The TikTok star opened up about his Celebs Go Dating date with Loose Women’s Coleen Nolan,
Loose Women star Coleen Nolan is looking for love on Celebs Go Dating(Image: Instagram)
A man who secured a date with Coleen Nolan has revealed the one thing that caught him off guard.
Neil Poynter is currently on Celebs Go Dating. The 61-year-old has gained recognition for his TikTok mini series titled ‘SingleAtSixty’, where he chronicles life as a singleton in his 60s.
The TikTok personality landed his place on the E4 dating programme after a casting producer stumbled upon his social media clips. He has now successfully secured a date with Loose Women panellist Coleen, but has alleged that his appearance was significantly edited and shortened, reports the Mirror.
In a TikTok clip, Neil explained, “Really interesting watching last night and the fact that they must have had a total of an hour and a half video of me from the pre-interview, post-interview and the date itself, and what do we get about 3 minutes total on screen, which is ok – It’s television. Maybe I wasn’t entertaining enough.”
Elaborating further, he continued: “The one thing I will say is my reaction when Coleen asked me if I’ve ever killed anyone. Those little bits, there are very obvious edits of my looking away, looking down, but that is not how it panned out.”
Coleen and Neil went on a date while on the E4 hit show(Image: Channel 4)
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Neil added: “What actually happened is I almost immediately laughed and went straight into the story of when I go ‘that is an interesting story’ and about me not having any medals. So that was quite heavily edited, but it was interesting to watch.”
Stoke-on-Trent Live has contacted Channel 4 for comment.
Following their date, Neil was eager to get to know Coleen better and requested a second meeting, but Coleen didn’t share his enthusiasm.
The Loose Women star described Neil as “a really nice man”, but admitted she didn’t feel “any connection” or “attraction” to him.
Referencing the episode, Neil said: “You all saw, well, those of you who watched saw that I did not get selected by Coleen to go to Tenerife, but it was all great fun.”
He added: “What I’m not going to do now.. I’m not going to dish any dirt, I’m not going to say anything about anybody that is bad or anything like that at all.”
Coleen opened up about her bittersweet experience on Celebs Go Dating.(Image: Channel 4)
It comes as Coleen recently spoke candidly about her bittersweet journey on Celebs Go Dating. The 61-year-old joined the show hoping to find love again after two failed marriages and the breakdown of her last known public relationship in 2023.
Chatting to her son Shane and daughter Ciara on their Nolans Uncensored podcast, she said of the experience: “I’ve got to say, I’ve never had so much fun doing a TV show as I have on Celebs Go Dating.
Coleen went on to describe the series as “one of the hardest” she has worked on because of the gruelling 14 to 15-hour filming days, though she still had “the best time” with her co-stars.
“Unfortunately, the dating side of it has been an absolute disaster for me,” she added.
Celebs Go Dating can be streamed on Channel 4 online with new episodes released weeknights on E4.
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