TWO Blind Date contestants watched themselves bicker at each other on TV from the comfort of a pub in East Lancashire.

Viewers would easily have thought Haslingden's Michelle Zoe Woodward and her date would never meet again.

Former London lorry driver Lloyd Pennatt, 27, described his date as bossy, henpecking, mother-like and looking for perfection but hardly Miss Perfect herself.

He concluded that it was like going on a date with Hilda Ogden!

And the bubbly hairdresser summed Lloyd up as: "Just a little dolly daydream that needs mothering."

Lloyd told Cilla Black that Michelle, 32, of Burnley Road, Crawshawbooth, had invited him up to Manchester and he said: "Why would I go there?"

But 'go there' he did and when he arrived at a special party Michelle had arranged at Madison Wine Bar in Rawtenstall, the two greeted each other with hugs and kisses and chatted away like old school friends.

Michelle could be heard above the chatter saying: "This is Lloyd," to everyone who came in as more than 200 people packed the Mellow function room at the pub to witness the couple putting their date in India under the microscope as it was broadcast on TV.

Lloyd travelled up from London on Saturday to attend the party and said: "It's brilliant, Michelle said there would be a lot of people here.

"I though Michelle was nice, gorgeous. I didn't get a word in edgeways but she was lots of fun."

Michelle, a stylist at Plus 2 in Haslingden, said: "There was no romance because I had just come out of a relationship after five years.

"Had it have been different circumstances I might have fancied the pants of him because he is very good looking."

Both Lloyd and Michelle are now back with the long-term partners they split with shortly before they appeared on Blind Date and Lloyd had a three-year-old boy with his partner.

Michelle denied claims other contestants have made that they were told who to pick.

She said: "You get an idea of what is coming in the rehearsals, but you don't get to see the lads or find out anything about them until the show."

They both loved the date. Lloyd said the highlight was the visit to the Taj Mahal and Michelle said the mock Indian wedding, one of two ceremonies during their week-long stay, was the lasting memory.