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We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not E! Is finding love one of your New Year's resolutions? For those who are ready to embark on their journey to happily ever after, you need to read Diann Valentine's book Going The Distance For Love: 22 Tips On Handling Your Issues and Finding Love...Wherever It May Be. And if anyone knows how to find Mr. Right, it's Diann. The star of To Rome for Love has helped people all over the world find true love! In her best-selling book, the event designer and TV host encourages readers, both men and women, to self-reflect on...

Gina Neely‘s divorce from ex-husband Pat after over 20 years together gave her the strength to finally start living life on her own terms. But just because their romance ended doesn’t mean the former Food Network star has given up on love — or marriage.

“I want to find love again, love being in love,” Neely tells People in this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. “I want to get married again. I love being married. I’m not against marriage and I’m not against love.”

Though she had been dating periodically in the 4 years since her divorce was finalized,...

In the new Bravo show To Rome for Love, author and love expert Diann Valentine brings a group of five single black women to Italy’s capital city — where she says eligible bachelors celebrate and adore women of color.

It’s something Valentine has been doing for years now with her matchmaking company The Venus Affect, which designs bespoke private experiences for women interested in dating European men.

“This is a chance for black women to try something different,” Valentine tells People of the service. “The men my clients meet there aren’t the same as American black men. They...

Get ready to experience “The Venus Effect.”

That’s the name of “love expert” Diann Valentine’s “magical” matchmaking program, which takes women of color overseas to find love. The experience is documented on Bravo’s new series, To Rome for Love, premiering on Sunday night, and Et caught up with Diann at the show’s launch to get the details on the one-of-a-kind excursion.

“About five years ago, I started my company and I started officially taking women to Rome … to date, you know, European and Italian men,” Diann explains to Et. “I have a long history, and a long love affair, with Italy, and I started really noticing how men react to black women when we are there. Honey! We are very popular in those Italian streets.”

Diann, who got her start in the romance business as a luxury wedding planner (Bravo viewers may even remember her as Real Housewives of Orange County star [link=nm...

To Rome for Love is headed to the small screen this January, and viewers will see five women look for love in Italy. The series was originally titled Love Italian Style.Bravo revealed more about the series in a press release. Check that out below.“Bravo Media escapes to Rome to find love Italian style in the new docu-series, To Rome for Love, premiering Sunday, January 7 at 9pm. For decades, love expert Diann Valentine has been traveling to Italy to enjoy the great food, amazing architecture, and history. Along the way, she discovered the best-kept secret in town: Italian men love black women. In this picturesque country where women of color are celebrated and adored, Diann is on a mission to help single ladies who can't find a good man in America. With her years of experience in the relationship space, she...

Diann Valentine has a secret for black women looking for love: go to Italy.

The author and love expert has been taking single black women to the boot-shaped country for years, where she says Italian men celebrate and adore women of color. And next year on Bravo, she’ll be taking five women — including Down Home with the Neelys star Gina Neely — to Rome and documenting their journey on the new Bravo series, To Rome for Love.

People has the exclusive first look at the docu-series, which also features Shay Atkins, Nakita McGraw, Ashley Russell, and Mercedes Young.

“Rome is...

TNT has premiered its first-ever unscripted drama .Wedding Day. from producing giants Mark Burnett Productions and DreamWorks Television, with Mark Burnett (Survivor); DreamWorks. Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey (Las Vegas, TNT.s Into the West); and Janelle Fiorito (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) serving as executive producers. The series features celebrity wedding/event planners Alan Dunn and Diann Valentine. .Wedding Day. gives deserving couples a helping hand to ensure the most important day of their lives is also the most magical. Each week, Dunn (For Better or Worse) and Valentine (author of Weddings Valentine Style) host as family, friends and community come together to create a dream wedding. Along the way, viewers will learn each couple.s compelling story, from their...

No eating bugs. No "you're fired." This is a different side of renowned television producer Mark Burnett, the man behind Survivor and The Apprentice. In TNT's new reality series Wedding Day, nuptial planner to the stars Diann Valentine bursts into the lives of deserving couples and sets up their dream weddings, all in under a week and completely by surprise. June, of course, is the perfect month to kick off a wedding show--nearly 300,000 couples will wed in June, contributing to the massive $72 billion wedding industry. Valentine talked with Fast Company's Zachary Wilson to explain her new show, how it's just a small piece of her growing empire, and just why we're all so obsessed with weddings.

Fast Company: Tell me about Wedding Day. Diann Valentine: It's all about making dream weddings come true. We go around the country and in four days we come in and super size it.