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the Internet has changed the way we look
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for love the way we date and even the
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people we marry an estimated 9 million
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Brits are currently looking for the
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perfect partner online and where the
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search for love was once confined to our
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own backyard
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the work is now our oyster
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if there is no bride in your village
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there is internet British men of all
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ages are spending big packing up and
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heading abroad in ever-increasing
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numbers I want to find a wife to marry
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virtual strangers so are you married
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nice you often don't even speak the same
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language oh yes more and more
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businessmen and women are now looking to
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earn a slice of this 1 billion pound pie
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she's absolutely stunning absolutely
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stunning absolutely stunning can you
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really put a price on yeah please I
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can't do it please
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over the last 10 years the mail-order
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bride industry has exploded quadrupling
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in size shirts will it close will it not
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close and I suppose once this is locked
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it feels more real than having divorced
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five years ago 46 year-old exotic animal
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specialist Chris is packing up and
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heading out to Thailand hoping to find
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himself a new wife omen I've I'm
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impressed myself don't when was the last
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time you were in relationship for half
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years ago I've had you can't even say
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the words flings is not their outward
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I have tried Chris lives with his
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daughter 10-year old Holly who has high
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standards when it comes to potential
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stepmoms so that young lady died she's
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31 yeah big boom oh my god Chris is
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signed up to a week-long romance tour
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chance that she takes drugs right these
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types of tours can cost in excess of
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2,000 pounds what do you think people
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will say about what you're doing
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you're desperate you're you you're
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paying all this money to go to this
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country to meet somebody
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why are you DUII i can do e but I've
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chosen to do something else did I thank
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you that wow I like the clothes it's
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just the shirt what makes him look like
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her you know what anger does so does the
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shaky thing Oh sir
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now Chris is flying six and a half
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thousand miles across the world on the
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hunt for his perfect partner but
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Thailand's not the only place to find a
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foreign bride
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Ukraine is known as the bride basket of
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Europe with the continents highest ratio
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of women to men guys buy you tickets to
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Kiev that are for women per man
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so you can catch a tickets quickly
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before the good ones are taken
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despite the country's current troubles
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the mail-order bride industry is still
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driving something 45 year old marriage
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agency owner Natalie has been cashing in
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on for the last 17 years it's the
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easiest time to find a bride because if
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there is no bright in your village
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there is Internet go for it through her
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website Natalie connects Ukrainian women
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to Western men looking for a foreign
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bride so this is the search page so age
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height weight as well I collar is a bit
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like teasing a car it makes it simpler
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because if we know what we're looking
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for then it's easier to find are these
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women not just after money every woman
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who wants to marry if she is in her you
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know sober mind and if she has common
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sense around her will not be considering
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marrying a man who is poor ugly and sick
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these days is not just older men who are
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looking abroad for a wife 26 year old
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Welshman mike has recently signed up to
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Natalie's agency and is fine to Ukraine
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tomorrow I've tried dating keep in the
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UK and not have much luck so just got to
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the point where I kind of thought maybe
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I'm just going about it wrong Mike works
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in a local call center and has invested
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all his savings into finding a bride so
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in total it'll probably cost me about
