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File this one under ‘Stuff I’ve Read on Wikipedia That Caused Shock and/or Alarm’:

…the couple would then get to randomly choose where they would go on the date (though in fact the “random choice” was fixed, as all of the envelopes offered to the contestants contained the same destination)…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the best part of Blind Date where the contestants chose a random holiday and sometimes got somewhere good (for example, Anguilla) and other times somewhere horrible (for example, skiing in Scunthorpe)? I was sure that the premise was meant to be that it was down to chance, and that everyone had as good a chance of going somewhere exotic as they did of going somewhere obnoxious.

But apparently not.

Which raises further questions in my mind: How did they choose which couple went where? Did the contestants realise that their destinations were pre-determined? And could they get away with that kind of stunt in this litigious day and age?  It’s one thing to play along with going somewhere rubbish if it’s down to bad luck, quite another to spend a long weekend being made fun of in an ageing British seaside resort at the whim of a producer. If the series had continued past 2003, how long would they have avoided being sued by some grubby oik with a chip on his shoulder?

And, more pertinently, at what point did my life degenerate to the degree that I’m posting blogs querying the morality of cancelled ITV light entertainment shows?

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