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The Guardian reports:

Flexing muscles, leopard print, an outrageous mustache and Dannii Minogue. Welcome to the UK’s first ever gay dating show – a programme so wild it slaps you in the face like a martini-throw from Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones. Right from its opening seconds, BBC Three’s new flagship series, I Kissed a Boy, is quite something.

Presenter Dannii Minogue whirls across the screen with impossibly good hair, blows a kiss and says “Buongiorno boys!” to a group of excited-looking lads in Vinted and Versace’s finest. You could easily mistake it for some form of Eurovision content, featuring an all-male dance troupe, with Dannii performing for a minnow competitor like San Marino.

It is, however, a matchmaking show that riffs on the ingeniously awkward format of the likes of Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight. It takes 10 men who have been pre-paired then has them meet for the first time – by kissing.

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No talking just kissing: inside the UK’s first ever gay dating show https://t.co/8dpszAsknO

— The Guardian (@guardian) May 5, 2023