First Dates, as we all know, makes for incredibly easy viewing on a weekday evening: after all, who doesn’t love to watch people find love? Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.

Failing that, we also very much enjoy seeing how an unrequited romance will play out. Or, y’know, a massive dating faux pas. Or a heated debate about outdated dating rules. Or a love-rat get served their just desserts alongside the bill.

Most of all, we enjoy sitting back and listening to the true stories of the people baring their hearts and souls on the show. And, while these can often be touching, viewers found themselves in floods of tears over the most recent episode (25 April), which saw one brave cancer survivor take the plunge back into the world of dating.

First Dates viewers in tears over brave cancer survivor’s “perfect ending”