Laura Whitmore’s Prime Video show Date My Mate has been axed after one series.
Date My Mate saw singletons put their love lives in the hands of their friends who helped them swipe and match with people on an exclusive dating app.
It’s the second show fronted by the TV presenter to be given the chop recently after ITV chose not to renew her Sunday programme Laura Whitmore’s Breakfast Show.
An insider told The Sun: ‘Love Island is a distant memory and she has ceased hosting her weekend show on ITV1, so this is a rather disappointing hat-trick of farewells.
‘Laura seems to have tried a variety of projects after leaving the villa, including chat shows and documentaries, but it seems even the familiar territory of a dating show isn’t a safe bet.’
Laura Whitmore ‘s Prime Video show Date My Mate has been axed after one series
Date My Mate saw singletons put their love lives in the hands of their friends who helped them swipe and match with people on an exclusive dating app
It’s the second show fronted by the TV presenter to be given the chop recently after ITV chose not to renew her Sunday programme Laura Whitmore’s Breakfast Show
Laura began hosting her ITV breakfast show in 2023 but ITV announced in February it would be replacedy by Farmhouse Breakfast hosted by Jimmy Doherty and Shivi Ramoutar.
A representative for Prime Video declined to comment.
The Irish beauty stepped down as the host of Love Island in 2022 after fronting three seasons of the dating show.
She has since filmed investigative documentaries and expressed her relief at being a producer on her ITVX series Laura Whitmore Investigates, after having previously just been ‘the face’ of television projects.
The DJ admitted she sees the move as her way of ‘reclaiming my power,’ after having been ‘frustrated’ over having ‘no control’ over the shows she worked on.
Laura also revealed she is having therapy after it was offered to her for the first time, and admitted: ‘I never really feel like I fit in!’
The television personality confessed that perhaps she has never asked for mental health support, because she ‘didn’t want to be seen to be weak.’
Speaking to The Telegraph, Laura said: ‘Sometimes – a lot of the time – your job is to turn up and look a certain way. I’ve worked on shows where I’ve had no control over my script or producing or anything.
The Irish beauty stepped down as the host of Love Island in 2022 after fronting three seasons of the dating show
‘When I first started on Radio 5 Live, I had comments on Twitter saying, “Why have you got that bimbo on that slot?” […] I never really feel like I fit in anywhere, but does anyone?’
She continued: ‘Once I can add something to the narrative and I’m getting something from it I’ll bloody well do it, and I hope I’ll do it to the best ability I can.
‘I have a lovely life, but I will also call out the s**t, because I hope I’ll be able to continue to do this for years and it will get better and I’ll have more power. I’ve definitely got more power now than I did 10 years ago in this industry.’
