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Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Judge Rinder wants to host dating show

He's had success in the past

Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Robert Rinder wants to host a dating show.

The Judge Rinder star is known amongst his friends for being an excellent match-maker – having had five of his pals successfully tie the knot with people he has set them up with.

Now he’s said he would love to turn his skills into a TV show, but knows it would end up “too filthy” to broadcast.

Judge Rinder is known for setting up his friends (Credit: SplashNews.com)

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He said: “I would like to host a dating show but the difficulty is, the questions I want to ask are too filthy and they simply wouldn’t broadcast them.

“I would just want to ask the things everyone wants to know.”

And although he’s got a knack for setting his friends up, he admits it’s a different story in his own love life, as he has “no capacity to be normal” in front of people he’s “attracted” to.

He even describes himself as “Hugh Grant in Four Weddings And A Funeral – on acid.”

The 41-year-old star has had plenty of embarrassing encounters with other stars, too, including Taron Egerton.

He said: “The person I know I couldn’t meet is Taron Egerton. I was on a plane going to Los Angeles and he was with an aunt.

“I was desperate to go to the loo and I couldn’t go because he was going to know I was looking. So I had to spend three hours holding it in.

“[I saw Russell Tovey at a recent premiere and] my friend said to me, ‘Don’t go and speak to him it’s not going to go well. There’s just no point’.”

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Rob is starring in a new Channel 4 show The Rob Rinder Verdict in which he casts an eye over topics such as masculinity, living off-grid and “straight pride”, and says his verdict on his own love life is that it’s “useless”.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column, he said: “It’d be the equivalent of being sentenced to life, but not in a good way.

“Put it this way – useless. It has the same range and joy as an airline salad.”

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