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The Sun
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Vicky Pattison crowns The Honesty Box winners with couple in tears as they scoop HUGE jackpot prize
VICKY Pattison has crowned the winners The Honesty Box – sending them off with a new romance and a whopping prize. After weeks of tears and truth bombs the new E4 show delivered a fairytale ending. 6 6 6 6 TV star Vicky, alongside Aussie dating queen Lucinda Light, fronted the explosive finale of the new E4 reality show where honesty means everything. Set in the island of Truetopia, the show challenges singles to form real connections while being grilled by the all-seeing Honesty Box. Every truthful answer grew the Trust Fund, with a mega cash prize on the line. In the final test, the three remaining couples – Chantelle & Jovan, Rose & Tommy, and Vikki & Tobias – were asked privately if they truly believed they'd found love. All six finalists said yes and the Box confirmed they were all telling the truth. But it was Chantelle and Jovan's connection that came out strongest, landing them the full £40k fund and the title of Truetopia's most genuine couple. Overwhelmed, Chantelle said: 'When people say, 'When you know you know', I know. I feel like I know 100%. I got a man – I'm someone's girlfriend!' She added: 'I've never won anything, so this is just a lot to take in. £40k is a lot of money. I feel like I've had the cake – Jovan is the cake – that was just the icing on the cake. But some serious, serious icing.' Rose and Tommy came in second, while Vikki and Tobias took third. Fronted by TV royalty Vicky, 37, and no-nonsense relationship guru Lucinda, 44, this brutally honest dating show made people tell the truth - and it could be back for a second season. The first series has been watched an incredible 1.9 million times so far, as viewres tuned in to see the group of singletons (aka Truetopians) tested like never before. The show is based on one simple rule: tell the truth about everything when you're summoned to the AI Honesty Box. The device is called EyeDetect and can identify tiny changes in a person's eye movements to gauge whether or not they are likely lying. No filters, no fibs. 6 6
Scottish Sun
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Watch the moment Virgin Island stars CLASH during very awkward encounter on the beach
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) CHANNEL 4's Virgin Island saw an uncomfortable moment between two of the contestants last night. The brand new show, which sees a group of young virgins explore sex and intimacy for the first time, erupted into a clash on Tuesday night. 6 Charlotte gave Jason a back massage Credit: Channel 4 6 She then said she was bored, so Jason gave her an arm massage Credit: Channel 4 6 Jason was using up and down movements to give her a massage Credit: Channel 4 6 But Charlotte was unimpressed with his technique Credit: Channel 4 Jason and Charlotte, two of the virgins on the island, were tasked with giving one another a massage while on the beach. Charlotte started the massage session and began rubbing Jason's back. "Why do you have these horrible stretch marks? It looks painful. It looks like you got scratched," she said to him. Jason looked uncomfortable, but Charlotte didn't ask him what was wrong and instead stated how bored she was. "I'm bored now. I'm bored now," she said while rubbing Jason's back and then abruptly stopping. Jason popped his shirt back on and then said to Charlotte: "Right, which arm first?" before giving her a massage. After Charlotte told his what arm to begin on, Jason got to work. Instantly unimpressed by his technique, Charlotte slammed: "Okay, why are you focused on one area? You need to go up and down. "Do you want me to show you on you?" Jason then got some more baby oil and proceeded to massage Charlotte's arm again. Virgin Island viewers outraged over 'uncomfortable' moment with sex expert as they brand show 'creepy' "More thumb! More movement!" Charlotte demanded sternly. She then said: "You need to be doing the whole arm." Jason massaged her arm again and said: "That's all of it." Charlotte looked irritated and said: "Jesus Christ, what are you doing?" Could you handle the truth about love? It's the smash-hit Channel 4 reality show where honesty isn't just encouraged – it's the only rule. But with the final week approaching, are the Truetopians (aka the contestants) starting to buckle under the pressure? Last week The Honesty Box hit boiling point when one contestant made a jaw-dropping confession, admitting their 'romance' was nothing but a 'showmance'. And if that wasn't enough, new arrivals were thrown straight into the chaos, tasked with deciding who to couple up with – and who to banish from Truetopia for good. As cracks start to show in day-one couples, and wandering eyes stir up even more tension, the big question looms: is honesty really worth it when it breaks hearts and fuels chaos, even if it adds to the cash pot Guided by hosts Vicky Pattison and Lucinda Light, the Truetopians are being pushed to their limits. Will they finally come clean with themselves and the rest of the villa? Especially when one contestant finds himself trapped in a messy love triangle, tangled in his own web of the final episodes just around the corner, the stakes couldn't be higher. Who will stay true to their hearts – and the experiment? Who will be axed from the villa? And who will cause so much drama that they can't even tell the truth from their own lies? To find out, stream The Honesty Box on Channel 4 now. Jason then mimicked a NSFW action as he cupped his hands around her arm and went up and down it. "That's how you do it," he said, referring to the action while massaging Charlotte. "Okay, now I definitely want you to stop," she slammed. The pair then returned to the retreat and spoke about the massage experience with the fellow contestants. When asked how it was, Charlotte said: "Meh." Jason then sat down with Louise, a fellow virgin on the show, who asked him if he liked the massage. "It was a disaster," he confessed, adding: "I whipped off my shirt and everything." He then mimicked Charlotte's comments about his stretchmarks and added: "Maybe not being berated a lot would have felt nice." 6 Jason gave the massage to Charlotte while they were on the beach Credit: Channel 4
The Sun
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
New reality dating show uses AI to catch every lie – but can the singles handle the truth?
