00:01Take three couples who love to entertain
00:03Where's the number of the fire brigade when you need it?
00:06Ask each pair to throw a dinner party for their rivals
00:08I'm not bothered now. I'm not bothered.
00:10No, no, you are bothered because you're not going to be a quitter.
00:14And get them to score each other in secret.
00:16I didn't like the main that much, but love the pudding, so...
00:20Two out of three.
00:21Today...
00:22Hi, guys!
00:23Age-defying...
00:25Botox, fillers, you name it, I have it.
00:27Might have borrowed a little bit of cream last night.
00:28I'd love denying.
00:30The first day we actually met, I knew we'd got to be together.
00:33If it was never at first sight, I just think, no, that's rubbish.
00:35It needs to relax a bit and lighten up a bit.
00:37As the couples compete to win a £1,000 prize...
00:40You do as you're told or you're out the door and in the garden shed,
00:43so it's one way or the other.
00:50Today on Couples Come Dine With Me, we're in Nottinghamshire,
00:53where legendary outlaw...
00:56...Robin Hood lived with Maid Marian.
00:59He doesn't steal from the rich, but 42-year-old construction manager Kev
01:03does give his cash to a worthy cause.
01:05Oh, dear.
01:06His fair maiden, 22-year-old trainee hairdresser Chelsea.
01:09You earn it, I spend it.
01:11You certainly do.
01:12Kev will normally give me his card,
01:15and he'll give me, like, a bit of a limit.
01:17Sometimes I exceed the limit, sometimes I don't.
01:19If this was Walt Disney, you would be hitting the face with her nose by now,
01:23because it would be Pinocchio.
01:24Chelsea's not going to let the small matter of a 20-year age gap get in the way.
01:29Oh!
01:29I'd rather you than me.
01:31He might be, like, older than me, but he's like Peter Pan.
01:33He won't ever grow up, and we sort of, like, meet in the middle,
01:37because I'm older for my age, and he's a lot younger for his age.
01:39We just seem to click.
01:40I am rescinding.
01:42I am rescinding back to the womb.
01:45Chelsea's cooking the first dish today,
01:46with Kev apparently assisting.
01:48Get your finger in there and, like, smear it off.
01:51Haven't we got a brush?
01:51Just mine up, Kev.
01:52Don't like it.
01:54I seem to always be doing cakes and always be doing sweet things.
01:57She'll do a mean Victoria sponge,
01:59and the boys at work absolutely crave it.
02:03So, kicking off with dessert for the boys and girls tonight,
02:07it's Chelsea's very own creation, Deconstructed Cherry Bakewell.
02:11It just means you've dropped it on the floor.
02:13It could mean that.
02:14You've swept up.
02:16Swept it up, and here it is. Enjoy.
02:18Introducing our second couple, 43-year-old P.A. Louise
02:21and 42-year-old IT analyst Mark.
02:24I see. Go on, go on, go on.
02:27Oh! Unlucky.
02:28They first met 20 years ago, but things didn't quite work out.
02:31We both went our separate ways.
02:34Why was that?
02:35Because you were irritating and wound me up all the time.
02:37Been harsh, Louise.
02:40Ease it.
02:40Oh, shut up. Ease it.
02:42Loser.
02:42Or maybe not.
02:43Even so, they reconnected a year ago when Mark asked her out.
02:46I just thought, well, this date, you know.
02:51And it's quite nice.
02:52You're getting older, you're getting older.
02:53It's a bit of a dish.
02:54I didn't think any of that.
02:56I just thought, I haven't had a date in about, I don't know, three or four years.
03:01Oh, thank you.
03:02You asked, so I said yes.
03:04Simple as that, really.
03:06True love.
03:07Right.
03:08In the kitchen, Chelsea's making a frangipan sponge mix by adding eggs to caster sugar and butter.
03:14Is that greased enough?
03:16That's perfect, Cad.
03:16Well done.
03:17What else?
03:18I'm getting bored.
03:19Oh, I like Cherry Bigwell.
03:20They're the ones with the little cherry on top, aren't they?
03:22Yeah, this is a bit deconstructed, so it might not have the cherry on top.
03:24I don't mind.
03:29Completing today's line-up, professional 1940s entertainers, 38-year-old Jane and her partner, 31-year-old Welshman Ricky.
03:38I think our passion for kind of the 1940s, and in particular the music, it's a big, massive part of
03:44our life, is the music.
03:46It is, yes.
03:46It's sort of like a heartbeat between us.
03:48I don't need to be a mother to me.
03:51Nice meeting a man who likes musicals as well.
03:54That was a thirst for me, yeah.
03:56And he likes Barry Minor Low too.
03:57Shh!
03:58Yes, shh, Jane.
03:59Back with the hosts and Chelsea's sifting in ground almonds and adding a squeeze of vanilla extract.
04:05In goes a splash of milk, then flour.
04:07No, you've really got to get some action in there.
04:10Why haven't we got a whisk?
04:12Why have we got to do everything like it's, you know, prehistoric?
04:16I'll do it.
04:17You do it.
04:19It tastes nice.
04:21See? Lumps disappeared.
04:23All right, cool.
04:24Good old-fashioned elbow grease, Kev.
04:26The mix goes in to bake and Chelsea will finish her Bakewells tonight.
04:30Onwards, and Kev's sharpening up his act.
04:32Time for the main.
04:36It's steak and chips, served with a port and Stilton sauce.
04:41Apart from the Stilton sauce, that sounds stunning.
04:45Wow, look at that.
04:47Money's in the bag.
04:49And now Kev's in his element.
04:51It's fantastic at steak.
04:53It does it better than some restaurants.
04:55Some, some restaurants?
04:57All the restaurants!
04:59Such modesty!
05:00Such modesty!
