August 5, 2008
Matt Neustadt has been busy with charity-related appearances now that he has already found love in Brooke Ward on The CW's Farmer Wants a Wife. Two weeks ago, he and girlfriend Brooke participated at the Big Kahuna Celebrity Bartender Challenge, which was held at Side Pockets in St. Charles. Most recently, however, he was featured in yet another charity event that is most close to his heart.
On Saturday, the Farmer Wants a Wife star posed for pictures and signed autographs as part of St. Charles' The Concert for Flood Relief, a free public event featuring various musical groups and entertainment exhibits held at Frontier Park along the Missouri River.
July 29, 2008
Matt Neustadt, a 29-year-old farmer West Alton, Missouri, appeared on The CW's Farmer Wants a Wife in attempt to find a potential romantic partner among a group of 10 single city women. Though he was attracted to several ladies on the show, his heart was eventually captured by Brooke Ward, a 22-year-old marketing representative from Dallas, Texas. And while the premise of the Farmer Wants a Wife certainly suggests the future direction of their relationship, a wedding date has not yet been set for Matt and his potential wife Brooke.
July 24, 2008
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Following a few interviews here and there, Matt Neustadt and Brooke Ward, the woman who captured his heart on the reality dating series Farmer Wants a Wife, finally goes public as they appear together for a fundraising event. If you want an update on the status of their relationship, you can ask them yourself today at the Big Kahuna Celebrity Bartender Challenge, which will be held at Side Pockets in St. Charles.
Matt Neustadt, a 29-year-old farmer from West Alton, Missouri, was the star of The CW's Farmer Wants a Wife, which is based on the British program of the same name. The series, which premiered on April 30, followed Matt as he chose a potential romantic partner among a group of 10 single city women. In the end of its eight-episode run, Matt chose Brooke Ward, a 22-year-old marketing representative from Dallas, Texas, over runner-up Christa Ackerman, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress from New York.
July 16, 2008
After the finale of Farmer Wants a Wife, media outlets have mostly focused its attention to Missouri farmer Matt Neustadt and Dallas native Brooke Ward, who won the reality dating series. Now, we focus our attention to Christa Ackerman, the runner-up who went home with a broken heart.
"I had an absolute blast with you ... and I feel terrible. I feel a stronger bond with Brooke. I'll never forget you," Matt Neustadt told Christa Ackerman at the time.
July 9, 2008
Let's face it. With the crop of reality dating shows of late, the genre has lost any semblance of credence it may have in finding people their supposed soulmates. And the endings of these kinds of shows have ranged from the shocking to the downright absurd. Season 3 of Flavor of Love ended miserably for fans as Flava Flav opted to propose to the mother of his children Liz rendering the whole season utterly pointless. On the 11th season of The Bachelor, Brad Womack chose no one between the two finalists, Jenni Croft and DeAnna Pappas. More recently, Tila Tequila of A Shot at Love picked Kristy Morgan during the finale, only to be rejected. Kristy would later reason that she “just went with what her heart said.”
Apparently, the trend is not true for Matt Neustadt and Brooke Ward, a couple borne out of yet another reality show, the recently concluded Farmer Wants a Wife. According to The Orange Country Register, Matt and Brooke are still together. In fact, Brooke drove all the way to Missouri “to see her man.”
June 27, 2008
Just as Matt Neustadt of Farmer Wants a Wife did find a potential wife with winner Brooke, the Portage Des Sioux, Missouri farmer just doesn’t have time these days to think about television. According to the New York Times, Matt’s farm is just one of the many along the Mississippi and other rivers that are taking a beating from flooding.
According to him, the Neustadt family land, near Alton, has flooded at least a half-dozen times in the last 35 years. Things turned from bad to worse when a levee near his family’s farm gave away, which opened up some 700 acres of their farm to flooding. Yet even before the levee broke, seeping groundwater had covered the land.