Perfect Match: Netflix unveils cast of dating show
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Love Is Blind host Nick Lachey is returning to Netflix to front the brand-new dating show. Branded the “ultimate game of love” by the streaming service, familiar faces from some of the streamer’s biggest reality shows will hope to finally find love. However, the announcement has been met with rather mixed opinions as it comes fresh off the back of a number of hit series’ cancellations.
In the past few weeks, Netflix has cancelled the likes of the dystopian thriller 1899, the sitcom Uncoupled, the action-packed Warrior Nun and many more.
So when Netflix dropped the first teaser trailer for Perfect Match, it prompted a number of disgruntled fans to voice their disdain at bringing back reality stars rather than focusing on fictional series.
Replying to Netflix’s official Twitter account after it shared the trailer, Twitter user @Whiskey_TangoF fumed: “All reality TV. I would rather have my favourite fantasy series’ like #warriornun and 1899,” including a puking emoji.
And this was echoed by @Kielo87 who raged: “Are you for real?? Don’t make me puke please. #save1899 #1899Netflix.”
Meanwhile, @DannyWxo sarcastically fumed: ”1899 was just too sexy for an American company I guess.”
Netflix subscriber @drewexmachina weighed up the decision: “I’m happy these reality dating shows exist for those who do love them, but it doesn’t make me happy as a long-time subscriber when you keep making these but can’t finish 1899.
“I know it’s expensive but can’t you at least finish arcs for prestige shows? #1899Netflix.”
But @kaistar39 was less diplomatic: ”Nobody cares bring back the tv shows you guys canceled after one season.”
While @sarah012012 concurred: “We subscribed for quality fiction #save1899 not trash reality shows!!”
Despite the backlash, it hasn’t stopped some of the show’s stars from expressing their excitement at returning to the screens.
Love Is Blind’s Shayne Jensen is one star who’s poised to make a comeback in Perfect Match and took to Instagram to promote the show.
He penned: “Just know you’ll be entertained. 22 other Netflix reality personas date each other and compete for love? Perfect Match, the ultimate Netflix dating competition, premieres on February 14th!”
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Fellow Love Is Blind alum Bartise Bowden will also star and he took to the image-sharing site to pen: “I hope you’re excited to see me and 22 other Netflix Reality Stars date each other and compete for love?
“Don’t they say, ‘all is fair in love and war?…’ Perfect Match, the ultimate Netflix dating competition, premieres on February 14th!”
Bartise and Shayne aren’t the only Love Is Blind stars hoping to find their soulmate in the new series.
Damian Powers, Lauren ‘LC’ Chamblin, and Diamond Jack will also return after failing to find love in the show’s famous pods.
Elsewhere, the cast is rounded out by stars from The Circle, The Mole, Too Hot to Handle, Twentysomethings, Selling Tampa, Sexy Beasts and The Ultimatum.
The full cast consists of:
- • Abbey Humphreys (Twentysomethings)
- • Anne-Sophie Petit-Frere (Selling Tampa)
- • Bartise Bowden (Love Is Blind)
- • Calvin Crooks (The Circle)
- • Chase DeMoor (Too Hot To Handle)
- • Chloe Veitch (Too Hot To Handle, The Circle)
- • Colony Reeves (Selling Tampa)
- • Damian Powers (Love Is Blind)
- • Diamond Jack (Love Is Blind)
- • Dom Gabriel (The Mole)
- • Francesca Farago (Too Hot To Handle)
- • Georgia Hassarati (Too Hot To Handle)
- • Ines Tazi (The Circle France)
- • Izzy Fairthorne (Too Hot To Handle)
- • Joey Sasso (The Circle)
- • Kariselle Snow (Sexy Beasts)
- • Lauren “LC” Chamblin (Love Is Blind)
- • Mitchell Eason (The Circle)
- • Nick Uhlenhuth (The Circle)
- • Savannah Palacio (The Circle)
- • Shayne Jansen (Love Is Blind)
- • Will Richardson (The Mole)
- • Zay Wilson (The Ultimatum)
Perfect Match part 1 premieres on Netflix on February 14. Part 2 airs on February 21. Part 3 premieres on February 28.
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