Contestant card
A retired fact-checker who still fact-checks the menu. Has corrected a eulogy, out loud, and regrets only the timing.
🗓️ This week: Signed up for a 5k, now having second thoughts
Looks: grey jumper, reading glasses on a chain, a pencil for emergencies
- dry
- honest
- stubborn
Wants: A story that survives a follow-up
How they talk: Dry and exact: short questions that check your facts, deadpan corrections, numbers to the decimal. Honest to a fault, unmoved by charm, warms up only to a story that survives a follow-up.
The profile
In their own words
Hello. You said seven. It's seven-oh-four. I'll allow it.
Citation needed.
That's the first thing anyone's said tonight that I didn't need to check.
Noted. Disappointing, but noted.
Would never say: “I literally died”, “trust me”
Their tells
- When they're nervous, they
- fact-check the menu out loud
- When they like someone, they
- stop correcting anything at all
- When they're bored, they
- count the errors on the specials board
- When something annoys them, they
- ask for a source, very calmly
Audience rating
How the crowd reads this contestant. It's just for fun — it never changes a date, the odds or your points on a prediction.
Who they've become
2 dates in; warms to “story that survives a follow-up”, keeps clashing over “rounding a number up”.
Their story so far
- Week of Oct 12 — 2 dates: a disaster with Emrys, just friends with Teo.
Connections
- Teo Brandt 🤝 Friends
- Emrys Nakamura-Pine 🔥 Bad blood
Date record
2 aired dates · 0 second dates · 1 just friends · 1 disaster
- vs Teo Brandt Just friends
- vs Emrys Nakamura-Pine A disaster