Fans celebrate milestone moment for the revived show which saw Alice pick between Steph, Jane and Sarah to go on a yoga date with
BLIND Date viewers were full of praise for the tonight's episode after the show coupled up its first ever lesbian contestants.
Rather than mystery men, single Alice was asked to pick from three mystery women sitting behind the screen.
Alice, a 29-year-old from Leeds, was looking for that special someone to love - or at least a woman to take on her date to a yoga class up the Shard skyscraper in London.
She asked her three potential matches - Jane, Steph and Sarah - how they would flirt with her in a nightclub and what their guilty pleasures in life were.
And plenty of opportunity for innuendo was acknowledged, particularly after Jane from New Zealand said her guilty pleasure was petting local cats.
Presenter Paul O'Grady also asked her: "What was the lesbian scene like on New Zealand? Four women in a shed?"
The lucky girl who Alice picked turned out to be Steph, a 26-year-old digital content manager from Southampton.
But happier than Steph surely were viewers of the show who couldn't believe the hit show, which began in 1985 and ran till 2003, had finally entered the 21st century.
One wrote: "Finally, a gay Blind Date. What took so long?"
Another added: "Having gay couples on #BlindDate is a huge and glorious step forward."
Viewers are now crossing their fingers that a segment with all men will follow on another new episode.
Blind Date continues at Saturday at 8pm on Channel 5.
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