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‘A less likely haven of progress is Naked Attraction.’ Photograph: Naked Attraction C4 Naturally, Greig was invited back, and, happily, found love with someone nice. But many of the most recent series’ best moments have been on the gayer side of romance, from the man who explained the perils of gay-dating apps – intimate pictures popping up when you’re on the tube – to the rudeness of John, who told his twinkly-eyed date Greig that he shouldn’t even stay for the main course, because he didn’t find him attractive.
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Without including people who identify as gay and straight and the areas in between, First Dates would, of course, still work, and the voyeuristic enjoyment of eavesdropping on any couple’s first evening together would still be there. ITV’s Dinner Date often has same-sex couples, as does Channel 4’s First Dates. Celine Dion superfan Alice from Leeds gets her pick of three women, but only after she’s asked them what meal they’d cook her first.ĭating shows now feature people looking for love across the spectrum, and it’s refreshingly commonplace, and these days, it largely goes unnoticed. But this is modern Blind Date, for the 21st century, which means this weekend will see the show’s first ever LGBT matchmaking.
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All who take part share a pleasing optimism that the one with the nice voice will turn out to be a dreamboat, too. Each week, one person gets to choose and three people hope to be chosen, through a process of navigating terrible puns in answer to cheesy questions. From the sliding door to the catchphrases, it’s all soothingly familiar.