Hosted by Dannii Mogue, the BBC's new gay datg show is the antidote to Love Island's biggt problem.
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- ‘I KISSED A BOY’: WHY THE U.K.’S FIRST GAY DATG SHOW IS A REALY GAMECHANGER
- I KISSED A BOY: THE UK’S FIRST EVER GAY DATG SHOW IS G TO THE BBC
‘I KISSED A BOY’: WHY THE U.K.’S FIRST GAY DATG SHOW IS A REALY GAMECHANGER
The U.K.’s first gay datg show 'I Kissed A Boy,' onted by Dannii Mogue, featur 10 sgle men hopg to fd love a sunny villa Italy. * gay dating show on bbc *
’s first gay datg show is about to air on BBC Three. ’s first ever gay datg show? ” It ed to be that gay relatnships were only explored after the watershed or soap storyl, but the stori are now more mastream than ever.
To produce s first gay datg seri? Enter “I Kissed A Boy, ” which featur 10 gay guys beg matched, all of whom have the opportuny to kiss their partner when they first meet. “When you’ve only got one gay uple a show where there are five other straight upl, those people reprent what ’s like to be gay, ” says David Brdley, chief creative officer at Twofour, who ma “I Kissed A Boy.
I KISSED A BOY: THE UK’S FIRST EVER GAY DATG SHOW IS G TO THE BBC
* gay dating show on bbc *
And for those wonrg, spe beg set a villa, “I Kissed A Boy” isn’t jt “Love Island” wh solely gay nttants. There’s also an emphasis on featurg different backstori and g out experienc, orr to highlight to viewers that there’s no typil way to be gay, nor should there be. There was also a high reprentatn of gay people wh the productn team, which the show hop will add to the show’s thenticy.
“What we didn’t want to do was take a straight format and pump a gay st through , ” says Brdley. There’s lots of moments the show that you uld only see wh a gay st. As ’s an exclive gay world that the nttants are livg , there’s no untentnal holdg back om anyone, nor any explanatn need for a straight nttant who might not get the reference or lived experience.
“I Kissed A Boy” also mak you realize that other LGBTQ+ datg formats — not only about gay men — serve to be explored. Datg shows have been beamed to our livg rooms for s, and queerns has always existed – but ’s only now, 2023, that the UK is gettg s first gay datg I Kissed a Boy, airg on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three this weekend, narrator Layton Williams announc: “The path to love is never straight. ”The seri is hosted by Dannii Mogue, who has been a gay in ever sce she beme one of the first ever pop stars to play at London’s inic nightclub G-A-Y the the show, Mogue overse the matchmakg of 10 sgle men who will meet for the first time wh a smooch.