My Mum, Your Dad series one fan favourite sparks backlash as he makes returns one year on

Paul and his girl Mazey are returning to the 2nd play of My Mum, Your Dad and person spoken astir their hopes and feelings for the 47-year-old contestant

My Mum, Your Dad instrumentality favourite Paul is returning to the show with his girl Mazey - and promised viewers volition announcement "more self-development" successful him.

The contestant, from Bath, Somerset, was a immense deed with fans of the ITV amusement past twelvemonth arsenic helium struck up a romance with azygous mum Natalie. While helium admitted helium and Natalie had a "very genuine" connection, helium said they are "two precise antithetic people" which meant their narration didn't enactment retired and helium is present returning to the show.

He said that since filming the first season, helium has been taking "some clip out" and enjoying his ain clip which means helium present has "a clearer idea" of what helium is looking for. Reflecting connected his acquisition connected play 1 of the show, helium said: "I didn't deliberation I'd find a transportation really going on. The transportation Nat and I had was a precise genuine one.

"The acquisition taught maine to unfastened up a batch much astir my feelings, whereas beforehand I tended to hide things. Being successful an situation wherever radical are each successful the aforesaid situation, it makes the full process of opening up precise easy." But his instrumentality has divided fans of the ITV show.

When asked wherefore helium thought his narration with Natalie didn't enactment out, Paul, who owns a decorating company, said: "I deliberation we are conscionable 2 precise antithetic people. When you're successful the location it's precise overmuch a vacation environment, but erstwhile you travel retired you're backmost to world with your jobs, and distance, it adds different layer. I'm truthful pleased we had the acquisition unneurotic arsenic my clip successful the retreat successful S1 wouldn't person been the aforesaid without her."

The 47-year-old contestant besides said that during the archetypal play of the show, helium was retired of his comfortableness zone, arsenic helium recalled that during his archetypal day with Monique, helium couldn't get a connection out. But helium said this is going to alteration arsenic helium appears successful the 2nd play arsenic helium explained: "Going successful a 2nd time, I felt much relaxed and capable to beryllium my assured self. The main happening I learnt was to beryllium arsenic unfastened arsenic possible."

Talking astir what helium is looking for successful a relationship, Paul said: "I've met immoderate truly beauteous people, but due to the fact that I person felt emotion precise profoundly before, I don't privation thing different than that feeling again and unluckily I haven't yet recovered that. Now I've had that and experienced it once, I won't settee for thing else."

Paul's girl Mazey, 22, said she was blessed to instrumentality to the amusement arsenic the archetypal play was "so overmuch fun" and besides added it was "nice to spot dada turn wrong himself" and present she is gladsome "he was capable to prime up wherever helium near off." The assemblage postgraduate said she besides thinks her dada has "a batch of trust" successful her connected the 2nd season, adding that getting proposal from his ain girl is "more meaningful" than getting it from a dating expert.

And she said she has besides fixed her dada a fewer utile tips for the 2nd play of the show, explaining: "I said to beryllium much unfastened to everything - gathering people, activities and the workshops. I wanted him to excavation deep." She besides said she hopes her dada volition beryllium "more emotionally disposable and enactment retired successful his caput precisely what helium wants."

Mazey said that connected the archetypal play of the conscionable she "just got to spy connected dad" but this clip astir she promises determination volition beryllium "a fewer surprises" which she said "made each the difference." Paul's girl besides spoke positively astir gathering her chap big kids arsenic she explained they "all got truly adjacent consecutive away."

She added: "I was rather frightened this clip coming successful arsenic a aboriginal accomplishment walking into a caller group! But everyone was truthful bully and we each got connected truthful well. I was truthful fortunate with some bid of the show, it was truthful overmuch fun."

The world amusement follows a radical of azygous parents who person been nominated by their children for a 2nd accidental astatine love. The parents unrecorded unneurotic astatine a state location retreat with the extremity of uncovering existent emotion - and arsenic they walk clip successful the house, their kids are watching each determination from a adjacent location.

My Mum, Your Dad continues time 9pm, connected ITV1 and STV. The archetypal 5 episodes are besides disposable to watercourse connected ITVX and STV subordinate now.

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