As Love Is Blind returns for a second series, Matt and Emma Willis chat to Melissa Nathoo about whether they think it's really enough time to fall in love and get married, what they love about each other, and the important questions to ask on a first date. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00Oh. We were drunk a lot. Yes, yes. Oh, what? Why didn't you tell him? She makes me laugh a lot. And not because I'm funny. So good to see you. Nice to see you. I have to say, Love is Blind is my favourite of all the love reality shows. It is the only one that I watch. Genuinely. I really love this one. What do you love about it? I've not had the most successful love life myself. So I like seeing this happen almost naturally in a way. It's nice to see that it can happen.
00:29Yeah, yeah, yeah. But back to season two of the UK version, has anything changed for this one? Or are you sticking to a formula that you know works? Because I love the first season. Oh, it's a formula. It's a worldwide formula. You know, and it seems to work quite well. So yeah, we ain't sticking to the wars. In 12 different places. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. We learnt that earlier on today. I was going to say something that sounded like. That was a lot of good. Somebody quizzed us. They were like, how many versions of Love is Blind are there around the world? I was like, five. I was like, seven. She was like, no, it's 12.
00:59Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Wow. Made us feel very unspecial. Yes, but you're the best host. There we go. There we go. There's only one UK.
01:07Very special. Very special. How does it make you guys feel when you are watching this all unfold on what you're obviously seeing it maybe in real time compared to us on the screen?
01:17No, we don't. We don't. We only see, we like dip in to like the kind of key points when we're kind of steering them to the next part of the experiment.
01:26Yeah. So we film it and then we have to wait like months.
01:32We have to wait so long. And then we get to watch it over two days.
01:35Or we go into a room and we just watch it. We do half of it on one day and half of it on the next day.
01:40How does it make you feel then watching them fall in love?
01:43Amazing. Because I can't keep the smile off my mind. I'm such a hopeless little romantic and it just makes me smile nonstop.
01:49It's brilliant, isn't it? And we're, we're, you know, we are a viewer as well. So we're also like shouting things at the table.
02:01But it's kind of almost good that we see it like that because otherwise I think we treat certain couples differently.
02:06We're like, oh, we love you more. Do you know what I mean? Like, you know, so it's kind of good that we kind of favourites because we don't get to see that stuff.
02:12You know, so we see them before they go in the pods. We see them at the retreat, you know, so we kind of don't get to go, yeah, we're only going to talk to you because we love you.
02:19Right. Everyone would form favourites. It's just natural.
02:23For you guys, do you think it's enough time to really make a decision as big as marriage?
02:29Yeah, because it's, it's tried and tested. Is it going to work for everybody? No, of course it's not. But neither is, neither are dating apps.
02:37I mean, if you look at the ratios, it's probably, you know, a similar positive outcome.
02:42Absolutely.
02:43Um, so yeah, I, I think it, it, it does work.
02:48Yeah.
02:48If you're kind of happy to step into quite a strange,
02:52Yeah, brave.
02:54Strange scenario, an experiment.
02:56Yeah.
02:56But you two are very much a pinup of a wonderfully, wonderfully successful couple.
03:02Oh.
03:03Like, and obviously that's why they got you to host it as well.
03:05But if you two hadn't seen each other beforehand, what do you think would have hooked you in about the other?
03:12He is the most charismatic person I've ever met. So I would have been in.
03:15Oh.
03:16Yeah.
03:16That's wicked.
03:17Um, do you know, she makes me laugh a lot and she's got a very...
03:21And not because I'm funny.
03:23It's not.
03:24She's got a sense of humor that gets me. Do you know what I mean? I get her.
03:27What's, what is that kind of, what kind of humor is it?
03:29I don't know. It's like, it's, she, she's, she's very, she's very put together and, and, and, you know, but she's very silly.
03:37Which I love, you know, and I love the silliness.
03:40Oh.
03:41Yeah. But still, you know, we're so stupid sometimes.
03:44I love it.
03:45See, I think that's what makes a relationship successful, honestly.
03:48Absolutely.
03:48If you can, if you can, if you can, if you can, if you can take yourself too seriously.
03:51Oh, too right.
03:52Oh, bore off if you're going to be serious.
03:55That's true.
03:56I'll remind you of that.
03:57Yeah.
03:58I'll remind you of that.
04:01When I'm going, Matt, what are you doing?
04:03Bore off if you're going to be serious.
04:03It'll just be silly.
04:05It'll just be silly.
04:06So that is the key.
04:07Absolutely.
04:07Oh no, what have I said?
04:09No, that's just true.
04:10What are you watching the way?
04:11Oh, bore off.
04:12Oh, wait.
04:13Matt, there's seven pairs of shoes all around the house.
04:16Oh, bore off.
04:17Please, can we have a reality show inside of your house?
