♪ Take me to The children of love ♪
I can't believe that a simple vacation
has led to me meeting the love of my life.
♪ Purify my soul Take me to the river ♪
I've never dated an exotic man from another country before.
And so I get to live out my Italian romance dream,
you know, the ones you see in the movies.
Whoo!
I met someone, beautiful Brazilian.
Alliya is dynamic and sexy and all the fantasy things.
But when I first met Alliya, she was Douglas.
[man] I take a lot of supplements
because they help my sperm count
be, like, really high.
I'm gonna be taking these pills right now
so I can get my super sperm.
- [woman 1] We've got our issues. - What type of issues?
He wants us having a night with, like, different women.
- What? - That's a threesome.
[woman 1] What's important to you?
Me or the threesomes?
Both.
How is, like, the sex spin?
Um...
You have a persona now that's being the boss bitch.
But you can't be the boss bitch of me.
He said that you were topless
while he was in the same bed with you.
You slept in the same [bleep] bed?
I have risked everything to be with this girl.
And my deepest, darkest fears are coming true.
Say you're sorry.
- For that [bleep]. - No.
[man speaking]
You're giving this pleasure so much power,
you broke up with me twice over this stuff. Twice.
I love Ani, but I love sperm donation.
If she can't accept that,
this relationship won't survive.
Who are you? The saver of the word?
And you have to give all women babies.
I don't know what to say.
Oh, my gosh, I have to stop this.
[Anika speaking]
[woman singing in other language]
[Madelein speaking in English]
[in other language]
[in English]
I love you so much.
Who is the more beautiful dog in the world?
I love them so much.
[laughs boisterously]
♪ I am the cutter You are the blood In the water ♪
♪ I am the shark on the hunt
I'm Luke. I'm 30 years old
and I'm from Los Angeles, California.
I'm a mining engineer by trade,
but my real passion is business.
And in business
I know first impressions mean everything.
I want to be noticed.
I'm unique and I wanna be remembered as such.
♪ Welcome to the show
♪ Welcome to the end of the road ♪
♪ You wanna win it all? You better be ready to go ♪
Hello. Hello.
We're doing the same high pressure?
Yeah. Let's do a stand up.
Let's try six minutes today.
Okay. Perfect.
I just wanna look pretty for my girl.
Madelein is one of the most empathetic,
loving and driven people I have ever met,
and that's what made me
fall in love with her so hard and so fast.
I got her tattoo right here. [laughs]
I just wanted to show her, like, I'm, I'm serious.
I'm not [bleep] around.
I want, I wanna be with you.
And I'm gonna get your name tattooed
right next to my, my, my penis. So...
[laughs sheepishly]
You know, I'm committed 100%.
About six months ago I proposed.
I wanted to move to Colombia,
and I wanted to be with her forever and ever.
That was my plan.
But I still haven't moved to Colombia
because my financial situation has taken a dramatic turn.
Madelein definitely has a taste
for the finer things in life
and I worry that when I tell her
that I can't pay for the lifestyle
that we're used to, she'll leave me.
[Anika speaking]
[boatman speaking]
My name is Ani.
I'm 39 years old.
I'm originally from Berlin, Germany,
and I'm living in Malta right now.
- [Anika speaking] - [boatman speaking]
[Anika speaking]
[Anika] I moved to Malta during the pandemic.
I just needed a little bit more freedom
and sun as the lockdowns in Germany
were very, very long and cold.
Whoo!
Oh, my God.
It was only supposed to be for two or three months,
but then I got an amazing job offer
as a content editor in marketing.
I couldn't say no
and, yeah, I'm staying here.
Malta is located in the Mediterranean Sea
between Sicily and Libya.
It has really great energy.
It has a charm with old architecture.
We have 300 days of sunshine,
beautiful cliffs, beautiful beaches,
and it turned out to be also a great place to raise my son.
Hello. Good morning, babe.
How are you? Good?
Emilian is my son, and he's six years old.
- Mama... - Yeah?
