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Married at First Sight UK is just days away from returning to screens as a whole host of singles trust the experts to meet their match.

While reality fans have been describing ITV's upcoming dating show My Mum, Your Dad as a middle-aged Love Island, host Davina McCall, 55, has revealed that she coined that nickname - and she's been trying to scrub it ever since. The new series takes a group of parents looking for a second chance at romance and invites them to a country house retreat, where they hope to find love with another eligible empty-nester. What they don't know is that their grown-up children are watching their every move from a bunker down the road.

Since the arrival of Love Island in 2015, fans have been demanding a spin-off for singles from an older generation - and ITV has finally answered our prayers with My Mum, Your Dad.The 10-part series takes a group of parents looking for a second chance at romance and invites them to a country house retreat, where they’ll head off on dates and mingle with other eligible empty-nesters. But while the show sounds very Love Island-esque, host Davina McCall is determined to set it apart from its younger ITV2 cousin. “It’s my fault that it got called Midlife Love Island - that’s what I called it in an email to [Commissioning Editor] Amanda Stavri.

READ MORE: Ex Love Island star believes 'dry' Gemma Owen is using show to further careerLast year, Love Island bosses claimed to have gay contestants presented a "logistical difficulty" – something which Alex claims has been broken.The 27-year-old who previously dated Samira Mighty has spoken exclusively to the Daily Star on his thoughts.He said: "I can't really speak for all the other shows because obviously the big one that has made its brand, doing what it's doing and has been successful doing that."I can't really comment and say that it needs to change because that's just the brand that it is."I think Amazon Prime Video's Lovestruck High has really shown that it can be done and if companies really wanted to, they could do that."It's not me to say that they should and you know, call certain ones out for not doing it but it's been proven it can be done."The accountant continued: "We're not the only ones that have done it as well, there's another show earlier this year that had people with more representation from the LGBTQ+ community involved."Hopefully, it's the start of something that's more progressive for that environment moving forward."Discussing ex-Islander Zara McDermott's BBC Three show, Love In The Flesh, Alex added: "I've got a friend that was on Zara's one, so I know they had representation in that."ITV's commissioner Amanda Stavri previously told RadioTimes: "In terms of gay Islanders, I think the main challenge is regarding the format of Love Island.

Love Island is set to return to sunny Spain for its 2021 summer series. ITV bosses today confirmed that the new contestants will be looking for love in Mallorca as that's where the "home" of the show is.

LOVE Island is returning to Mallorca for this year’s series - and work is already underway to get the show back to perfect order.  Builders and workmen have been spotted fixing up the iconic villa in time for the show’s launch at the end of June - and now an ITV boss has said that the island will ‘always be home’ to the dating series.  Speaking to RadioTimes, ITV commissioner Amanda Stavri said: "We haven’t announced anything officially but Mallorca is very much the home of Love Island.