Blind Date’s first-ever couple to get married have now celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.
Sue and Alex Tatham first met on the dating show in 1988 and have been together ever since after Alex chose Sue.
The pair celebrated their special day by going to a ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet at the London Opera House.
Alex also had the choice of Lynne from Middlesex and Kate from Essex, but choice Sue when they appeared on the programme in 1988.
Alex told Metro : “It was a fabulous evening where Sue and I celebrated 30 years of a wonderful marriage by doing lots of things we love best culminating in one of the best ballets we have ever seen.
“Thankfully our love story ends better than Romeo and Juliet’s! We are still star-crossed lovers though!”
He added that when he first set eyes on Sue she looked ‘gorgeous’.
But it seems that Sue was just as nervous as she said her ‘legs were shaking’.
She said: “My legs were shaking. We had to sit on these big stools and there was this big booming voice coming from the other side of the screen, which sounded charming, and all I could think was, “I hope he’s taller than me” because I have this thing about boyfriends being taller than girlfriends.”
But she didn’t have as much to worry about as Alex stands at 6’2 who is much taller than Sue who is 5’6.
After they filmed the show in London they were both immediately whisked away to Shannon, Ireland where they had a medieval banquet and went to the the cliffs of Moher and where the couple stayed in a hotel five miles apart.
Sue said: “They were very keen to make sure we weren’t close to each other, but we clearly liked each other.”
When they returned to London they had to decide if they would go on another date and of course they both said yes.
For the first two years they had a long distance relationship as Alex lived in London and Sue lived in Walsall but then they decided to get married.
Cilla Black went to their wedding which was televised in 1991 with 17 million people watching across the country.
30 years later they have two children together Emily, 27, and Charlie, 25.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