[both speaking other language]
[Anika in English] Emilian's father and me,
we split like, four years ago.
And even though Malta is a paradise,
I haven't found Prince Charming yet.
[Anika] All right. Found the right color?
Recently I started to panic
because I realized I wanted a second baby.
And my biological watch is ticking.
[imitating ticking]
I always hope that the right person
will just one day stand in front of me
where I feel immediately right.
And seven months ago, I went online and I met Kyle.
There was something very special about how he made me feel.
We can just talk for hours
and we can laugh.
I really think from all what I've seen
and feel so far that he could be my soul mate
and the one I can have maybe my second baby with.
And he comes in one week to visit me in Malta.
[Kyle] That is Big Ben.
I'm gonna take a picture of that bad boy.
My name is Kyle, I'm 32.
I'm originally from Los Angeles, California,
but I spend most of my time traveling the world.
I'm an accountant and as long as I have my laptop,
I can work from anywhere.
So I became a digital nomad.
My favorite things to do
when I travel are shopping for souvenirs,
buying the local cuisine and getting women pregnant.
And most of my globetrotting has been helping single women
and lesbian couples grow their families.
[Kyle] So I just travel one backpack.
Really, I just carry some shirts and pants
supplements, and that's really all I need.
I take a lot of supplements
because they help my sperm count
to be, like, really high.
I avoid heavy drinking, smoking drugs, hot showers.
I try to eat mostly organic.
I'm gonna be taking these pills right now so I can get my super sperm.
I got some vitamin B12 vitamin D, vitamin E.
When I was 22, I knew a lesbian couple and they were discussing
going to the sperm bank, but it was really expensive.
So I offered to help them have a child.
And after that, my whole sperm donation thing was born.
Through word of mouth and through my social media,
women found out about me,
and now I donate around three to five times a month.
The average sperm count was around, I think,
44 million per milliliter.
My sperm count is 242 million per milliliter.
It's astronomically really good sperm count.
Currently I have 71 children
and another nine on the way.
They're all around the world.
I have, I think, like,
one or two kids over in San Diego,
Los Angeles, I have a few five year olds,
Seattle, Miami, in Orlando.
Or actually, I think, two in Orlando now.
Tijuana.
I have one in Tijuana, Mexico.
I get no money from this.
I cover my own travel,
my own cost.
But I get to see the smiles on their faces when they have a child.
That's literally all I'm getting out of it,
is joy and happiness.
Let's move to Europe.
We have a kid in Edinburgh.
But as much as I love helping families having a child,
I have had to sacrifice on my own happiness.
One in London.
And then there's one in Bordeaux, France.
I started donating about 10 years ago,
and the first year, I think I went on a date with one woman.
And then last year I went on a date
with one woman as well, and that's literally been it.
No women are willing to accept that I donate sperm.
So now we're going to move to Asia.
But with Ani, I'm hoping that I finally found a woman
that can accept me for who I am.
Originally, Ani reached out to discuss sperm donation
because she was thinking about having another child.
Ani was different than a lot of other women
that wanted sperm donation.
We would stay up late
and talk about different things.
And after a while we realized
we had a really deep connection
and it became a lot more.
I'm excited because I'm going to Malta next week
to see Ani for the first time.
But first I made a pit stop in London
to help a woman have a baby.
So right now I'm just putting the pillows on the floor
to get ready for a intercourse donation.
The women can choose how they receive my donation.
For some women
I do artificial insemination
where I just masturbate into a cup
and they use a syringe to inject it inside of her vagina.
But I also have the natural way,
which has a higher success rate where we just have sex.
Typically, they'll come in,
we'll sit, like, maybe on the bed,
and then we'll just do some small talk
and say, "Hey, what's up?"
Like traffic or something,
then we'll say, "Okay, let's do this."
It's like, okay, let's get naked and let's do this.
I understand that some people
may think this is bizarre, what I do,
but I'm helping a lot of families grow.
And giving this gift to people feeds my soul.
