Meet 'Marrying Millions' Season 2 couple, millionaire Rick Sykes and his influencer female friend, Erica Moser, who is Forty six years younger.
When it comes to escapist reality television, not anything has managed to capture our consideration more than Lifetime's Marrying Millions, a sequence about couples where one individual is very wealthy and the other is not.
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Now in its second season, Marrying Millions has introduced a brand new inter-wealthy couple: Erica Moser, 23, and Rick Sykes, 69, whose greatest drawback — on screen, anyway — is their over-40 12 months age distinction. Keep studying for the whole lot you want to learn about Erica, Rick, and whether they have stored their May-December courting going sturdy.
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Who are 'Marrying Millions' stars Erica and Rick?
Springfield, Ill. local and influencer Erica Moser met her just about septuagenarian multimillionaire boyfriend on social media. "We just connected through Instagram," she recalled in an interview with FOX. "Neither one of us really knows how."
She is going on to say that the 2 had been "just kind of following each other for a year or so and just seeing each other's photos and liking whatever, and we never really talked."
"But then," she continues, "he just randomly sent me a couple of messages and we started talking and then we met. And then the rest is history."
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On her YouTube channel, the 23-year-old explains that she's been into "age gap relationships" for a while now and unearths them "less dramatic and non-problematic" than courting folks her personal age. At one point, she even mentions courting an ex whose three grown youngsters had been older than Erica on the time.
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Anyway, after Rick and Erica connected, he instructed her to "come live with me on my yacht," which the gorgeous blonde to start with concept that was once a "crazy thing to send somebody that you don't even know." Eventually, she caved and moved out to Miami Beach to live on Rick's yacht.
Are Rick and Erica nonetheless in combination these days?
The largest problem we see Rick and Erica face on Marrying Millions revolves around the superstar's dad who, let's simply say, isn't in particular obsessed with the fact that his daughter is going out with somebody older than him.
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"I can't blame my dad for not being happy or being completely supportive," Erica says, understandingly. "It was definitely not his dream for his little baby girl to be dating someone older than him."
To date, her father has now not in point of fact grow to be "OK" or "comfortable" with the truth that the couple stay an merchandise, but Erica says she "really [doesn't] blame him."
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"My dad is very nervous and he's very worried about how it's going to affect his daily life," she mentioned about her dad's nervousness about having agreed to be at the display. "I feel sorry that I kind of dragged him into this, but I'm very grateful that he stuck it through with me."
However, the father and daughter are "not really" on nice phrases in this day and age.
Things for Erica are significantly better in terms of her different outdated man, as she and Rick are still going strong and replace fans on their newfound Marrying Millions status. Erica and Rick are both on Instagram, and Erica additionally maintains a TikTok and YouTube channel.
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When one fan wrote she was once "noticing no pics of Rick on her Instagram," Erica clapped again to say that "he's literally in every YouTube video, 3/4 of my TikToks, and on a show lol. Everyone knows we are together. It's honestly just nice having ONE platform that isn't full of hate comments."
Fair sufficient! Watch new episodes of Marrying Millions, Wednesdays at 10 p.m ET on Lifetime.
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