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First.Dates.Ireland.Season 10 Episode 12
Show moreShow lessCupid's arrow is set to hit Irish shores this month when the brand new series of First Dates Ireland airs on RTÉ2. The restaurant doors will swing open bringing singletons from all over the country together in the hope of finding love.At the helm of the Irish First Dates restaurant is maître d' - Mateo Saina. Originally from Croatia, Mateo moved to Dublin in 2004 to take up a position at 'Browns on the Green'. Falling instantly in love with the city and its people, Mateo has lived here ever since. Joining Mateo is his team of merry matchmakers; barman Ethan Miles and waitress Alice Marr.The singletons who will visit the restaurant range in age from 20 to 70 plus. The unobtrusive cameras allow the daters to forget they are being filmed and start bonding. or not!Year started: 2016
Categories: Romance
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00:00to love everybody this is the first state's restaurant let's have some fun
00:09a place where anything what have you gotten yourself into is possible are you ready i'm
00:17shaking myself i'm not gonna i need some romance an instant attraction hi you're gorgeous all of
00:26my women die so don't get too close my husband's died so don't worry a match made in heaven you are
00:36just a big tall drink of water aren't you or a sudden shock to the senses oh here we go
00:45i live for the drama none of these diners know what to expect i'm actually getting engaged tonight
00:51absolutely i won't send you dick pics if you are nailing this day pop what happens next oh no
01:00is up to them it's the moment of truth
01:12how do you prepare for a date might get me hair done i don't know
01:15whatever's ironed in the wardrobe is probably what's going on
01:24i washed my hair then i spent an hour blow drying my hair then i looked like something out of the lion
01:29king
01:32i don't know what i could come out with but cocktail into us and it'll all be okay i think
01:37i was debating the circular glasses or the square glasses
01:39oh no square suits yeah square suits yeah definitely there are some who put a lot of
01:45thought into preparing for a date and then there's ben most of the time at least you just get up
01:52maybe a haircut if it's important and then straight home shower throw whatever clothes that are washed
01:58on me and then get out the door
02:00my longest relationship like five months one joke that i can't keep a relationship but it's fine
02:09you look loaded man in the last couple days trying
02:14you're matching the blue
02:18do you ever feel lonely for like a girlfriend oh yeah you do every now and again yeah you're not by
02:22yourself you have people you have friends you have work and everything like you're fine but yeah you
02:27do kind of want a girlfriend as well ben you're looking dapper thank you very much what do you
02:30do for a living i am a bartender oh so do you have like a signature cocktail so i made a cocktail
02:36called the taylor spritz well well well well why don't you come around and make one here for us
02:40right now let's jump in there i want to have a drink now okay let's go i'm actually thirsty it's been a
02:45long day i'm actually parched i've got introduced to someone i don't know a parents co-worker or one
02:52of my friends friends like get along straight away talk to them for the whole night i'll burn the
02:56air off someone i don't really shut up is the issue no pressure pal no pressure
03:04don't ruin your shirt now before the i'm really trying i'm quite composed person i kind of just
03:09keep them very relaxed i don't really get too stressed or anxious about much so i think i'll be
03:13all right i want to go off do it it's enough enjoy it will do thank you very much pleasure i'll let you
03:19know how it tastes yeah yeah i'll leave me a sip i'll take a sample for you
03:22physically just not blonde blondes are
03:31what's the right word um they cause issues sometimes
03:39there'll be no issues when it comes to dating hannah
03:42she won't stand for it i feel like the scene is it's in dire straits around like dublin and stuff
03:50and i want to just have a sit down date and i feel like people just don't sit down and date normally
03:55anymore
03:59sometimes lads they just don't really know like what to do or how to act and they think dinner is like too
04:07serious or too much commitment your name please hannah hannah welcome thank you you should have more
04:14confidence because it's gorgeous thank you you want to pass me a jacket yeah please thanks i like
04:19getting dressed up for something i'm making something a little occasion sort of me and my
04:24friends sometimes just be like okay dinner dates like let's take each other out on a little dinner
04:28day because no one else is going to do it so let me take you to the bar because we have a special
04:32bartender for you okay i'm excited yes apparently he drinks are phenomenal thanks
04:42now hannah have a seat great and this is going to be a date tonight oh my goodness
04:51i wasn't expecting him to be behind the bar because he had a shirt on so i was kind of like okay
04:57don't mess it up now no pressure
05:00what's that supposed to be it's called a taylor spritz oh there you go because we made it for
05:08when taylor swift came in i love football like play for kilcullen in kildare i'm local team senior