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2,200 2,300 pounds it's something you
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need to be confident you want to be
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financially committing something so far
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big no they say there's no price on love
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but there's a monkey on my shoulder
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saying this might not work and you're
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gonna make an idiot of yourself and when
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you're on these sites does it feel a bit
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like shopping it does feel a little bit
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like shopping it kind it does feel a
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little bit super bit superficial time
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I'm only quite experienced with them
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depends what cons actually talking to
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them possibly a bits whole intimate
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relations possibly not with Mike's lack
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of dating experience
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hi can you hear me okay
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he is banking on Natalie's expert
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coaching which comes as part of the
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package deal oh my god hi Natalie
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so nice talking to you and eight so
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let's go quickly through the checklist
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of things you should have you should
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ring you look a bit nervous good on ya
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please make sure you bring it off dress
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up shirts nice chocolates like the
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diverse style but you can bring like the
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silver necklace okay because in our
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culture even men come
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bring something in his hand he is
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showing the right attitude easy
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chachi shake right turn mike has been
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skyping many potential brides but
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there's one in particular that has
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caught his eye
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what's up son I probably definitely say
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I'm fighting way above my I am weight
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level if it was boxing come what is
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realistic and I can find picture of her
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Mike is about to be thrown in at the
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deep end despite having never met before
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Tatiana has invited him to stay at her
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apartment when he arrives in Ukraine I
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was just expecting to go there Meteor
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for a coffee for a first date but here
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it is I'm meeting in the airports it's
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like whoa Mike will now spend every
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penny he has traveling to care in the
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hope that Tatiana is the one
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Willa's 2,000 pound gamble pay off after
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weeks of searching the internet 26 year
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old Welshman Mike has packed up and
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flown 2,000 miles to Ukraine to find a
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wife in up since 3 a.m. so really tired
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are you excited yeah I'm excited but
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really tired at the same time any nurse
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yeah a couple of flies
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he's been welcomed by a potential bride
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27 year old travel agent
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Tatyana how are you feeling now a little
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bit nervous but it's okay so I feel good
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yes
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life is good and I feel good awesome
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terminal do they have arrived
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their meetings been negotiated by a
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marriage agency although they've been
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speaking on skype for six weeks this is
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the first time they've ever met
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nice to meet ya when I mention Ukraine
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despite being total strangers Tatyana
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has invited Mike to stay at her
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apartment for the next few nights to
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test out life as man and wife
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oh come in um Flinx like home yes the
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experience so far is almost too much for
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novice data Mike who will be staying in
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Tatyana's spare room
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how you feeling just happy to finally
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meet a for-real it's really overwhelming
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and it's just wow it's real nice
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are you happy ah yes I you you don't see
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yeah Mike when I'll spend the next few
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days deciding if Tatyana could be the
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one you kind of not wanting to believe
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it's real until everything's all kind of
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settled down Silla
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feels like anything could happen
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when it comes to international dating
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love knows no boundaries
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single dad Chris has flown through seven
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time zones to join his romance tour in
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Bangkok when he'd been on your own a
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long time I have its you're always
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looking and then you've got the saying
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you always come to you when you're not
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looking
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I'd have been through that period and
