Glamour model still looking for love after reality show date failed (From Southend Standard)
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Glamour model still looking for love after reality show date failed
12:00pm Thursday 21st February 2013 in News By David Trayner
Abbie watching a preview of the episode at home
YOU wouldn’t have thought a glamour model, dancer, barmaid and cage fight ring girl would have trouble finding a boyfriend.
But after a string of failed romances Abbie Goodwin, 21, decided to ask a reality show to help her find her perfect match.
After an hour-long compatibility test, The Year of Making Love matched Abbie from Shoebury, with London fireman Chris Flynn and filmed their romance for several months for the next episode of the BBC 3 show, to be screened on Monday.
Abbie said: “I thought I’d give it a go because relationships hadn’t worked out for me in the past. I always go for bad boys and then it ends badly.
“My ideal match was totally different to how I thought it would be.”
After spotting a web advert for the show, Abbie filled in a detailed questionnaire, which asked about her family, life and relationships so far, personality, tastes and her ideal man.
Out of 500 men selected for the show, the producers singled out Chris, who ticked all the right boxes as he was tall, dark, strong, down to earth and sociable.
Abbie, a street dancer for Kayzar in Basildon, said: “He was matched quite well to what I put on the compatibility test. Looks-wise he was very similar.”
The pair were then filmed as they got to know each other on a number of dates.
Despite their efforts to make it work, their romance failed to blossom, partly because it was revealed Chris was several years older, but the pair have since remained friends.
Abbie, who featured in BBC 3 make-under show Snog Marry Avoid? a couple of years ago, said: “We got on really, really well.
“There were many laughs and many ups and downs. We are still friends now. We still talk on a regular basis.”
The Year of Making Love is on at 9pm on BBC 3.
Comments(32)
leighman
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12:25pm Thu 21 Feb 13
Thanks for the warning, I now know to tune into a different channel!
pembury53
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12:57pm Thu 21 Feb 13
Oneflewoverthecuckoosnest
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1:28pm Thu 21 Feb 13
howironic
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1:39pm Thu 21 Feb 13
OneflewoverthecuckooOh I don't know about that... I would
snest wrote:
She's average anyway no offence but there are far prettier girls out there and as she stated she went for "bad boys" she's just not very mature, probably still wanting to lounge around on the strip in Magaluf or Kavos.
maxell
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1:47pm Thu 21 Feb 13
howironic wrote:thats no recomendation
OneflewoverthecuckooOh I don't know about that... I would
snest wrote:
She's average anyway no offence but there are far prettier girls out there and as she stated she went for "bad boys" she's just not very mature, probably still wanting to lounge around on the strip in Magaluf or Kavos.
babybird0404
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1:49pm Thu 21 Feb 13
RICH:;CAROL
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2:21pm Thu 21 Feb 13
stopmoaning1
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3:49pm Thu 21 Feb 13
Judging a book purely by its cover, I assume she was the ‘avoid’ then
saddo99
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3:53pm Thu 21 Feb 13
DogsMessInLeigh
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4:22pm Thu 21 Feb 13
dbyf14099
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5:22pm Thu 21 Feb 13
i understand able solve about fail date mean thing weeks over think mr right.
maybe abbie think contact each team in mind at the time....possible!
stopmoaning1
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6:07pm Thu 21 Feb 13
dbyf14099 wrote:any ideas anybody?
oh welcome my sight read echo special...
i understand able solve about fail date mean thing weeks over think mr right.
maybe abbie think contact each team in mind at the time....possible!
ChampKind
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6:44pm Thu 21 Feb 13
Cosmo Spring
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8:38pm Thu 21 Feb 13
stopmoaning1 wrote:maybe this poster is visually impaired and relies on software to read by the look of
dbyf14099 wrote:any ideas anybody?
oh welcome my sight read echo special...
i understand able solve about fail date mean thing weeks over think mr right.
maybe abbie think contact each team in mind at the time....possible!
my sight read echo specialand also on different software to dictate a reply and the voice recognition software isn't perfectly in tune with the Echo's platform.
