Love Is Blind is finally coming to the UK as 30 dating hopefuls prepare to take part in the Netflix show’s first season on British soil.
After its success in the United States – where six series’ have aired – the show will be coming to the streaming platform this August.
Thirty stunning contestants are hoping to bag themselves a partner and get married during the show’s wedding finale.
Married couple Emma and Matt Willis will be filling shoes previously worn in the US by Nick and Vanessa Lachey by hosting the entire series.
As excited fans look forward to the new show, here MailOnline lays out everything you need to know ahead of its release.
Love Is Blind is finally coming to UK soil as 30 dating hopefuls prepare to take part in the Netflix show’s first season
When is it on?
The first four episodes of Love Is Blind: UK will be released on August 7, followed by three more on August 14.
The finale episode will air on August 21.
How does it work?
The dating series from Netflix aims to help a group of singletons try to form connections, without ever laying eyes on the other person.
Interacting only through their voices in special Pods, they will date for a number of weeks before choosing one person to marry.
After conversing in the Pods they can interact with each other – and the other couples – for the first time as they move in together and plan their weddings.
The couples will then find out if their physical connection matches their strong emotional bond developed in the Pods.
The social experiment, which has already proven popular in the US and seven other countries, will explore if looks, race or age do matter.
Following the success of six US series hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, presenters and married couple Emma and Matt Willis are taking over the helm on UK soil
Who is presenting the show?
Following the success of six US series hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, presenters and married couple Emma and Matt Willis are taking over the helm on UK soil.
More than a decade since their last joint TV presenting gig, Emma and Matt will team up once more, following in the footsteps of other husband-and-wife TV couples.
And just like Richard and Judy, Eammon and Ruth and Rochelle and Marvin, the Willis’ could find their respective careers are all the more lucrative.
The couple, who married in 2008 and share three children, Isabelle, 14, Ace, 12, and Trixie, seven, will be at the helm to guide viewers through the popular reality series.
More than a decade since their last joint TV presenting gig, Emma and Matt will team up once more, following in the footsteps of other husband-and-wife TV couples
The couple, who married in 2008 and share three children, Isabelle, 14, Ace, 12, and Trixie, seven, will be at the helm to guide viewers through the popular reality series
Emma started her career as a model before branching out into television early on – and has stayed faithful to presenting, appearing on some of the biggest shows on TV including The Voice and Big Brother.
However, Matt, who is eight years younger than his wife, is still most famous for his pop star hellraising as part of pop punk trio Busted, and continues to tour with the band, with gigs in Margate and Newmarket lined up this summer.
Matt, who was a graduate of The Sylvia Young Theatre School along with Billie Piper, Amy Winehouse and member of rival band McFly, Tom Fletcher, set Busted – originally named The Termites – in his Southend bedroom with James Bourne.
The pop-punk trio enjoyed a great deal of success before they split in 2005, bagging four UK number-one singles as well as winning two Brit Awards for Best Pop Act and Best British Breakthrough Act.
In 2023, Busted announced a comeback for their 20 year anniversary, whilst also launching a greatest hits album and another arena tour.
Now, after years of focusing on their separate careers, the couple have joined forces professionally, and communications guru Hayley Knight, who runs Be Yellow, thinks it could be a genius move for the husband-and-wife team – with big financial rewards.
