"Sarah and Marc in Love" was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

  reality show following German popstar Sarah Connor

Sarah Connor (musician)

Sarah Marianne Corina Lewe , better known by her stage name Sarah Connor, is a German singer, songwriter and television personality. Connor debuted in 2001 under the guidance of artist manager George Glueck and became the first solo act to ever have four consecutive chart-topping hits on the German...

 and her American

United States

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 former boy band

Boy band

A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...

 member husband Marc Terenzi

Marc Terenzi

Marc Eric Terenzi is an American pop singer formerly of the boy band Natural. He was married to German pop/soul singer Sarah Connor from 2005-2008. They have a son named Tyler and a daughter named Summer.-Early life:...

 as they tried to set up their wedding

Wedding

A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage or a similar institution. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes...

 ceremony.

Origin

Sarah Connor and Marc Terenzi

Marc Terenzi

Marc Eric Terenzi is an American pop singer formerly of the boy band Natural. He was married to German pop/soul singer Sarah Connor from 2005-2008. They have a son named Tyler and a daughter named Summer.-Early life:...

 were both big stars in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 when they met in 2003. Marc was a member of the boyband Natural

Natural (band)

Natural was an American boy band who were best known for their debut single and signature song "Put Your Arms Around Me". They were very successful in Germany and the Philippines, releasing two albums and nine singles.-Formation:...

 at the time and Sarah was releasing her highly successful second album Unbelievable

Unbelievable (Sarah Connor album)

-Chart positions:...

. At the time Marc's manager Lou Pearlman

Lou Pearlman

Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman is a former impresario of the successful 1990s boy bands such as The Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Take 5, O-Town and US5. In 2006, it was discovered that Pearlman had perpetrated one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history, leaving more than $300...

 had wanted the relationship kept quiet but when Sarah became pregnant with their son in 2003 it could no longer be kept quiet. The two elope

Elope

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d and Sarah gave birth to their son Tyler in February 2004.

In Summer 2005 the couple participated in a reality show called Sarah and Marc in Love. The episodes were an hour long and in the style of other celebrity couple reality shows such as Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. The show was mainly in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 though there were parts in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 with German subtitles (usually when the couple fought and Marc only spoke English.)

The episodes mainly revolved around planning the wedding and the hardships accompanying that though other episodes had different themes such as Marc recording his album, Sarah recording her part for Robots

Robots (film)

Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox, and was released theatrically on March 11, 2005. The story was created by Chris Wedge and William Joyce, a children's book author/illustrator. The two were trying to create a film version of...

, and Sarah's German National Anthem

Das Lied der Deutschen

The "'" , has been used wholly or partially as the national anthem of Germany since 1922. The music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797 as an anthem for the birthday of the Austrian Emperor Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire...

 scandal. The finale was an extra long episode showing the day and night of the wedding. The couple was successfully remarried. Sarah's next single "Living to Love You" went to #1 and Marc's song "Love to be Loved by You" (which was his wedding present to Sarah and sung during the ceremony) went to #3.

A DVD of the series was released on November 25th, 2005 in Germany.

Cast

• Sarah Connor
• Marc Terenzi
  Marc Terenzi
  Marc Eric Terenzi is an American pop singer formerly of the boy band Natural. He was married to German pop/soul singer Sarah Connor from 2005-2008. They have a son named Tyler and a daughter named Summer.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tyler (son)
• Frank (wedding planner)
• Soraya (Sarah's mother)
• Michael Leve (Sarah's father)
• Sophia Luisa (Sarah's sister)
• Valentina (Sarah's sister)
• Marisa (Sarah's sister)
• Anna Maria (Sarah's sister)
• Robin (Sarah's brother)
• Mike (Marc's cousin)

Episodes

• Aller Anfang ist schwer (Every Beginning Is Hard)
• Memories
• Wasserspiele (Playing in Water)
• Allianz-Arena
• Knock out
• Relax, Sarah
• Ich mach dich "fresh" (I'll Make You "Fresh")
• Sarah in Sorge (Sarah in Trouble)
• Man muss auch mal NEIN sagen können (Sometimes One Must Be Able to Say NO)
• Ein Indianer kennt keinen Schmerz (An Indian Does Not Know Pain)
• Wer ist der Killer? (Who Is the Killer?)
• Wild, Wild West
• Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst (I spy with my little eye)
• Die Party des Jahres (The Party of the Year)