90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? star Big Ed Brownneeds to be removed from the franchise for his series of deplorable acts both on and off camera. Big Ed is a 59-year-old man who was first seen in 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days season 4. Big Ed used to live in San Diego and had formed an online relationship with single mom Rose Vega from the Philippines. He became famous for putting mayonnaise in his hair and for his unique appearance due to his short neck due to Klippel-Feil syndrome. From the start, Big Ed thought of himself as superior to Rose and suspected she was dating him for money and a green card. Big Ed lied to Rose about his height. Big Ed has perhaps been the most memed cast member in the history of 90 Day Fiancé.
Even those who don’t watch 90 Day Fiancé know who he is. Big Ed’s popularity has managed to get him several spin-offs, even though his relationship with Rose was a fail. Big Ed began dating Liz Woods in The Single Life season 1 and broke up with her a total of 15 times until he canceled their wedding in August 2023. Until today, it’s still a mystery why Liz chose to date Big Ed, especially after knowing how he behaved towards Rose. Big Ed is currently in the news for his whirlwind engagement with Porscha Raemond. Big Ed knows how to be the center of attention at all times. He keeps getting fans to talk about him. However, Big Ed’s behavior has become predictable. He’s just someone who is attention-hungry and will keep chasing clout for the rest of his life.
10 Big Ed Has Lost Oodles Of Weight
Fans Ask If Big Ed Is Taking Weight-Loss Drugs
Big Ed decided to transform himself after his split with Liz. Big Ed has always talked about how “heartbreak” has led to him losing weight. Big Ed had lost 35 pounds after his first divorce. However, it’s strange that Big Ed claims he was heartbroken at the time, since his wife left him because he had cheated on her. Big Ed also started going to the gym after Rose dumped him in 2020. His fitness journey went for a toss after he met Liz. Perhaps watching Liz drop over 40 pounds of weight and getting a size zero figure inspired him.
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In March 2024, Big Ed had lost almost 12 pounds and wanted to reach his ideal weight of 194 pounds. It looks like he is inching closer to his goal now. In September 2024, Big Ed posted a video of him lifting weights and fans noticed his waist looked slimmer than ever and his body also looked less broad than before. When asked if the secret behind his rapid weight loss was drugs, Big Ed said, “No.” Big Ed has lied to fans before, and it wouldn’t be surprising if he’s doing it while talking about his fitness transformation too.
9 Big Ed Outed Rose Vega On National Television
Big Ed Forced Rose To Come Out
90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days season 4 had a quarantine special Tell All. All cast members had joined through video cameras from the comfort of their homes. Big Ed and Rose came face to face for the first time since their split, even though it was through a screen. Fans had watched Big Ed insult Rose in many ways, including by asking her to take an STD test and making her shave her legs, or gifting her a toothbrush and toothpaste because her breath smelled. However, during the Tell All, he outed her as a bisexual.
Big Ed forced Rose to come out on the show. He claimed that Rose wanted him to come back to the Philippines, but he decided against it when he saw pictures of Rose holding a woman’s hands online. Rose was questioned about this new relationship. She admitted that she was dating a woman but that she had ended things with her. Rose had to reveal that she was bisexual. Rose had never talked about her sexuality on the show. It was not Big Ed’s business and his talking about it had come as a surprise to the Filipina woman.
8 Big Ed Body-Shamed Liz Woods
Big Ed Wanted Liz To Lose Weight
Big Ed has received flak for several ways in which he mistreated Liz on the show. However, he also offended several fans when he commented on Liz’s weight. Big Ed and Liz had split for a few months after 90 Day: The Single Life season 1, and it appears that after she went back to him, Liz was ready to do anything to please Big Ed. She had joined heels dancing classes and documented her weight loss on social media. It was later revealed that Liz was doing it not to feel good about herself but on Big Ed’s instructions.
