And here's our Graham with a quick 思い出の品! As Blind Date returns to TV, FEMAIL 明らかにする／漏らすs the ?famous 直面するs that went on the show looking for love (and the couples that are still together two １０年間s later)

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It was one of the UK's most popular TV shows of the '80s and '90s, pulling in 18.2 million テレビ視聴者s in its heyday.

Now it's been 確認するd that Blind Date is making a 復帰 - more than a １０年間 after the series ended - and two year's on from Cilla 黒人／ボイコット's death at the age of 75.

The show will move from ITV to Channel 5 and Vicky Pattison is the hot favourite to 取って代わる the much-loved Liverpudlian host.?

Ahead of its return, FEMAIL looks 支援する at the most memorable contestants, 含むing the celebrities who got an 早期に taste of stardom on the show, 同様に as the couples who are still going strong.

AMANDA HOLDEN?

She's now one of the UK's most recognisable TV 星／主役にするs in the UK, 価値（がある） an 概算の £13 million.

But the Britain's Got Talent 裁判官 was a 完全に unknown 19-year-old when she joined two fellow 希望に満ちたs on the ITV show in 1991.?

Wearing a 黒人／ボイコット 小型の dress as she perched on the stool, Amanda got a 抱擁する 元気づける from the （人が）群がる after she was introduced and Cilla 公式文書，認めるd that she had a 'lorra lorra fans' in the audience.

She then asked Amanda which famous man she'd like to have a 膝s up with, to which she 答える／応じるd, Hollywood 星／主役にする Jack Nicholson.

Amanda Holden, 45, 設立する fame as an actress but for the past １０年間 she's been おもに known as a 裁判官 on Britain's Got Talent?

When Cilla questioned her choice, she 追加するd: 'I like to experience 円熟した men'.?

Amanda wasn't chosen by Barnaby to go one a date, but two years later she got her big break on UK TV starring in several episodes of Eastenders.

役割s in Smack The Pony, Goodness Gracious Me and Cutting It followed, before she landed one of her most memorable 役割s in the South African 野性生物 演劇 Wild At Heart with Stephen Tompkinson.?

For the past １０年間, she's put her 事実上の／代理 career 大部分は aside to 焦点（を合わせる） on 現在のing and 存在 a 裁判官 on Britain's Got Talent.?

Amanda Holden, 19, 自白するd to liking older men when she appeared on the show and said she'd like to pa rty with Jack Nicholson

Amanda Holden gives the （人が）群がる the thumbs up as she receives a loud 元気づける after introducing herself?

Sticking to her word about liking the older man, she went on to 会合，会う her husband Les Dennis?when she was just 22 and he 38.?They were together for four years before marrying in June 1995.

She and Dennis 分裂（する） when news of her 事件／事情／状勢 with actor Neil Morrissey 現れるd. Although they were 簡潔に reconciled, they separated in 2002 and were 離婚d the に引き続いて year.

Amanda, 45, is now married to music 生産者 Chris Hughes, the father of her two daughters Lexie and Hollie. ?

JENNI FALCONER?

Student Jenni Falconer went on a date with dish fryer Dondo Michaelas and although romance didn't blossom they remained on friendly 条件?

Jenni Falconer, 19, was a willowy, 個人として-educated university student when she appeared on Blind Date in 1995, where she matched with Donda Michaelas, a 20-石／投石する fish fryer.

Unsurprisingly, they failed to 攻撃する，衝突する it off after spending four days together in Brittany. Yet for both, that TV 外見 with Cilla 黒人／ボイコット led to success.

Jenni put her Spanish, Italian and 管理／経営 熟考する／考慮するs degree course at 物陰／風下d University on 持つ／拘留する to concentrate on her TV career after the show.

19-year-old Jenni Falconer made her television debut on ITV's Blind Date?

She then joined ITV as a reporter on the 現在の 事件／事情／状勢s show 3D before 現在のing the 消費者 programme We Can Work It Out.

But it was 上陸 a 職業 on GMTV's Entertainment Today in 2000 that 証明するd to be her 打開.

Now 40, she is a 正規の／正選手 presenter on This Morning where she is the 居住（者） travel reporter.

Now a mother to Ella, her daughter with husband James Midgley, Jenni is also a presenter on Heart Fm and has modelled for Ultimo. ?

Donda says he was also 申し込む／申し出d TV 契約s after Blind Date but realised that he was happiest frying fish and now earns £50,000 a year from his 商売／仕事.

< p class="imageCaption">The mother-of-one now 現在のs a show on Heart FM and is This Morning's 居住（者） travel reporter?

NIKKI GRAHAME?

The Big Brother 星／主役にする appeared on the final 一連の the show in 2003, but was visibly unimpressed when the 審査する went 支援する to 明らかにする／漏らす 物陰／風下, 20, a welder from Berkshire.?

She then decided to 交換（する） for Alex, 20, a student and rugby player from Hertfordshire.?

But on her return she complained that he had a tiny 量 of chest hair, which did not 会合，会う her 基準s for impeccable smoothness, while he criticised her for 存在 too fussed about her hair and make-up. ?

Before she 設立する fame on Big Brother, Nikki Grahame had the tricky 仕事 of 選ぶing a 可能性のある date when she appeared on the show looking for love?

It wasn't the last we saw of Nikki, as she 爆発するd の上に our 審査するs in 2006 when she took part in Big Brother.?

Her 炉心溶融s and her tearful?'who is she?' rant went 負かす／撃墜する in Big Brother history, 同様に as her on-審査する romance with fellow housemate Pete Bennett, who 苦しむd from Tourette's.?

Their 関係 only lasted for one month outside the house but the pair have remained on good 条件.?

