Overview
- The BAFTA-winning dating show, which returned Friday at 10pm on Channel 4, relaunched from its Bath restaurant with maître d' Fred Sirieix and his team.
- Nicole, 27, from East Sussex, disclosed on camera that she has cystic fibrosis and briefly paused her date to take medication.
- She said doctors once told her parents she might not expect to live past 16, described frequent childhood hospital stays and 30 pills a day, and called the condition isolating.
- Nicole added that a new modulator therapy in 2020 marked a turning point and that she has been well since, even starting a pension last year.
- Abbie, 32, a former Lioness who played for Manchester City, Manchester United and Leicester, is now a firefighter after a broken leg ended her career, with Channel 4 teasing a promising start to her match with Charlotte.