LEGENDARY TV love-match show Blind Date is returning to screens after 22 years.

There had been rumours the programme — famously hosted on ITV by the late Cilla Black — was to be revived on the BBC.

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Claudia Winkleman is one of the three women lined up to host the revived show[/caption]

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Davina McCall is another top host to have been shortlisted for the role[/caption]

However a surprise twist will see the reboot go instead to global streaming service, Disney+.

Producers want to keep the tradition of a top British female host, with a shortlist including Claudia Winkleman, Holly Willoughby and Davina McCall.

The famous sliding wall separating the contestants will also return.

But it is not known whether it will feature a replacement for Graham Skidmore – aka “our Graham” — who provided Cilla with a summary of contestants. He died in 2021 aged 90.

He has plenty of famous namesakes, including chat show host Graham Norton, ex-footballer Graeme Souness and actor Stephen Graham.

An insider said: “Although there’s likely to be some modern twists, the bosses very much want to keep the essence of the original.

“There’ll be key elements returning, including the famous sliding wall.

“Plus there will be a prize up for grabs of a wedding package, which echoes Cilla’s famous gag whenever couples had enjoyed a successful date, and she used to ask, ‘Do I need to buy an ‘at for the wedding?’”

The Sun last year revealed plans for a revival after another Saturday night ITV hit, Gladiators, had successfully moved to the BBC.

It is believed the deep pockets of Disney+ ensured it won out over the Beeb.

It is expected to film later this year — 40 years after Blind Date first aired — and drop in 2026.

The original ran from 1985 to 2003, pulling in up to 18 million viewers.

After Cilla’s death in 2015, aged 72, it was briefly revived two years later on Channel 5 with Paul O’Grady.

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Will Stephen Graham become ‘our Graham’?[/caption]

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THESE days, it’s more shocking to discover a celebrity ISN’T on fat jabs than one who is.

But despite unashamedly admitting to her love of a cosmetic trend, Olivia Attwood vows she’ll never jump on the Ozempic bandwagon.

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The reason? She wants a BIGGER bum, not a shrinking one.

“I’m always here for the latest fad, but the jabs are actually the one thing that has never tempted me,” reveals Olivia.

“My whole goal is to actually grow an arse in the gym, so I feel like it would be counterproductive.

“I’m constantly chugging protein shakes and doing squats. I’m trying to get more curves, not have less.”

Fat jabs are just one of the cosmetic surgery trends that the Love Island legend delves into in the new series of her ITV2 show, Olivia Attwood’s The Price of Perfection.

And after investigating the surge in popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro – or GLP-1 receptor agonists, as they are known in the medical community – Olivia also has serious concerns about their safety.

“I think we are still in our infancy of knowing how these drugs behave,” says the 34 year old.

“For some people, they can be very powerful and life-changing, but people are having massive health issues when they are being dished out by non-medics and they are being abused back to back over several years.”

Given her penchant for a bigger butt, Olivia admits she has considered a Brazilian butt lift [BBL] – a procedure which sees a surgeon suck fat from the belly, hips, lower back and thighs, then transfer it into the bum to create bigger hips and a smaller waist.

BBLs are the fastest growing cosmetic procedure in the UK, with its popularity soaring by 20 per cent year on year.

Frighteningly, however, it has also earned the terrifying reputation of being the deadliest procedure, with some figures estimating one in 3,000 BBLs can result in death.

Naturally, Olivia tackles the rising demand for a Kardashian-style booty in her new series, travelling to Turkey to be there in the operating theatre to watch one girl go under the knife in pursuit of her dream derriere.

“A BBL is definitely one of those things I have looked into having,” Olivia admits.

“But for me, the risk doesn’t outweigh the result.

“It’s really hard to find someone who has had it done once and is super happy.

“It’s the procedure that requires the most revision surgeries and most people go back, like, three times.

“Who has the time to lie on your front for eight weeks, three times a year while you are healing?

“For that reason, it doesn’t appeal to me.”

Olivia has confessed to undergoing a boob job followed by a reduction, chin liposuction and contouring, veneers, lip fillers and Botox.

I could easily hit the £100,000 mark if I get my teeth done again

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But while her open nature is one of the reasons she has so many devotees – Olivia has more than 2.5 million followers on Instagram, while her So Wrong It’s Right podcast has had more than 7.4 million YouTube views – she confesses she hasn’t told her fans everything she’s had done.

“I have done things that I haven’t explicitly talked about,” she reveals.

“But of course, I’ve had some help and I’m not ageing backwards.”

