Netflix’s new dating show Sexy Beasts ‘purely based on personality’

Programme transforms singletons into an assortment of fantastical creatures

Netflix has billed the programme as The Masked Singer meets Love Is Blind. Photograph: Netflix/PA Wire
Netflix has billed the programme as The Masked Singer meets Love Is Blind. Photograph: Netflix/PA Wire

Singletons are to be transformed into an assortment of fantastical beasts in a new Netflix dating programme.

Participants in the programme will wear elaborate make-up and prosthetics during dates with prospective partners.

Netflix has billed the programme as The Masked Singer meets Love Is Blind.

Participants in the programme will wear elaborate make-up and prosthetics during dates with prospective partners. Photograph: Netflix/PA Wire
Participants in the programme will wear elaborate make-up and prosthetics during dates with prospective partners. Photograph: Netflix/PA Wire

A trailer for the programme shows the disguised daters dining in restaurants, drinking in bars, bowling and axe throwing.

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Netflix said in a statement: “Ready to say goodbye to superficial dating? Sexy Beasts is the dating show that takes looks completely out of the equation using fantastical, cutting-edge prosthetics to transform the daters – giving them a chance to find love purely based on personality.”

It will “put true blind-date chemistry to the test”, the streaming giant added in a tweet. Sexy Beasts launches on Netflix on July 21st. – PA