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that Danann but you'll see by Tom's this
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time the tour is managed by American
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company a Foreign Affair there for a fee
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of two thousand pounds so they will
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introduce you to more beautiful
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potential brides in seven days then you
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could meet in an entire lifetime Maurice
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sounds like somebody cup the man in
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charge of the Bangkok division is 51
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year old Brit Leonard Stokes okay guys
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welcome to the fourth quarter and the
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tour starts here Chris our last man is
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just arrived from England we're a
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full-service marriage agency or
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facilitating the meeting of single guys
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and single ladies we're going to be
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doing a small walking tour tonight I've
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wanted a trendy streets in Bangkok
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tomorrow night the eight men on the tour
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will go to an event called a social
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where it will be only them and one
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hundred potential type brides these guys
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are expecting the big WOW moment
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tomorrow when they walk in the room and
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there's 80 to 100 gold when it's talk to
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them it is like being five years old and
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going to bed on Christmas Eve but when
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you get there and you're AC presence
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you've got to unwrap the right one
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and enjoy that you see the rage is about
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40 minutes later the next day tour
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manager Leonard takes Chris through the
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catalog of presents he could unwrap at
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this evening social event there are over
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1,000 women on the books ask me what you
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like her name is sky she's absolutely
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stunning she's absolutely stunning
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absolutely stunning
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absolutely stunning that is a typical
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glamorous Thai lady God what a beautiful
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girl very pretty
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to avoid confusion the women are not
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referred to by their name but by their
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number its Leonard's job to make sure
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that each one of the men finds their
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perfect tile ad the beautiful people
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that expert cooks the perfect housewives
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of which for some men is is an absolute
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dream most Thai women are probably like
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what our mums and Grenn's were like when
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they were about twenty five Cs something
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you might want to make yeah what would
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you say to the critics you might look at
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this and say oh is like ordering from a
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catalogue we simply you go out to buy a
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suit or a dress the dress doesn't get
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the choice of whether it wants to be
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owned by you sometimes it is like being
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in a candy store you can spend all your
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time looking for that perfect piece of
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candy when there are so so so many very
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very very nice pieces of candy around
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you
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one girl who was already started a
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relationship with a British man is 29
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year old Apple they met at a friend's
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party and have maintained their
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relationship online ever since like in
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khao yai the agaricus ow
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she lives with her mum and 12 year old
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son in rural Thailand the region has the
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highest concentration of people living
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in poverty with almost 20 percent
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surviving on less than one pound today
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many girls from the area want to find a
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foreign husband an apple is no different
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their foreign man is called Sam and
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she's planning to move to the UK to live
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with him connected to Ganga behen
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muhawwil young vanilla 13 e local shop
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or chocolatina coke I've in luck
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like I really got like my kid lil Tammy
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society long Apple son Heng Heng is from
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a previous relationship with a Thai man
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that broke up soon after he was born
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she is hoping that a foreign husband
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will be a safer bet black phantom a
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Latina tomato chow mein mmm nah Quan hey
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Mon congratu
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Joshua Lin hi la mia in feminine Thai
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women often expect their foreign
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boyfriends to send them money to support
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their family Sam sends Apple 200 pounds
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a month which goes a long way in
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Thailand
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Apple's decision to move to the UK has
