Couch nights to date nights

The tables have turned for new Bachelorette Angie Kent, who is putting viewer opinion aside in her search for love, writes

ANGIE Kent isn’t afraid to admit being the Bachelorette looked a lot easier from the comfort of her couch.

The former Gogglebox star says she’s putting her “bogan” self out there for all to see in the hopes sparks will fly.

“I wish I could go back in time and slap Angie on the couch four years ago and say, ‘Don’t you judge them’,” she tells The Guide.

“I’m assuming a bit of karma will come my way. I spent four years thinking I was safe from my couch.

“As long as people are laughing, even if it’s at me, I don’t care.”

Mskentwas still riding the high of her stint in the jungle on I’m a Celebrity when she was approached to be Australia’s next Bachelorette.

“I was fresh from the jungle and I thought that I could do absolutely anything,” she says.

“Iwas high on life – the happiest I’d ever been. As soon as I landed back in Australia, Ten asked me to come in for a meeting and they asked, ‘ Do you want this?’ I said, ‘Really? Me? Did you not just watch me in the jungle? I was disgusting’. I just took it as a sign.”

Fans will see a more vulnerable side to the bubbly, dog-loving Sunshine Coast native.

“I don’t thinkmy friends or family have seen me this vulnerable,” she says.

“I hate hurting people’s feelings, but for once inmy life I putmyself first.

“I really put my all into this. I think people will be quite excited, shocked and surprised to see how invested I really am. People think that it’s fake – it’s not. Your feelings are full-on.”

Likemany fans of the reality TV franchise, Ms Kent was happy to