04:20I want to see.
04:20It's coming soon.
04:22Maybe we should, well, that should be a new family motto.
04:26Bore off.
04:26Bore off.
04:27We've got a neon light that's on family motto that says, don't be a dick.
04:31So that's our family motto.
04:34Matt used to have it, oh, he still does.
04:36On one of my best guitars.
04:37When he was in the band in the original days.
04:38Yes.
04:39Yeah.
04:39On his guitar.
04:40So we were like, oh, that's a good motto for life, really.
04:43And for anyone.
04:44Don't be a dick.
04:45Now it's bore off.
04:45Bore off.
04:46Bore off.
04:46Bore off.
04:47Bore off.
04:48You could put that in the bedroom.
04:49Love it.
04:50In the bedroom.
04:51I don't know what she's trying to say to you, Matt.
04:53Neither do I.
04:54Neither do I.
04:54No, I was thinking.
04:56Hug a mother.
04:57Try my best.
04:58No, I was going to say.
05:00It's a different room.
05:02I'm like, what room?
05:03I was verbalizing my thoughts, which I shouldn't have done.
05:08Moving on.
05:08Yeah.
05:10In the kitchen.
05:12There we go.
05:12In the kitchen.
05:13Start making bolognese.
05:15Bore off.
05:15I did say to you guys, I've had a very unsuccessful love life, which is why I think I enjoy watching
05:19other people have that success.
05:21But if I was going on a first date with someone, what do you think are those first questions?
05:26Are you boring?
05:27Yeah.
05:28Are you boring?
05:29God, I don't know.
05:30Is this a real life date or is it a love is blind date?
05:34This is me going on a first date.
05:36Because if you're going on a first date in the real world, then like you said, sometimes
05:40you've got to kind of maybe.
05:41You're playing the game.
05:42You don't want to scare them off.
05:43Well, maybe and maybe not, because I'm very much of a, listen, this is how I feel.
05:50I don't want to play games.
05:52And in there, you haven't got a lot of time, so you need to get all those important questions
05:56out quick.
05:57But, you know, are you someone who goes in and goes, oh, I don't want to scare them.
06:01No, I feel at my age.
06:02I probably do need to get it all out pretty quickly.
06:05Let's go.
06:06Let's go.
06:06Get a deal with meaningful.
06:07That comes into it, doesn't it, at a certain point, is that you do get to an age where you're
06:11like, I cannot tolerate the back and forth bull playing games.
06:16I just want to know what's going on.
06:19I'm so over it.
06:19Maybe your question is, can we just cut the bulls**t?
06:24Yes, you should.
06:26How do you feel about honest conversations?
06:28I love an honest conversation.
06:28Open.
06:29Maybe that's your question.
06:30How do you feel about open and honest conversations?
06:32Okay, fair.
06:33Are you someone who gets scared easily if we talk about having a key to each other's
06:36place?
06:37Yeah.
06:38Yeah.
06:38I don't know.
06:40Depends what you want.
06:41No, that's true.
06:42Do you piss on the toilet seat?
06:43Oh, my God, don't.
06:44No.
06:45Do you piss on the toilet floor?
06:47Hold on.
06:47That's more important.
06:48Back in the day.
06:49Back in the day.
06:50I learned very quickly that that's not acceptable behavior.
06:53Yeah.
06:54It's very important, actually.
06:55We were drunk a lot.
06:57You know, it was the early noughties.
06:59I would go with, are they open for...
07:01Okay, I would go with the toilet.
07:03That's probably that one instead, yeah.
07:04And then it will be the do you piss on the floor.
07:06Do you piss on the floor?
07:06Yeah.
07:07Do you do the toothpaste in the sink?
07:08Yeah, because that actually is very important to me.
07:10Yeah, absolutely.
07:11One last thing.
07:11What body part do you usually trust with your instincts?
07:14Oh, God.
07:14Because, obviously...
07:17What body part?
07:18Like, in here, we've got our guy who's trusting his spleen the whole time.
07:22Yes, absolutely.
07:22Do you trust your spleen with these things, or do you...
07:24I'm a gut girl.
07:25I had to Google what a spleen was because of him.
07:28But a spleen is part of your gut.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Yeah.
07:30But he's very spleen.
07:31There was a band in the 90s called Spleen, and that's all I knew.
07:34He's very spleen heavy.
07:36I'm more of a traditional gut girl.
07:38Okay.
07:39And have been kind of...
07:41I've heard that around me with my family my whole life.
07:44It's like, just trust your gut.
07:45Just trust your gut.
07:46Trust your instincts.
07:48His spleen talks to him, though.
07:49That's my body part.
07:50I know.
07:51I have this little vision of some body part gang.
07:53My gut speaks sometimes, and we can all hear it.
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