05:15and then i play for kildare under 20s okay i'm taste testing it now okay cheers what's your name ben
05:22ben ben i'm hannah nice to meet you nice to meet you that's nice look at that strong
05:31i love sporty lads sometimes ga lads have like a big head on them and they're class so i don't know
05:37if there's like a in between of that it's right up your alley taylor swift cocktail you love her you
05:42taylor swift yeah he's a sift yeah you're pushing me now oh there you go how's it it needs a bit of sugar
05:51but she cannot that you're right you're right he's not wrong what are you in the mood for uh whiskey
06:01sour whiskey sour good man how would you describe yourself um a big giant nerd i would say and when was
06:08your last relationship probably about a year ago maybe yeah everybody kind of just short-term dates
06:15now for a little while and then they you can say that again yeah really is you know what i mean
06:19there's no long term is really hard it's like to go two or three months and then it's yeah over here to
06:24make a new connection um find true love's bliss maybe and what's your usual type a human i suppose
06:33i don't like gym bods or any of those things i like kind of bearish men uh you know a bit
06:38a bit cuddlier with uh with beards and and stuff like that so uh i always say a young version of
06:45benny amison from abba is my ideal man
06:55oh i get annoyed hearing finnis at the airport every time i get there's like all these fins again
07:00it's a kind of bittersweet mix that there's certain things that i miss back home and there's
07:03certain things that i'm very happy to not have to deal with i've fallen in love with ireland and
07:11and go always a great place to live and i've stuck here for seven years
07:20petri loves the irish because he's come to understand us well most of us the accents occasionally
07:27like going down to carry and i'm like what are you talking to me i have no idea what you just said
07:34i don't go to places where i would be chatted up because it's always such a tiny place we only have
07:40one gay bar how do you feel pretty oh good no good ready for date yeah yeah excited to see what's
07:47what's happening hopefully we have what you're looking for if not don't be judging me and we give
07:52our best shot it's not your fault yeah yeah the one element an area in my life where i'm very very
07:58shy because i'm in those situations i'm always thinking that he's not going to be interested in
08:01me no hello hello hi li how are you sorry how are you nice to meet you you too what's most important
08:11to you in a partner that your energy is compatible um that you're you're sometimes people clash um
08:18sometimes they don't but i suppose it's making sure that you have uh i suppose compatibility where
08:23are you from denary in dublin oh okay yeah you i live in galway okay nice but i'm from finland okay
08:32but i've been in ireland now for about seven years oh yes you have an irish accent now well i'm catching
08:43this is really nice actually it's not meant to look that color
08:47i think i forgot something i forgot the raspberry puree but i don't know if there was any there
08:50that's so funny that you have to do that because you can't have the shirt on you can't have the
08:53whole bar thing going okay my manager my manager at work said ben what are you gonna wear i was like
08:59black trousers white shirt he goes no that's literally about he goes blue shirt he's okay he's
09:05i'll bring out the color in your eyes i was like okay and you went with it anyway i went with it yeah because
09:09like then my mom this is i my mom said to me uh do you need a blue shirt i will buy your blue shirt for
09:16you but you have to let me pay to get your eyebrows done so i got my eyebrows done yesterday it was a
09:23horrible experience and i would never do it again i cannot stress enough that i have to explain it to
09:27the boys in the group chat after please do not get it done no way yeah my mom was like please like
09:35looking great looking great on fleek they were so painful i was crying the whole time it was like
09:41with the thread thing yeah never again yeah it wasn't it wasn't getting waxed well i wasn't in
09:49control i got brought in somewhere and i was like all right take a seat there i was like okay all right
09:53just lean back yeah lean back and just relax i was like okay what is happening here and they just started
09:58chopping away my eyebrows and i was like oh that's a lot this is so painful if i asked your mom why are
10:05you single what would she say to me she just thinks i have a horrible taste she said from now on i
10:10want to meet them first and then you can go out with them i'd never do that again i was like this
10:14one was not worth the shirt or worth the shirt i could have bought the shirt myself like it wasn't
10:19it's not like it's not expensive shirt like i could have bought it but my mom said it was like oh beauty
10:24is pain i was like yeah great but like i'd rather be ugly than have the guy wrestling mother's approval is
10:29a lot yeah it's mothers of sons i think are just so like this is my precious boy like and i'm like oh my
10:38god i'm not trying to be his mom like i'm just trying to go out with him i was like before
10:44they were completely fine it was just like not bushy they're a little bit bigger than this and not
