Randi Coy

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Randi Coy (born 1980) is a former elementary school teacher who gained celebrity in January 2004 when she (along with Steven W. Bailey) was chosen by the producers of the Los Angeles-based Fox Network reality tv show My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance as one of the show's two titular personalities.

A native of Phoenix, Arizona, Randi Coy was 23 years old at the time of production. The show's difficult-to-repeat gimmicky concept revolved around the $250,000 prize which Randi would win for herself, and another $250,000 for the rest of her family, if she participated in a fake wedding engagement to a man named "Steve Williams". In order to earn the money, she had to convince her family of the engagement and have a wedding arranged in 12-days' time with all her family members attending.

By the first episode, complications set in, as the fake fiance at the center of the scam was revealed to be the very annoying and unattractive man who fit the show's title. The revelation of the engagement to Randi's family was deliberately intended to cause tension in Randi's family. The subsequent episodes continued to follow Randi, Steve, and the Coys as they prepared for the wedding. As an additional emotional strain for the Coys, Steve's family turned out to be just as obnoxious as he was.

On the wedding day, Steve and Randi arrived at the altar to announce that the whole wedding was a setup. At the same time it was revealed that Steve was in fact an actor named Steven W. Bailey, and his "family" were also all professional actors—something that even Randi did not know. Upon Steve's revelation that "it's fake" and that he's an actor, Randi began crying.

Because nobody caught on to the entire scheme, and because Randi was unaware that Steve was part of the scam, she and her family were presented with double the amount of money that Randi had expected—$500,000 for herself and $100,000 each for her father, mother and three siblings.

The end credits of the final episode revealed that Randi's family had forgiven her for putting them through the ordeal. [1]

In the wake of the airing of the show, Randi resigned from her job as a first grade teacher at Pope John XXIII Catholic Community School in Phoenix. She had in fact only taught at the school for two months before taking unpaid administrative leave to film the show. [2]