So essentially we finish
and then I kind of stand [bleep] her.
Kind of like this.
And then she's kind of laid off the bed
like a little handstand,
and we stay like that for 10-15 min
and then we pull out.
Obviously, Ani knows that I donate sperm,
but I'm worried once we meet in person,
she may have questions,
and she may be a little bit less comfortable with my hobby.
So right now I'm just getting ready for donation,
and I'm just brushing my teeth,
washing my face a little bit.
I've really fallen for Ani because she's so sexy.
She's smart, she's funny,
we both like travel.
And my biggest fear about my trip to Malta
is Ani won't accept my sperm donation
and everything that comes with it,
such as the intercourse part of it.
But I'm hoping that me and Ani
can build a relationship
without me having to compromise who I am.
I met a beautiful Brazilian.
Alliya is dynamic and sexy and beautiful.
She sounds perfect.
Perfect.
That's an interesting word.
♪ I'm gonna take it all the way ♪
♪ When I hear the music play
♪ 'Cause baby I can't help myself ♪
♪ I wanna danced the night away ♪
All right. So what do we wanna do with your hair today?
I need to be blonded but I just want highlights.
Okay?
I'm Shawn. I'm 61 years old, and I live in New York City
and also Los Angeles, California.
Are we wanting like a bleach blonde or a neutral blonde?
[sighs wearily] I only want highlights.
I want a full weave.
I don't want it to be really, really brassy.
So I like it to be less.
Okay. Um, sounds like you know what you're talking about.
Well, I should know what I'm talking about,
I've been in this business for blah, blah, blah years.
I won't even say how long. So...
- Oh, so... - So you're gonna have a difficult client.
Great. No pressure, I guess.
No pressure.
I'm a hairstylist and do celebrity hair
for television and film production.
I've worked on shows like Desperate Housewives,
Ugly Betty...
I've gotten to work on The Voice.
To watch somebody feel so good about themselves
after I do what I do,
has always been so exciting to me.
[Feliciano] So do you always get your hair highlighted?
[Shawn] I have been brunette for the last several years,
but I met someone.
A beautiful Brazilian, and she prefers me blonde.
She's in Brazil? How did you guys meet?
Um, we actually met online.
For the last three years,
I've been involved with someone
by the name of Alliya.
She lives in Brazil,
and she is the most amazing person
I've ever met.
Alliya is dynamic and sexy
and beautiful. All the fantasy things.
But she's also super smart, and she's got a good soul.
She's the whole package.
She sounds perfect.
Yes, well...
[both laugh]
Perfect.
That's an interesting word.
What's going on?
When I first met Alliya,
she was he, and he was Douglas.
Yeah, it's a little complicated.
[Shawn] Alliya is biologically male.
And when I met her, she went by Douglas.
He would wear makeup,
but always then have boy clothes, boy muscularity, boy hair.
So I didn't think anything of it.
And then about a year and a half into a relationship
everything started to change.
We were in Spain to participate in gay pride,
and Douglas was asked to be on a float.
And so I said, "Well, have you ever like gone in drag or put on a wig?"
And he said, "No, I've never done that."
And I go, "Well, do you want to?
Because this is my wheelhouse, this is what I do. So..."
Okay, let's go wig shopping.
So basically, I mean, once he put that
very first wig on his head,
he just changed and immediately was a new person.
He just beamed.
And then when I saw him on the float,
and he's usually shy, quiet, introverted,
and now he's dancing and smiling
and, you know, I'm like, "Who is this?"
Like, what? What?
And I think that's when Alliya was born.
So you really are part of the whole journey
from Douglas to Alliya.
Yeah, and at the moment,
since I haven't seen Alliya in a long time
and she's progressed in her journey, um,
I feel like I'm a little left behind
and I need to catch up.
I always saw it as Douglas is Douglas,
and that Alliya was a persona.
Something fun, something to do on a special occasion.
