"This is REAL people finding REAL love!" - Emma & Matt Willis delve into hosting Love Is Blind UK

Introduction what did they say what did they say yeah put subtitles on I just want have a laugh see that yeah yeah gentlemen hello welcome to the Love Is Blind UK Trailer experiment that seeks to answer one very simple question is love blind ladies you will choose someone to marry without ever seeing them well let's dive into the show a little bit I'd love to know Working together on set what was it like you know to be presenting together on this completely new show for the UK um it was great you know I was really nervous on the first day you know I haven't done anything like this since 2008 so I was a bit like this is not in my wheelhouse you know but um but it was um it was really fun great you know working with my wife which is nice you know so it's um yeah it was good we enjoyed it didn't we I loved it yeah we people have asked us quite a few times over the years if we'd ever do anything together again and we've always said we would but only if it kind of made sense we didn't just you know want to do things for the sake of it and this kind of made sense so yeah I think it was a good about love marriage yeah we're they needed a marri coule to sense and we were yeah we watched it and we were like banging on the door going yes please let us please please don't see anyone else we will take the job so is that what attracted you to you know the love is blind format of just it being all about romance and love and quite different from what you see on TV nowadays anyway yeah it felt like didn't it when we when What makes the show so different we kind of sat down and watched it it because there a like a real wedding at the the end of it you can't really enter into it lightly and expect to kind of Go the Distance so it felt like it was you you describe it really well um okay the vehicle oh okay yeah I think what what what I've said earlier which apparently was good no it's I think it's the perfect way to is that other other dating shows you feel like um certain people are on it because the the dating aspect is a vehicle for them to get on TV whereas I think this the TV is a vehicle for them to find love you know which is what's so beautiful about the show you and it's real that they find real people who really want to settle down and find love and that's what's so beautiful about and they know that everyone else there is there for the same end goal so it makes those kind of conversations when you're maybe not in that situation when you're in the real world where you know if you're going on a date with someone like I just need to know like you ready to settle down and they run that's one have a laugh to that yeah yeah and do you think that authenticity of Love is Blind because I think I mean I've only watched the first four episodes but there's you know there's conversations themes to do with grief fertility issues which I think you don't find people speaking so candidly and do you think that's what maybe draws audiences in that little bit more absolutely yeah I think so it's it's like you have a short period of time to to know whether or not you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you know so you've got to get these questions out and you got to get these kind of stumbling blocks out of the way you know because otherwise you could be years down the line and go well wait a second what I and I that's what I love about it is that it it is it goes deep and it has those conversations that you know might be deemed awkward or tricky but they're all there and they all need to have those conversations to know whether they're on the right track with the right person but then also on the flip side it's also really light and there's really good humor in it as well um I think it's cast brilliantly and I feel like everyone's really relatable that's in it um and the conversations that are coming up you kind of want to hear about them you you want to hear those things spoken about um so yeah it's kind of got got everything it's got everything it's bloody funny too it is it is and of course Nick and Vanessa leay host the US version I want would love to know you know did you have any tips or advice from them that they gave to you or any well wishes when it came DMs from Nick and Vanessa Lachey to helming the UK series she messaged us right yes when we posted that we were doing it she commented and said welcome to the family yeah which is nice nice thanks for that's lovely yeah but no tips or advice just a welcome that's enough which was lovely and we had one of the um quame who was on series 4 he sent us a little message as well he messaged me a few times yeah love and and Chelsea are brilliant yeah we love them yeah ni so are you fans of the US format of like you know super fans where's where's the level there um we love it we love it you know I'm I'm I'm series we were that was the one that really kind of we were 1:00 in the morning watching episode after episode you know we couldn't get Z and Cole God go that Reunion Show wow that was great and Chelsea yeah I mean it just kind of had it had everything didn't it it was it was really good absolutely would you love to do a reunion episode for the UK watch as so many questions to ask you know after watching I don't think it's about being explosive I think it's about getting answers and I think when you're hosting a show like that you've got to kind of you've got to go in and really straddle the line of decency you know you nobody wants to overstep the mark no one's there to to make anyone agitated but you want to be the viewer so what we've seen we just want answers to um but th those are those are my favorite kind of shows you love them she loves digging in pleas let us get some gossip it's just taking notes down as every episode goes by absolutely literally we've got notebooks yeah yeah we do glad we're all in the same boat here absolutely and if we dig into the cast a little bit more what was it like I think sometimes to view I can feel like I maybe intrude on them a little bit too much what was it like watching the you know the cast going through from the pods to to the weddings to meeting the families I mean we we don't get to see that much you know until we watch it until we watch it we kind of in it at certain moments certain key kind of moments in the show Matt and Emma on spoilers but we don't get to watch what's happening we're kind of kept separate from that which is really annoying because we want to watch all of it you know like we were annoying the Productions so much we're like can we please just get a monitor and watch everything you know but they were like no no stay away well so from watching it when you know you were able to are there any standouts from this year's what did you find maybe you're rooting for some couples you were very protective of some of the cast members I mean all of that to all of them really I think you've always You' always always got to be protective of them because you only really want the best for everybody that's in it um but you do see you you I think feel like you root for different people at different times because you might see a couple in the pods and you're like oh that 100% they're done they'll get to the altar they'll say yes but then you take them to the Retreats and the dynamic changes yeah but then they come out of the bubble and they're living you know in London and they're together and they meeting friends and family it shifts again so all the way along you kind of think from the beginning you're like that's a yes and that's a no but at each stage of the experiment the environment switches things yeah so that's what's I think quite fascinating to see and leaves an unpredictable ending of who says yes and who says not and I guess that's what that's what you want to know even as like a fan or reviewer like did you find just you just like immediately when you know who was engaged in the Podge like right I need to Let's fast forward this a little bit do you just like I desperately need to get to the wedding I can't fast forward anything no no it's like people who read the back page of a book before they've read the book oh that's crazy though crazy talk isn't it or people that go the end of a movie before they've watched it I can't be fast forwarding anything I can't miss anything I have to make notes for everything yeah she'll shut everyone up if they're talking during it send you out be quiet what do they say what do they say yeah put something of fast forwarding I'm normally rewinding yeah and I guess why do you think you from your perspective that Why do people trust the pods? people trust the pods and Trust the process so much um I I think we tried the pods we went in the pods together and um and there's something about that environment which is very um it's really isolated you can't hear anything you don't see cameras all you hear is this voice through this wall and it's um and it's a lovely wall it's a lovely wall it's very comforting in there you know it feels nice it feels nice I was hearing Emma's voice I was like your voice is great I could fall in love in this part again it's nice I didn't say that when I'm shouting and then one final question to you both do you think that love is truly blind I think it can be for sure I mean I think the show has proven that it can be you know we've got weddings all over the world that have stayed together and we've got love as blind children we do love as blind children love blind babies you know and if you keep watching the series I think you will find but [Music]