Blind date

  • CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UK

    Blind Date's voiceover star 'Our Graham' Skidmore dies aged 90

    The voiceover artist was well known to fans of Blind Date and Shooting Stars not by his face, but for his rich speaking voice.

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    Amanda Holden reveals she was engaged at the time of 'Blind Date' appearance aged 19

    The 'Britain's Got Talent' judge said producers knew she wasn't single.

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    'Blind Date' to feature bisexual contestants for the first time.

    The dating show traditionally only catered for straight participants but since the programme was rebooted in 2017, the show has attempted to reflect society with a more diverse approach.

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    Blind Date contestants reunited 25 years after appearing on the show following chance tube encounter

    Howard Griffiths and Brigette Bard bumped into each other on the Central Line more than two decades after they first met in October 1992. Howard, who presents a shopping channel, told The Sun, he was on his way home from meeting a friend when Brigette approached him on the tube. Howard said he wooed Brigette by speaking Italian and Welsh to her during the show, and even spoke a few words of Italian to her on the Twitter video he posted.

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    Paul O'Grady: Cilla will be screaming with laughter watching me host Blind Date

    Last week, we were delighted to learn that classic dating show ‘Blind Date’ is being rebooted with Paul O’Grady at the helm. Now the comedic presenter has revealed he accepted the chance to take the reigns from the late Cilla Black as a tribute to the TV legend and his good pal. The 61-year-old host made a complete U-turn on his original decision to reject the offer by bosses because he realised Cilla would enjoy seeing him present the show and would have been “screaming with laughter”.

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    PICTURES: The famous faces and couples who met on Blind Date

    <p>Are you as excited as we are to hear that our beloved Blind Date is making an epic comeback to television screens later this year?</p><p>The show ran for two decades and was fronted by TV legend Cilla Black until she quit live on air in 2003. Not only was it jam packed with a “Lorra, lorra” laughs for us viewers to enjoy at home, it also launched the careers of a string of future British stars and even spawned a few weddings!</p><p>(Photos: REX/ITV)</p>

  • NewsDaniel Wood, TV Blogger

    Holly Willoughby’s ‘Meet the Parents’ makes me miss ‘Blind Date’

    For those of you that haven’t seen ‘Meet the Parents’ yet, it’s like ‘First Dates’ and ‘Take Me Out’ had a baby, and then that baby had a baby with ‘Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents’ resulting in what ITV clearly think is the next big Saturday night prime-time dating show. It’s hosted by nation’s sweetheart Holly Willoughby who, with the absence of Philip Schofield, manages to make it through the entire show without having a laughter fit, which probably makes ‘Meet the Parents’ worth watching fo