Japanese billionaire abandons search for space girlfriend

Yusaku Maezawa
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The greatest potential love story of our time has already come to a crushing end.

Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has scrapped plans for a dating show on which he'd search for a girlfriend to take to space after receiving more than 27,000 applications, The Verge reports.

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But Maezawa has now announced that actually, never mind, writing on Twitter that "due to personal reasons, I have informed AbemaTV yesterday with my decision to no longer participate in the matchmaking documentary, hence requested for the cancellation of the show." Full Moon Lovers will presumably no longer come to be, unless some other billionaire also seeking a space girlfriend can take over at the last minute.

Apparently, though, Maezawa's plan for the trip around the moon remain, per BBC News. Meanwhile, the bidding war in Hollywood for the rights to a Full Moon Lovers romantic comedy is presumably already underway.

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Brendan Morrow

Brendan worked as a culture writer at The Week from 2018 to 2023, covering the entertainment industry, including film reviews, television recaps, awards season, the box office, major movie franchises and Hollywood gossip. He has written about film and television for outlets including Bloody Disgusting, Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Heavy and The Celebrity Cafe.