Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder's son suffers awkward blunder as he joins E4's First Dates
15.11.2023 - 11:05
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The teenage son of Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder suffered a bit of an awkward blunder as he appeared on hit show First Dates. While he didn't appear on the main show, Joe was seen looking for love on E4's Teen First Dates.
He was one of the new people appearing on the show in hopes of finding love after being matched with strangers by experts before heading to the First Dates restaurant.
But during the date, Joe made the decision to name-drop his famous father but it didn't land how he wanted it to as his date never heard of the star. n a clip shared on Instagram, the 19-year-old said: "I'm doing the name drop. Have you heard of a band called The Happy Mondays?" to which his date shook his head.
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"So my biological dad is Shaun Ryder, who is the lead singer of The Happy Mondays. I don't know if you know him from I'm A Celeb years ago... Came second?" According to the Mirror, His date still looked completely clueless as Joe tried to provide more details about his famous father.
"Queen Stacey won, as she should," Joe continued before his date said: "You probably just opened up and I'm like, 'I don't know who that is'." Joe then went on to recount an embarrassing moment that happened between him and an ex-boyfriend while the two were 'passionately kissing'.
But despite the awkward moment, Joe shared why he likes it when people don't know his father. He said: "That makes me so happy because I was seeing a guy and we were passionately kissing. He pulls away from the kiss and he goes, 'Wow, you do look like your dad!'" and