Huge change to My Mum, Your Dad ahead of series two as bosses install sexy new twist
DATING show My Mum, Your Dad is getting a big change ahead of the second series – and it’s a raunchy one.
Fans will remember the parents had no idea their grown-up kids were secretly watching them date, from a video bunker, and helping to steer their journey.
Now that element of surprise has been lost, ITV bosses feared the singletons might be a little more shy.
So I can reveal they have installed a private sex den into the mansion.
They hope allowing the mums and dads their privacy means they will not be afraid to pucker up.
Davina explained: “Seeing kids ‘die’ as their parents do something frisky is really funny.
“But there’s now a snug, and the adults can go into the snug and have a moment together on their own.”
There is also a cut-off switch, though, where connection to the bunker can be cut off.
- The show will return to screens this month, on ITV1, ITVX and STV.
YEAR’S TO DEVOTED TWOSOME
WIDOWER Roger Hawes won hearts on the first series of My Mum, Your Dad when he found love with Janey Smith against all odds.
Now they have shared an update, a year after meeting on Davina McCall’s show.
Janey said: “The past year has been the most unusual, amazing, unbelievable year, totally. But at the same time, it’s been the most normal thing ever as well.”
Roger, who lost his wife Joanne to cancer 18 months before filming, added: “It’s been brilliant. It’s the most ridiculous thing ever, that you go on a TV show and this happens.”
The down-to-earth couple are looking forward to a camping trip together to see out the last of the summer.
They split their time between Roger’s home in Staveley, Derbyshire and Janey’s in Billingshurst, West Sussex.
The pair have barely been apart since.
Raunchy Roger went on: “I have just had three days away from Janey and when I got back . . . well, she was basically like, ‘Get off me!’
Janey said: “I was thinking, ‘You can go away again if that’s how it’s going to be!’”
Davina: I’m a midlife raver
DAVINA McCALL might be 56 – but she sure as hell doesn’t intend to start dressing like it.
The tanned and toned TV host reckons her generation, which she calls “midlifers”, are the first to throw outdated rules of society in the bin.
It is why she is the perfect host for ITV’s later-life dating show, My Mum, Your Dad, which will be back for series two this month.
Davina said: “Our age group, we are the first of a new generation of midlifers.
“We are the people that were at the raves, taking drugs, we’re pioneers.
“We were naughty, we were fun, we were outrageous — and then we had kids. We settled down, we were good people for 18 years and now we’re thinking, ‘Right — let’s go again’.”
The young-at-heart attitude definitely extends to Davina’s wardrobe.
She is often seen in skimpy skirts and denim hotpants.
The former Big Brother host said with a laugh: “You always hear that from people, don’t you?
“Like, ‘Oh, I still feel 25’. But it’s not a joke. We do still feel 25.
“You know, we’re exactly the same, except we’re slightly saggier.
“We’re now in a society where it is permissible for me to wear inappropriately short skirts, because it’s a new generation.
“We’re being allowed to behave in a way that possibly the last generation of men and women weren’t, and it’s really nice.”
Last year viewers lapped up the real, genuine folk who searched for love on the debut series of My Mum, Your Dad, and it was nominated for a TV Bafta.
And Davina promises it will be just as good the second time around.
She added: “It’s amazing. After a week, you can just see it all start to happen.
“Because people in there, it’s kind of like a hotbed.
“You are with somebody 24 hours a day, and you watch all these little micro-gestures, and you think, ‘I really like the way he makes coffee’, or ‘Wasn’t he nice? He opened the door for such and such’.”
And Davina added: “Looks is lust, but a connection is really getting to know someone, good and bad — all of it.”