I'd give them the benefit of the doubt myself and let it slide with a shrug of the shoulders in case.
Rainbowman
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9:14pm Thu 21 Feb 13
: may i just let you know, this beautiful young Model, dancer,barmaid,cage fight ring girl...is actually a very hard working girl.
so please before you judge her because of her age, judge yourself before judging her. get to grips and jog on!
DogsMessInLeigh
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9:26pm Thu 21 Feb 13
Cosmo Spring wrote:Deepest West Country i would wager.
stopmoaning1 wrote:maybe this poster is visually impaired and relies on software to read by the look of
dbyf14099 wrote:any ideas anybody?
oh welcome my sight read echo special...
i understand able solve about fail date mean thing weeks over think mr right.
maybe abbie think contact each team in mind at the time....possible!my sight read echo specialand also on different software to dictate a reply and the voice recognition software isn't perfectly in tune with the Echo's platform.
I'd give them the benefit of the doubt myself and let it slide with a shrug of the shoulders in case.
whateverhappened
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8:45am Fri 22 Feb 13
DogsMessInLeigh wrote:What Horndon
Cosmo Spring wrote:Deepest West Country i would wager.stopmoaning1 wrote:maybe this poster is visually impaired and relies on software to read by the look ofdbyf14099 wrote: oh welcome my sight read echo special... i understand able solve about fail date mean thing weeks over think mr right. maybe abbie think contact each team in mind at the time....possible!any ideas anybody?my sight read echo specialand also on different software to dictate a reply and the voice recognition software isn't perfectly in tune with the Echo's platform. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt myself and let it slide with a shrug of the shoulders in case.
runwellian
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10:12am Fri 22 Feb 13
Would any man really want his girl to be doing these things?
What about a nice intelligent girl that may not be pretty but has brains?
Put this young lady in any high street and I don't think she would stand out in a crowd!
DogsMessInLeigh
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10:21am Fri 22 Feb 13
Oneflewoverthecuckoosnest
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3:57pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Rainbowman wrote:Sigh you are clearly very deluded if you consider her a hard working girl, I know exactly who she is she isn't hard working, she has been around the block - old news, no-one cares about her failed love life.
oneflewoverthecuckoo
: may i just let you know, this beautiful young Model, dancer,barmaid,cage fight ring girl...is actually a very hard working girl.
so please before you judge her because of her age, judge yourself before judging her. get to grips and jog on!
Bernard Fatsack
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4:18pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Letmetryagain
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6:12pm Fri 22 Feb 13
craigpat89
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7:08pm Fri 22 Feb 13
stopmoaning1
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9:19pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Still gets the 'avoid' vote though
DogsMessInLeigh
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10:51pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Nebs
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7:48pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Bernard Fatsack wrote:Still a virgin at 12? He can't be from Essex.
Glad she is not my sister. So much social pressure. My friends 12 year old son thinks he needs to lose his viginity with at least three glamour models in gold bikinis and white furry moon boots and thinks safe sex is buggering them. God bless him as I despair.
hothead
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5:00pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Gay Ray
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5:34pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Rebecca12
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3:20pm Mon 25 Feb 13
Gay Ray
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4:19pm Mon 25 Feb 13
Bernard Fatsack wrote:I hope you are able to put him right, Bernard. Gold bikinis and furry moon boots don't do much for me but there's no accounting for taste.
Glad she is not my sister. So much social pressure. My friends 12 year old son thinks he needs to lose his viginity with at least three glamour models in gold bikinis and white furry moon boots and thinks safe sex is buggering them. God bless him as I despair.
Druggie Scumbag
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6:56am Tue 26 Feb 13
Bernard Fatsack wrote:Not too late to consider ordination. There are an increasing number of vacancies in the RC church and your friend's son sounds like an ideal candidate.
Glad she is not my sister. So much social pressure. My friends 12 year old son thinks he needs to lose his viginity with at least three glamour models in gold bikinis and white furry moon boots and thinks safe sex is buggering them. God bless him as I despair.
perini says...
12:24pm Thu 21 Feb 13