The basic gameshow Blind Date might be returning to our televisions over 20 years since broadcasting legend Cilla Black launched singletons – a few of that are nonetheless married

A legendary match-making TV present from the 80s could possibly be “returning” with Holly Willoughby or Davina McCall rumoured as potential hosts. If Blind Date is revived, it is going to be 22 years because it was hosted by Cilla Black.

In a twist the basic ITV gameshow is not going to be revived by the BBC, as was beforehand anticipated, however by international streaming service Disney+. The hearsay is the producers wish to hold to custom with a high British feminine host with Claudia Winkleman, Holly Willoughby and Davina McCall all within the working.

The love-based gameshow was famed for its sliding wall separating contestants and the favored function can also be set to make a comeback. It’s unknown if the producers will hold the function performed by Graham Skidmore – aka as ‘our Graham’ – who supplied Cilla with a abstract of every contestant. He died in 2021 on the age of 90.

An insider advised the Solar: “Though there’s prone to be some fashionable twists, the bosses very a lot wish to hold the essence of the unique. There’ll be key components returning, together with the well-known sliding wall.

“Plus there will likely be a prize up for grabs of a marriage package deal, which echoes Cilla’s well-known gag every time {couples} had loved a profitable date, and he or she used to ask, ‘Do I want to purchase an ‘at for the marriage?'”

Final 12 months, a Blind Date couple had been present in a viral video – and so they had been nonetheless fortunately married three many years on. In a video posted to X, the particular person recording stopped Sue and Alex on the street to ask if the duo had been a pair, which led them to clarify their love story.

The person mentioned: “We met on tv. We met on a TV sport present, it was known as Blind Date.”

The girl’s face lit up as she talked about the present’s host Cilla Black, whereas her husband revealed that followers of the present can “look them up on-line”. He continued: “17.5million individuals watched our marriage ceremony!”

His spouse smiled sweetly and leaned on his shoulder because the pair reminisced their large day. Alex defined his favorite factor about his spouse: “The truth that really, she’s as lovely right this moment as she was once I first met her,” earlier than Sue added: “He’s so sort and he makes me chuckle on a regular basis!”

Their recommendation for anybody else getting ready for a blind date? “Go into it with an open coronary heart and simply go in, benefit from it and be optimistic. And be good!”

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