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Author: Jono Read

  • First Dates: Series 7, Episode 5

    First Dates: Series 7, Episode 5

    First Dates is back after a few weeks’ hiatus due to the Paralympics. And tonight it was all about the unicorns. Charlie and Lorna Yes, unicorns cropped up quite a lot thanks to 25-year-old businessman Charlie from Wandsworth. A bit of a metrosexual, he’s a fan of the colour pink, he’s a vegetarian, and he’s after…

  • First Dates: Series 7, Episode 4

    First Dates: Series 7, Episode 4

    In the last episode before First Dates takes a quick break, it was a night of infidelity secrets, and everyone bungling into the toilet. Yes more people were rushing to go to the toilet than they were offering to pay for the bill.… Read on

  • First Dates – Series 7 Episode 3

    First Dates – Series 7 Episode 3

    In this week’s episode was 25-year-old Natasha from Bridgend, a trainee teacher who you would assume from looks would have no problem getting a man. Except she has a problem with men who can’t spell or who have bad grammar. Even when they pass the test, she explains they’re all to quick to send her…

  • BBC Three – Six months on

    BBC Three – Six months on

    It’s now been six months since the BBC took BBC Three off our television screens and officially launched it as an “online-only” service with a considerably smaller content budget. As most of you will be aware, I was the driving force behind the #SaveBBC3 campaign for two years prior to this, hoping the BBC would…

  • First Dates – Series 7 Episode 2

    First Dates – Series 7 Episode 2

    In this week’s episode the perfect example of this was when best friends Josh and Jack – both 21 – turned up at the restaurant. Promoters for the “most exclusive night clubs in Croydon” Josh and Jack were referred to as the Kray twins.… Read on

  • First Dates – Series 7, Episode 1

    First Dates – Series 7, Episode 1

    For those that follow me on social media you’ll know I’m a television addict. I’m told by some that they don’t need to watch television, because my tweets often sum up the shows for them. A lot of the television shows I watch are perhaps guilty pleasures that I wouldn’t echo a word about outside…

  • Latitude 2016

    Latitude 2016

    It’s cliché to say this after a festival, but I think Latitude this year was perhaps one of the best I’ve been to. After all of the doom and gloom in the news at the moment it felt like a challenge worth relishing to spend five days in a tent away from an office and away…

  • The basics of a Tinder profile

    The basics of a Tinder profile

    Since returning the single life earlier this year I thought it was time to wise up on social media for singletons – the dating apps. The world of online dating seems to have moved on somewhat in recent years, no longer is it weird to meet someone off the internet.… Read on