The saying goes that love finds you, you don’t find it - but many people aren’t prepared to sit around and wait for their one true love to find them. That’s why there’s so many TV shows, both here in the UK and over in the US, which are all about helping people to find relationships.
From Love Island to First Dates, and Love Is Blind to Married at First Sight, the list goes on and on. Contestants going on these shows are hoping to find romance when they take part, and these lucky couples actually did find lasting love when they took part.
All of these pairs first locked eyes in front of TV cameras, but their romances have blossomed off screen and many are now engaged, married or have started a family together.
Have a click through our gallery to see who got the ultimate reality show prize - love.
29. Kerry Knight and Johnny Balbuziente
Kerry Knight and Johnny Balbuziente also met when they were paired in the 2021 series of Married at First Sight Australia. They married in real life in January 2023. They announced their pregnancy in January 2024 and in June their first child, baby Chloe was born. Credit: Instagram: kerryknighttt | Instagram: kerryknighttt
30. Catherine Giudici and Sean Lowe
Catherine Giudici and Sean Lowe fell in love on US reality show The Bachelor. Despite Lowe dating other potential matches, as per the purpose of the show, he chose Giudici at the end of the series and proposed to her. They married in 2014 and have two sons and a daughter. | (Photo by Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images for I-Drive 360)
31. Trista and Ryan Sutter
Trista and Ryan Sutter first met on the first series of US reality show The Bachelorette, after Trista came runner up in sister show The Bachelor. The duo got married in a televised ceremony in 2003 and have two children; daughter Blakesley, 14, and son Maxwell, 16. | Getty Images
32. Sarah and Phillip
Sarah and Phillip have been loved up ever since meeting in the First Dates restaurant in 2016. Sarah, who was 21 at the time, moved viewers when she shared with her date that she had suffered from bone cancer aged 16, and lost her leg due to it. They’ve since got a dog together and called him Paddy, named after the First Dates producer who set them up. | Channel 4