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Davina McCall has admitted she was responsible for the upcoming ITV dating series My Mum, Your Dad previously being dubbed the mid-life version of Love Island.
The latest dating series will see nine single parents go on dates with one another as they get another chance at finding love.
It will air across 10 hour-long episodes with their children secretly watching their every move and deciding their fate just minutes down the road.
Davina recently opened up about how she first pitched the idea to ITV bosses and apologised for being the one to coin the series as mid-life Love Island.
Speaking to Express.co.uk and other press, Davina explained: “I wrote an email to Amanda and it is quite funny because I had never met you before, we had never spoken.
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“I write Amanda an email, I go, ‘Hi it’s Davina here, I hope you don’t mind me writing to you, I think we should do…’.
“[But] it is my fault it got called mid-life Love Island because that is what I called it in the email. I’m sorry about that.
“We have been trying to burn that name ever since and I am sorry I have ruined it and I just said it again.”
Davina went on to explain that her pitch recalled adults having their own “baggage” and “does my baggage suit your baggage? Or does my baggage clash with your baggage? And is our baggage terrible together?”
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She also added that she gave Amanda five biography-style examples of people she knew in her life who had heartbreaking backstories.
Her idea unfortunately was quickly shut down by Amanda who explained they were going to look at another format.
But this didn’t stop Davina from “annoying” and keeping in touch with ITV to get her show brought to life, which is what happened in the end.
She explained: “I heard before [a] podcast went out that we’d got the show and I just can’t believe that it’s happened because I really did believe in this so much.
“It made so much sense, midlife love. It is so important. There’s so many people that second time around us that have lost someone.”
My Mum, Your Dad starts Monday at 9pm on ITV.
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