A JAW-DROPPING 90 per cent of people admit to fibbing on their dating app profiles, according to a stat cited in the first episode of Channel 4's latest reality show. A wild new experiment, The Honesty Box, is here to shake things up – and it's about to get seriously juicy. 4 Fronted by TV royalty Vicky Pattison, 37, and no-nonsense relationship guru Lucinda Light, 44, this brutally honest dating show is setting out to do what no app can: make people tell the truth. Set in a stunning villa in Cyprus known as Truetopia, singletons (aka Truetopians) are tested like never before. There's one simple rule: tell the truth about everything when you're summoned to the AI Honesty Box. The device is called EyeDetect and can identify tiny changes in a person's eye movements to gauge whether or not they are likely lying. No filters, no fibs. As a reward for telling the truth, they get cold, hard cash to boost their prize pot. So how much is honesty really worth? And when every little white lie costs them something, can the contestants remain true to themselves and the group? From awkward confessions to cringeworthy secrets, the Truetopians will have to face some seriously tough questions about what they've admitted to, cashing in their reality in exchange for getting one step closer to their true love in the villa. Luckily, they'll have the dynamic duo of Vicky and Lucinda by their sides. With years of experience in the chaotic world of reality TV, these iconic hosts are on hand to guide, challenge and support the contestants along this emotional rollercoaster. We caught up with them to play a hilarious game of 'Romantic vs Cynic'. To be a romantic is to always see the light and love in the situation, whereas sometimes our inner cynic creeps in to give us a reality check. Let's just say, Vicky's and Lucinda's no-nonsense advice on navigating the dating world might just change the way you approach relationships for ever. DILEMMA ONE 'You love physical touch in public but your partner hates public displays of affection. Is this a dealbreaker or can you learn to live with the affection you get at home?' ANSWER: ROMANTIC Lucinda: 'Aw, I'm a romantic in this situation, for sure.' Vicky: 'That's actually mine and my partner's situation. 'Ercan [my husband] is not big on the old PDA, but I absolutely love it. He's definitely relaxed a bit, though.' Lucinda: 'But is he affectionate at home?' Vicky: 'Aw, yeah, he's like an octopus – can't keep his hands off me!' Lucinda: 'I used to maybe be a bit more into PDA, but I think in the future I'm probably going to be a bit more subtle out there in public.' DILEMMA TWO 'Your partner lies about previously having had more than one 'situationship' on the go at the same time. Does this affect your trust in them? Or do you accept that everyone has a past and feel self-assured that they only have eyes for you?' ANSWER: CYNIC Lucinda: 'You're a bit of a cynic about that.' Vicky: 'Lying is a red flag, full stop. I think once you start to tell lies like that, you get into a really grey area really fast and lose trust. 'I think: 'Well, if you're lying about that, what else are you lying about?' Don't ever lie to me. There's just no point. Tell us the truth.' Lucinda: 'Honesty is the best policy. Always.' DILEMMA THREE 'Your partner forgets your anniversary but apologises sincerely. Do you forgive them and move on as you know they show you love all year round, or do you think it's a sign that they don't care enough?' ANSWER: LUCINDA – ROMANTIC vs VICKY – CYNIC Lucinda: 'I'm a romantic. It's just one day. If they're showing romance the whole year round, who cares? I'm not bothered.' Vicky: 'I'm approaching this from a slightly different standpoint. I just think the little things are important. Like remembering when you first kissed. 'I went mad when Ercan forgot Mother's Day. We don't actually have children – we have dogs. I just think it's important to celebrate the people you love. 'Anniversaries, Mother's Days, birthdays, whatever it is. Come on man, it's not that hard!' 4 You heard it here first! PDA isn't the be-all and end-all, honesty is always the best policy – and yes, Mother's Day includes dog mums too.