And now it's been about eight months
since we've seen each other last,
and things are starting to shift rapidly
and she's said to me,
"Well, there's no more Douglas."
But I don't know what that really means.
And I felt like I'm not asking.
I don't know if I'm not asking 'cause I'm in like some sort of denial.
Since I'm the one that said, "Let's explore."
I'm the one that opened the Pandora's box,
and now I don't know where our future is going from here.
So, it is a big deal for you, right?
Like you-- You met...
her as Doug, and now she's Alliya.
[Shawn] Yeah. It's had its difficulties.
I've never really liked labels
as far as describing my sexuality.
I've always been attracted to girls and boys.
I was married to a woman for 14 years.
Then we divorced,
and I have been having relationships with primarily men.
One of the things that attracted me first with Douglas
was his physique and his look.
So I'm worried. Will our sex life change?
Will the dynamic of how we interact be different?
I'm feeling...
only conflicted to the extent of...
If she fully transitions to be Alliya
100% and be 100% female, I'm gonna lose Douglas,
and there's some weird mourning for me.
I'm just not quite ready to give up Douglas.
Mmm-hmm.
Next week, I'm on my way to see Alliya,
and obviously, we have a lot to go over.
I need to figure out if this new transition
is Alliya just wearing more makeup and hair
or is this Alliya transitioning fully.
Hormones, surgery.
I fear that if Douglas does transition
from male to female from top to bottom,
our love could change, my feelings could change.
[Shawn] I fell in love with Douglas.
And now you're asking me to kill Douglas.
I can't kill Douglas.
So...
- What we do for love. - Right?
This is all for love.
How bad is your financial situation?
I'll be honest with you, man. It's super bad.
Since meeting Madelein, I have spent almost $100,000 sending money to her.
I'm paying for an apartment down there, her car, food
as well as all my expenses here.
She sounds kind of like... like a leech.
[Luke] I've been a mining engineer for seven years now.
And I make a lot of money doing it.
But about a month ago I was let go.
Because, I was taking too much time off work
visiting my fiance, Madelein, in Colombia.
How's it going, buddy?
- Good. Love you, man. - Thank you so much for helping me out, man.
I'm just wiping this down.
- And then after, you could take me back. - Yeah.
Now, I have to return the company vehicle.
So, my friend Michael has agreed to follow me back to the office.
And then he's gonna take me home.
Sorry to hear about this job.
You know, I know you love what you did.
So, what's next?
A really good question.
I'm a little worried.
Hmm. How bad is it?
How bad is your financial situation?
I'll be honest with you, man. It's super bad.
I-- I don't have any money.
As I'm leaving this job, I'm pulling my 401k. All of it.
- You liquidated it all? - Liquidated it.
It's kind of my only option right now.
Over the past year and a half,
I've invested over $500,000 into startup businesses.
I have invested in a jewelry company,
I've developed a lifestyle brand, a travel agency,
and I'm trying to get a clothing line off the ground as well.
But, I have not turned to profit yet.
The only thing that was keeping me afloat was my salary.
Now, I don't have any savings.
Plus, I have a mountain of debt.
I've dug a hole.
And I don't know if I can get out.
If it was just me that I had to worry about,
I would be a lot better off.
- But because I have Madelein. - Wow.
I'm paying for her apartment down there,
I'm paying for her car, food,
as well as all my expenses here.
Since meeting Madelein, I have spent almost $100,000, sending money to her.
I'm not happy with the amount of money that I have sent.
But I love her.
I'm a people pleaser, and I want my partner, above all else, to be happy.
She's done this much...
- Well, I mean-- - ...financially.
To date, she hasn't quite contributed as much financially.
- Well, let me ask you this. - Yeah.
If you didn't front any money,
do you think it'd be the same type of relationship?
The same love?
I like to think that she loves me for who I am.
I mean, I don't wanna cause any drama.
But she sounds kind of like... like a leech.
I know how it can be perceived.
But I'm just trying to be as positive as possible.
[Michael] He's spending all of his money,
all of his savings, all of his retirement.