10:48like lying properly but they're fine that's so funny hello have i interrupted you sorry no are we ready
10:58to order or are we still thinking we've made a decision very good what can i get for you i'll have the
11:04the cod please the cod perfect uh i'm gonna have the cod also two of those perfect yeah i like your
11:10pin by the way oh thanks what is it's a star trek a star trek yeah you're a trekkie i am yeah big nerd
11:17yeah i am a big giant nerd i just love it it's kind of it's like a little glimpse that what humanity's
11:22future might be uh if everything goes in the right direction well i didn't i know nothing about star trek
11:27oh look at you look at you look at you you're 50 years to catch up on i'm gonna go and cram yeah
11:33and do my research and check i live long and prosper live long and prosper i knew it was something
11:38like that can you do it no what's your type having their own nerdy passion or i suppose whatever it
11:43happens to be that uh something that they're really interested in uh i can talk about for hours
11:49do you like star trek i watch the new movies okay that's fine that's fine
11:56uh the date can continue the date can continue we're fine well i'm a nerdy guy myself so that
12:03would definitely be the one element but not too nerdy so not that it's their whole personality
12:09i've seen bits and pieces of the the old stuff but like not um kind of yeah religiously from
12:14back yeah from two should we change that you're gonna get a full rundown now
12:17if i really fancy someone there's a lot kind of focus on on them and and so if i if i fall silent
12:27and look at them that's usually a sign that i might be interested it's funny because i meet people
12:32like i wear my badges and stuff and then i meet people all the time and they're like is that a
12:37star trek badge i'm like yes and then i'll talk to them and then they're like oh blah blah and then
12:41they'll give me discounts on stuff and it's it's like a secret organization where it's like smart move
12:55yes
12:56experience counts that's experience yeah mateo nice to meet you your name nice to meet you pat
13:15how is everything pat everything's good yeah thank you very much yeah you're putting yourself out there
13:19that's the most important yeah first time days yeah yeah i don't take life too serious you know i'm
13:25laid back i'm easy going you can throw anything at me it doesn't phase me you know i can i can handle
13:30more stuff you know what do you do in your spare time i like to paraglide believe it or not wow
13:38stand on the side of a cliff the wind is blowing towards you and you jump off and you thrive
13:44that's a bit dear definitely isn't it a passion of mine for a couple of years so interesting but it's
13:50something i absolutely love it feels amazing i i get a great buzz out of it because you're up there
13:55and it's just you the air and it's just silence you know just the wind in your face i have a huge
14:00fear of heights so that would be my worst nightmare me too oh no clearly you don't if you can do that
14:05i swear i could not get up in the ladder i would get fair to go i'd fall yeah see that's what i get
14:10all the time you're safe up there you're only you only hurt when you hit the ground well
14:14if catherine falls for her date she'll probably land on her feet curious can you describe yourself
14:25in three words fun caring cat lady came to my mind but it's two words
14:34crazy cat lady three words yeah there you go
14:37so would you tell me about the kind of person that you'd like to meet it's sure we're all a bit vain
14:42right
14:46broad shoulders you know i'd like to be having the feeling that you know you can melt into a hug
14:53how are you good very good better now when i see you great thank you i like guns a little bit
14:58of a working out type of person why not right plot hello hi hi how are you i'm pat
15:10what about sex on a first date probably not if you're trying to suss out the person for the long term
15:16but if the person is just that hello how are you i'm good and you good good good good what would you
15:28like what would i like um some white wine some white wine absolutely is a savvy on block okay
15:35i have a penis video either no chardonnay no no one look at it no let me have a look i do i do i do
15:43have a fuzzy one i do indeed so i moved to ireland in 1999 i just fell in love with it where's your
15:50accent from france ah hence the fussiness about the wine you know what you want you know your wine thank
15:58you very much you're welcome are you from france are you yeah i am yeah i'd say yeah french men are
16:03probably a little bit more romantic i think irish men are a little bit more um ah sure let's go to
16:10the pub and see how it goes and you want someone that's got energy you know god knows you want
16:15someone that's got some energy we had a poker night last night my friend's house oh poker night that
16:27sounds fun i won oh well there you go so you're on the money so you're playing tonight great cheers
16:31cheers cheers i was going to anyway since i said i might have to split it now i'd say i'm quite
16:36competitive like my friends would probably say so too like card games like board games anything
16:42sports obviously want to win but you said you're going to third year yeah so you're 20 nearly 21.
