Ham Fans of Blind Date have taken a very long wait, but fourteen years later, the iconic VTM program back on the tube. Mattijs Govaerts (25) Ham the striker yards in the first broadcast. “And to think that I didn’t even have registered,” he laughs.

When the first broadcast of Blind Date on tv, Mattijs, not even born. Now he sits himself in the program. This shows VTM immediately how timeless the dating show. “I know the typical fragments of the program, of course,” says the man in his twenties. “To truly live, I have, according to me, never looked at, because everything is vague in my mind. I know, for example, that ‘Everything Could be Better’ there is ever a parody about. A special program is, in any case, as a pole above water.”