Karen Larrea and Breana Symone, stars of HBO Max's new reality dating series 'My Mom, Your Dad,' join Cheddar News to discuss season one. 

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Stars of HBO Max's New Reality Dating Series 'My Mom, Your Dad' Talk Season One

come back. Friends Between Bells and Cheddar news. I'm baker machado in new york and from executive producers of parks and rec and Love Island. Now comes HBO max's new reality dating series called My Mom Your Dad. Now this heartwarming show follows a group of single parents who have been nominated by their kids for a second shot at Love. Take a look at this. I'm ready. I'm so ready. It's been too long. It's just been too many wrong choices. I think I would agree with you. I'm nominating my mom because she needs help finding love. Maybe could possibly use a little pushing in the right direction. Someone needs to fix her. And she's not listening to me and joining us now to discuss our stars of the show. Karen, Lauria and Briana Simone, great to have both of you guys here with us, Karen, I want to start with you. I mean that was sort of an interesting clip that we just played right there. So for our viewers who don't know much of the show, you along with a bunch of other parents move into a house, completely unaware that your kids have moved in together down the road and they're watching you on hidden camera. So I guess my big question to you is why did you decide to sign up for this series? I had no idea that my daughter would be watching me. We were told that they were going into the other house. We knew they were coming along since our college age Children nominated us. But we were told they were going to the other house to talk about us to kind of let them know what was our favorite things they were going to be recording content for social media never to be eyeing every single move that we made. I've tried all other kinds of dating, why not let America see me try to date. Why not? You know, look, I love that, I love that mindset and Brianna, what was it about your mom's dating life that you thought okay, she's tried all these other things. This might be the thing that works here. Really baker. Well, I mean like she said she's tried everything and just nothing works so it and she doesn't listen to me so I need a little help getting her to listen to me. So thank God HBO max what Briana Brianna, what was it like watching your mom do all of this? Was that uncomfortable for you? Or do you enjoy watching your mom on the other side? It was so uncomfortable. Really? Like I know she dates, she talked to me about dating but to watch her do it and her not know that I'm watching her? It's just I just saw another side of my mom but I haven't seen so Karen, how would you describe the experience? Did you, did you actually enjoy it? Oh I loved the experience. I thought it was great. Um we really connected with, you know, I was obviously the adult house, the parents house and all of the parents, we all connected wonderfully. We we still to the state, have an amazing relationship, we, we made an extended family so completely enjoyed the experience um when I found out Briana had been watching me um that I was a little taken back on that to say the least, and I had to literally go into a little file in my brain to think of everything I said, and did you know how you're different when you're with people that you are interacting as in dating than your own Children? So I was like, oh my God, what did I say? What did I do know? So Karen, how how how long did it take you till you find out that Brianna is watching? You did was at the end of the season or do you know, early on in this process that she's watching? No, literally when you leave the house, they're like, by the way, the dating control we have been talking about are your Children and I was like, what? So would you go back, would you? I mean, I don't, I mean obviously if you find love that makes the story even more amazing here, but if you have, if you have the opportunity, would you go back and do it again and would you recommend this to somebody who's maybe single and looking, I absolutely would recommend this. I mean this was amazing and and and how brilliant for Greg and Hayley Daniels, the creators of this show to even come up with this, and then as a father and a daughter duo to even come up with this um and you knew you knew it was gonna be something great, we didn't, we didn't even know who the creators were until we left, so once we found out, oh wow, the office parks and recreation, Love Island, this is gonna be good. So I definitely would recommend it for someone. Absolutely, it was an amazing six weeks of my life. Now, Briana, you guys ended up leaving during the sixth episode because there was a family emergency that happened and I hope everything is okay with the family, but were you sort of able to sort of get as much as you wanted from the experience with you and your mom through those six episodes? Yes, of course, I, the experience was so life changing, just because of the people that we met and just learning more about my mom and understanding each other more, it just really was a great experience overall, Karen, did this experience maybe teach you something differently about the matchmaking process, Did it open your eyes to something different here? It's just you know, we did a lot of deep exercises as as couples individually, so you learn a little bit deeper about yourself, definitely. Okay, so Brianna before the show, you guys were just a normal regular family, like the rest of us, but now your reality stars So now where do you want to see this go from here? How I mean, hopefully we can take it as far as we can. Hopefully I hope to get into modeling and I know my mom has always been an entertainment industry so this is her comfort and Karen um no spoilers here because obviously I can't wait to watch this, I'm very excited to find out what happens. Do things end happy? I'm gonna tell the viewers are going to have to watch out for eight, I can't wait. And uh and any advice Karen you have for anybody after this experience when it comes to dating. I mean just definitely put yourself out there, put your walls down, be vulnerable, be yourself, listen to your kids more. I can't wait. This is gonna be my new favorite show to watch. Can't wait to do it guys. Thanks of course, the reality stars Karen, Lauria and Briana Simone my mom. Your dad available to watch on HBO max right now guys