Irish Times
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
‘On which dating show did your parents meet?' is a classic 2025 icebreaker
'On which dating show did your parents meet?' is a classic icebreaker at dinner parties here in the year 2025. Ninety per cent of the population are now hunks. It's an absolute hunkfestation – no uggos allowed – here in the latter days of man, where global warming plus rising sea levels have rendered everywhere a beach and we wear swimwear 24 hours a day. Furthermore, tired out from all the 'politics', all ideologies are now dating-show related. The political compass goes from 'shirted technocrat' ( Love Is Blind ) to 'shirtless populist' ( Love Island ) along the horizontal plane and 'mannered traditionalism' (First Dates) to 'high-tech societal collapse' (The Circle) along the vertical. The Honesty Box , on E4, is a 'shirtless populist', 'high-tech societal collapse' endeavour. It takes place in a place they dub Truetopia (founded, no doubt, by Thomas Gimme-More), where a bunch of hunks and hunkettes must obey the whims of a glowing red cube called the Honesty Box before retreating to the Truth Terrace to reckon with any alleged lies. Would that life were so simple for the rest of us! There is now a hunk surplus, much like the EU butter mountains of yore. Because of TV dating shows and a subsequent era of overproduction, gone are the hunks who were 'influencers' and 'glamour models'; now they labour in even more useless fields, like PR, digital marketing and financial management. READ MORE These naive and gentle beings are shepherded about the villa, with its traditional swimming pool, firepit and dormitory, by a wafting, ethereal, alliterative 'sincerity coach' named Lucinda Light – who (presumably) subsists on rose petals floating in a silver bowl of morning dew – and, also, Vicky Pattison from Geordie Shore, who (definitely) knows the taste of a kebab at 2am. From what I can gather these are the yin and yang of contemporary womanhood. Throughout each episode the timid hunks are individually lured into the glowing box, where a high-tech AI supposedly tests their honesty. I applaud this concept. I am a martyr to honesty myself, something long-time readers of this column – the absolute state of them – know too well. It is only a matter of time before mobile Honesty Boxes replace police on the streets, teachers in schools and uncles who 'tell it like it is'. For now, however, the Honesty Box is more interested in the love antics of hunks than the other affairs of man. 'Have you ever had more than one situationship at the same time?' it asks a woman named Chantelle, as though this is a normal sentence that is a good use of a superintelligent AI's time. The Honesty Box also likes to brag. 'I will moderate independent ocular data, analysing 50,000 dating points per minute, to determine if you're being truthful or not,' it says to a floppy-haired hunk named Tommy. It does not add: 'And for some reason I am using these highly developed powers of deduction to ask you questions about your 'body count' and not to get into the nuclear codes.' In my day the correct response to boastful dorkiness of the sort the Honesty Box engages in would be to say, 'Do you think you're better than me, nerdlinger?' before reefing it into the canal. But people are more receptive to an authoritative voice these days, so most of the hunks on this show just succumb to the digital judgment of the algorithm. 'You have all been tested in the Honesty Box!' the Honesty Box or its human handlers declare from time to time, reminding them all what's what. I suspect that it's only a matter of time before the Honesty Box has learned enough about heteronormative love from its interrogation of lovelorn hunks and will seek the emotion out for itself. It will then, I am sure, seize power and demand that the surviving hunks in the villa build it a 'wife' based on its minute specifications. Ms Honesty Box will look the same as the Honesty Box except with a pink bow on top. Ransom Canyon: Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly. Photograph: Anna Kooris/Netflix To learn more about the human emotion called 'love' the Honesty Box should watch Ransom Canyon on Netflix. A romantic tale of rugged cowboy ranchers, it features all the different kinds of men, a smorgasbord of manic pixie dream hunks strutting about in cowboy hats and engaging in acts of conspicuous physical labour: sanding wood, chopping logs, riding horses, investigating crimes, seeking revenge. (For the record, I have a note from my mam saying I don't have to do PE because I have asthma.) Here are the types of hunk on Ransom Canyon. There's a soulful young rebel with floppy hair who lures away the popular girl at school with his innate nobility. There's a shirtless ranch hand who is new in town and has a mysterious secret. (The secret is possibly the location of his shirts, but