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Olly Murs rumoured to host Blind Date reboot
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 9 February 2017
Channel 5 is reviving classic ITV show ‘Blind Date’, with Olly Murs rumoured to replace Cilla Black as host. Black, who died in 2015, presented the show from 1985 to 2003.
According to the BBC, Murs – who’s yet to die and has never hosted ‘Blind Date’ – is currently one of several names being considered for the revamp of the show. Also in the running are Vicky Pattison, Georgia May Foote and Helen Flanagan, but none of them make this story relevant to a music news service, so I’m gunning for Olly.
The series will be co-produced by So Television and is expected to follow the original format of the show – a contestant picks one of three strangers hidden behind a screen to go on jolly with – rather than it trying to compete with the slightly cruder more modern knock-offs like ‘Take Me Out’ and ‘Naked Attraction’.
