Arranged marriage TV show

For most people contemplating a new relationship after divorce, there are several things to consider - will you and your prospective partner have anything in common? Do you share the same life goals? Do either of you have children? Or pets? Or both?

Finding a new partner that you are happy with is not easy. But now the process could be made easier for a few singletons thanks to a new game show based on the principles of arranged marriage.

A woman described as the 'Asian Cilla Black' is to host a new programme for BBC2 entitled Arrange Me a Marriage which aims to find single British people a partner by matching them up through class, education, earning, life goals and family background.

Aneela Rahman, a marriage broker from Glasgow, believes that these things really matter when looking for a man or woman to spend your life with and that the divorce rate in Britain would be lower if more people took them into consideration.

Speaking to the Times, she said: "For many non-Asians meeting someone is quite random, in a bar or club, but you wouldn't buy a house or car [when you were] drunk so why would you expect to find a life partner like that?"

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