Much of her career since then has 伴う／関わるd returning to the reality show for 周年記念日 episodes and she （機の）カム second in Ultimate Big Brother in 2010.?

She has also written two autobiographies, 詳細（に述べる）ing her struggles with anorexia. ?

Nikki Grahame at the 'You 勝利，勝つ Again The Story of the Bee Gees' film 首相 in London last month?

ORTIS DELEY

The children's presenters first ever TV 外見 was on Blind Date in 1995 at the age of 22.

He's since enjoyed a successful and 変化させるd career as a presenter, moving from children's TV sho ws such as Live and Kicking and the 粉砕する 攻撃する，衝突するs Roadshow to hosting The Gadget Show on Channel 5.?

Ortis has also tried his 手渡す at 事実上の／代理 with a 簡潔な／要約する 外見 in the second 著作権侵害者s of the Caribbean film. ?

Cilla 黒人／ボイコット with Ortis Deley in 1994, his first UK TV 外見 at the age of 22?

Ortis has 現在のd TV shows such as Live and Kicking, hosted the 粉砕する 攻撃する，衝突するs Roadshow and 前線d The Gadget Show on Channel 5

MARK SPEIGHT?

Former children's TV presenter 示す Speight was a contestant on the show 支援する in 1989.

Dressed smartly in a tuxedo, the dating 希望に満ちた tried to impress Cilla 黒人／ボイコット by 成し遂げるing his lizard impression. ?

He later went on to find fame as the presenter of the BBC's SMart art programme in 1994, which he 前線d for 14 years 同様に as 現在のing the children's 質問（する） show See It Saw it where he met his fiancee Natasha Collins. ?

Blind Date in 1989: 示す Speight pulls his Lizard 直面する for Cilla as she quizzes the contestants?

示す Speight, looking smart in a tuxedo on Blind Date, before he 設立する success as a children's TV presenter?

Tragically in 2008, he 設立する his partner's scalded 団体／死体 in the bath the morning after they had taken a cocktail of vodka, コカイン and sleeping tablets.

The presenter became ますます depressed and his mental 明言する／公表する 悪化するd until he went 行方不明の on April 7.

Six days later 安全 staff discovered his 団体／死体 hanging from a banister on the roof of a building next to Paddington 鉄道 駅／配置する in central London.?

Presenter 示す Speight 前線d children's TV programmes before his untimely death in 2008

AND THE COUPLES 世界保健機構 ARE STILL GOING STRONG TWO DECADES ON...

Paul Pratt, 44, and Anna Azonwanna, 43, from Wanstead, north-east London, met after both going on the 攻撃する，衝突する ITV show 23 years ago.

Paul plucked up the courage to 提案する to Anna on the programme five years later and the couple jetted off to Barbados 12 months after to 結婚する - and Cilla even …に出席するd as the guest of honour.?

?Anna Azonwanna, pictured with Cilla 黒人／ボイコット, on Blind date in 1993?

Anna Azonwanna who was 熟考する／考慮するing 商売／仕事 行政 was the picker and chose Paul from three 可能性のある matches

The pair were both struggling students when they answered the show's call for new contestants in 早期に 1993.

Anna, who was 熟考する／考慮するing 商売／仕事 行政 at Luton University (now Bedford) was the question master while Paul was one of three 可能性のある dates.

But he managed to get Anna 利益／興味d when he cheekily （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that he would be 'a tiger because I always catch what I 目的（とする） for' when she asked what animal he would be.

The couple returned to ITV 審査するs five years later when Paul decided to pop the question in the studio.

Paul and Anna tied the knot in 1999, jetting off to Carribean Island Barbados with Cilla …を伴ってing them on a 高級な jet.

Paul and Anna, who have two children Syrus and Jessie-Mae, were the final couple to 結婚する after 会合 on the show and 主張する that new friends sti ll love to hear the story.

Paul said: 'For the people who we have met since or didn't know us at the time, it still makes them smile.?

Paul Pratt and Anna Azonwanna got together after 会合 on ITV's Blind Date in 1993 and married five year's later. Pictured here: The happy couple with their children Jessie-Mae (left) and Syrus (権利)

ALEX AND SUE TATHAM

By the time Alex and 告訴する were 招待するd to appear on the third series in 1988, Blind Date was a runaway ratings success for ITV.

Alex, who chose a date, was 最高の-確信して in 前線 of the cameras, while 告訴する 収容する／認めるs she was a bundle of 神経s, perched on a stool behind the 審査する between 競争相手s Lyn from Middlesex and Kate from Essex.

‘I don’t know why I chose 告訴する,’ said Alex. ‘She 簡単に sounded very nice ? and she was. Our date was to 飛行機で行く off to Ireland for a 中世 祝宴.?

Alex Tatham and 告訴する Middleton 会合 for the first time as contestants on Blind Date?

Alex and 告訴する were the first couple to marry after 会合 on the show and Cilla …に出席するd their wedding?

The couple celebrated their?25th wedding 周年記念日 in November last year

'We 攻撃する，衝突する it off from the word go. Even on the 計画（する） 飛行機で行くing out we discovered we both had 正確に／まさに the same values in life.'?

There?followed three years of a 伝統的な courtship, with 告訴する keeping her 職業 in the West Midlands, while Alex stayed in London to finish his accountancy 資格s.

Alex and 告訴する married in 1991 in a 伝統的な church 儀式, with Cilla の中で the guests.

Outside, the church was （犯罪の）一味d by 4,000 支持者s. The wedding 儀式 and the 歓迎会 広げるd in the 十分な glare of the cameras filming a Blind Date special, which was subsequently watched by 17 million people.

The couple have two grown-up children and celebrated their 25th wedding 周年記念日 in November last year.