16:47yeah i'm saying i'm 20. when you're 21. february i'm december oh so you're older than me just about
16:56okay two months two months it's not even two months i believe that like people should be
17:01very different like some similarities but very different as well because if you're the exact
17:06same all you do is talk about the exact same stuff would you go out much or what would you probably be
17:11well if you're working i guess not really maybe once a week not really once a week that's a lot
17:19what do you think makes a great relationship trust you need to be able to trust each other i hate the
17:24way especially in today's kind of age where people like the girls are great when the fellas stress
17:29the home thinking oh she's cheating and all that and then saying vice versa just trust each other like
17:34there's no if they were going to do it they'll do it would you be a copper stan coppers yeah i haven't
17:40been that much i've been like like i've been less than 10 times because i've been that's almost
17:45busy with work like i've been like five times more than that i mean i i i do like it when i go like
17:51like like more than likely we'll be going on after this oh surely after the conference yeah after the
17:55conference on a monday is so rogue really going it's it even open on the one i hope so
18:02do you speak any other languages um i'm don't say vulcan i'm fluent in bullshit uh no little bits of
18:09things um i did german in school but i would say i'm very rusty at it now but it would be probably
18:14something like if you were exposed to it oh yeah yeah if i was in germany drunk i needed to order
18:22alcohol at a bar i could do it totally one of the big problems i've noticed in myself as well
18:29as to kind of to understand the difference between interest and romantic interest i've had a few times
18:35where i've realized ages later it's like oh were you flirting with me i didn't realize that this was
18:41probably not the first day discussion but second day discussion like i've had my best men chosen
18:45for my wedding eventually all right okay i've changed one of them well look at my finger it's empty
18:52i start building these dreams and and ideas and and then they they are not part of that process
18:59because it happens inside my head and then i bring them along at some point and i'm like well we have this
19:03i have this whole life plan for us like hold on well i've been married zero times me as well yeah
19:11i barely had a i think my longest relationship was a year and a half hmm okay yours uh eight and a half
19:19nearly nine oh wow yeah i'm usually a bit too quick to tell say the l word in the relationship as well
19:26that i'm i i get to feel like i want to say that but should i is it too soon is it too soon and i'm
19:31usually the first one very good so you've planned a wedding and your groomsmen and all those things
19:38yeah the only thing missing is the husband oh yeah well the first husband i suppose
19:47i've been a chef for 35 years so anything around food i've always been passionate about and i've been at
19:53the high end of kitchens you know michelin stars and stuff so i i know what it's like at the top
19:58my girls were going into college how old are they i have two girls yeah sarah and anna sarah is 24 this
20:05year anna is 21 this year yeah we're a very close-knit trio yeah yeah yeah good they've often said it to
20:14me you know not that we'd love to see you with somebody that but you know they they want me to be happy
20:19my wife passed away in 2015. all right so she died yeah she died quite young 47. right that's the age i am
20:34it was cancer so it all happened very quickly so that that happened around the uh christmas time as
20:39well which doesn't help but uh it was just uh it was just one of those things it was really really
20:46difficult for the girls the girls were quite young then yes i can imagine yeah focus on them step up
20:53and do it yeah get the girls rared and yeah good and safe and you know i had to change the whole
21:00projection of my career as well because i was working up in dublin at the time and so i had to stop
21:06and just focus on my girls i ended up working in a secondary school in the canteen type of place yeah
21:13yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah got me out of all i was doing cooking classes so i was finding ways to make
21:19money yeah yeah yeah yeah and uh support them at the same time and be more at home probably to walk
21:25after yeah yeah yeah i can look back in the rear view mirror but i'm going forward now and i'm quite
21:30positive and enjoying life you know it's it it's been challenging but good yeah
21:36what are you doing um i'm in ucd in genetics i'm going into third year so yeah i'm yeah i want to
21:47go into like forensics or something about like hereditary like diseases or something like that
21:54to do with genetics you get to pick your dissertation so i suppose to me i was going to do like the genes
21:59of why some people get really badly sunburnt and why other people don't because like ginger and i do get
22:05different my course is like massive so like you don't only get to know people until like second
