Even with a brand-new business administration degree from the University of Miami, Robert Riva hasn’t really been in high demand on the job market.

So he did the next best thing to getting a job: He used his boyish good looks, soulful eyes and fancy Palm Beach breeding and set out to be a reality TV star!

Riva, 22, is expected to become one of the main staples on a trashy-but-popular reality fare, Love Games. How trashy? Well, the house where the action takes place boasts a “boom-boom room.” Season 2, taped in the winter, premieres on the women’s cable network Oxygen on April 18.

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The program’s premise: Natalie Nunn, Lea Beaulieu and Amber Buhl, stars from Oxygen’s scandalous The Bad Girls Club, are vying for the affection of 15 boys. By the eighth and final episode, only one of the girls and a boy are left and viewers try to figure out if the relationship will last.

As Riva puts it: “It’s the poor man’s (The) Bachelor.”

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Riva, a graduate of Palm Beach Day School and Benjamin School, is the son of well-known marketing exec Maribel Alvarez. He knows instinctively the kind of exposure he could receive from the average million-plus of viewers per episode, especially when involved in on-air challenges that include doing jumping jacks in his Speedos.

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Look who the tide just brought in!

That’s Jenni Farley, aka JWoww of MTV’s Jersey Shore, strolling along Lincoln Road with boytoy Roger Williams (above) Monday in Miami Beach.

Williams and JWoww (right)  made an obligatory stop at Starbucks on their way to JWoww’s promotional appearance for yet another diet pill at the GNC health store.

To JWoww, it was all familiar territory.

Farley was with Snooki, The Situation and the rest of the reality crew a year ago when Jersey Shore tried to take over South Florida for three months.

Mostly, they ended up getting rejected from just about everywhere!

So, who else is town these days?

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Where the Boys Are actress singer and actress Connie Francis (above), aka Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, was honored by Il Circolo, the Italian American Society of the Palm Beaches, as Woman of the Year Sunday night in Palm Beach.

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The group picked Francis, 72, as her 1950-60s songs found renewed interest over the past months because of the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking teen cult movie.

To a male fan at a table who shouted “We love you!,” an unflappable Francis replied: “I love you, too! Where were you when I married all those stiffs?” (Francis was married and divorced four times.)

The singer of such classics as Who’s Sorry Now and Where’s Your Heart lives part-time in a downtown West Palm Beach highrise.

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Among the 200-plus at the wingding: Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach Bishop Gerald Barbarito; Consul General of Italy Marco Rocca; and Palm Beach philanthropist John Scarpa.

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– Fort Lauderdale’s declares Connie Francis Day

– The Historical Society of Palm Beach County’s Antique Row walk

– The Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s first Palm Beach gala

– The Everglades Foundation Gala, with Kenny Chesney

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As much Woofstock as fund-raiser for the Safe Harbor Animal Rescue, Saturday afternoon’s 24th Annual Celebrity Dog Wash brought more than 5,000 to Carlin Park in Jupiter.

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For 10 bucks a pop, dog owners could have their pooches cleaned — with soap, and all — by area media celebrities like WZZR radio’s Love Doctors and Josh Cohen and the Hometeam, and KOOL’s Mo & Sally; WPBF-Channel 25’s Terri Parker, WPTV-Channel 5’s John Favole and WPEC’s Juan Carlos Fanjul and Suzanne Boyd, among others.

And those more musically included got to sit on the lawn for the high-energy 1980s music of Gretchen Bonaduce (Danny’s ex) and the 1970s sound of Grand Funk Railroad.

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– The Historical Society of Palm Beach County’s Antique Row walk

– The Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s first Palm Beach gala

– The Everglades Foundation Gala, with Kenny Chesney

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Golfer Tiger Woods is back on the dating scene, and somehow landed a pretty, 22-year-old graduate student at West Palm Beach’s Northwood University, according to several unconfirmed news reports.

According to records the woman, identified as Alyse Lahti, lived down the street from Woods in Windermere, near Orlando, with her stepdad.

The stepdad, Alastair Johnston, is a high-ranking employee of IMG, the sports agency that represents Woods.

A woman at Johnston’s other home in Cleveland, where IMG is based, and where Lahti grew up, told Page2Live that Lahti no longer lives there and couldn’t be contacted. Lahti didn’t respond to emails asking for comment.

As a Northwood student, Lahti once again lives close to Woods, whose new home is in Jupiter Island.

With blue eyes and blonde hair Lahti, 13 years younger than Woods, bears a faint resemblance to Elin Nordegren, Woods’ ex-wife and the recent buyer of a $12.2 million-house at Seminole Landing in North Palm Beach.

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