Blind Date shook-up the format for tonight's (June 16) series opener by giving one of the contestants a unique way of picking his date.
Barry John – or as he likes to be called, BJ (eugh) – came over from Ireland to find love, and he had a surprise in store for the three potential women.
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Yep, he brought his actual mum Anne along to help him seek out the one, and it was as cringe as you can imagine.
At one point, Barry's (we're not calling him BJ, sorry) mammy revealed she kept a photo of one of his exes, and she took a turn asking potential dates Holly, Jo and Cherry questions.
"What would my son be surprised to find out about you," she asked at one point, getting the usual slew of innuendo-laden answers.
One who was certainly going all out was Jo, who included cringe lines about bananas, and grabbing "something other than [Barry's] attention". Honestly!
However, the biggest twist was to come, as Paul announced that it would in fact be Anne that would be picking her son's date, rather than himself.
And she ended up going for Cherry in the end. Thankfully, Anne's contestant of choice called her son "very good looking". Right answer, Cherry.
Yet Paul had another twist up his sleeve and got Barry's mum to pick the envelope that decided where they would go for their date – which turned out to be Cuba.
It seemed viewers were as confused as us by the whole mum thing:
Blind Date airs on Channel 5.
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