00:00So we applied for Open House, The Great Sex Experiment, kind of on a whim actually.
00:05We got in after a night out and we'd been open for probably a few months, was it?
00:10A couple of months at this point.
00:11Yeah, a few months before that. And Joe one morning was like,
00:14oh well, when we got in from the pub last night, I've applied for this show.
00:18I was like, what?
00:19And then completely forgot about it for maybe a year.
00:22By the time Channel 4 got back to us and they asked us if we would like to be
00:29residents and not guests as the original application stated.
00:35It was probably one of the greatest experiences ever doing the show.
00:38Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
00:39Yeah. And even though Series 3 is probably one of the most explicit yet,
00:43what went on behind closed doors was even more explicit.
00:47I wish they showed that on TV.
00:49So as part of the application process,
00:51we were told that we kind of had to tell our friends and family,
00:55just there's more of a duty of care, I think, as to us as applicants to the show.
00:59Obviously, naturally, we did. We told Joe's mum actually at the zoo on a family day out.
01:04Yeah, we were at the zoo on a family day out and had that conversation with my mum about
01:09how open our relationship is and that we were going on the programme.
01:14Yeah, I think a little bit of shock, but followed up with a lot of support.
01:19And yeah, all of our parents are totally fine with what we do,
01:23as long as we're happy and yeah, they're really supportive of us.
01:27In fact, my mum and stepdad watched it and I think my stepdad was like that.
01:31But my mum said, yeah, she's proud of how we both came across, didn't she?
01:35Yeah.
01:35A highlight for me, I think, was meeting everybody involved with the programme.
01:41All the other residents, absolutely fantastic people.
01:43Production.
01:43The production were amazing and getting to meet a new couple
01:50every other day was a really good opportunity.
01:53Yeah, and people from all walks of life as well.
01:55There was no real set formula for who was on the show as residents or guests this year.
02:00And I think that's really shone through,
02:02at least in the first few episodes that we've seen.
02:04And I can't wait to watch more of them.
02:06Yeah.
02:06There wasn't really any low points on the show, I don't think.
02:08The whole experience was really fun.
02:10I don't think there was anything that I was like,
02:13whoa, that's an uncomfortable situation, I think.
02:17It was a learning curve.
02:19We grew closer together.
02:20Our relationship expanded.
02:24And yeah, I wouldn't say there was any low points at all.
02:27So when I think about me before and after the show,
02:30they're two quite different people.
02:31I was always quite camera shy, maybe, you know,
02:35not quite as you would think I was in episode one or two before the show.
02:41But now, I mean, I still work full time, but I also couldn't give a proverbial of what
02:46people think of what we do, who we are.
02:48We kind of, we never really gave much of a, to what people thought before.
02:54But now, since we've been on the show, that's really, really even more intensified, isn't it?
03:01But as, you know, the experiment goes on and you're exposed to the cameras every day,
03:07you get used to them being there.
03:09And it's not all, when you're on set filming, it's not all cameramen walking around with big rigs.
03:16It's stationary cameras that are manned from a control room.
03:20Particularly in the yurt.
03:21Just to clarify, there weren't cameramen in that room.
03:23Yeah.
03:24There were mobile cameras.
03:26So yeah.
03:27You get used to the cameras pretty quickly, don't you?
03:29Yeah.
03:30We keep in contact with pretty much all of the other residents.
03:34We have about 10 group chats on WhatsApp with everybody, which is quite a lot to keep on top of.
03:43No pun intended.
03:46But yeah, I mean, even the guest couples, we keep in contact with quite regularly, don't we?
03:53Yeah, we met up actually with a guest couple straight after the show.
03:56We went to a local venue for the lifestyle with them.
04:01And that was nice to see them outside of the show.
04:03But yeah, I mean, as for our wedding, that's going to be pretty much 50% of the guest list,
04:08I think, is open house residents.
04:12Our immediate plans are we're going to get married in about a month's time.
04:15Yeah.
04:16Actually in this very garden.
04:18So yeah, checking out the wedding venue.
04:22Other than that, we're going on honeymoon to Koh Samoye,
04:24and we've got a few parties planned with some of the other guests and residents we met on the show.
04:30Yeah.
04:30So lots of fun this summer.
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