In fact, Olivia estimates that, at some point, she’ll have splashed out six figures on transforming her appearance.

“I could easily hit the £100,000 mark if I get my teeth done again, or when I have to get my boobs redone,” she admits.

“The guidelines are that you have to get your boobs redone every 10 years, so I will have to get them changed at some point.

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“But I want to wait until I have kids before I outlay that money again.”

There’s another surgery she’d happily consider once she’s had babies – a designer vagina.

“If I needed to do that, I would – 100 per cent,” Olivia says.

“We look at mummy makeovers in the new series and the thing I realised is, you never know how your body is going to react to pregnancy.

“Some women see very little changes to their body, while others suffer incontinence and all sorts of health issues.

“So if I felt like something made me unhappy or I had issues, then yeah, of course.”

While she hasn’t planned when she and her footballer husband of two years, Bradley Dack, 31, will start a family, she admits they have fun practising in the bedroom – when they are actually under the same roof, that is.

“There are times when we struggle for time together, because he was in Sunderland for a whole year and often I’m away filming. So we can’t do designated sex nights,” she laughs.

“For us, sex is more of an ‘as and when’ thing.

“But one of the positive things about spending time apart is that, when you are back together, it feels a lot more exciting.

“I think missing someone is a nice feeling and I still get butterflies when I see him at the airport.

“One way we really keep the spark alive is by texting.

“I always tell people: ‘Remember to flirt with your partner.’

“So when I’m texting him, I flirt with him, rather than just asking him if he has walked the dog.”

Love Island gave me my big break and changed my life, so I’ll always feel very nostalgic about it.

Recently, Olivia came under fire after she commented on her Love Island ex, Chris Hughes, and his new girlfriend, Celebrity Big Brother co-star JoJo Siwa.

After fans on TikTok asked for her take on the unlikely romance, Liv suggested Chris might have ulterior motives by commenting that JoJo is “really famous”.

Quizzed about her reaction – which led to some of Chris and JoJo’s fans slamming her – Liv sighs.

“Basically, when they went official, I got tagged in like 200 TikToks saying they were dying to know what I thought,” she explains.

“The people that follow me know how I say tongue-in-cheek things.

“I just gave them one little line in the spur of the moment.

“Sometimes these things land well and sometimes they don’t.

“But the right side of the internet liked it.”

She smiles, cheekily, clearly wondering if she will land herself in trouble again.

“The truth is, [their relationship] is not something I think about,” she says.

“I’ve got a lot going on.”

That’s quite the understatement.

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Olivia came under fire after she commented on Love Island ex Chris Hughes and his new girlfriend JoJo Siwa[/caption]

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As well as the new series of The Price of Perfection, she recently wrapped filming the next run of Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends and is about to start shooting a fourth round of her other hit show, Getting Filthy Rich.

On top of that, she manages to squeeze in her podcast, a radio show with pal Pete Wicks and being a Loose Women panellist.

And despite the recent cuts to the ITV daytime favourite, Olivia confirms that her place on the panel is safe.

“I’m definitely staying on Loose,” she says. “I literally adore that show and the women on it.

“But there are a lot of people who will be impacted [by the changes] behind the camera.”

With a new series of Love Island kicking off this week, Olivia says she will always be grateful to the show that launched her career back in 2017.

“Love Island gave me my big break and changed my life, so I’ll always feel very nostalgic about it,” she insists.

And with rumours swirling that Maya Jama might trade in her keys to the villa after this upcoming series, might Olivia fancy slipping into her stilettos and hosting the nation’s favourite dating show?

“I think Maya’s fantastic for the show and I don’t think she’s going anywhere,” she says.

“But I’ll be completely honest – I’d definitely be open to it if Maya didn’t want to do it anymore. So, if the powers that be asked me to have that conversation, of course, I would be ALL ears.”

• Olivia Attwood’s The Price of Perfection returns on Thursday 12th June at 10.05pm on ITV2 and ITVX

LOVE Island’s newest recruit Meg has admitted she was supposed to go on the show as a bombshell last year.

Payroll specialist Megan Moore from Southampton was lined up to enter the villa but pulled out.

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The 25-year-old passed up the opportunity after watching the series – saying “no one was my type”.

She was approached again this year to be in the original line-up and will make her debut on Monday.

“I was in a Whatsapp group that was to keep me updated on the show.

“I’d tell them who I fancied and would my top three be.

“It just got to the point where I felt like I wouldn’t really have fitted in or that I would really get on with that person.

“They always kept me in the loop and then it just all happened really quickly and I didn’t really think about it, I was still living my normal life.

