Sooo, you know what Take Me Out is right? That programme with all those cheesy one-liners like “let the apple see the crumble”, “no likey, no lightey” and all that jazz. If you haven’t heard these ultimate corny sayings from good old Paddy McGuiness then there is a wonderful selection for you.

Anyway, last year St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice set up their own Take Me Out event to raise money. The event starred 8 hopefully men and 20 girls on the stage, hoping to win a free meal and date at Nandos. I mean come on who doesn’t love free chicken right?

This year the event came back for a second time. It saw mental dancing, guys strutting their stuff, women doing the splits and backflips; and oh, a guy put a glass eye in his mouth (yes, that DID happen and ew).

The show is completely different to ITV’s version due to there being balloons instead of lights. If the ladies don’t like the man on stage they have to pop their balloon. Now, for all those weird people afraid of balloons this isn’t a nice experience to hear several pop at once. It sounds like this but ten times worse.

The men must be pretty brave though, we (Luke, Emily and I) saw contestant Daniel Baker do the dying slug (a rather odd version of the worm – video coming soon) live on the stage, and other contestant Blake Wood pop his mate’s glass eye straight into his mouth (fresh from his friend’s eye socket might I add).

Okay so the event sounds completely odd and full of weirdos, but we saw 3 of the 5 men nab a date and the losers get a cuddle off an amazing Nandos’ chicken (I WANT ONE). One of the girls on the stage also raised over £300 for the night as well.

Cheesy events that raise money for charity? Who can beat them? To find out more I live blogged Take Me Out and set up some of the men’s profiles for my local paper. Give it a read.