The Late Late Show has uncovered a hilarious clip of a young Dermot Bannon on Blind Date.
The celebrity architect appeared on the show’s Valentine’s Special on Friday night, and was left mortified when host Ryan Tubridy played a clip of him on the dating show.
>Dermot was a contestant on Cilla Black’s show back in 1994, when he was studying to be an architect in the UK.
HOW have we never seen this!?@DermotBannon on Blind Date ðŸ˜#LateLate pic.twitter.com/sGfo4EEQY0
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The clip showed Dermot with some oldschool curtain bangs, as he tried to impress Jenni Falconer – who has since become a well-known TV presenter in the UK.
The Room To Improve star cringed after Ryan played the clip, and warned the audience of singletons: “Be really careful what you do on television when you’re young!”
When Ryan asked if Jenni picked him, he said: “No! Did you see the state of me? It was like Love Island with a cardigan.”
Back in 2018, Dermot revealed how he ended up on Blind Date during an interview with Ray D’Arcy on RTÉ Radio 1.
He said: “I was in college in England and they had a roadshow where they went around all the students unions and universities and they held auditions and we all thought it would be a bit of craic to go for it.”
“So I went in with a few of the Irish lads who were over there with me and when I came out from the audition they were gone!”
“One of the reasons I went on and did the show was to give the lads and everybody I know a bit of craic. I was a little bit of the clown.”
Dermot is now happily married to his wife Louise, and the couple share three children.
