Mash Blind Date: 'I told her I was six foot two. I'm five foot two. Hope she isn't prejudiced'

SHORT king Oliver O’Connor, aged 29, neglected to mention his regal lack of stature to date Grace Wood-Morris, aged 32. Will she notice?

Grace on Oliver

First impression?

Polite yet rude; he’d arrived early and was already seated at our table, but didn’t stand up to greet me. He just stayed sitting down and blew me a kiss.

How was conversation?

Bit odd. He began with a long explanation of they’d offered to seat him in the bar but their stools were ‘ridiculous’ and he wasn’t ‘clambering up them like an angry monkey’. Which I was baffled by, until I dropped a breadstick and realised his feet weren’t touching the floor.

Memorable moments?

I asked him how tall he is and he broke down and admitted he’s five foot two. He could hardly deny it. He said he clicked the wrong number on the app