“So then obviously it came around again this year, and they said, ‘Meg, would you go for it again?’

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“I said ‘well, nothing’s changed, I’ve been on no dates, I’m still single, so what have I got to lose?'”

Megan’s looking for someone tall, with a nice tan, nice eyes and a nice smile.

“He needs to have a good fashion sense and a really good, funny personality that I can get on with,” she added.

But her biggest ick is men in flip-flops and bad hygiene.

If she does manage to find her type on paper, Megan is prepared for a showdown if someone tries to steal her man.

“I’ll probably be in the thick of the drama.

“I don’t cause it, it just comes to me, so.

“But at the same time, if you’re going to try and steal my man, you’re going to get the drama.”

LOVE Island bosses have overhauled the villa ready for the summer series – and shelved one longstanding feature of the show.

The Hideaway will look extremely different when loved-up Islanders head into the luxury breakout-pad this year thanks to the changes.

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The wardrobe full of sexy lingerie, chains and whips have been axed[/caption]

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That’s because the wardrobe of sexy lingerie and cupboard of whips, chains, chocolate body paint and handcuffs have been axed.

Instead Islanders can nip inside for a civilised cocktail or cosy chat with one rule – they cannot be in an official couple to use the space, like last year.

The Hideaway has seen raunchy scenes as recently as summer 2024, when Joey Essex and Jessy Potts had the champagne bucket rocking with their nighttime action.

Executive producer Mike Spencer-Hayter said: “It’s about keeping the show fresh and exciting.

“I personally don’t want to see ‘ooh, let’s open a cupboard and get something out.’

“I think we’ve seen it time and time again. I think we’ve got to move on.

“I don’t want this show to feel static. This show has to feel fresh.

“I think as producers we need to keep ahead of the curve because we are the number one dating show in the world. The stats speak for themselves but we can’t rely on that.

“We’ve got a push forward.

“We are going to give it all we’ve got to make the most exciting season of Love Island.”

Elsewhere there’s been another huge loss – the iconic garden beanbags.

Instead of the “cursed” yellow sacks, a series of chic, beige wooden seats are in place.

The pool has also had an upmarket overhaul with a Bali-style hammock added near the outdoor shower.

And another new aspect is a huge dining table has been added to the kitchen because for the first time, conversations as Islanders eat their lunch and dinner could be screened.

Mike said: “We just thought, why not, let’s just keep those chats.

“It will still probably feel a bit off camera, but it feels like in this day and age, show it.

“Sometimes, it feels like, why isn’t it on camera? There’s always lots of whispering and obviously sometimes it will affect show action, like how do they know that?

“The viewer hasn’t seen that, now they will see it.”

There’s also some impressive new changes made to make this villa the most sustainable ever.

The entire site now runs on solar power.

And there’s also a watt bike in place so the Islanders can pedal to charge up their Google Pixel mobile phones.

The changes come after Mike laid down the gauntlet to the whole production team to ensure the series was the best yet to mark the tenth anniversary.

Mike said: “When we sat down at the start of the year we were having a discussion about how to do Love Island this year. And with every single aspect of this show, let’s look at it, let’s see how we can improve it and let’s see how we can make it more exciting for the viewers.

“Because it’s a big commitment – 57 shows through the summer.

“You need people to tune in every night, get invested and follow the love stories.

“So I think we did set the challenge to every department – how do we make this better?”

Mike reckons they’ve got a fun cast this year too – with a huge number ready to roll through the doors.

He added: “I think we’ll be putting more bombshells in than before – we did 54 one year.

“I feel like it reminds me of Love Island in the early days. Personality is key.

“I think we’re going to see real love.

“They’re a good group and a good mix, but great bombshells as well.”

Love Island begins on Monday at 9pm on ITVX.

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The revamped daybeds are back[/caption]

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The Islanders can chill out at this cosy spot[/caption]

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The kitchen is popping with colour[/caption]

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The bedroom is ready to welcome the singletons[/caption]

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The Beach Hut is back[/caption]

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SHOPPERS are getting their sugar fix as huge tubs of Haribo go on sale for just £1.25.

The 600g share boxes were originally £5, treating customers to a huge £3.75 saving.

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The tubs are on offer at Tesco for Clubcard holders and contain packets of Supermix, Starmix and Tangfastics.

One savvy spender shared a snap of her hoard after she took advantage of the bargain and picked up three tubs.

“Tesco! Haribo share tubs £1.25!” she wrote on Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group.

Other members of the group flocked to the comment section to praise the impressive find.