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come at a cost
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visa restrictions mean she has to leave
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her son in Thailand for the first year a
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new vocalist of Zhi Yuna back away
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acting away waiting me may I call you
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convey yo I got on any button love atop
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icon now British boyfriend Sam has flown
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out for an important date with Apple
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having visited her in Thailand six times
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so far today is their wedding day
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[Music]
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this is basically tie register office a
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bit different to others for more likely
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doing your tax return or something
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absolutely getting muddy you exactly
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nervous the whole process in all cost
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over 2012 the man keeping the process on
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track is 48 year old British expat
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Darren who deals with over 50
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typewritten weddings every week so tell
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me what's so appealing about these Thai
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women that these guys are going to so
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much expense okay here we were saying
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where we say when they get off the plane
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in Bangkok the brains disappeared from
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here and the gold somewhere else
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Thai ladies are very beautiful very slim
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very dance and the culture is to take
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care of the man are you very nice I'm
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huffin
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um you have lacking seemed a bit very
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official but it's all done now Sam must
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now leave his new wife and go back to
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the UK of his six months while they wait
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for Apple's visa to come through in
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Ukraine 26 year old Welshman Mike is on
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the hunt for a wife yesterday he met
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potential bride Tatiana for the first
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time and spent the night in her spare
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room
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my friends have family think of months
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without a doubt it's a my best friend's
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like literally just do something normal
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once and do you think people think that
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you're trying to buy a girlfriend you
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can't really buy someone I mean they're
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not slaves today he's picking Tatiana up
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from work to take her out on their first
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proper date thank you for me Oh
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oh thank you so much
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despite some communication problems the
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language of love crosses all boundaries
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for you think it's pretty safe to say
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I'm certain about you so we get ill and
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making whoa oh yes
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sounds nice the marriage agency advises
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against couple sleeping together too
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soon but after dinner Mike broke the
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rules
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we managed to keep things on a friend
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basis or his things got a little bit
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more intimate things about so I take it
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she wasn't sleeping on the couch last
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night you know I went for a shower well
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she went for a shower first island for
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shower yeah so where you gonna get out
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what you gonna do um I think can I go
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see the wise matriarch and go proclaim
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my sins so to speak and just get some
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advice sometimes it's best just say my
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hand was in the cookie jar the wise
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matriarch in question is marriage agency
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owned and Nestle
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you may not be too happy about last
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night's exploits hey who are you doing I
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doing good uh yes let well little to
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welcome yes they me and Tanya got back
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and the whole friendship zone didn't
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become a friendship zone oh oh oh yes oh
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despite sleeping with Tatiana Mike has
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decided he wants to meet other potential
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Brides I don't want her to think that
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I'm not interested I've just things
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happened I was like I need time to
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process everything that's happened I'm
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not hearing what I really want to hear
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what's wrong was heard that you aren't
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ready to forget everyone to just take
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her and run away it's everything is
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happening so quickly mm-hmm and it's no
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time to process everything that's
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happening certain that Mike was sold on
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Tatyana natalie is shocked that he wants
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to see other women
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stupid Mike he should take Tanja and run
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away with her and not to look back and
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thank angels and God that everything is
