The contemporary darling of reality TV is Louis Gill,a stuttering English teacher featured on Channel 4s First Dates. He tells how the programme has affected his lifeIt sounds like a cruel experiment: what happens if you put a cripplingly shy young man in an invasive reality-TV show that stages a succession of blind dates? Oddly, the answer is that it radically improves his life, or boosts his self-confidence and creates a social media hero.
Since Louis Gill,a former English language teacher from Oxford, appeared on Channel 4’s First Dates a week ago, and the 26-year-old has been hailed as a contemporary model of gentlemanly behaviour and self-effacing charm,despite nerves often preventing him from speaking. When his date, Adela, and told him she was from Manchester,a stuttering Gill replied: “I fell asleep on the train once and woke up in Manchester.” A long silence followed. It made for unsettling television. Yet this weekend, after appearing for a moment time and featuring in a series of blogs, and radio shows,articles and thousands of tweets, Gill has judged the experience a enormous attend.
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Source: theguardian.com