Honesty will take you a long way to making an impression on your first date.
But there are some things you probably should keep to yourself.
If only someone had mentioned that to Sefer Calinak, a 62-year-old man looking for a wife on a TV dating show in Turkey.
Calinak stunned the host and studio audience after revealing that he had murdered his first wife and later killed a lover with an ax during an argument, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reports.
He made the shocking revelation while appearing this week on Flash TV’s “The Luck of The Draw,” adding he is now an “honest person looking for a new wife.”
Calinak said he eloped with his wife — who also happened to be his cousin — when they were both 17 after her family tried to force her to marry a widower.
He said his relationship with his wife took a turn for the worse after they lived with his family for five months.
“Her behavior changed. The nephew of the man who wanted to marry her started to come to our village. I was jealous and I killed her, in a way,” Calınak said, according to the newspaper.
Calinak said he was freed in an amnesty after serving more than four years of a 13-year prison term.
The convicted murderer remarried and had two children but separated and started an affair with a married woman.
He said he killed his lover, Coquette, during an argument over her refusal to leave her husband for him.
“I killed her after she tried to kill me,” he said.
“She was accidentally killed when I swung the ax.”
This time he spent six years in jail before he was freed in another amnesty.
The show’s host asked Calinak to leave, but he insisted he was a victim of “destiny.”
“Bad luck always found me,” he said.
“Despite everything, I still want to get married. This time I’ll leave it to God.”
The show’s producer, Gozde Kurt, told the daily Milliyet newspaper Calinak acknowledged his dark past before going on the show but was allowed on because he had served his sentence and was a free man.
This article originally appeared on News.com.au.