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happening to hear me on the other hand I
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really understand him he doesn't have
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any experience he doesn't understand
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what's really happening to him you know
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he hasn't met enough bad girls really I
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need to fix it I need to get him some
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buckets I know no react ami no we are
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talking Mike is now worried he's ruined
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his chance to have his cake and eat it
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before we'd kind of started the whole
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sexual relations it would have been fine
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if I'd saw some other people because
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that's what they expect to happen coming
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from another country it's a no-brainer
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but once you kind of committed sexually
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to someone then you're shutting the door
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for all other avenues I've kind of
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shocked myself in the flood good style
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to help him decide tomorrow
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Natalie will throw him to the wolves in
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a speed-dating session with three other
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prospective brides
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46 year-old divorcee Chris is on an
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organized romance tour in Thailand
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tonight he will attend the highlight of
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the schedule the social event among
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nerves how they say now is the first
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time chris has been on the pool in 20
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years and tonight he will have over 100
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women to contend with at the local
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nightclub
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fortunately for Chris tour manager
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Leonard is on hand to ease him into the
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process create reduce use a doll and n
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right and fell dark I'm in fast behind
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koala Cup what's up a Foreign Affair has
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been turning a healthy profit for the
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last 18 years and the social is their
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biggest selling point but what might be
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thighs be feeling when they walk into
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that room title euphoria they're
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probably feeling an awful lot better now
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than they were two hours ago two hours
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ago
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they were like nervous pups let's be
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frank which guy would not want to be in
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a room with a hundred beautiful eligible
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women
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the ladies are attracted to the event by
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the chance of meeting of western men and
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ultimately marrying one
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guys with the coffee doing that at
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rotten know
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what do you think of the men here
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tonight are they attracted do you think
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that they're attractive
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I don't want to be rude as the night
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comes to an end
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Chris is hooked up with lucky number
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nine zero seven five three lab children
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no you have no children
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I'm very single oh wow now I'm married
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I'm you're like children you like
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children
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yeah that's good she's also known as
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Biman I have daughter ten year and some
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who's 14 year 10 I'm 14 yeah
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the lady bayamón I met before she's
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really really nice she's already made
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plans if I want to for tomorrow she made
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plans for next week and six months
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hanging with the social a resounding
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success Chris must now prepare to go on
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his first date in nearly 18 years more
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and more British men are now logging on
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in the hope of finding love overseas
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[Music]
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in Bangkok 46 year-old divorcee Chris is
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about to go on his first date in a very
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long time well I have been split up
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nearly five years we were together 13
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years
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so 18 years 19 years and one day that
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makes me feel really old all I know is
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I've met a genuine nice person and if
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something develops it develops
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hello okay
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hello despite only meeting Biman once
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before and Chris's lack of dating
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experience this is my favorite Bangkok
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the river romance appears to be
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blossoming de Lima
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no no
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[Music]
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even the language barrier and an age gap
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is a decade can't stop things heating up
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the new lovebirds
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what could mean all right yeah okay I
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like you you know they like like love
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very happy you very happy yeah I'm on my