Big Ed didn’t like Liz going out with her friends, since he thought they mocked him behind his back. However, he had given her permission to go workout so she could lose weight. The relationship was taking a massive toll on Liz’s emotional and mental well-being. She told her friend Alex that Big Ed made passive-aggressive comments about her appearance. When they looked through their old pictures, Big Ed asked her if she was ever going to go back to that weight. Liz admitted she never felt as insecure about herself as she did then.
7 Big Ed Accused Liz Of Cheating On Him With A Woman
Big Ed Called Liz A Lesbian
If Big Ed had forced Rose to admit she was bisexual, he had tried doing the same thing to Liz after their engagement. In an episode of 90 Day Fiancé‘s Happily Ever After? season 7, Big Ed and Liz had an engagement party where a co-worker of Liz’s had shown up, and Big Ed was convinced the woman liked Liz in more of a romantic way. He had asked Liz about it, and she got upset and left. Liz left the party all by herself and started walking the streets crying. The producers offered to give Liz a ride home.
“Liz, she was a lesbian you were in a relationship with. She got physical with you and she denied it.”
Big Ed was trying to gaslight Liz into admitting she was a lesbian. A confused Liz asked Big Ed, “When?” and he said, “You tell me.” Big Ed accused Liz of being with both men and women after their split. All Liz wanted was proof, but Big Ed kept telling her that he was tired of her dishonesty and that he wanted to marry her, but he couldn’t because of trust issues. Liz told the cameras that she would never have invited someone to her engagement party if she’d had a relationship with them.
6 Big Ed Flirted With Darcey’s Underage Daughter
Aniko Bollok Made Some Shocking Accusations
In April 2021, TVShowsAce shared a shocking report about Darcey’s daughters, Aniko Bollok, and Aspen Bollok’s opinions about Big Ed. Rose, Liz, and now Porscha are all younger than Big Ed’s daughter, Tiffany Brown. Big Ed has never had a relationship with a woman close to his age on the show and his interactions with his fans on social media have always had a creepy vibe to them. 90dayfiancefanatics2 had shared a screenshot showing one of Darcey’s daughters, Aniko commenting on how Big Ed made her feel uncomfortable when she met him.
Aniko and Aspen were 16 and 14 years old at the time. She wrote that during the season 4 Tell All, Big Ed commented on her and her sister. She recalled Big Ed talking about “how attractive” she and Aspen were. She wrote that it made both of them feel “uncomfortable.” Big Ed seems to have never reacted to such shocking accusations made by a co-star’s daughter. Big Ed should have at least apologized for making the kids feel unsafe.
5 Big Ed Tried To Cause A Breakup Between Liz & Jayson
Big Ed Wanted Jayson To Dump Liz – He Failed
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Big Ed was the one who broke up with Liz ahead of their wedding, but he was trying his best to make Liz come back to him during the Tell All for 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? season 8. Big Ed commented that he was certain Liz was going to break Jayson’s heart, and he was going to come to Big Ed to get consoled. Big Ed said Liz and Jayson’s relationship wouldn’t last more than six months. He also got too close to comfort with Liz at the Tell All mansion.
He could have avoided sitting next to her in a hot tub considering he didn’t want her in his life anymore, but he did. Cast members watched Big Ed and Liz holding hands. While it was unacceptable on Liz’s part and disrespectful to Jayson, who trusted her to be around his ex, Big Ed encouraged her behavior. He fully expected Jayson to break up with Liz after he watched them getting close on the Tell All. Unfortunately for Big Ed, Jayson and Liz are still together and will complete their first anniversary of being together in October 2024.
4 Big Ed Got Engaged To A Fan
Big Ed Met Porscha At A Meet & Greet
Big Ed has been doing a lot of side gigs apart from his job as a real estate agent to make money. One of the things that helps him make an income in 2024 is fan meets. Big Ed has been traveling all over the country doing meet-and-greet events. In September 2024, Big Ed was at Plantation in Florida. He was invited as a guest to a sandwich shop called Capriotti’s where he served sandwiches and posed for photos with fans. One of the fans he met was Porscha, a 29-year-old woman who stole his heart.
