Famous Contestants
Blind Date featured celebrities before they became well known. These include:
- Mark Speight (1989)
- Amanda Holden (1990)
- Howard Griffiths (1993)
- Ed Byrne (1993)
- Jenni Falconer (1994)
- Ortis Deley (1995)
- Nikki Grahame (2003)
- Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (2002)
A Comic Relief special in 1994 had Mr Bean on the show. The sketch featured Rowan Atkinson as Bean, Barbara Durkin as Tracy, Bean's date and Cilla Black. The skit also featured Alan Cumming, in one of his earliest on-screen acting roles.
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“How else is the famous short story ‘A study in Abjection’ to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)