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em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><strong>"I was a bag of nerv," says Ollie, a 27-year-old road worker om Brighton, when scribg the first kiss he had on BBC Three's <em><style data-emotn="css tjvzc4">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;borr-bottom:th solid #6F6F6F;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="I Kissed A Boy" class="body-lk css-tjvzc4 et3p2gv0">I Kissed A Boy</a></em>.</strong> "Usually when you kiss someone, you're the club, you've laid ey on them, you dance closer and you might share a kiss. Or you've been speakg to someone on an app and then you meet up for a drk. But walkg around a rner, layg ey on somebody, and then not even 10 sends later you're kissg them, that's a mad ncept." </p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In se you're new here, Ollie is referrg to the moment the UK's first exclively gay datg seri where nttants share a kiss upon first meetg. No troductory chats, no ial pairg up, no awkward first dat, 's jt straight wh a kiss. </p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"It was so nerve wrackg. But I mean, who don't like a great kiss?" 28-year-old stylist Gareth told me over Zoom a few days after the first two episos dropped on BBC Three.</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="3" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="i kissed a boy st ollie and ben" tle="I kissed a boy st ollie and ben" loadg="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// CosmopolanUK&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css vtulaa">{width:0;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;font-fay:RundDisplayLight,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.2;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:CharterItalic,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><div class="css-vtulaa e1xqj1sx1">Ollie and his first kiss wh Ben</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-24y2cs e6iqd1">BBC</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="4" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"> Subomi, a 29-year-old om London, who Gareth was paired up to kiss the openg scene, said they all knew the kiss was happeng om the begng, but how they chose to go about was up to them. "It wasn't like you have to do , was very much like 'this is how you're gog to meet, how you do that is pletely up to you.'" he says. "And you know, was cute!" </p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Ollie, Subomi and Gareth are three of the origal 10 men takg part BBC Three's<em> I Kissed a Boy</em>. The eight-part seri is the first of s kd and se the guys head to a stunng Italian masseria (that's a large farm to you and I), where, after beg matched by the seri experts, the five pairs meet dividually and share a kiss. </p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">They then head to the villa and siarly to other realy seri of the same nature, they velop relatnships, potentially have their head turned by new arrivals and rem to their partner a ceremony.<br /></p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="7" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="i kissed a boy subomi and gareth" tle="I Kissed a boy Subomi and Gareth" loadg="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// CosmopolanUK&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-vtulaa e1xqj1sx1">Subomi and Gareth on the first night the masseria </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-24y2cs e6iqd1">BBC</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Except, spe followg a siar format to other seri, feels so different to any other realy show I've watched. Hosted by Dannii Mogue, <em>I Kissed A Boy</em> immediately left me wh a warm fortg feelg. It genuely feels the wily diverse nttants re more about nnectg wh their muny and potentially buildg a relatnship, than creasg their follower unt. </p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"It breaks the blueprt of realy TV," Gareth ntu. "Not everyone is tanned and has Botox or has ripped washboard abs. There's a wi range of diversy this show. It's not people walkg around bchg about each other. It's jt a big gay circ of people wh stori to tell."</p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And he's right. In the first two episos, whilst there's a lot of teasg and jokg, the atmosphere feels supportive and kd; that whilst everyone wants to fd their person, they also all have each other's backs. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="11" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="i kissed a boy rnn episo" tle="i kissed a boy rnn episo" loadg="lazy" width="5120" height="3415" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// CosmopolanUK&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-24y2cs e6iqd2">Jam Stack</span><style data-emotn="css m1e2v5">{paddg:0 0.3rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;lor:#6F6F6F;font-fay:RundDisplayLight,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.2;letter-spacg:0rem;}</style><span class="css-m1e2v5 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-24y2cs e6iqd1">BBC</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="12" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">This feelg of togetherns is part due to the productn of the seri, and the mood on set. Many of the crew were part of the LGBTQ muny, which Subomi said allowed the st to "let our guards down" and ma them feel "like we uld be more ourselv around them." </p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Durg the prelimary terview stag, the nttants were asked the standard thgs such as what they do for fun, and who they hang out wh, but they were also asked to share their g out stori, and how their background impacted them today. </p><p data-no-id="14" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">As Gareth puts , "They asked thoughtful qutns that I really appreciated. I thk wh this show was important to really showse stori, trials and tribulatns, posiv and negativ of beg the gay muny."</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="15" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="i kissed a boy ollie" tle="I kissed a boy ollie" loadg="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// CosmopolanUK&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-vtulaa e1xqj1sx1">Ollie wearg his red ribbon </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-24y2cs e6iqd1">BBC</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="16" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Tellg stori and raisg awarens of unreprented people the muny has been evint even wh the first two episos. Durg the first pri night party, Ollie wore a red ribbon, to symbolise his support for those livg wh HIV. </p><p data-no-id="17" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"I thought e this [the show] as a platform, so that when someone says 'Oh, I like your red ribbon', I n say 'Do you know what that reprents? Do you know what that stands for?' The Terrence Higgs Tst posted on their Instagram story and thanked me for wearg and raisg the awarens. And I jt thought 'Y! That's what I'm talkg about'. For that muny to watch the first UK's first gay datg show and feel a part of ."