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    Orbs, energy-crystals and public canoodling: the rise of the astrological dating show

    Aug 12, 2022 5 minutes

    Pity the reality TV developer. Their working day, I imagine, always begins the same way: with the words “take 10 sexy singles” inked atop a blank page. But what comes next? The developer scrawls the word “island” but hurriedly, embarrassedly, crosses it out. She needs to be more imaginative – throw different things together, see what sticks. What about a show where contestants can’t speak to each other, and must instead communicate through animal mating rituals? Old hat! Love in the Jungle came out in June. A show where siblings date side-by-side? Nope: Dated and Related streams on Netflix this September. Before the reality TV developer knows it, the day is done and there is nothing on her page.

    She plods to the car park and turns her eyes pleadingly to the heavens. “It’s all been done,” she laments. And then she sees it – a twinkle

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