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way up - Oh Sportacus mmm I like you
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really must
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hahahahahaha when his big ears look
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sincere I lie on this man and sincere
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man the date has been a success and all
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the excitement leaves Chris struggling
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for words but why I'd like to say is
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brilliant
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but I don't want to be seen saying that
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it's been I couldn't ask for anything
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better
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why can't you have never had the Swan in
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front me yeah well what do you think
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brilliant the children Chanukah I'll do
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for laughing now how you feeling Chris
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alone I get it
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having won the heart of the woman of his
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dreams he still has to win over her
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family tomorrow he will visit a senior
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family member to seek permission to date
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Biman again
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400 miles away twenty-nine-year-old
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Apple is about to move to wait filled
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joining the 25,000 other Thai Brides
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living in the UK with their British
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husbands are you going to see kicking a
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lot of Thai food when you go to England
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okay we're only Thai food because when I
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eat a flung food make me get fun easy
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javacard well no man Kanaka bola Akagi
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mono in the body I can cook it go away
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feeling in oh well now man Hawaii you
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hang me that it would be an entire year
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before Apple will see her mum and son
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again one whole year before you come
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back yes you won't miss here a missing
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friend buy me one
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[Music]
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why hello I'm dead
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come here rocks at my clinic by tomorrow
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[Music]
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Apple will now travel 6,000 miles across
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the world to start a new life in
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Wakefield British husband Sam is
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preparing their new home for her arrival
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he's been working extra shifts as a
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postman to support her when she gets to
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the UK when did you last week's Apple
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just on phone text messaging to not see
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it in person it's Australian but because
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of things like smartphones it's easy to
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stay in contact
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did you ever worry that Apple is only
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after money at the first ya hear the
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horror stories but after time you build
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the relationship and then you know each
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other inside you know just confluence is
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a minnow house what moved into well it
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will be our house when the Pope comes in
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this is a living room honey
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listen my bedroom oh I don't think it'd
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be like as messy as this which is easy
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looks like she'd let me be like that and
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I think she will do jobs out alpha cause
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the basement for her to do as well
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pulsating women in it not being sexist
32:33
but when we like doing well in my long
32:37
back it with the door still fly another
32:39
like what I was working
32:49
since deciding to try out other
32:51
prospective brides 26 year old wife
32:54
hunter Mike has moved out of Tatiana's
32:56
and is now renting an apartment and
33:04
she's interest in fashion and design
33:06
over the next couple of days Mike will
33:09
meet several other viable candidates to
33:12
prepare he is doing his homework the
33:15
whole hobbies and interests just in case
33:17
I'm struggling for things to say to
33:21
avoid any debtor are you taking out some
33:23
of the pictures as well yeah check out
33:27
some of the pictures as well with women
33:31
outnumbering men by four to one the
33:33
ladies of Ukraine are gagging to meet
33:36
their perfect man
33:47
[Music]
33:51
nice to meet you
33:53
hi let's find a nice to smoke it for you
34:01
oh my god
34:03
the novice day to Mike meeting so many
34:06
women is an unfamiliar experience hope
34:12
you like yes I like them too very much
34:15
and he's going to have to do it in a
34:17
foreign language
34:18
[Music]
34:23
oh if question is too hard to formation
34:29
no or oh thank you Photoshop clumsy
34:35
you have really no choice you have
34:38
amazing eyes
34:39
she opens up in ya crazy bitch for me
34:42
very important that men must have he
34:45
can't because my hand very big ha ha ha
34:49
ha ha since I um do you like rain yes it
34:57
was a lot of fun
34:59
would you like some money for taxi yeah
35:06
[Music]
35:08
the women have only had a short time to
35:11
get to know mine and while some are
35:13
impressed with what they've seen look
35:16
nice I like your hairstyle others aren't
35:20
so easy to please is my good-looking not
35:25
I don't like his rose
35:31
face he is a bastard child like I don't
35:43
like Mike Mike must now decide whether
35:47
to commit to Tatiana or continued to
35:50
play the field
35:52
[Music]
36:02
in Bangkok things aren't going so well
36:05
for single dare Chris he is discovered
36:08
that love in a foreign country can be
36:10
complicated and expensive after only one
36:15
date and eager to take this relationship
36:17
with Biman further he has been to see
36:20
her sister and they've asked him for
36:23
money
36:23
oh she what what what number you go home
36:26
right so fellow tour member and love
36:29
seeker Maurice is lending a sympathetic
36:32
ear yes she then proceeded to get a
36:34
calculator piece of paper in a pen mmm
36:37
workout how many days that were left I
36:39
was still in Thailand yeah she said well
36:42
we'll say call it 2000 a day right so
36:48
2,000 a day she said you pay BAM on
36:51
salary but Bauman's got no money anyway
36:54
so you'll have to pay for everything on
36:55
top of everything else I didn't even say
