In ITV’s newest dating show, eight singletons – four men, four women – are thrown together in a luxe country house for a fortnight as the world looks on in judgment. Nothing unusual there, except that in My Mum, Your Dad each of the contestants are in their forties or fifties and are parents to adult children. Unbeknown to them, those children are holed up in a nearby house known as “the bunker” from where, in varying states of mortification, they get to witness their mums and dads on the pull.
From Perfect Match to Too Hot to Handle, television is awash with reality series built around young, beautiful people in microscopic beachwear getting it on with other young, beautiful people. My Mum, Your Dad is thus billed as a corrective to the genre’s obsession with youth, moving the spotlight to mid-lifers. Think of it as Love Island but with added Spanx.