22:11year and like kind of know ever so my friends groups are like my friends do history and politics
22:18like physics chemistry engineering loads of like smart my friends are smart basically would you like
22:24a smart guy yeah i would like somebody smart someone who kind of has the same values as me
22:31kind of has some sort of plan that has some aspirations of where they're going because
22:36i have plans and aspirations are you not from from dublin nope that's where i'm from i don't know it's
22:42such a neutral accent yeah it's very nice like you have such a neutral accent i have no clue where you're
22:46from so no matter what i say is going to offend you so no no no no can't do it um killer yeah
22:53yeah that's right that's handy like yeah yeah yeah i'm i live in killer oh no wait where about
22:58like kill oh i'm kilcullen kilcullen that's just like 50 minutes on the road yeah exactly
23:03not the reality you sound like you're from dublin i am from dublin oh okay i've lived that last like
23:08three or four years oh okay a polar bear walks into a bar and he says to the bartender can i have a
23:14uh pint please and the bartender says uh why the paws and he says i was born with them
23:27as an aspiring stand-up joe is known for his unique timing my mom and my brothers they all understand
23:34that like uh everyone moves through life at their own pace so like uh you know if i'm single i'm single
23:42if i find someone i find someone you know they love me either way so
23:52i love giving love yeah i love being loved and giving love it's uh
23:58being able to make someone else have that same feeling it's so gratifying
24:03and i never want to leave
24:08probably points uh mateo nice to meet you how are you your name joe yeah nice to meet you joe man
24:14yeah you too are you ready for this yeah i am yeah first dates are like they can be nerve-wracking
24:19it can be difficult to know like right off the bat if like you like this person what's the crack
24:25i was just on a date yeah i don't know what she looks like well that's the point of it isn't it
24:30what would you like her to look like so as long as he's a as long as he's a bit friendly oh can you
24:38tell if someone likes you i think my radar for that is really bad so i'd probably rather just ask like
24:44his glasses are cool i know i mean he looks like thank you let me try that let me try this oh i'm so
24:50blind so is he so it's like oh i can see clearly now
25:05arriving for her date clarice is pretty excited but she's determined to restrain herself i'm very
25:12confident to the point where sometimes it's a little bit in your face uh i can kind of overpower a
25:18room but i'm trying to kind of take step back give other people a chance
25:25that's a great start yeah i've practiced
25:31i hope they're nice that's all i'm considering is that they're nice that they're not an
25:36asshole hello how are you nice to meet you i'm joe clarice nice to meet you clarice
25:42how are you good i'm not too bad nervous yeah me too like it is very daunting and people can be
25:49very nervous that just kind of gives them a chance to take breath and you know don't just kind of
25:56jump into it like into their face where are you from longford but i'm living in rathcule okay
26:02and what do you do i'm an accountant okay what do you do i'm a software engineer very cool yeah
26:07yeah do you have children yourself no i don't no no never did no you ever married yes married divorced
26:17yeah divorced yeah yeah so we were together 16 years married eight years out of the 16 um
26:26so that was a long time a big chunk i think a single longer we split up in 2015
26:32okay and uh eight years yeah yeah yeah yeah you know we're still friends we're like family you
26:39know i know his new wife i knew her really well anyway okay and oh he went down and got married
26:44then yeah yeah yeah and uh you know i've had different people over the years but no one that's gone
26:51you know yeah well that's the person for me yeah after that i was in a relationship that was about a
26:58year and a half but your man lived in france so it was either i moved to paris
27:07to be with him or and i was like no i just do like ireland a bit too much man ireland
27:14you know it's hard to know what makes all the ingredients stick together what's the right person
27:20like it is hard work yeah in a way but yeah you know when you feel it in your gut you've met someone
27:25and you're not the right person it's better yeah to move on so yeah i promised to myself i wouldn't
27:32take as long in the future if something doesn't feel right okay you give it a chance because you
27:37work at it no relationship's perfect but then if it doesn't feel right you need to end the cycle
27:43quicker and i think the order we get as well the more wise we get you know well you hope so
27:48we can do this the more baggage we bring in that's true as well how was your family when you came out
27:58um yeah okay really yeah and they were like oh my mother was like oh that must have been a weight off
28:06your mind and then my dad was like oh okay well we're still your family very good okay that was a good
28:14reaction yeah where do you think you learned about love you look at all the things when you're young