Big Ed decided to go on a date with Porscha the next day. It was love at first sight for Big Ed, according to TMZ and he thought she was his dream girl. Big Ed was so impressed by Porscha that he fashioned a ring out of a paperclip which he took from the restaurant manager and asked her to marry him. Porscha also accepted his proposal and posed happily for pictures with the much older man. However, just a few days had passed when Big Ed revealed he’d called off the engagement.
3 Porscha Revealed Big Ed Did It For Attention
Porscha Confirmed Her & Big Ed Were Never Together
Big Ed revealed that his engagement had ended because it was something that he had done impulsively, without considering things. He admitted it was too soon and not something he had wanted. He realized that he didn’t want to get married and wanted to be single. After Big Ed shared and deleted his statement, Porscha posted a statement of her own. Shabooty reposted Porscha’s Story which said that, in her perspective, “it was solely for publicity rather than a real engagement.” Porscha believed it was not a “commitment in any way.”
Porscha reminded her followers that given she had known Big Ed only for 24 hours, there was “NO way” she would have genuinely committed to such an engagement. She repeated that she was not engaged to Big Ed and was not together with him “by any means.” Interestingly, in his The Sydney Morning Herald interview, Big Ed mentioned that the media “attacked” Porscha, and she was stalked on social media, ultimately leading to their relationship ending. He claimed he was still smitten by Porscha and was hoping to get back together with her.
“I don’t know what’s gonna happen in the future. I’m not somebody that easily gives up.”
2 Big Ed Is Flirting With 26-Year-Old Olivia Plath
Big Ed Needs A New Girlfriend Badly
If Porscha doesn’t want to date Big Ed again, he always has another younger woman’s DMs he could slide into. Big Ed had previously tried flirting with Pedro Jimeno’s sister, Nicole Jimeno, but in October 2024, a different TLC cast member revealed that she had been hit on by Big Ed. The relentless Big Ed has been on the hunt and knows exactly whom to approach so that he can have a girlfriend who’s less than half his age and a chance to come back to 90 Day Fiancé again after his split with Liz.
Big Ed is not giving up so easily and allowing himself to slip into obscurity. In her recent interview with The Sarah Fraser Show, Olivia Plath from Welcome To Plathville said she had received messages from a “pretty problematic” cast member from another reality TV show. Big Ed had slid into Olivia’s DMs. She responded to him because he was telling her “all kinds of stuff.” She replied to him with, “Yeah you like the view?” but it didn’t look like Big Ed was able to keep up with the conversation with the 26-year-old woman.
1 Big Ed Continues To Post Creepy Videos With Younger Women
Why Doesn’t Big Ed Date Someone His Own Age?
Big Ed was posting cuddly photos with young women on Instagram even when he was “engaged” to Porscha. That’s what made 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? fans doubt the validity of Big Ed’s engagement claims. Big Ed’s Instagram feed has him posing for videos and photos with multiple women. Just a day after proposing to Porscha, Big Ed posted a video with a local server at an American restaurant he had visited. They seemed pretty close as they took selfies and Big Ed couldn’t wipe the grin off his face.
The first pinned post on Big Ed’s Instagram profile has photos of him with a mystery blonde woman he had introduced as his girlfriend in June 2024. Big Ed had even hinted at making a franchise comeback with the woman who took a selfie while sitting in Big Ed’s lap. Big Ed is living his best life since his split with Big Ed, but he is desperate to find a new girlfriend quickly so that he doesn’t suffer from a case of out of sight, out of mind, and has to resort to some cheap publicity stunt again.
90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days airs Sundays at 8 p.m. EDT on TLC.
Source: Big Ed Brown/Instagram, 90 Day Fiancé/YouTube, TVShowsAce, 90dayfiancefanatics2/Instagram, TMZ, Shabooty/Instagram, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sarah Fraser Show
