The iconic First Dates restaurant is moving.
To mark the Channel 4 show’s tenth anniversary, the filming location has moved to romantic hot-spot Bath.
Returning for a brand-new series of matchmaking on screen, maître d’ Fred Sirieix and his team of cupids will be hoping sparks fly between a new line-up of blind daters when filming will take place this summer at The Botanist bar and restaurant.
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Recently voted the UK’s most romantic city and holding the top spot on polls as the UK’s most beautiful city, Bath is famed for its charming period architecture, the historical Roman baths,as well as its connection to celebrated author Jane Austen.
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The Botanist restaurant site is inside the Grade II listed Octagon Chapel, built in 1766 and known to have been visited by Austen.
However, the new location won’t be all that’s changing about the series.
Along with a striking new restaurant home, the tenth anniversary season will launch brand-new cast members, a format refresh and some of the most unforgettable dating moments the show has ever featured.
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Speaking about the show shake-up, Fred: “Making this new series feels special, celebrating a decade of bringing people together on the show, but there’s always more love to be found.
“They say Bath is the most romantic city in the UK and its true, so what better place to set the scene for romance to blossom than there.”
Previously filmed at restaurant locations in London and Manchester, First Dates has become one of the UK’s best-loved and most watched series since it first aired in 2013.
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The programme has received a string of awards and nominations and has seen local versions launched in over 20 territories around the world.
Fred and his team have helped match up hundreds of couples in that time, leading to a host of engagements, marriages and even a baby.
Such is the popularity of the show that a spin off, First Dates Hotel, was launched in 2017, seeing daters travel to luxurious hotels in France and Italy in the hope of finding their soulmate.
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Rita Daniels, Channel 4 Commissioning Editor, said: “After 10 years of love stories, I’m thrilled that First Dates has the stunning and romantic city of Bath as its brand new location.
“I’m in no doubt that this special place will mesmerise and enthral all our daters which in turn will ensure they have special evening full of romance.”
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