He lost his job due to time management,
'cause he was focusing it all on her.
I think Luke is, in a lot of ways, blinded by love.
And I'm still trying to figure out what he gets in return.
How much in the know is Madelein?
She does not know about the job situation.
You haven't told her?
- Mmm-mmm. - So the backbone of the relationship is what?
My love for her.
- Oh, my goodness. - Yeah.
I'm going to Colombia in three days.
I know I have to tell Madelein about my financial situation.
But I'm really scared
because she might think less of me as a man.
And less of me as a provider.
[Michael] It will be a real, true test of her character.
Yeah.
I hope I still have a fiance at the end of it, man.
[Luke] Another thing Madelein and I have to talk about
is that I can't officially move
until I get my finances in order.
And honestly, I don't know how long that's gonna take.
I'm worried that she might think
that this relationship is too difficult to deal with,
that she might move on to somebody else.
I have given her my heart on a silver platter.
And I hope that she doesn't break it.
Do you ever stop and think, you know, "What am I doing?"
Like, have you had that moment?
That oh, [bleep] moment?
I think I'm having that moment right now, man.
You need to earn my loving.
There's points. We do a point system.
No. We're not doing a point system.
We are definitely doing a point system.
[Kyle] With three points, she gets a kiss.
And with ten points, she gets full on sex.
You don't know what you're talking about right now.
I definitely know what I'm talking about.
If you would have ever a proper relationship,
then you wouldn't go on these...
♪ Kickin' it poolside
♪ Hits with a grapefruit Polka dot swimsuit ♪
♪ Takin' that slow dive
♪ Sinking with you To the bottom of the pool ♪
[Anika] Today is finally the day
where I'm going to meet Kyle after seven months.
And I am so excited and nervous at the same time.
It just feels "whoo". You know, intense.
So nervous.
I don't know what I'm doing.
Like, ooh!
My son is with his dad now for the next two weeks
so that Kyle and me can spend time together.
[Anika] All right.
I just hope that when we see each other,
that there will be just happiness and this feeling of belonging to each other.
[Anika speaking]
And I never thought
that we are going to have a relationship.
Never.
But over the last seven months,
sharing text messages, sharing our feelings for each other,
I feel very special.
I feel like our connection is very special.
Which I completely fell in love with.
I'm freaking out.
I'm just freaking out, literally.
I'm completely fine with Kyle's past.
But if we have a future together,
a lot of things have to change.
If I would have it my way,
I want Kyle to stop it completely.
Or at least he has to sacrifice...
Because, I would never accept
him having sex with other women
while we are in a relationship.
[Anika giggles]
I'm feeling sick in my stomach.
Oh, my God. I think I see him.
Yeah, I think I see him.
Oh, my God. This is so crazy.
This this is just so crazy.
Oh, my God. This is so crazy. I just-- [giggles]
[both] Hi.
[both talking indistinctly]
♪ Feeling forever So wild and so free ♪
Oh, my God. Glad you're here.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
I'm blushing a little bit.
Kind of, kind of makes me blush a little bit.
- [laughs] - All right.
- I got nervous, I guess. - Yeah.
We're doing another hug because we're... Oh, my God.
- I just don't know. - God, you smell so good.
I could just eat you up right now.
♪ Look how far we've come
I think she looks a lot sexier in person than she did online, for sure.
- Oh, really? - Yeah.
- What? - Yeah. For sure, way sexier.
Kyle has the cutest brown eyes.
I love your eyes.
Aw... You're crying.
Kyle is so emotional.
I mean, I just saw her for the first time.
- Aw... - So, yeah. It's a dream come true.
- I'm so excited to see you. - Uh-huh.
I feel like nothing changed.
Like, I feel like it's the-- the same connection.
- Oh, okay. - And I think you're so cute.
You're trying to get me in the mood already, on the first date.
We gotta take it slow.
- Oh, my God. I'm like-- - You gotta wait two or three days for a kiss...