</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It's moments like the that ma the st, many of whom were approached on Instagram, sign up for the seri. "The more I thought about , the more I sat wh , the more started to h me jt how impactful this [the seri] uld potentially be," said Subomi who was raised Nigeria, where 's still illegal to be gay. </p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">He add this didn't stop him om wantg to take part the seri, "I am more myself here [ the UK] than I am myself there [ Nigeria]. And so I wasn't really ncerned about that part of . </p><p data-no-id="20" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"Obvly knowg that I still vis Nigeria, I still go home and still have fay there, that's somethg that I did have to thk about, but bee I'm no longer closeted eher untry, there's nothg I n really do about that. People are gonna have their prenceived notns about me regardls." </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="21" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="i kissed a boy gareth and subomi" tle="I Kissed a boy gareth and subomi" loadg="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// CosmopolanUK&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-vtulaa e1xqj1sx1">Gareth and Subomi </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-24y2cs e6iqd1">BBC</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="22" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">For Gareth, who om a small town Northern Ireland, where there were expectatns of beg the "perfect man" wh "a hoe, a wife, kids and a whe picket fence", he refully nsired his cisn to jo the seri.</p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"At first I was like "F**k ! Slay!' But I only me out properly when I was 24. It's a small town, people talk. I did have rervatns, bee I haven't really e out to people om my home town. So I was like, 'Okay, this is gog to be me g out all over aga, jt on a bigger sle'."</p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Though there's been the cln of the queer muny other realy seri, this is the first time a seri has been solely about gay men. When I asked Subomi, Ollie and Gareth why they thought the seri had taken so long to e about , the roundg feelg was that people were sred. </p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"Beg LGBTQ is nothg new," Subomi m. "There's always been ristance, even though 's very obv that we are here. And what ends up happeng is wh media and TV shows, thgs tend to go wh what the majory feel like they're fortable wh seeg on TV. For whatever reason, a lot of people aren't willg to actually jt expand their knowledge beyond what they already know."</p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Though Gareth said he had received a few hate msag om anonymo acunts, the guys tell me the majory of msag they've received om viewers have been overwhelmgly posive, wh one particular msage standg out to Ollie. "This one guy, a rpenter, said: 'Thanks a lot, man. I've been tryg to e out for years, but I've been watchg the show and 's jt so spirg.' </p><p data-no-id="27" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"And I was like, 'this is exactly why I was on the show'."</p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>I Kissed A Boy ntu on BBC Three this Sunday at 9pm. </em></p></div></div><div data-teractive="WatchNext-1" class="css-0 e10xr3vp6"><style data-emotn="css 1pqv15d">{marg-bottom:1.875rem;marg-top:1.875rem;paddg:0 0.938rem;}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg:0 2.5rem;}}</style><div data-embed="watch-next" class="css-1pqv15d e10xr3vp5"><style data-emotn="css eq56">{text-align:left;marg:0 to;max-width:60rem;}</style><div class="css-eq56 e10xr3vp4"><style data-emotn="css 1sowyjy">{marg-bottom:1.25rem;}</style><div class="css-1sowyjy e10xr3vp3"><style data-emotn="css sfs5jk">{borr-bottom:th solid #DA8EEA;font-fay:RundDisplay,RundDisplay-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:bold;marg:0rem;text-transform:upperse;width:-webk-f-ntent;width:-moz-f-ntent;width:f-ntent;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.1;marg:0 0 0.3125rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.1;marg:0 0 0.9375rem;}}</style><h6 class="css-sfs5jk e10xr3vp2"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><span class="css-0 e10xr3vp1">Watch Next</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css 13zkhri">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;font-fay:RundDisplay,RundDisplay-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:normal;-webk-box-pack:unset;-ms-flex-pack:unset;-webk-jtify-ntent:unset;jtify-ntent:unset;letter-spacg:0.02em;marg:0rem;m-height:to;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.3125rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.2;marg-right:5rem;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}}</style><h6 class="css-13zkhri e10xr3vp0"> </h6></div><style data-emotn="css 1ui7hop">{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;--aspect-rat:56.25%;}</style><div class="__rp-ntaer css-1ui7hop e6l0f0"><style data-emotn="css 1yu8e3d">{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;width:100%;height:100%;} .__rp-ntaer{height:to;}</style><div data-embed="embed-vio" class="vio-player css-1yu8e3d e1ou1fny0"><style data-emotn="css 1uds6oo">{height:100%;width:100%;posn:relative;}</style><div class="css-1uds6oo e1f7ylgd6"><style data-emotn="css 1iiivv4">{background-lor:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);borr:.1875rem solid whe;borr-radi:50%;lor:#fff;cursor:poter;height:3.75rem;left:50%;posn:absolute;top:50%;-webk-transform:translate(-50%,-50%);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%);transform:translate(-50%,-50%);-webk-transn:all 0.4s;transn:all 0.4s;width:3.75rem;z-x:1;}.e1f7ylgd6:hover {background-lor:rgba(33, 150, 245, 0.8);lor:#ffffff;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{height:5.625rem;width:5.625rem;borr:.28125rem solid whe;}}</style><button aria-label="Play Vio" class="css-1iiivv4 e1f7ylgd1"><style data-emotn="css 1lhf7lq">{fill:#ffffff;height:1.4rem;vertil-align:middle;width:1.45rem;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:2.3125rem;height:3rem;}}</style><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" style="fill: var(--primary, #000);" role="img" tle="Play" class="css-1lhf7lq e1f7ylgd2"><tle>play in.