critical acclaim.[3][4][5]

On March 3, 2022, it was announced that the show would be revived as an international version by Paramount+.[6] On December 8, 2022, it was announced that Kamie Crawford would be the new host, and that the ninth season would premiere on January 18, 2023.[7]

Series overview

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SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedCast membersAll perfect
matches found?
Total money won
First airedLast aired
110January 21, 2014 (2014-01-21)March 25, 2014 (2014-03-25)20 Y$1,000,000
210October 6, 2014 (2014-10-06)December 8, 2014 (2014-12-08)21 Y$1,000,000
310September 24, 2015 (2015-09-24)November 18, 2015 (2015-11-18)20 Y$750,000
410June 13, 2016 (2016-06-13)August 22, 2016 (2016-08-22)20 Y$750,000
510January 11, 2017 (2017-01-11)March 3, 2017 (2017-15-03)22 N$0
612September 20, 2017 (2017-09-20)December 6, 2017 (2017-12-06)22 Y$1,000,000
714August 15, 2018 (2018-08-15)November 7, 2018 (2018-11-07)22 Y$1,000,000
812June 26, 2019 (2019-06-26)September 9, 2019 (2019-09-09)16 Y$750,000
910January 18, 2023 (2023-01-18)March 15, 2023 (2023-03-15)22 Y$750,000

Season 1

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Filmed in Kauai, Hawaii and premiered on January 21, 2014. It featured 20 contestants looking for love in a chance to win a one million dollar prize to split.[8][9]

Season 2

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Filmed in San Juan, Puerto Rico and 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.[10][11]

Season 3

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Filmed in Kona, Hawaii. Season three premiered on September 24, 2015. This season had a rule change, if there is a "black out" at a matchup ceremony (meaning no beams of light other than already-confirmed matches) then the house gets $250,000 deducted from their prize.[12][13]

Season 4

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Filmed in Maui, Hawaii. Season four premiered on June 13, 2016.[14]

Season 5

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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.[15]

Season 6

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Filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. Season six premiered on September 20, 2017.[16]

Season 7

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Filmed in Kona, Hawaii, Hokukano Bayhouse. Season seven premiered on August 15, 2018. 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.[17]

Season 8

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Filmed in Kona, Hawaii. Season eight premiered on June 26, 2019.[2] For the first time on Are You the One?, all cast members were sexually fluid,[18] with no gender limitations on their potential perfect matches.[3][4] This season received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2020.[19]

Season 9

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Filmed in Gran Canaria, Spain. Season nine premiered on January 18, 2023.

Are You the One? Second Chances

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On March 22, 2017, spin-off Are You the One? Second Chances[20] 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.[21]

Cast

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Male contestants Female contestants Original Season Finish
Devin Walker-Molaghan Rashida Beach season 3 Winners
Morgan St. Pierre Tori Deal season 4 Runners-Up
Adam Kuhn Shanley McIntee season 1 3rd Place
Cameron Kolbo Mikala Thomas season 4 4th Place
Mike Cerasani Alicia Wright season 5 5th Place
Asaf Goren Kaylen Zahara season 4 6th Place
Hayden Weaver Carolina Duarte season 5 7th Place
Giovanni "Gio" Rivera Francesca Duncan season 4 8th Place
Nathan "Nate" Siebenmark Ellie Puckett season 2 9th Place
Derrick Henry Casandra Martinez season 5 10th Place

Elimination progress

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Teams Episodes
1 2 3 4[a] 5 6 7 8 9 10
Devin & Rashida 1st 6th 4th N/A 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 1st
Morgan & Tori 6th 3rd 1st 1st 2nd 4th 3rd 4th 2nd 2nd
Adam & Shanley 3rd 4th 2nd N/A 4th 3rd 4th 1st 3rd 3rd
Cameron & Mikala 7th 5th 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Mike & Alicia 9th 1st 6th 2nd 5th 5th 5th
Asaf & Kaylen 2nd 8th 8th 7th 6th
Hayden & Carolina 8th 2nd 5th N/A
Giovanni & Francesca 5th 7th 7th
Nate & Ellie 4th 9th
Derrick & Casandra 10th
Competition
  The team won the final challenge
  The team received 2nd place in the final challenge
  The team received 3rd place in the final challenge
  The team won the mission and was safe from elimination
  The team was voted into The Choice and decided to 'Share' their money, therefore remaining in the game
  The team received last place and was eliminated
  The team did not receive last place but one team member stole the money and their team was eliminated
  The team received last place but remained in the game due to another contestant, who got voted into The Choice, stole all of the money
  The team was voted into The Choice, but was saved due to it being a non-elimination episode and it was not revealed if they decided to 'Share' or 'Steal' the money
  The team received last place but was saved due to it being a non-elimination episode

