HE found love on a BBC TV show – now Joe Sugg is about to help others do the same.
The former Strictly Come Dancing star met his girlfriend, professional dancer Dianne Buswell, on the contest — even though their romance was a bit of a secret.
In contrast Joe’s new dating programme, The World’s Most Honest Game Show, will all be about complete truthfulness.
The YouTuber will get a bunch of hopeful singletons together to spill their good — and ugly truths — with potential lovers.
The pilot show is being made in conjunction with Joe’s production company, Final Straw, which is behind his recent online VR game show Virtually Impossible.
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And while only a pilot episode has been commissioned, Joe has high hopes it could make a full series.
An insider revealed: “It’s an exciting new dating format all about honesty, which means the singletons will find out both the best bits and the bad bits of the other contestants they fancy.
“The singles won’t be able to keep their not-so-good personality traits under wraps for long, with Joe helping both sides of each couple find out the truth.
“Of course, there’s also going to be a twist or two to keep things interesting.
“It follows on from the success of the BBC’s dabble into dating shows in 2023, with I Kissed A Boy and soon to be I Kissed A Girl.”
I Kissed A Boy saw presenter DANNII MINOGUE help ten single gay men find love.
It proved a hit, competing with ITV dating show giant Love Island, Channel 4’s First Dates and Netflix favourite Love Is Blind.
Now it has been repurposed into I Kissed A Girl, which will air this summer, with ten single lesbians sent to an Italian hideaway, and Dannii playing Cupid again.
The source added: “The BBC are moving onward with competing with the dating show giants available elsewhere.”
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The source added: “The BBC are moving onward with competing with the dating show giants available elsewhere.”
RESEVOIR TOGS
BEN Shephard and Alexander Armstrong turn into Reservoir Dogs-style hardmen in the new series of hit comedy Meet The Richardsons.
The self-proclaimed daytime telly bosses take action after Jon Richardson turns to presenting.
This Morning’s Ben and Pointless host Alexander take Jon to an abandoned warehouse, where Alexander warns him: “Daytime is for the big boys, Jon, but you’re a little boy.” Worried about being tortured, like in the Quentin Tarantino film,, Jon is embarrassed when he wets himself.
Shaking his head, Alexander adds: “It’s just a joke, mate. It’s an initiation ceremony, you know, you’re one of the gang now – the daytime boys.”
The fifth series, which also stars Jon’s wife Lucy Beaumont, starts tonight at 9pm on Dave.
MR BATES TOPS TV 100 LIST
TOBY JONES and the cast of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office were given the stamp of approval last night.
The hit ITV drama, which charts how hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted due to a faulty computer system, topped the Radio Times TV 100.
The annual list recognises the most influential people in telly over the last 12 months.
Last year’s winner, new Dr Who Ncuti Gatwa, was fifth, behind Succession’s Kieran Culkin, Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire and Bella Ramsey from The Last Of Us.
Host Claudia Winkleman and the cast of her BBC show The Traitors were honoured, while Eurovision presenter Hannah Waddingham placed tenth. Also in the top ten were The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri, and screenwriters Sally Wainwright and Jesse Armstrong.