Andy Burnham let wife go on Blind Date and it was disastrous

Andy Burnham’s wife didn’t have a ‘lorra lorra laughs’ while on Blind Date (Picture: Oli Scarff/ AFP via Getty Images/ITV / Rex Features)

A lot of people have disastrous blind date stories, but I doubt they’re in the same league as Andy Burnham’s wife’s experience.

You see, Marie-France van Heel, or Frankie to her friends, didn’t go on any blind date; she went on THE Blind Date.

As in the TV show hosted by the one and only Cilla Black. So how did this happen?

Well, 24 years ago, when Frankie and the future King in the North first started dating at Cambridge University, she had a request for her new beau.

She had been chosen to go on Blind Date, ...