Bank Accounts

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Males Episodes
1 2 3 4[a] 5 6 7 8 9 10
Devin $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $60,000 $70,000 $90,000 $100,000 $120,000 $170,000
Morgan $20,000 $25,000 $45,000 $65,000 $75,000 $75,000 $80,000 $40,000 $50,000 $25,000
Adam $25,000 $25,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $40,000 $40,000 $60,000 $60,000 $0
Cameron $20,000 $20,000 $25,000 $30,000 $35,000 $55,000 $65,000 $65,000 $0
Mike $20,000 $40,000 $40,000 $50,000 $50,000 $25,000 $0
Asaf $30,000 $30,000 $15,000 $7,500 $0
Hayden $20,000 $30,000 $30,000 $30,000
Giovanni $20,000 $20,000 $0
Nate $20,000 $0
Derrick $0
Females Episodes
1 2 3 4[a] 5 6 7 8 9 10
Rashida $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $60,000 $70,000 $90,000 $100,000 $120,000 $170,000
Tori $20,000 $25,000 $45,000 $65,000 $75,000 $75,000 $80,000 $40,000 $50,000 $25,000
Shanley $25,000 $25,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $40,000 $40,000 $60,000 $60,000 $0
Mikala $20,000 $20,000 $25,000 $30,000 $35,000 $55,000 $65,000 $65,000 $0
Alicia $20,000 $40,000 $40,000 $50,000 $50,000 $25,000 $0
Kaylen $30,000 $30,000 $15,000 $7,500 $0
Carolina $20,000 $30,000 $30,000 $0
Francesca $20,000 $20,000 $20,000
Ellie $20,000 $0
Casandra $0
Competition
  The team won the final challenge and shared the money.
  The team received 2nd place in the final challenge.
  The team received 3rd place in the final challenge.
  The team won the mission and was safe from elimination.
  The team was voted into The Choice and decided to 'Share' their money, therefore remaining in the game.
  The team received last place and was eliminated.
  The team received last place but remained in the game due to another contestant, who got voted into The Choice, stealing the money from their partner, and remained in the game.
  The contestant was voted into The Choice and decided to 'Steal' the money, but their teammate decided to 'Share' the money and they were eliminated with all of the money.
  The contestant was voted into The Choice and decided to 'Share' the money, but their teammate decided to 'Steal' the money and they were eliminated with no money.
  The contestant was voted into The Choice and was saved due to it being a non-elimination episode. Their choice was not revealed if they Shared or Stole the money.
  The contestant received last place but was saved due to it being a non-elimination episode.
Notes
  1. ^ a b c In Episode 4, only the top 3 teams and the last place team were revealed. Therefore, the 3 teams whose placement wasn't revealed didn't have a change in money.

International versions

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Country Local title Host(s) Channel Broadcast Jackpot
Brazil Are You the One? Brasil Felipe Titto (1-3)
Caio Castro (4)
MTV February 1, 2015 R$500,000
Denmark Det perfekte match Oliver Bjerrehuus Kanal 4 February 5, 2015
France 10 couples parfaits Elsa Fayer NT1 and TFX July 3, 2017 €200,000
Germany Are You the One? Jan Köppen (1)
Sophia Thomalla (2-)
TVNOW
RTL
April 14, 2020 (TVNOW)
May 6, 2020 (RTL)
€200,000
Italy Are You the One? Italia Luca Vezil Paramount+ February 15, 2023 €200,000
Mexico Are You the One? El Match Perfecto Roberto Carlo (1)
Vadhir Derbez (2)
MTV LA September 20, 2016 US$200,000
Netherlands Are You the One? De Perfecte Match Kaj Gorgels MTV NL October 15, 2021 €200,000
Sweden Are You the One? Sverige Martin Björk TV3 February 26, 2018 1,000,000 kr
United Kingdom Are You the One? UK Joelah Noble MTV UK
Paramount+
August 8, 2022 £200,000

References

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