Bingo Night Live Axed

The ITV1 Bingo a long running late night show called Bingo Night Live has effectively been axed as part of wide-ranging cuts across ITV heavily featured in yesterday's news reports. Papers in the UK today revealed up to 80 jobs will be cut from the recently formed ITV consumer division, as ITV scales back its regional web TV series ITV Local and parts of its mobile operation.
ITV Play will apparently be scrapped as well, ITV Play produced Bingo Night Live and online bingo price comparison site Price Terrier. A second series of Bingo Night Live had been commissioned following the success of the first show, which ran last year between June and November, but this has now been cancelled following today's announcement.

Last August, each episode of the show was encouraging between 3,000 and 5,000 new players to register their details every day on ITV.com for the competition, with up to 60,000 people downloading free bingo numbers each day. Since its inception in 2005, ITV Play is estimated to have created revenues in excess of £50m for the broadcaster.
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Online Bingo Scores a Full House for Love

As reported today in the This is North Devon online website, the popular game of online bingo has scored a full house for two people who would never have met had they not played bingo online at the same bingo site.

In this heartwarming internet bingo love story, Rachel and Steven first made contact last October when they kept 'bumping' into each other playing bingo online at Bingo on the Box, so they started talking together in the bingo chatroom.

After several online chats they devised a way to secretly code their messages to circumvent the security of the bingo site and swapped email addresses with the help of their secret bingo lingo. Within a couple of weeks they were on the phone to each other 6 times a day. The pair finally met in early December, and their relationship has blossomed ever since.


Rachel owns the Bay of Bengal, an indian restaurant in Holsworthy, Devon, and Steven is a disabled diabetic from Weston-Super-Mare in neighbouring Somerset. Rachel had given up on men after her first fiancee was killed in a road accident, and her second fiancee was deported. Steven's two children, aged 14 and 10, both get on well with Rachel.

Steven said he used to visit his local bingo hall regularly, as it was a great place to meet people: "But the smoking ban put a lot of people off and the prices were jacked up to cover their overheads."

He then started to play bingo online, later at Bingo on the Box, which was where he met Rachel. He said he was delighted when he discovered that she owned a curry house, as it's already a major part of his family's staple diet.

"Rachel is also a wonderful person and gets on very well internet bingo on the Box has given us both a new lease of life and put our faith back in love."

Rachel said that she never expected to meet a man by playing bingo online. "It is all very exciting and although we have no immediate plans for the future, we are enjoying each other's company. I think it will be a long term thing - I hope it will."

A spokesman said: "We're very happy that Rachel and Steven found love on our site!"

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