The ink is barely dry on the BBC’s decision to cancel I Kissed a Boy, and I Kissed a Girl, and already there are murmurs of a lifeline – and it’s coming from a pretty unexpected place.
According to Attitude, production company Twofour is reportedly planning a spin-off that would bypass the BBC entirely. The source of the claim is Felicity Cross, The Sun’s deputy TV editor, via an Instagram post – and per her account, the new show would air on Tinder, as well as YouTube and Instagram.
The alleged series – reportedly titled It Started With a Kiss – would ditch the Italian villa format in favour of something different: LGBTQ+ celebrities sharing their dating stories, talking love lives, and reminiscing about past relationships. Charley Marlowe, who narrated I Kissed a Girl, is rumoured to front it. Attitude has reached out to Tinder for comment, and as of publication, nothing has been officially confirmed.
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The spin-off rumours come days after the BBC confirmed the franchise won’t be renewed beyond I Kissed a Girl series two, which is still on track to air this spring. The broadcaster cited “funding challenges” as the reason the UK’s first-ever LGBTQ+ dating show is ending after four seasons – a decision that, as Yahoo Entertainment noted, lands amid a turbulent wider moment for queer representation on screen. GLAAD recently found that four in ten queer TV characters won’t be returning in 2026, and I Kissed a… was one of the few mainstream shows actually centring queer love stories with any real warmth and care.
Host Dannii Minogue – who appeared to be caught off guard by the news, having posted an Instagram video hyping the franchise’s future just before the cancellation broke – has been quietly hopeful in her response. “Who knows where the IK series will go from there?” she signed off, which in hindsight reads less like a throwaway line and more like a hint.
Nothing here is official yet. But the fact that something is apparently in the works – and that it could reach a broader, more global audience via social platforms – is at least something to hold onto while we wait for I Kissed a Girl series two to land.
Watch this space.
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This article was written by one of our creative team writers here at Nonchalant Magazine.
