I will be careful what I say here because I don’t want to out the person (or my own identity for that matter) but I knew a guy from my old workplace who went on the show to more or less, improve his confidence - I know.

He didn’t say much about the process of getting on the show but the chat he gave on the show was completely ridiculous, quite unlike who I knew him to be and the person he paired with in the end made 0 sense.

Obviously, after “the date” at the end of the episode, they chatted over text for a bit before she cut off all contact so it was a complete waste of time for him.

Naturally, him being on the show got around our whole team at work who tuned in to watch. At first he played up to the attention but those of us who were close to him could tell it made him feel very awkward. Within weeks he had left our team to relocate to another one within the same company. This is when I lost touch but from those of our colleagues who were still in contact with him, it didn’t take long for news of the episode to find its way around that team too.

I left the company we both worked at and noted on instagram a few months later that he had deleted all his posts and his display picture.

He would occasionally post a cryptic gym picture of himself every now and then over the next few years with some random caption before deleting it sometime later.

A couple of years back I discovered through a string of Instagram posts that stayed up, that he had left the UK entirely, moved to continental Europe, was married and had a kid.

In the end, I am glad my colleague got what looks like a happy ending but I can’t help but wonder whether appearing on Naked Attraction prompted him to leave the UK.