28:20and you look at disney and stuff and it's like oh this is what happens and you'll meet uh prince or
28:26princess charming and live happily ever after and then you just realized that was a lie you spent
28:3240 years kissing toads and no transformation ever happens how are yours not not the same not the same no
28:41okay not the same so my sister was kind of like the same she realized it and she was like oh i just
28:46need to be more open-minded in the future okay i'm earlier in my like early 20s i wasn't out fully so
28:52there were lots of people who knew me when i was still in the closet and then there were people who
28:56knew me while i was coming out and then there were people who only known me since i had come out so
29:01there was all these different perceptions of me and then i had to kind of manage all of that
29:06constantly and tried to like okay how how should i behave based on who's who's around me and she's
29:13been fine and she knew me like we were best friends my mom on the other hand is she dramatic a little
29:19bit yeah he she didn't take it well initially and then we had a big fallout and i was like to the
29:26point where i was not even sure if i was welcome home for christmas oh really not for christmas yeah
29:32well let's see in the end then she was like well you're always welcome that's all it's gonna be
29:35your home yeah it took months of really tense relationship before we kind of managed to get
29:41back to a certain level of trust and like my brother is also gay uh he came out like five years after
29:48me but he said you won yeah you beat him and then he's never forgiven me but i came out of the class
29:53at first and he came years later and he got a lot better response from my mom because she had had
29:58like five years time to four three four five years time to kind of digest having a gay son so
30:05then when she learned that she has two she was upset but she got over it a lot quicker so the three
30:11of you yeah i had another brother when i was younger but he passed away when i was 13. oh i'm sorry
30:19it's been long enough that i've been able to deal with it so it's fun but he was my partner in crime
30:24at the time so we did everything together we shared a room and we played together all the time so he was
30:29he was my whole life at the time pretty much it hit me and he was my best friend oh i'm sorry
30:34all right it's all in the past maybe he's watching you from somewhere
30:38yeah it could also get worse
31:00hi hi how are you very well yeah i like all the jewelry thanks i got my this is i'll give you my
31:07jewelry talk through this is my granny got me this in actual clad like in the ring place
31:13my aunties this is the same thing i'm just gonna pop this here yeah of course nice thank you
31:18i thought you look very good carried yourself well kind of what i was asking what i was looking for
31:22someone who carried yourself well confident and then this is my thailand one so it's great
31:28so you'd like to see her again maybe yeah how do we want to do this all right we'll split it no
31:35yes yes yes yes yes yes well i think you can just let him be a gentleman are you sure
31:41i feel bad gotta buy me drink covers yeah yeah so
31:49would you like to see each other again romantically
31:53seven three ah i don't like that would you want to go first um i don't know about romantically yeah sorry
32:05it was very friendly yeah yeah like we were chatting yeah yeah yeah i just like i'd go with
32:17you on a night out but oh yeah i don't know if there was like you know like yeah yeah yeah you were right
32:22yeah i feel like it's very matter of fact sometimes i'm not like banter laughing it was very like and
32:33i do this this this this this i don't know i guess i'm pickier than i thought i was
32:38would you do another blind date no all right no no no it's just too nerve-wracking
32:57chat to ebs
33:02sorry i never said you look really lovely thank you yeah how do i know if a date is going well i think
33:12if someone's like smiling and if someone is uh kind of uh giving back kind of what i'm putting in as
33:21well would you date much no no no no not at all or no not at all not really at all no how come
33:30i'm not good at it no no no how do i know if date is going well i don't to be honest with you i don't
33:38when people see my profile they see they're obviously not looking for anything serious right so
33:44that's must be the impression that i give off or something so it's like nude pictures sleazy chat up
33:51lines because that's all i get so then there is no potential for dates do you know yeah yeah geez
33:58that's kind of grim oh yeah brutal and so have you had like a relationship any relationships before
34:04yeah so i lived with him for seven years all right okay yeah nice we were together for seven years
34:13living together but it just kind of fizzled out and it just wasn't working anymore and it was just
34:19easier to walk away than kind of drag it out and make it more painful for everybody involved
34:24what are you looking for then i guess i don't really know like i know i want company to be
34:31honest with you like yeah i like the whole dating thing like it you don't have to like move in kind
