Jessy thought she was seeing double when she arrived for her blind date, which screened on TVNZ's reality show First Dates NZ last night.
But it wasn't her eyesight that was the problem: Joel had bought his twin brother Nathan along for the night.
"I'm so surprised, I'm so confused,I think I'll definitely need a drink for this one," said Jesse as she sat down at the bar next to the Dunedin farmers.
"I really hope I'm not dating two boys at the same time. It's not really something that I could handle."
Jessy had already admitted that she was looking to settle down at the ripe old age of 20.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with settling down young. I would much rather be at home, cooking and cleaning and looking after children, than going out and getting a career," she said.
"I see a lot of happiness in settling down so of course I want to bring that into my life as soon as I can."
But she was still seeing double until the ruse was explained - she had to guess which of the twins she was actually going to have dinner with.
"I'm going to go with Joel," she said hopefully, as the maître d' told her she was right.
"So it's just us having dinner tonight?"
Turned out Nathan was waiting for his own blind date - Kapiti Coast virgin Kimre, 23.
"I am a virgin, and I'm not going to give that up for any guy. He has to prove himself to me, that he wants to stick around and care for me," she said, admitting she'd recently been dumped.
Despite struggling through an awkward dinner punctuated by stilted conversation, Nathan thought he'd become lucky in love.
"We got on really well, she's a lovely girl, really good looking," he said after their date.
Nathan and Joel on First Dates NZ.
But Kimre had to let Nathan down carefully. "He didn't look me in the eyes that much," she complained, calling him a cool guy but suggesting they were just friends.
"I didn't tick the boxes?" asked Nathan after being dumped.
"You tick boxes, there just wasn't a spark," she replied.
His brother had better luck, with Jessy admitting she'd like to see him again.