36:57
goodbye and I just walked out basically
37:00
that's exactly what's human trafficking
37:03
it then hey it's disgusting yeah
37:05
yeah what's what's how do you feel about
37:08
them on now what
37:11
don't no no no I'm not going cry no no
37:16
I'm just I'm totally no for that
37:24
unable and unwilling to pay money to buy
37:28
monsford
37:28
Chris has decided the best thing to do
37:31
is to end their relationship
37:33
[Music]
37:41
No
37:44
please don't
37:47
I cannot know I know I told you before
37:54
you know I'm serious
37:57
I know looking for good men for lo no
38:02
lie no game not play game
38:06
I'm serious yeah what I say is my life
38:09
I'm not missing it
38:14
- Artie this Mimi
38:19
I am sorry sorry I cannot stay
38:29
[Music]
38:31
I'll never forget
38:37
never forget
38:40
we morally tame them peace of mind or
38:42
anything you know that but I cannot give
38:49
you what you need
38:52
and you need you family and I can't
38:54
replace your family please bye mom don't
39:00
do this please let go like no please I
39:04
can't do it please
39:05
[Music]
39:14
Oh
39:30
[Music]
39:35
six months after getting married
39:38
Sam is finally collecting his wife Apple
39:41
from the airport to begin a new life
39:42
together in Wakefield
39:44
all right ready to go on
39:47
[Music]
39:54
Sammis invested every penny he has to
39:57
get Apple over to the UK what about work
39:59
a lot of money big expensive amateurs
40:03
and Brooklyn we're going back and forth
40:06
there for eight to eight to nine hours
40:10
does it feel like it's all been worth it
40:12
now it's been worth it but now I can
40:17
smile is Iran
40:28
after being separated from his love for
40:30
months Sam can barely contain his
40:33
excitement
40:35
welcome to England something lino
40:51
haha he looked towards having a woman's
40:54
touch during the break doing jars yeah
40:59
do you like your new home muffled yes
41:03
big Dennis yeah I just heave you do you
41:21
not have please it let me know on the
41:24
bedroom I'll sure that blemish Oh make a
41:30
channel sparing no because I'm gonna
41:33
move like that into a small bedroom
41:36
well now gosh y'all covered that one
41:42
that one Josh
41:46
oh dang
41:51
[Music]
41:53
despite having been married for half a
41:55
year
41:56
Apple has never met her mother-in-law
41:58
for this in her what she really good
42:03
really enough haha do you think she will
42:07
like you yes yeah sure sure why me
42:14
me and cannot clean easy way about
42:27
you're excited now are ya did you manage
42:30
to bring most of you clothes and things
42:32
that you wanted for food
42:34
tie for two month I'll get you one
42:40
what do you think when some first told
42:42
you about a school you know having a
42:44
Thai girlfriend was a surprise to you um
42:48
well it was a little bit of a surprise I
42:52
just wanted some to be happy and I've
42:55
known some talk about different
42:58
girlfriends and I knew this one was
43:00
different I could just tell early this
43:04
weekend having passed the mother-in-law
43:07
test with flying colors
43:09
Apple is hopeful that she will be better
43:11
off in the UK do you like your new home
43:14
yes my husband Stara team so you plan to
43:19
work in the UK I have two will forget a
43:21
money for my mum and my baby is for my
43:24
fields your tool and is it better money
43:26
in the UK when you work than it is in
43:29
Thailand yeah Metta money in here in
43:32
here one hour for you can't get sick pal
43:35
but in Thailand one day you get sick pal
43:39
very different mics 2,000 pound bride
43:46
hunting expedition is now at an end he
43:49
and Tatiana have decided against seeing
43:52
each other again
43:53
and Mike has realised that he doesn't
43:55
have to settle for the first girl that
43:57
comes along doing better if I'm just
44:00
settling Tanya then is that really fair
44:04
on her just settling isn't it better for
44:08
me to find someone but I'm truly 100%
44:13
happy with
44:14
and go from that maybe I'm being picky
44:18
but I'm doing what I want to do and I
44:21
think as long as I'm doing what I want
44:24
to do and I'm happy then that's all that
44:27
matters
44:29
[Music]
44:35
from this week if so many women were
44:39
being so interested me then why not in
44:43
the future thousands could be
44:45
interesting so tell me how's it been
44:49
money well done yeah I could give me the
44:52
ketchup I've spent the week with quite a
44:55
few beautiful women even live with one
44:57
but love isn't as simple as just getting
45:02
to know someone and
45:04
immediately it's gonna take a bit of
45:06
time
45:13
[Music]
45:23
it's been eight months since Chris went
45:26
on an organized romance tour in Bangkok
45:29
he just didn't work out at all for the
45:32
reasons that the request for money from
45:34
the word go I'm sitting in an office
45:37
with a calculator and a piece of paper
45:39
just so you could take her out socialize
45:41
whether that's that's not what a
45:43
relationships about apparently bad mom
45:46
didn't know anything about that side of
45:47
it but then you get to you that she's in
45:50
a relationship she was in a relationship
45:52
but now she's expecting a baby I was a
45:55
Dover which annoys me because I was lied
45:56
to
45:57
unknown to Chris Biman was already
46:00
seeing another foreign man while they
46:02
were dating undeterred and still seeking
46:06
love Chris thinks he may have already
46:08
found his perfect tile ad there's the
46:11
mystery woman in question that's one or
46:14
one he spelled one and she is number one
46:17
Chris met one when he went to stay with
46:20
friends in Patea after leaving Bangkok I
46:23
bumped into one back see at the Marquee
46:25
and we went for a coffee and then we
46:28
were out for a meal and we got arms she
46:30
likes me I like her so she's single I'm
46:33
single and dim who knows nobody does
46:38
really yet do you think that one could
46:41
be the one you'd like to think so but
46:44
you never know we live in hope
46:47
[Music]
46:59
Ramsey's back in a beige looking prison
47:02
in New Mexico a new series of hotel hell
47:05
and an owner who sings Cher really
47:07
loudly he's gonna love that at 10:00
47:09
tomorrow
47:10
[Music]
47:27
the Internet has changed the way we look
47:29
for love the way we date and even the
47:33
people we marry an estimated 9 million
47:38
Brits are currently looking for the
47:40
perfect partner online and where the
47:44
search for love was once confined to our
47:46
own backyard the world is now our oyster
47:50
if there is no bride in your village
47:51
there is internet British man of all
47:55
ages are spending big packing up and
47:58
heading abroad in ever-increasing
48:00
numbers I want to find a wife to marry
48:03
virtual strangers so are you married
48:06
though you often don't even speak the
48:11
same language Oh more and more
48:21
businessmen and women are now looking to
48:23
earn a slice of this 1 billion pound pie
48:26
she's absolutely stunning absolutely
48:28
stunning absolutely stunning
48:30
can you really at a price on yeah please
48:34
I can't do it please
48:37
[Music]
48:49
over the last 10 years the mail-order
48:52
bride industry has exploded
48:54
what drooling in size shirts will it
48:59
close will it not close and I suppose
49:03
once this is locked it feels more real
49:05
than having divorced five years ago 46
49:11
year old exotic animal specialist Chris
49:13
is packing up and heading out to
49:15
Thailand hoping to find himself a new
49:20
wife omen I've I'm impressed myself
49:26
don't when was the last time you were in
49:29
relationship for our fears ago I've had
49:35
he came say the word flings he's not
49:38
there outward have tried Chris lives
49:43
with his daughter 10-year old Holly who
49:46
has high standards when it comes to
49:48
potential stepmoms so that young lady
49:52
die she's 31 yeah big boom oh my god
49:58
Chris is signed up to a week-long
50:00
romance tour she looks like she takes
50:03
drugs right these types of tours can
50:07
cost in excess of 2,000 pounds what do
50:10
you think people will say about what
50:12
you're doing you're desperate you're you
50:15
you're paying all this money to go to
50:18
this country to meet somebody why can't
50:22
you do here I can do he but I've chosen
50:25
to do something else did I think of that
50:28
wow I like the clothes it's just the
50:33
shirt what makes him look like her you
50:35
know we tangoed up so does the shaky
50:38
thing
50:39
Oh sense now Chris is flying six and a
