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A TV channel in the UK is under fire from members of the public for one of its programmes that the lives of couples with a big age difference. Viewers have the Channel 5 series Age Gap Love of "normalising grooming". The complaints after a show that the relationship of a couple who together when the man was 44 and his partner was 16. The man was originally a friend of the 16-year-old's mother. He friendly with the daughter when she was a child and dating her when she 16. After this episode was aired, the channel a flood of complaints from viewers who slammed the show for "making this concept normal".

The couple in the show are married and two children. He is now 47 and she is 19. The man said: "I was concerned what people would . It's a big gap. It's a generation gap. So it's like, what are people to think?" His wife also about the relationship. She said: "The age doesn't really me. It never has done. I don't see him as an old man, or my dad, or anything like that. He's just sensitive - like a big teddy bear." She : "I've always to have a family, so I just he would be the perfect man." Life has not been easy for the couple. When they first dating, they received a lot of abuse from neighbours and the local community and had to to another city.