A WEST Devon couple are set to hit the screens showing off their culinary skills — and their home — on national television in the summer. Tavistock couple Jade Eales, 21 and fiancé Seb Krotke, 27, were recently filmed for the new series of popular Channel 4 programme Come Dine With Me — a show where strangers compete for the title of ultimate dinner party host. Jade said they applied for the show after seeing an advertisement for couples in the local area being encouraged to sign up. They were filmed for a showreel and were asked questions about their relationship so producers could see their personalities and how they interacted as a couple. They weren't chosen at first but a couple pulled out at the last minute and they got a call asking them to be involved. 'We got a phone call to say that they loved us and that they wanted us to be on it,' said Jade: 'Then a taxi came to pick us up that day to start filming. The other couples had about a month to prepare — we only had one night.' The couple cooked skewered tiger king prawns to start, tenderloin pork joint for a main, and a chocolate gooey pudding in a cup for dessert. 'I used my grandmother's antique teacups for the pudding so I had to keep checking on them in the oven, hoping they wouldn't break.' Jade, who works at Angus McPhie optometrists in Tavistock, and Seb, who works for his father at an off-licence in Plymouth, were the youngest couple to be involved, the other two couples involved were aged between 30 and 60 and from Liskeard and Ugborough. The show sees the couples visit each others houses for a dinner party and at the end of the evening the hosts are given marks out of ten by the guests. 'The first night, the hosts had a middle eastern theme which I really enjoyed,' said Jade. 'One night we had mussels which I don't like and Seb had to eat cous cous, which he doesn't like — he's a really fussy eater.' For their dinner party, Jade and Seb shared all the cooking equally. Anyone who watches the programme will know that as part of the show, guests are allowed to nose around the hosts house to find out more about them. 'They went rummaging through our drawers! They found the X-rays of when Seb broke his leg last year and we told the story of how he learned to cook.' Jade said she was originally the cook in the house until Seb broke his leg and couldn't work. She was working two jobs and Seb learned how to cook, starting with a basic fried egg working up to full meals, as a way to treat her after a long day. Jade and Seb said they 'absolutely loved' being a part of the show. The couple with the most points after all dinner parties are crowned the winners, and receive £1,000 as a prize, but it will be a couple of months before the show is aired and it is revealed how Jade and Seb got on, due to the editing process, but the programme should be on screens in July.
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