AFTER 25 years of being best-known as Busted’s bassist, Matt Willis now has new global fame.
Fronting Netflix’s Love Is Blind UK, with wife Emma, seems to have eclipsed his band’s success of four chart-topping singles and a number one album in just one year.
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Matt said with a laugh: “Busted did a tour at the end of last year, we did Australia, Japan, Mexico and Brazil.
“And we had a few people turn up and go, ‘We didn’t know you were in a band. We know you from Love Is Blind, so we thought we’d come and see your band’.
“I was like, ‘Cool, welcome’. I love it.”
Matt and Emma are back to present a second series of the show that follows singles who try to find their perfect partner, sight unseen, to get engaged and marry on the show.
It is Emma’s first big project on screen since undergoing keyhole surgery earlier this year to repair a hole in her heart.
Love Is Blind UK was filmed last year and now she is well enough to be out promoting the run.
She said: “It’s really nice to be back. It was nice to have a little time off to recover and focus on what I needed to do. But now it’s full steam ahead and back to work, which is nice.”
Two couples from series one are still happily married, so are Matt and Emma worried about delivering on series two, which drops on Netflix from August 13?
Emma said: “We filmed it straight after the reunion for series one so the characters from season one were so fresh. I was like, ‘How are we ever going to match that?’ ”
Matt added: “Watching it happen, being part of the show, you’re just rooting for them.”
Despite the trend for shows to have celebrity spin-offs, Emma doesn’t think that could ever work here.
She said: “You’d constantly be trying to guess who it was, wouldn’t you?
“There’d be certain people that you’d absolutely know who it was. Imagine if Rylan was in there, or Alan Carr.
“You’d be like, ‘That’s f***ing Rylan!’ ”
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