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The real life ‘50 First Dates’ story

What would you do if you couldn’t remember your partner or how you fell in love? Canadian Nesh Pi...

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15.32 10 Feb 2025


The real life ‘50 First Dates’ story


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15.32 10 Feb 2025


What would you do if you couldn’t remember your partner or how you fell in love?

Canadian Nesh Pillay and her other half, JJ, have been dubbed the real life ‘50 First Dates’ story after Nesh lost her memory in October 2022. What followed was years of recovery, and life turned out to be much more complicated than a romantic comedy...

Nesh Pillay, subject of the Amazon Prime documentary ‘50,000 First Dates: A True Love Story’, joins Seán to share her story.

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