- Oh, God. - And then everything else, you have to wait more.
You need to earn my loving. You have to earn it.
There's points. We do a point system.
No. We're not doing a point system.
We are definitely doing a point system.
Ani can earn or loose points
by doing good and bad things.
Like, for instance, smoking a cigarette.
That's one point gone.
Oh, my God. I lose a lot of points then.
Drinking wine. She loses one point.
Eating healthy, that gets her points.
Smelling good, that gets her points. She smells good.
- Okay. - So, she got a point for that.
I'm making you work for stuff.
For love and affection from me.
Maybe. If you're a good girl.
- We'll see how it goes. - Oh, my...
You have to... You have to earn it.
All right.
With three points, she gets a kiss.
With five points, she gets a tongue kiss.
And with ten points,
she gets full on sex.
And I think that's a good plan.
I feel nervous. Just nervous.
[sighs]
I just don't wanna jump in the bed with Ani
because that's what I do with a woman for sperm donation.
It's much more clinical.
Where, with Ani, I want to build our emotional connection first
before getting physical.
And by having this point system,
that's the best way to do that.
I think the problem is,
you never had a really stable relationship.
So, you don't know what you're talking about right now.
I definitely know what I'm talking about.
No. I think if you would have ever a proper relationship,
then you wouldn't go on these...
You're so sexy when you get kind of upset.
Our first meeting is a bit confusing.
I don't like that.
I still do have butterflies for him.
But his lack of experience is so obvious.
So, I hope he can learn fast.
If not, this is going to be the longest two weeks ever of my life.
Shawn's coming today, and I'm very excited.
Looking all bad. Ah!
I haven't seen Douglas in eight months.
And in the time of this eight months,
Douglas has slowly been disappearing,
and Alliya's been more appearing.
I guess the only thing I'm a little nervous about is,
if I'm gonna only see Alliya on this trip,
or if I'll see Douglas, too.
About a year ago, I started planning an epic proposal.
I knew I could marry Douglas, but...
I'm unsure if I could marry Alliya.
For me, it was very clear before.
Like, we're doing Alliya tonight.
And tomorrow, when we wake up, it's Douglas.
I'm gonna have a weird headspace if we're Alliya 24/7.
So, I'm hoping, when I get to Brazil
and I spend time with Alliya,
that I will still be able to see Douglas within Alliya.
I mean, I'm hoping she'll melt them together.
You know, she's found something that's giving her happiness.
I want that happiness.
I just don't want to totally give up Douglas.
[in other language]
[in English]
[in other language]
[in English]
[in other language]
[in English] I love it.
[in other language]
[in English]
[giggles]
We are together around three years now,
and he makes me so happy.
When I'm with Shawn...
- Hi. - [driver speaking]
[narrator] This season on Love in Paradise...
♪ Tonight it's just you and me ♪
♪ We can just get away
Tonight is all about...
♪ If I say ooh, daddy, daddy Ooh, daddy, daddy, ooh ♪
I've kind of had my doubts,
especially what he said about Tiffany.
What do you think about Tiffany?
He said that he wouldn't mind
having a threesome with me and Tiffany.
Girl, hell no.
Adriano wants to have a threesome with me and her.
He's thinking about having sex with my cousin.
That's not okay.
You can't just say, "Oh, I'm looking at your cousin's booty.
How you doing today?"
It's getting stupid.
Alliya's way different than Douglas was.
I think I have to be able to donate on some level.
I'd rather you accept it.
Like, do you think I like that?
This is insane.
[sighs in exasperation]
Oh, my God. [crying]
[Alliya] I love Shawn.
If Shawn loves me, that means accepting me as Alliya now,
and letting Douglas go.
[crying]
The prenup is something that I will not budge on.
Because I think that I am the best opportunity
- that you have. - Best opportunity
you I think I have it?
Where is the [bleep] money?
I don't see the money.
I've made up my mind.
Everybody made mistakes.
There are just certain mistakes
I just cannot tolerate.
[crying]