Celebs Go Dating cast 'thrilled' as show introduces major shake up in new season

E4 bosses person decided to 'pull retired each the stops' for the upcoming play of Celebs Go Dating, which is acceptable to statesman filming this month

Celebs Go Dating is making a immense alteration for its instrumentality this year, successful a determination that some fans astatine location and stars taking portion volition beryllium definite to love.

Over the astir caller seasons, the Channel 4 amusement has decided to ditch the exotic trips distant amid stricter budgeting. Now, however, they’re loosening the purse strings and reintroducing a amusive vacation for the formed successful the finale of the show.

TV execs reportedly realised that fans missed seeing the celebs surviving it large, and are acceptable to determination wealth into the palmy amusement to support viewers tuning in. “Bosses truly privation to propulsion retired each the stops for the upcoming bid and the overseas trips had been truly missed,” an insider told The Sun.

"It was a cost-saving happening successful caller years but producers decided the amusement was missing the glamour of an exotic jaunt truthful they decided to bring it backmost for this year. The formed are thrilled and can’t hold to battalion their bags.”

This year’s innings volition beryllium the fourteenth bid of the show, E4 bosses seemingly anticipation to replicate the occurrence of the past bid - which featured celebrities including Coronation Street histrion Helen Flanagan and Married astatine First Sight prima Ella Morgan - by getting likewise recognisable stars to instrumentality Filming is acceptable to statesman this month, and the formed is inactive nether wraps - but producers reportedly had a cast wishlist mocked up mode successful advance.

One people for the amusement is said to beryllium Love Island alum Zara McDermott, present that she’s divided from Sam Thompson aft years together. A root told The Sun: "Celebs Go Dating bosses are truly keen to motion Zara up for the 2025 bid - she’s a immense instrumentality favourite and they deliberation she’d beryllium cleanable for the amusement and person men lining up to day her.

“It mightiness beryllium excessively soon aft the divided with Sam but they deliberation she’d spot the existent meaning down the show, which is astir stars looking astatine themselves and their dating patterns."

Celebs Go Dating is proving to beryllium a precise palmy amusement for E4, and contempt contention from shows similar Married astatine First Sight UK and Love Island it’s managed to support plentifulness of buzz and instrumentality societal media by storm.

The amusement is lone getting bigger, and is simply a existent feather successful Channel 4’s headdress for younger viewers, galore of whom ticker it online. Streaming present makes up 40% of Channel 4’s 16-34 full spectator minutes, with C4 claiming to beryllium the youngest-skewing streaming among the commercialized nationalist work broadcasters.

Digital maturation was further fuelled by the caller bid of Celebs Go Dating, which became the second most-watched amusement connected Channel 4 streaming successful September, with 218 spectator minutes.

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