Last Friday the greatest thing happened - Channel 4's brilliant First Dates returned to our screens and gave us something to do on a Friday night instead of going to the pub after work and weeping into a soggy-bottomed burger on the nightbus home. Thanks C4. And, it's on tonight too.
If you've been unfortunate enough to miss the force of nature that is First Dates, it's a show where single folk are paired up on blind dates with other single folk in a central London restaurant, and we, like voyeurs of love, get to watch their every move. So every cringey chat up line, every swallow-me-up-and-die awkward moment, every time you chew with your mouth open - WE ARE WATCHING.
But this series we've got our eyes on someone else too - the wonderful CiCi Coleman, one of the waiting staff on the show. Here is why we're in love:
She ripped the piss out of turtlenecked lovegod Sav, and joked at the end of the meal that his card had been declined.
[Poor Sav had bought his Milk Tray Man-era turtle neck especially for his date, and was sad that his potential suitor didn't like his jumper. See the offending item below]
BUT THEN CiCi instigated #TurtleneckTuesdays in honour of Sav's questionable pullover:
We also have a soft spot for her because she casually enjoys doing some dodgy mime while waiting on someone to yell 'SERVICE!':
Yes, for the uninitiated/those who missed the show, that's CiCi doing the international symbol for snogging men with beards:
So now we know.
Another special talent is that she's got her professional-awkward-stituation-face down to a T. This was the face she made when a particularly horny couple appeared to be getting off on ordering olives. Actual olives, which is pretty niche. But the mighty CiCi was unfazed:
******In conclusion, she's pretty damn wonderful.
First Dates is on tonight on Channel 4, 10pm