“Stopping at Tesco on your way home?” one wrote, tagging her husband.

“I thought I did well at £2.50 a tub last week,” another added.

“If you see these for that price, I need two please,” a third joked.

The deal is available in selected stores only, so it’s worth checking with your local branch before visiting the shops.

But remember, you’ll need a Clubcard to bag yourself the offer.

The supermarket giant recently announced it was making a huge change to their loyalty scheme – and it was good news for electric drivers.

Electric car owners can now earn loyalty points when charging their vehicles at the popular supermarket chain from today.

Clubcard members will now earn one point for every £1 spent charging at Pod Point’s Vauxhall-branded chargers at Tesco stores.

Tesco says the move is part of its latest partnership with tech provider Pod Point.

EV drivers could also bag a whopping 2,500 Clubcard points by subscribing to Pod Point’s all-inclusive home charging plan.

Charging bays are available at over 600 Tesco car parks across the UK.

Shama Wilson, Tesco’s group membership and loyalty director, said: “You can now park at your local Tesco and top up your electric vehicle while you shop, in the knowledge that you are collecting Clubcard points towards a future Tesco shop or to exchange with one of our reward partners.”

“We’re thrilled to deepen our long-standing partnership with Tesco and provide an incentive for Clubcard members to make the switch to an EV and join over a quarter of a million customers that trust Pod with their changing needs,” Pod CEO Melanie Lane added.

It comes after the supermarket giant revealed that it had hit 500,000 charges – providing more than 10 million miles of complimentary carbon neutral motoring.

Tesco, in partnership with Pod Point, is installing free charging points at 600 supermarkets around the UK as part of their commitment to improving electric car charging infrastructure.

TENNIS revelation Lois Boisson is set for a life-changing payday amid her growing French Open success.

Boisson, 22, took the world of tennis by storm by making it to the competition’s semi-finals.

The World No361 defeated No6 Mirra Andreeva on Wednesday at Roland-Garros.

According to Front Office Sports, the French rising star is assured a semi-final payday of around $785,000 (£578,000), which is more than five times what she’s earned in her pro career.

That is a total of $148,009 (£109,000), ever since turning pro in 2021.

Boisson has already beaten two top-10 players with World No3 Jessica Pegula also falling in the fourth round before Andreeva.

Now the Dijon native is set to battle World No2 Coco Gauff in the final four.

Another upset in the semi-finals would assure her of at least $1.4million (£1m) in earnings.

if Boisson’s incredible streak continues she will face either World No1 Aryna Sabalenka or four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek in the final.

 A record $2.9m (£2.1m) prize awaits the eventual champion.

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According to ESPN, the young star is the third lowest-ranked player to advance to a Grand Slam semi-final in the last 30 years.

Boisson is also the first player to make the semis in her Grand Slam debut in 35 years.

The tennis ace was supposed to make her debut last year but sustained a torn ACL the day before the 2024 French Open.

LOVE Island has revealed Kyle Ashman’s replacement after the hunk was axed over a machete attack arrest.

Kyle, 23, was sent packing from Majorca just days ahead of the series launch after it emerged he’d been quizzed by cops over a violent attack that took place in February.

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He was released without charge and maintains his innocence.

Tonight, the show revealed professional rugby player Conor Phillips, 25, will take his place in the starting line-up.

The Irishman said he’s looking for “someone who is really sure of themselves, ambitious, a bit of a go-getter and good craic. I like dark eyes and I don’t mind a dominant woman.”

When it comes to turn offs, he says: “Being too needy, or needing to do everything together. I like someone to be independent and do their own thing and then we come together and do our thing.”

In his official announcement pic, Conor is flanked by beauties Helena Ford and Megan Clarke.

Earlier today, Kyle broke his silence on his exit and said: “I fully co-operated with this police investigation and made it very clear that I had no involvement in this incident.

“I am not a violent person and any suggestion otherwise is a mischaracterisation.”

Masked thugs stormed a wake in Stafford and hacked at a dad with a blade in February.

Kyle was one of two quizzed but released with no further action.

In a video uploaded to Instagram tonight, the aspiring reality star revealed he’s still hopeful of having a future on the show.

Speaking from inside a house, he said: “I’m not a bad guy, honestly. I’m a normal guy from a normal place. An opportunity arose to find love and I grabbed it with both hands, and it’s been taken away from me.

“I’ve seen the support pages and, who knows, maybe I’ll get the chance to go on Casa Amor or as a bombshell, go back in and show you who I really am. Show you I’m not a bad guy. We’ll see.”

Love Island returns Monday 9th June at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX 

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