JAMIE O’HARA and Ryan Babel are among the ex-Premier League footballers that will be forced to LIE on a new reality dating show.
The programme, titled “Love Under Cover”, will premiere on streaming service Peacock on May 9.
It will see five current and former footballers conceal their professions from single women as they look to find love in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Among the most recognisable names appearing on the show is ex-Tottenham and Wolves midfielder O’Hara, 37, and former Liverpool man Babel, 37.
They will be joined by Charlton defender Lloyd Jones, 25, who came through Liverpool’s academy.
Mexican pair Marco Fabian, 34, and Sebastian Fassi, 30, are also on the show.
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Fabian previously played for Eintracht Frankfurt, while Fassi, who appears to get himself involved in a “love triangle”, currently plies his trade for Spanish third-tier outfit San Fernando.
Now a talkSPORT presenter, former England U21 international O’Hara is no stranger to reality TV as he was previously paid £300,000 to go on Big Brother in 2017.
And in the newly released trailer he was seen telling one woman that he is an ad salesman – while he also made a rather lame joke about the concept of the programme being “Lionel Messi”.
Yet despite his experience working the camera, he was incapable of dealing with it at one stage as he appeared to storm off set.
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Towards the end of the clip, he says: “I’m questioning why I f***ing came.”
It then cuts to O’Hara walking past the production crew and out of shot.
Meanwhile, another familiar face to English football fans will be former Liverpool man Babel, 37, who has not yet retired but is without a club.
The ex-Netherlands international pretends to be a construction worker when asked his occupation.
But he fades into the background in the trailer as O’Hara and ex-Liverpool academy product Jones, 28, are left doing most of the talking.
Jones is seen kissing one of the girls in a brief scene, while he also says: “Do you want me to lie and say that I’m in love?”
But it is O’Hara who undoubtedly takes centre stage in the promotional clip.
After someone is heard asking “where the f***” he is”, another scene shows him telling one woman: “I want you to come to London.
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“You could have put 200 girls in there and I’d still only want you.”
At the end of the programme, the five men have to tell the women they have chosen what they really do for a living.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
