Muslim bachelor, 29, who plastered himself on billboards to find a wife gets 2,000 responses – and will use a spreadsheet to whittle down the candidates by age, location, and personality (but not looks)

Mohammad Malik, 29, took the bold step of picturing himself lying down on huge hoardings across the city with the words, ‘Save me from an arranged marriage’.

He also set up a website ‘Findmailkawife.com’ in order to catch the eye of a potential partner.

Since news of his unusual love search broke, more than 1,000 hopefuls have contacted him via his website.

And another 1,000 or so have slipped into his Instagram, Twitter and Facebook DMs. Mohammad, an innovation consultant and entrepreneur, told Radio Five Live how he intends to sort through the avalanche of interest.

Mohammad said he has enlisted a few friends to create spreadsheets and will then ‘audit’ his way through all the messages. The columns will include age, location (ideally UK), hobbies and personality type but said he would not focus so much on looks.

He said: ‘I am really pleased, I am overwhelmed actually with the responses.

‘There’s been over a thousand responses now on the official channel which is the website but then even more responses, even more than a thousand through Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and social media and stuff like that. It’s a nice surprise.’

And any meetings between suitors will take place in real life in the coming weeks.

He said: ‘Maybe the week after, we will start getting those meetings in.’

Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, he added: ‘I am definitely not against arranged marriages – it is quite a tongue-in-cheek thing to say.

‘I think it is a 100 per cent legitimate way to find somebody but I thought let me have a crack at something else first.

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