"showmance" meaning in English

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          "text": "I notoriously fell for my leading man. I really did. By the third or fourth leading man I said \"No, Mom, it's real. I love him. I know it is sort of like a pattern but I love him.\" There is legitimacy to a showmance.\"",
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          "ref": "2005, Jane Ganahl, Single Woman of a Certain Age: 29 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife—Romantic Escapades, Empty Nests, Shifting Shapes, and Serene Independence, New World Library, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "Eventually the tale of a stagehand who seemed to be separated from his housebound wife, but, oddly, not when she came to visit, seemed more amusing than appalling, and I learned not to wince at the various (sometimes painfully) young women who arrived breathless and eager for a Showmance—whether or not there was a wife in the background. [sic]",
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          "ref": "2008, David Lyle quoted in \"Love is in the Air This Valentine’s Day When Fox Reality Channel Premieres 'The Top 25 Hottest Reality Showmances,'\" Business Wire, February 11, 2008, 09:00 AM EST, (article)",
          "text": "In addition to mud-slinging, deception and drama, showmance is one aspect that makes reality television so addicting."
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        "A romance between cast members or production crew of a play or television show (often reality shows) which only lasts the duration of the show, or its filming."
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        "(colloquial) A romance between cast members or production crew of a play or television show (often reality shows) which only lasts the duration of the show, or its filming."
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