50:45
half thousand miles across the world on
50:47
the hunt for his perfect partner but
50:53
Thailand's not the only place to find a
50:55
foreign bride
50:59
[Music]
51:05
Ukraine is known as the bride basket of
51:08
Europe with the continents highest ratio
51:11
of women to men guys buy you tickets to
51:16
Kiev that are before women per man so
51:19
you can get your tickets quickly before
51:21
they good ones are taken
51:23
despite the country's current troubles
51:25
the mail-order bride industry is still
51:28
thriving something 45 year old marriage
51:32
agency owner Natalie has been cashing in
51:35
on for the last 17 years it's the
51:38
easiest time to find a bride because if
51:40
there is no bride in your village there
51:42
is Internet go for it through her
51:50
website Natalie connects Ukrainian women
51:53
to Western men looking for a foreign
51:55
bride so this is the search page so age
51:59
height weight as well I collar is a bit
52:03
like teasing a car it makes it simpler
52:06
because if we know what we're looking
52:08
for then it's easier to find are these
52:12
women noticed after money every woman
52:15
who wants to marry if she is in her you
52:20
know sober mind and if she has common
52:22
sense around her will not be considering
52:25
marrying a man who is poor ugly and sick
52:34
these days it's not just older men who
52:37
are looking abroad for a wife
52:40
26 year old Welshman mic has recently
52:43
signed up to Natalie's agency and is
52:45
find Ukraine tomorrow I've tried dating
52:48
in the UK and not have much luck so just
52:51
got to the point where I've kind of
52:53
thought maybe I'm just going about it
52:55
wrong
52:56
Mike works in a local call center and
52:59
has invested all his savings into
53:01
finding a bride so in total it'll
53:05
probably cost me about 2,200 2,300
53:10
pounds it's something you need to be
53:13
confident you want to be fine actually
53:17
committing something so far BIC know
53:19
they say there's no price on love but
53:22
there's a monkey on my shoulder saying
53:23
this might not work and you're gonna
53:26
make an idiot out of yourself and when
53:28
you're on these sites does it feel a bit
53:30
like shopping it does feel a little bit
53:32
like shopping it kind it does feel a
53:35
little bit super bit superficial time
53:37
I'm only quite experienced with women
53:41
depends what context you put in talking
53:44
to them possibly if it's whole intimate
53:47
relations possibly not with Mike's lack
53:52
of dating experience
53:54
hi can you hear me okay he is banking on
54:00
Natalie's expert coaching which comes as
54:03
part of the package deal
54:04
hello my god hi Natalie so nice talking
54:09
to you and eight so let's go quickly
54:13
through the checklist of things you
54:15
should have you should bring you look a
54:18
bit nervous come on yeah please make
54:23
sure you bring it off
54:25
dress up shirts nice chocolates like the
54:28
diverse style but you can bring like the
54:31
silver necklace okay because in our
54:34
culture if a man comes and bring
54:36
something in his hands
54:37
he is showing the right attitude he's
54:40
chassis shake right turn mike has been
54:47
skyping many potential brides but
54:50
there's one in particular that has
54:52
caught his eye
54:53
what's that's awkward I probably
54:56
definitely say I'm writing way above my
54:59
m weight level if it was boxing come
55:03
what does he look like
55:04
and I can find picture of her Mike is
55:12
about to be thrown in at the diamond
55:14
despite having never met before
55:17
Tatiana has invited him to stay at her
55:19
apartment when he arrives in Ukraine I
55:22
was just expecting to go there Meteor
55:25
for coffee for a first date but here it
55:28
is a meeting in the airport's it's like
55:30
whoa Mike will now spend every penny he
55:37
has traveling to Kiev in the hope that
55:40
Tatiana is the one
55:42
[Music]
55:45
will is 2,000 pound gamble pay off after
55:58
weeks of searching the internet 26 year
56:01
old Welshman mike has packed up and
56:03
flown 2,000 miles to Ukraine to find a
56:06
wife in up since 3 a.m. so really tired
56:10
are you excited yeah I'm excited
56:14
but really tired at the same time and
56:16
you know yeah couple of lies he's been
56:22
welcomed by a potential bride 27 year
56:25
old travel agent
56:27
Tatyana how are you feeling now a little
56:31
bit nervous but it's a king so
56:36
I feel good yes life is good and I feel
56:40
good also terminal D we have arrived
56:48
[Music]
56:50
their meetings been negotiated by a
56:53
marriage agency although they've been
56:55
speaking on skype for six weeks this is
56:57
the first time they've ever met
57:05
[Music]
57:11
nice to meet you yeah when I mention
57:15
your plane
57:17
despite being total strangers Tatyana
57:20
has invited Mike to stay at her
57:22
apartment for the next few nights to
57:24
test out life as man and wife
57:26
oh come in um flings like home yes the
57:36
experience so far is almost too much for
57:38
novice data Mike he'll be staying in
57:41
Tatyana's spare room how you feeling
57:44
just happy to finally meet a for real
57:47
it's really overwhelming and it's just
57:52
wow it's really nice
57:55
are you happy ah yes are you you don't
58:00
see huh huh Mike when I'll spend the
58:03
next few days deciding if Tatiana could
58:06
be the one you cannot wanting to believe
58:11
it's real until everything's all kind of
58:14
settle down still and feels like
58:19
anything could happen
58:26
when it comes to international dating
58:28
love knows no boundaries
58:34
single dad Chris has flown through seven
58:37
time zones to join his romance tour in
58:39
Bangkok when you've been on your own a
58:42
long time I have yes you're always
58:45
looking and then you've got the same you
58:48
always come to you when you're not
58:49
looking and I've been through that
58:51
period and that Danann but you see what
58:55
I understand the tour is managed by
58:58
American company a foreign affair for a
59:01
fee of two thousand pounds so they will
59:03
introduce you to more beautiful
59:05
potential brides in seven days then you
59:07
could meet in an entire lifetime Maurice
59:11
let's try one more times like somebody
59:13
cup the man in charge of the Bangkok
59:16
division is 51 year old Brit Leonard
59:19
Stokes okay guys welcome to the fall
59:21
Potter and the tour starts here Chris
59:23
our last man is just arrived from
59:24
England we're a full-service marriage
59:26
agency or facilitating the meeting of
59:29
single guys and single ladies we're
59:32
going to be doing a small walking tour
59:34
tonight
59:35
I've wanted a trendy streets in Bangkok
59:37
tomorrow night the eight men on the tour
59:40
will go to an event called a social
59:42
where it will be only them and 100
59:45
potential Thai Brides these guys are
59:49
expecting the big WOW moment tomorrow
59:52
when they walk in the room and there's
59:53
80 to 100 gold
59:54
culture it is like being 5 years old
59:57
going to bed on Christmas Eve but when
60:00
you get there and you're AC presence
60:02
you've got to unwrap the right one and
60:06
enjoy that puddle you see the rage it's
60:15
about 14 death later the next day tour
60:18
manager Leonard takes Chris through the
60:20
catalog of presents he could unwrap at
60:22
this evening social event there are over
60:25
1,000 women on the books ask me what you
60:29
like her name is sky she's absolutely
60:32
stunning she's absolutely stunning
60:34
absolutely stun
60:36
absolutely stunning that is a typical
60:39
glamorous Thai lady God what a beautiful
60:43
girl very pretty
60:46
to avoid confusion the women are not
60:49
referred to by their name but by their
60:52
number its Leonard's job to make sure
60:54
that each one of the men finds their
60:56
perfect tile ad the beautiful people
60:59
that expert cooks the perfect housewives
61:02
of which for some men is is an absolute
61:05
dream most Thai women are probably like
61:08
what our mums and Grenn's were like when
61:11
they were about twenty five Cs something
61:14
you might want to make yeah what would
61:18
you say to the critics you might look at
61:20
this and say oh is like ordering from a
61:22
catalogue Reese if you go out to buy a
61:24
suit or a dress the dress doesn't get
61:27
the choice of whether it wants to be
61:29
owned by you sometimes it is like being
61:31
in a candy store you can spend all your
61:36
time looking for that perfect piece of
61:38
candy
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