Dustin and Kevin found true love on “First Dates”.

“I thought I’d take a chance and just go there.” And maybe I’ll find true love there,” says Kevin. “Let me know when you find them,” Dustin replies without hesitation. The young men start laughing. Kevin and Dustin (last names known to the editors) have found each other – and fallen in love. The two met on the Vox show “First Dates – A Table for Two”. In the dome show, two people go on a blind date in a restaurant.

“My boss tired me out of applying to ‘First Dates,’” says Dustin. Around 13 years ago, the 30-year-old moved to the state capital, trained as a chef and worked as a waiter in a restaurant – still. Because Dustin will move to Kevin, to Ganderkesee, a town in Lower Saxony near Oldenburg.

You might ask yourself: A first date with a stranger, recorded by cameras and broadcast on national television – can you fall in love under these circumstances? One can. “Who can say they can always watch their first date?” says Dustin. Of course that was a special situation. “The excitement is great,” said the Düsseldorf resident. “But sometimes you forget about the cameras.”

Especially when it harmonizes with the person sitting opposite you on a hill. And that seemed to be the case with Dustin and Kevin. “We couldn’t remember a quiet moment during our date afterwards,” says Dustin. “We didn’t have a single break in speaking.” Kevin nods. “It was like we had known each other forever,” he recalled.

It wasn’t just the television situation that made the date special. “When you use dating apps, you already know a lot about a person before you meet them for the first time,” says Kevin. “On a blind date, you can concentrate completely on getting to know the person.” And both of them enjoyed it straight away: in the show, the two seemed to be on the same wavelength straight away, they were quick to joke, talked about their ideas in life, and had a constant smile on the face. And they talk about their, at least slight, differences.

“We still ask ourselves to this day why the show’s editors matched us,” says Kevin, who loves listening to hits and himself performs as a pop singer under the stage name Justin Winter. “It’s probably not for nothing that the saying goes that opposites attract,” reflects Dustin, a hip-hop and R’n’B fan. Four months after their first date, Dustin still doesn’t seem to have become a convinced pop fan, but so be it. In any case, in the case of Kevin and Dustin, the opposites have apparently not only attracted, the two lovers are now moving in together – to Ganderkesee.

“Actually, our first date didn’t end after we finished recording,” Dustin remembers. When the recordings were in the can, things were just getting started for Dustin and Kevin. That same evening, the two went to a bar, only separated around midnight, only to meet again the next day when Kevin decided to have one on the way home from Cologne, where “First Dates” is recorded, to Ganderkesee To make a detour to Düsseldorf.

Since then, the two have seen each other almost five days a week, sometimes in Düsseldorf, sometimes in Ganderkesee, even though there are around 280 kilometers between them and they often only spend the evening hours together. That changes when Dustin moves in with Kevin.

“Two weeks ago we were sitting on the grass in the Media Harbor and I thought: This is where you started your training. “And now you’re sitting here and soon you’ll be moving away for love,” says Dustin. “At that moment I was able to finish well – because this felt right.”