34:36of a thing you know it's like moving in is a big deal as well yeah it's big like to be spending 24 7
34:43you know every day with someone is intense yeah it is sure but i suppose we got very comfortable very
34:49quickly and it kind of dragged out and that's probably why it fizzled out in the end that it
34:54just kind of got boring but i think there's a thing of like just like a mutual
35:01effort of like if we don't do this it's just not going to stagnate and so you got to do you got to
35:08put in that effort to to keep your life of it otherwise it's just one person is trying too hard
35:14yeah they're getting frustrated because the other person isn't trying really at all yeah and you and
35:19then like that makes you feel kind of unwanted and yes no one wants to feel like that no yeah
35:28i uh i'm a yoga teacher i teach pilares and meditation and breath work oh brilliant and i do
35:35that full time i used to be in the corporate world that's why you're not nervous you see you know you
35:38can zone all that again send myself yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no i used to work in the corporate world
35:44and uh for many years and then i got to the point where the job split on and i just wanted an alternative
35:53yeah i was in a big job in a big multinational company which was great while i wanted it
36:01and then you reach middle age midlife crisis and you start to question everything i also had a
36:08consultancy mostly in the food industry as well but i left it recently yeah i was more into sales and
36:14marketing and uh i worked for food producers for a good few years and i was helping them export and then
36:22of course because i'm french then france being the obvious i enjoyed that for a bit but then i hit
36:28another wall and i knew then it was time to do my own thing so i launched a little business as a yoga
36:36teacher then i trained in pilares in mindfulness in breath work the trouble i have with food is that
36:43i have to slow myself down yeah for sure because yeah my whole career i've been standing up eating you
36:50know oh is the staff lunch ready yet have to get back yeah no i used to be like that and i had to
36:56practice mindful eating yeah well i know if you fancy them if i'm smiling like a gobshite
37:04i'm probably well into him as we get older and stuff you know you need to be more mindful about
37:10things and you're only a young one 47 and you 48 well there you go no no i'm 59 all right okay you
37:23don't look it i don't feed it either yeah that's it the coconut yep perfect and uh famous chocolate hearts
37:33amazing you're very welcome thank you this looks so pretty yeah mine's pretty too yeah it is a very
37:41i don't think you'd like it actually you're not having any well we can maybe like tiny tiny little
37:47i'll give you a half no you don't have to give me half i'll give me half do you want a half of my
37:52ball yeah jesus that's that stage already you're a nice smiley face and yeah he's very warm he's nice
38:00and chatty um he likes nerdy stuff yeah he just has a general sort of positive outlook i suppose
38:08fast mover uh typically yeah like why bother kind of waiting around all right no patience no i have a
38:17surprise for you close your eyes put your hand out i'm gonna give you half my butterfly oh that is so
38:25sweet thank you it looks so cute yeah i wish i was able to do something like this you will do that
38:31make that these fluffy fluffy fingers like i have no precision with my hands can you do it no
38:39help help did you fancy him yeah do you think he fancied you
38:54just going to leave that on the table there free i'll be back in a few okay hi hi hi
39:01do you want to come to our wedding do you want another minute to think about it and i'll come back
39:05and get the payment no i'll pay for the drinks on the next on the cruise for the time we get married
39:13would you like to see each other again yeah yep there you go watch this space
39:22have had parties and stuff yeah we could do yeah don't get any ideas i'm worried like wheels are
39:33turning no very good yeah well that's good you'll have to plan it because i don't plan i can lend you
39:39one of my best men i have too many of them so i could give you one so they can help you yes that's
39:42a perfect match i'm mindful now thank you very much oh you're welcome that's it really live long
39:50and prosper almost doing yeah you can join them together so the wedding is that going to be in
40:04finland or ireland depends on the season like i have i have different ideas for winter wedding and
40:10spring wedding and summer wedding and fall wedding so it depends on when we get married
40:15there's definitely foundations for building on something so where is a good place to drink in
40:22dublin uh there's a few places along the quays you can go over there yeah sounds like a good thing to
40:27do exactly yeah nice so what's your hobbies oh my hobbies i've been into kind of like performing arts
40:41for a long time now at this point what time so i was an actor well i was an actress sounds a bit
40:48sounds a bit pretentious i wasn't an actor i was a i did acting yeah i think it's like the thrill of like
