Now Davina McCall wants a dating show...
for grandparents - just months after ITV jokingly announced the idea as an April Fool By Daily Mail Reporter and Laura Parkin For Mailonline Published: 00:42, 22 September 2024 | Updated: 00:42, 22 September 2024 e-mail View comments It's the popular reality TV series described as 'Love Island for the middle-aged'. But now dating show My Mum, Your Dad is set to go one step further by having a version for grandparents. Presenter Davina McCall , 56, who was behind the idea for ITV to make My Mum, Your Dad, is pitching the idea for an OAP version to the channel's bosses.
A television source told The Mail on Sunday: 'Davina has been talking about it and she thinks it would be a great, lovely idea. After all, My Mum, Your Dad was her idea. 'ITV are looking at it, it would be such wonderful TV.
Love Island for the middle-aged seemed a bit of a push but it has been fantastic so why can't there be one for older people?' It comes after ITV first announced the idea as an April Fool – but fans were so enthralled with the concept that it could now become a real show. One wrote on X, formerly Twitter : 'My mum is 80 and looking for love and companionship. So hard to find companionship later in life.
' Presenter Davina McCall , 56, who was behind the idea for ITV to make My Mum, Your Dad, is pitching the idea for an OAP version to the channel's bosses. A television source told The Mail on Sunday: 'Davina has been talking about it and she thinks it .