{"id":35837,"date":"2024-06-04T07:52:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/reality-tv-dating-isnt-for-me-says-lailah\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T07:52:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:52:47","slug":"reality-tv-dating-isnt-for-me-says-lailah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/reality-tv-dating-isnt-for-me-says-lailah\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV dating isn’t for me, says Lailah"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Scarlett Hutton & Riyah Collins,<\/span>BBC Newsbeat<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lailah Muscat says she struggled having to date multiple women for the reality show <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Warning: This article contains spoilers.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

For hot, young singles looking for love, chances are there’s a reality dating show to help them in their search for the one.<\/p>\n

ITV’s Love Island returns to our screens on Monday, just after an explosive finale drew BBC Three’s I Kissed A Girl to a close.<\/p>\n

But for Lailah Muscat, it was only when the cameras stopped rolling that her relationship story could start.<\/p>\n

During Sunday’s I Kissed a Girl reunion, she and fellow contestant Meg Homer revealed they started dating shortly after the show wrapped – even though no sparks between them were caught on camera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I don’t think reality dating is for me,” Lailah tells BBC Newsbeat.<\/p>\n

“There’s so much pressure. <\/p>\n

“You prepare for it because it’s not going to be like anything you’ve experienced in the real world, but once you’re in it, it can be so overwhelming.”<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old from Cardiff left the show in episode seven after struggling with dating multiple people and having to move on quickly from couples.<\/p>\n

“Especially for the girls that had lasting relationships, it can build up a lot,” she says.<\/p>\n

“And I think then coming into the real world from that relationship, it’s a big shift. <\/p>\n

“It’s really difficult and it’s not for everyone.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Swapping the Love Island villa for the Italian Masseria, I Kissed A Girl otherwise follows a similar format with a cast thrown together to face love triangles, budding romance and wandering eyes.<\/p>\n

But there’s a key difference, as all the contestants are lesbian and bisexual women.<\/p>\n

Lailah tells Newsbeat it was “a really wholesome experience”.<\/p>\n

“It was such a positive experience for me, I’ve probably never felt so comfortable in who I am.”<\/p>\n

And it introduced her to 24-year-old Meg, who confesses sliding into her DMs a day or two after filming stopped last summer. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I knew she wasn’t feeling herself in there,” Meg, from Goole, says. <\/p>\n

“So I thought I’d drop her a little message, see how she was getting on.<\/p>\n

“A few days after that I thought, ‘I’ll test the waters, do a little flirt’.”<\/p>\n

Away from the pressures of filming a reality show, the couple say they were able to explore their relationship in a more authentic way.<\/p>\n

“We’re both not the type of people to talk to three different people at the same time,” says Meg.<\/p>\n

“So we could explore it in our own time and in our own way.”<\/p>\n

Lailah says she and Meg “kind of liked each other in there but just nothing came of it because we were focusing on our own connections”.<\/p>\n

“After the experience and coming back to reality, I started thinking, ‘Oh wait, maybe there was something there’.”<\/p>\n

Their first date was more real life than reality TV too, meeting up in Manchester for “a cheeky Nando’s”.<\/p>\n

They say they’ve been an official couple since December and have introduced each other to friends and family. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meg says it’s been “difficult” to watch the series back though.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think anybody wants to watch a relationship back with someone in the past,” she says.<\/p>\n

One of the major shocks in the finale was when Meg was stood up by fashion graduate Eva, who didn’t turn around to kiss her at the end.<\/p>\n

“She completely blindsided me,” says Meg.<\/p>\n

“It’s not nice to watch, but I wouldn’t have done anything different because I wouldn’t be where I am today.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Filming finished eight months ago and Meg and Lailah have been keeping their relationships under wraps to avoid spoiling the show.<\/p>\n

But now the series has finished, “I can hold Lailah’s hand in public,” says Meg.<\/p>\n

“It’s such a relief.”<\/p>\n

The only other couple from the show to stay together are Lisha and Abbie, who matched during filming. <\/p>\n

“Even though there aren’t winners of the show, it does kind of feel like we won,” Lailah says. <\/p>\n

In May, the BBC confirmed it had renewed I Kissed a Boy – which follows single gay and bisexual men – for a second series. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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