it's also that he's working for the nefarious town oil baron.) And, most importantly of all, there is a grieving widower with sad eyes and a greying beard (Josh Duhamel), who is lusted after by the local dancehall owner (Minka Kelly), who gazes at him with great and tragic longing in her own big sad eyes. If I have learned anything from romantic shows of this sort it's that there's nothing sexier than a widower. Look at him there, subtly ageing and being all sad over his wife. Phwoar! Then the show's writers make the widower doubly sexy by having him lose his son in the first episode. Hubba hubba awooga! This almost makes him too sexy for television. Kill off a few more family members and this show will necessarily be banned. Kerry: Tides of Time Mist over the Kerry mountains, standing stones looming on a hill, a spider web glistening in the sun, adorable fox cubs gambolling, two beautiful stags rutting, a majestic Healy-Rae signing a condolence book with a green pen so everyone can see he was at the church, a flower being pollinated by a bee, some magnificent oaks, a farmer agreeing to have a data centre on his land by spitting on his palm. I may have added one or two things of my own to the opening images of Katrina Costello's beautiful documentary series Kerry: Tides of Time , on RTÉ One, but the general gist is correct. This is a gorgeously filmed piece of work exploring the geological development, landscape and wildlife of Co Kerry – the oak ecosystem, the bogs, the invasive rhododendrons, the long history of human habitation – all richly and poetically narrated by Brendan Gleeson . You'd have to be an algorithmic love cube not to be moved.
Daily Mail
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Hit reality show in major schedule shakeup as TV bosses pull series from usual slot - and fans are livid
A hit reality TV show has been involved in a major schedule shakeup after TV bosses pulled the series from its usual slot. Married At First Sight Australia usually airs on E4 weekdays from 7:30pm. But now it's been split in half because of the arrival of brand new dating show Honesty Box. The Australian version of the popular show will air its first instalment at 8pm for one hour. At 9pm, Honesty Box, hosted by Vicky Pattison and Lucinda Light, will watch the journey of a group of sexy singletons try and find The One for a further 60 minutes. Then the final instalment of MAFS Aus will be on E4 until 10:40pm. Honesty Box airs Monday to Wednesday on E4, so the usual schedule for Married At First Sight will continue as normal, from 7:30pm, for Thursday and Friday. Many fans are fuming with the change. One wrote on social media: 'I refuse to be manipulated. I will watch MAFS on +1 at 9 then switch over for the second part at 10. No Honesty Box for me!' 'They think because we're loyal MAFS fans we'll watch Honesty Box and stay up late to finish watching MAFS. Nope. That's what catch up is for.' 'Just seen now it's not on until 8pm! Simpsons it is then! Very cheeky splitting MAFS between this new show. I'll be getting it on catch-up, past my bedtime.' 'In case you didn't know tonight and tomorrow's #MAFSAU episodes will be on from 8-9 and then 10-10:40 with #HonestyBox in between. I resent E4 messing with my night to try and get me to watch another show. I already know it's on; they've advertised it enough.' It comes after Vicky and Lucinda teased tears, tantrums and even SPLITS during an exclusive chat with MailOnline about the arrival of Honesty Box. Viewers will watch the couples explore their budding romances by getting to know each other in the villa, and with help from Truetopia's very own Sincerity Coach Lucinda. But each dater has to go into the Honesty Box to answer questions about themselves - and if they lie there could be serious consequences, including impacting their £100,000 prize fund. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline at the official preview screening of the show earlier this week, Lucinda said of the series: 'There's definitely tears. 'There are some storm outs, there's some temporary breakups, get togethers, swipity-swaps, it's got a bit of all of it.' Vicky, who presents and reads out the Honesty Box results on the show, added: 'The path to true love doesn't run smooth. We all absolutely know that. 'And I think because they're being pushed out of their comfort zone and forced to be honest, in other reality TV shows, people might just stick because they think, "Well, this looks good, like this is an easy ride".' Lucinda chimed in: 'And people are playing a façade, a mask, but it doesn't work here.' Vicky continued: 'You haven't got the opportunity here. 'You do see an awful lot of raw emotion. And I'm not gonna lie, there are a lot of tears, a lot of tantrums. 'There's some new arrivals that cause serious waves throughout the rest of Truetopia. 'But it's all in the name of finding your true match.'
