Naked Attraction: New Series

Series 12 of Naked Attraction launches Wednesday 6 March at 10pm on Channel 4.

The dating show that dares to bare all is back with a new series, more heart-stopping, hair-raising and red hot than ever before! Kicking off the new series with a bang is 33-year-old Illy, a model from Mansfield. After a disastrous date in series eight, when she was picked from the pods by wrestler Jet Fashion, Illy has returned to Naked Attraction for a second shot at love. And this statuesque beauty longs for a big boy who measures up.

Next up is 38-year-old former stripper ‘Dazzling Damo’ from Ireland. After 13 years in Oz, Damo’s back home on his parents’ farm on the Emerald Isle and is looking for a game gal with good craic who’s willing to muck out the cows.

If you’ve never seen it before, here’s how host Anna Richardson previously described the show: “The idea is that we’re starting where most dates end, and that is naked. It’s dating in reverse. Modern dating has become a really complicated thing. Most people are dating online, and of course when you are armed with enhanced photos and all your status symbols, and you’re able to hide behind the hair, the make-up, the clothes and everything else, you don’t really know what you’re getting until you actually meet that person on a date. Nine times out of ten, people are saying to me, when you actually meet up with that person, they’re nothing like their profile picture, and they’re nothing like the person they’ve made out that they are.

So what we’re saying is “Would you make a better, more informed decision if you stripped somebody of all of those social norms and those crutches? Would you make a better dating decision, by seeing somebody naked first?” Evolutionary scientists say that back in the day we would have picked someone based on primal instinct. So that’s what we’re trying in the 21st Century. It’s is so different from anything else that’s out there on TV, and for me, as a presenter, I want to do three things: have a really good laugh, do something of note, or do something of notoriety. For me, this ticks all three boxes. It’s brave and it’s out there. I see it as a very positive and body-affirming, and life-affirming, show”.