For Ed “Big Ed” Brown, it all goes down in the DMs.
“I am getting wedding proposals almost each other day. They’re [from other folks] over 85 years previous and I don’t even know the place their nursing house is, so I don’t reply to these,” Ed, 59, solely told Us Weekly on Tuesday, May 14. “The closing crazy DM I simply were given, they’re actually neighbors [who] invited me to head on a pair’s go back and forth to Florida, all bills paid. I’m like, neatly, ‘I’m single, don’t worry.’ We’re all going to have a large number of amusing. I’m like, ‘Why don’t we just take hold of a drink in the community and spot what happens?’ I am getting a lot of the ones requests.”
Ed has previously been engaged to Rose Vega and Liz Woods, respectively, and each relationships had been chronicled on seasons of 90 Day Fiancé. (He additionally stocks adult daughter Tiffany with ex-wife Sandra Heckman.) Since Ed and Liz not too long ago cut up for just right, he’s gotten a steady movement of DM requests.
“People wish to take me out to dinner or to lunch and what I don’t like about this is that they don’t wish to have lunch with me. They wish to have lunch with ‘Big Ed,’ and that includes the territory,” Ed informed Us. “But on a lighter word, I'm able to use my public figure [status to paintings with] charities [like] the Remembering Nicholas Foundation.”
The TLC character also gets an outstanding selection of Cameo requests from enthusiasts.
“I’m in fact making more money this 12 months than I did ultimate 12 months,” Ed famous. “So, other folks nonetheless love me. They like the hen hat and my scooter and, whats up, it will pay my bills.”
In addition to helping prepare charity occasions and working to beef up his way of life, Ed is still looking for love.
“I’ve been relationship. It’s still weird as a result of even the phrase ‘date,’ it has a destructive connotation because while you date anyone, you’re principally pretending to be somebody else,” Ed added. “So what I’m specializing in [is] creating friendships. I've a handful of other people [who] I’ve met through the trade that we pass to lunch in combination, we cross to Top Golf, we pass to satisfied hours together. And so, I’m patiently looking ahead to the correct individual to come alongside.”
Ed is hoping to seek out a “natural” and “organic” romance, ruling out meeting a spouse on a relationship app or connecting with a 90 Day fan.
“Would I date a fan? I have [and] I don’t suggest it,” he explained. “Here’s why: They like Big Ed, the character that I created, and after they get to grasp the true Ed … it’s no longer the similar. So, dating fans, on the whole, [isn’t] a good idea.”
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Ed, on the other hand, does know what he needs in his next severe dating.
“I’m looking for any individual that respects me, that I will be able to recognize any person that’s safe,” Ed instructed Us. “Being a public figure, it’s truly tricky and [is] for numerous relationships. So I’m searching for anyone that doesn’t wish to be within the spotlight, doesn’t want to be on TV and … they have got to love who they are and be at liberty. I will be able to’t cause them to happy and they can’t make me glad. We have to do that for ourselves.”
With reporting through Yana Grebenyuk
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