Overview

• Footage this week showed the quiz star appearing to nod off, yawning repeatedly and mistakenly lifting a tealight to his lips during a dinner with a date named Natalie.
• Mark Labbett has said he suffered a diabetes-related hypoglycaemic attack on a filming day and later apologised to the crew, though it is not confirmed this coincided with the date shown.
• The show’s narrator Rob Beckett highlighted the on-screen drowsiness, while viewers reacted online to the cringeworthy sequence.
• Dating agent Anna Williamson called Labbett one of the agency’s most fascinating participants and noted “ups and downs,” sharing a crude anecdote she said might not make the edit.
• Labbett joined the series after a breakup and spoke about past weight and confidence struggles, as tabloids now report he later connected off-camera with contestant Deanne Perkins.