{"id":525667,"date":"2026-04-11T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525667\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:28:10","slug":"high-wycombe-man-on-channel-4-first-dates-25th-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525667\/","title":{"rendered":"High Wycombe man on Channel 4 First Dates 25th series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Channel 4&#8217;s hit dating show is back for its 25th series, promising to bring us eclectic pairings between a former Lioness and a cat lover, a yoga teacher and a mindfulness coach, and a doctor and a &#8220;self-confessed geek&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The show, which has been running since 2013 and has distinguished itself with a BAFTA, follows hopeful singles as they go on their first (blind) dates at a fancy restaurant, overseen by Fred Sirieix and the rest of the show team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Among the hopefuls this year is Andy, a tennis coach from High Wycombe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first episode of the new series aired on Channel 4 last night (April 10) with new episodes to be released weekly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You can catch up and see how Andy got on by watching the first episode online via the Channel 4 website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Channel 4&#8217;s hit dating show is back for its 25th series, promising to bring us eclectic pairings between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}