For anyone looking to find love - and brave enough to put themselves in front of TV cameras - there are many shows which are focused on 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 indeed that is the entire focus on these shows.
These reality shows aren’t, however, the only places where participants have found love. As these 16 couples show, everyone - whether they are famous or not - can find love on any TV show at all.
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These reality shows aren’t, however, the only places where participants have found love. As these 16 couples show, everyone - whether they are famous or not - can find love on any TV show at all.
9. Rachel Riley and Pasha Kovalev
Countdown presenter Rachel Riley and professional dancer Pasha Kovalev have now been together for almost 10 years after being paired on Strictly Come Dancing back in 2013. Riley was married when she joined the show, but her marriage broke down during the process and she then announced she was with Kovalev a short time after the show ended. The duo married in June 2019, when Riley was pregnant with their first child. They are now parents to two daughters, the second who followed in 2021.
10. Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are another longstanding reality couple - having met while Montag was filming reality show The Hills in a nightclub. They married in 2009, and though they have had a rocky relationship - which included an apparently fake divorce and renewal of their wedding vows - they are still very much together. They are parents to two sons, aged five and nine months.
11. Kristina Rihanoff and Ben Cohen
Kristina Rihanoff and Ben Cohen became engaged last year after meeting on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013. Former rugby player Cohen was married when he joined the show but he was estranged from his former wife by the time the show ended. Cohen and professional dancer Rihanoff are thought to have began their romance shortly after the show ended also. They welcomed their baby daughter in 2016 and Cohen proposed in 2022. Cohen also shares teenage twin daughters with his ex-wife.
12. Katie Price and Peter Andre
Katie Price and Peter Andre began their romance when they both appeared on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here back in 2004. It was clear they liked each other as they flirted all the way throughout the show, and went on to have two children; Junior and Princess Tiaamii, now aged 18 and 16 respectively. They also married in 2005. It t wasn’t meant to be for the former glamour model and singer though, and they split in 2009.