Millie Ford lands blind date after spider ‘meltdown’ appeal on Today

A single woman from Sydney has detailed the unexpected turn of events after she went viral for her terrifying encounter with a huge spider.

A single Sydney woman has landed a date after she went on national television and made an appeal for a “country bloke”.

Millie Ford appeared on the Today Show after a video of her having a “meltdown” about a “ginormous” spider in her home went viral.

In the clip, Ford issued a call-out for help removing the creepy crawly from her apartment, a role which was eventually fulfilled by her friend Nikki Potter.

But after appearing on the popular morning show, host Karl Stefanovic determined Ford was “lame” for struggling to deal with the spider, and suggested she needed a “good country bloke”.

Millie Ford has revealed the unexpected way she landed a date with a ‘country bloke’. Picture: TikTok/MillieFord

The social media star had previously gone viral with a video revealing her horror at discovering a huntsman in her home. Picture: TikTok/MillieFord

Ford, who took Stefanovic’s joke in her stride, has since revealed the call-out worked, recently sharing the details of her blind date on TikTok.

“Nikki received a DM from a man who said ‘she’s hot, can you set us up?’. Not even kidding,” Ford explained to her 1.5 million followers.

“And now I am going on a date with a random stranger.

“To be honest, I am just going on the date because it’s a funny story, but maybe he’ll be really weird?”

As a result, Ford was invited on the Today Show, where Karl Stefanovic determined she needed a ‘country bloke’ and issued a call-out. Picture: TikTok/MillieFord

The TikToker jumped on board with the joke, and encouraged country men to reach out. Picture: TikTok/MillieFord

Ford then went on to explain the blind date was a “country boy” who has a “good sense of humour”, stating: “So if anything, I think we’ll be having a laugh.”

The pair headed to North Bondi Fish, however their date didn’t go to plan.

“As I pulled up I was starting to feel a bit sick [from nerves],” she explained.

“But then guess who I see sitting there?

“Some friends were having dinner and they were watching me, so yeah, he met some friends on the first date.”

The plea was successful, with Ford heading on a date with a ‘total stranger’. Picture: TikTok/MillieFord

She credited her ‘spider meltdown’ for landing her a date. Picture: TikTok/MillieFord

While her budding romance with the unknown country boy is “to be continued”, Ford appeared less than impressed with Stefanovic’s comments that drew them together.

“For some reason, they [the Today Show] thought it was going to be a funny news story, but basically it was just Karl Stefanovic telling us that we were lame,” she said.

Potter had documented heading to Ford’s house during her meltdown, eventually catching the huntsman for her friend, and releasing it back into the wild.

“She’s not small,” Potter explains in a separate video, before capturing the critter in a plastic container.

“If you look really close, you can see the fangs.”

People agreed finding a huntsman in your home is 'traumatic’. Picture: TikTok/MillieFord

The dramatic scenes filmed inside Ford’s apartment attracted an avalanche of sympathy among followers, with many declaring the social media star was “not alone” in her fear.

“The gagging is exactly what I do when I see a spider,” one wrote.

“You’d have to tranquillise me,” another said.

As one international viewer declared: “I honestly don’t know how ppl in Australia even get any sleep.”

Others simply labelled the situation “traumatic” and “disgusting”, adding they’d lose sleep if a spider that “huge” was in their home.

“My toes have curled back inside my body,” one wrote.

“Nope. This phobia is so real it numbs me to my core.”