Dad places newspaper ad for potential wife for 48-year-old son

By News Staff / The Associated Press

Who needs Tinder or any other dating website when you have dear old dad sourcing out a potential wife.

The father of a Salt Lake City businessman is setting up interviews for women interested in marrying his 48-year-old son, nearly a week after taking out a newspaper ad announcing the search.

Baron Brooks tells the Spokesman Review newspaper that his father, Arthur Brooks, took out the $900 ad in the Coeur d’Alene Press last weekend.

Earlier this week, he called the advertisement “embarrassing” but said he’d let his 78-year-old father go ahead with the search.

“You will probably be between the ages of 34-38 but that can be flexible,” the ad says while listing off various criteria.

“You will be attractive being height and weight proportional.”

While Brooks says he is flexible when it comes to someone with children from a previous marriage and religious orientation, there are a couple of criteria he is adamant about.

“If you voted Obama or plan to vote for Hillary you are not for me,” he states. Also, “If you are five-foot-eight and like to wear high heels it may not work.”


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Brooks says his father will be conducting interviews this weekend. He says he will pay for round trip air fare and first class lodgings, not only for the potential candidate, but for any chaperone the person may want to bring.

Brooks closes the ad by stating, “This is a serious request. Please be serious as well.”

Files from The Associated Press were used in this report

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