Love Is Blind UK premiered on Netflix on Wednesday but was met with a wave of negative reviews from TV critics.
Following its success in the United States, where six seasons have aired, the show has arrived in the United Kingdom, with thirty stunning contestants hoping to find a partner and get married during the show’s wedding finale.
Married couple Emma and Matt Willis will take the place previously held by Nick and Vanessa Lachey in the US by hosting the entire series.
But critics have slammed the pair for “presenting the event through gritted teeth” and branded the Netflix premiere “awful”.
The Guardians Elle Hunt gave the show a disappointing two-star review, stating that the show’s concept is “un-British”.
Love Is Blind UK premiered on Netflix on Wednesday but was met with a wave of negative reviews from TV critics.
Following its success in the United States, where six seasons have aired, the show has arrived in the United Kingdom, with thirty stunning contestants hoping to find a partner and get married during the show’s wedding finale.
She wrote: ‘Emma and Matt Willis are a good match for the star power of Nick and Vanessa Lachey, even if they don’t share the American couple’s supreme ease in carrying out the project. After all, it’s quintessentially un-British to talk about one’s feelings, something all the Love Is Blind contestants are forced to do constantly.’
online news She gave it a four-star review and despite saying the first four episodes were “addictive”, Emily Baker wasn’t too impressed with Matt’s hosting skills.
She wrote: ‘The difference in their experience is stark: while Emma comes across as relaxed and chatty with the singles, Matt comes across as stilted and appears visibly uncomfortable.
“Not that it matters much: in the four episodes airing today, the couple only appears twice.”
The Independent Ellie Muir gives a two-star review and said: ‘Things got off to a promising start when it was announced that former Busted singer Matt Willis and his wife Emma would be inheriting presenting duties…
‘That hope, however, is quickly dashed in the first episode, when a less-than-enthusiastic Matt asks through gritted teeth, “Is love really blind?”
He added: “Everything is copied and pasted from the American edition, except for the accents. Repeating it over and over again.”
‘The Willises are basically reading from the same script as the Lacheys, and they deliver the same unimaginative one-liners in the same monotone. At one point, Emma gives Matt an embarrassing pat on the butt on camera; Matt looks like he’d rather be anywhere but here.’
The Irish Examiner wrote in its review: “If you want something with ambient music playing in the background while you look at your phone, this is fine. If you want some real-life drama, get married.”
“The whole show is designed to make you scream ‘this is a terrible idea’ at the TV. But after that, it’s pretty boring.”
Married couple Emma and Matt Willis will take the place previously held by Nick and Vanessa Lachey (pictured) in the US by hosting the entire series.
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.
However, The standard He gave it a four-star review, explaining, “Yes, it’s made for American audiences, but this cast is surprisingly adorable.”
The first four episodes of Love Is Blind: UK were released on August 7, followed by three more on August 14.
The final episode will air on August 21.
The Netflix dating series aims to help a group of singles try to form connections, without ever meeting the other person face-to-face.
Interacting only through their voices in special capsules, they will date for several weeks before choosing a person to marry.
After chatting in the Pods, they get to interact with each other—and the other couples—for the first time as they move in together and plan their weddings.
Couples will then discover if their physical connection matches the strong emotional bond developed in the Pods.
The social experiment, which has already proven popular in the United States and seven other countries, will explore whether appearance, race or age matter.
Following the success of six US series hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, presenters and husband-and-wife duo Emma and Matt Willis take the helm on British soil.
More than a decade after their last joint work as TV presenters, Emma and Matt will team up again, following in the footsteps of other husband-and-wife TV couples.
And like Richard and Judy, Eammon and Ruth, and Rochelle and Marvin, the Willises may find their respective careers even 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.
inews gave it a four-star review and despite saying the first four episodes were “addictive”, Emily Baker wasn’t too impressed with Matt’s hosting skills.
However, The Standard gave it a four-star review, explaining: “Yes, it’s made for American audiences, but this cast is surprisingly adorable.”
Emma began her career as a model before venturing into television and has remained faithful to presenting, appearing on some of TV’s biggest shows including The Voice and Big Brother.
However, Matt, who is eight years younger than his wife, remains most famous for his ventures as a pop star as part of pop punk trio Busted, and continues to tour with the band, with gigs in Margate and Newmarket scheduled for this summer.
Matt, who graduated from the Sylvia Young Drama School alongside Billie Piper, Amy Winehouse and rival band McFly member Tom Fletcher, set Busted (originally called The Termites) in his Southend bedroom with James Bourne.
The pop-punk trio enjoyed huge success before splitting up in 2005, scoring four UK number-one singles and winning two Brit Awards for Best Pop Act and Best British Breakthrough Act.
In 2023, Busted announced a comeback for their 20th anniversary, while also releasing a greatest hits album and another stadium tour.
Now, after years of focusing on their careers separately, the pair have joined forces professionally, and communications guru Hayley Knight, who runs Be Yellow, thinks it could be a brilliant move for the husband-and-wife team, with big financial rewards.