40:56the unknown to to a certain extent it's like uh you don't you don't know how it's going to go down
41:05and that's kind of thrilling actually that that was what i wanted to do when i was a was being actor
41:10yeah yeah um but then i didn't get in and i was like i guess i needed to pull up my socks and then
41:18when i was in trinity i joined the comedy society and then i started performing comedy sets yeah go on
41:25tell me a joke oh what's your opening line coming on stage oh i'm not telling you cringes me out too
41:37much cringes me out too much you can come see me if you want but i'm telling you yeah yeah just give me
41:42a time and date and i'll be there all right i'll give you a dad joke okay go on what's a pirate's
41:48favorite letter r ah you'd think so but is the c how about you hobbies where do i start um so i
42:02sing and i play guitar yeah oh class do you perform yeah to myself to my phone okay i love it i wake up
42:11i'm listening to music i'm constantly thinking about music i love to sing write songs play guitar
42:18everything i can't sing for shit yeah please sound like a bag of cats or something you know my friends
42:27would say that i'm absolutely brutal at flirting i can't do it i just i don't know i just sit there
42:33and look pretty and smile that's all i do and then like i'm trained in karate as well so okay
42:41so i don't want to get on the wrong side of you no please don't
42:45right you black belt or yeah wow okay
42:53yeah i'm feeling intimidated now yeah i started when i was four right and then kind of towards the
42:59end there was no women left so i was fighting fellas and you know sometimes they lost oh yeah it's class
43:08yeah thank you so much my pleasure and i feel here as well okay thank you thank you did you fancy him
43:22yeah yeah i'd love to see him again oh yeah oh yeah i got that yeah no i got this are you sure yeah you don't want to share
43:32no you're right 100 sure
43:34no no just just suis un gentleman oh and gentleman oh yes and do you think he fancied you
43:42i hope it did ish you know at least to go for a second date kind of thing i think there's something
43:49there and i think uh i'd love to see him again and explore yeah i didn't even look at it
43:57that's true we didn't it could be anything would you like to see each other again romantically
44:07i'm gonna go like this i'm sorry fair enough that's okay yeah
44:11yeah i would be the type that gives kind of let's go on a second date in a different setting to see
44:18how it goes yeah but if you don't want to that's absolutely fine
44:22that's okay i mean what's the saying um rejection is a kick up in the arse on the way to success you
44:41know exactly there you go
44:46surely you know is it nice to be rejected no but he was at the end of such a nice date
44:54and you can't fake that it's not like he was faking being nice
44:59no she was she was lovely i thought it went quite well you know i thought we could on quite well
45:04do you got a slot tomorrow i'll come back again if you get
45:11and there's just something missing there that wasn't there you know and even though i wanted it
45:16to be there it wasn't you know
45:33clary's how you feeling good
45:34oh i'll get this are you sure yeah i don't mind splitting it oh i'll get it though
45:42grand i'll get the next set of drinks you're a great company so thanks
45:48yeah i'm pleased with how it went like i feel like we could have sat there and talked for like 10 hours
45:54so there was just an awful lot more that i could have asked is it hard to get to someone
45:58for you no there's buses there's buses there's trains there's yeah i can run if i have to
46:06there was definitely a spark there he'd a lovely smile really nice smile it kind of brightened up
46:10the room such like a nice kind of safe kind of uh i don't know like a really nice kind of personality
46:19like just straight away just from a smile would you say you're a bit of a romantic though yeah yeah
46:24100 the cliche stuff i'd like because i've never experienced it before like what i don't know
46:31like flowers never experienced flowers before oh man i've got i need to get you some flowers
46:40would you like to see each other again romantically you go first
46:44uh yeah yeah yeah it would yeah yeah
46:52thank you thank you thank you very much you seem like very kind and warm person
47:00you're also very pretty thanks
47:02you can make that dream so real one can talk about being in love
47:08you can say i really appreciate that compliments where i smiled by the way
47:12yeah you have a little bit as well it's very nice thank you
47:19any thoughts about what you might do for a date yeah something nerdy i'll find something nerdy it's fine
47:30me and you
47:36what would you both like to be doing together
47:40raw trips
47:51me and you
47:55you
48:05you're like still hungry join us next time for a delicious second taste of this season's most
48:12memorable match-ups come here often do you i do yeah you'd have to give me mouth to mouth
48:20how did they let you on this show i don't know
48:24i live with my two cats very nice they're both named blowjob and different languages
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