When a girl does get a date, you want to make sure she is treated well...

DEFINITELY at home, the kids in bed, telly on and probably watching something like I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! with my wife on the couch. WHAT’S amazing about Take Me Out is we’ve had seven engagements, five weddings – soon to be six – and three kids.

It’s unbelievable. As well as being an entertainment show, people get married and go on to have families... all from meeting on a TV show. IT REMINDS me of shows I used to watch as a kid, like the Generation Game that you could watch with your parents.

Take Me Out has the same sensibility.

Students will watch it, your aunties and uncles, nans, grandads, mums, dads and kids.

It goes right across the board and I think that’s why it does so well. IT SEEMS to be more of a business now, everywhere you look there’s a dating app or a dating website.

One thing I’m proud of with Take Me Out is not only the success it’s had around the world, but also that we’ve put dating shows back into people’s consciousness. ‘couple’ works is because Peter and Sian are really good friends and that relationship comes through on-screen. If Peter did this show with an actress he’d never met before, it wouldn’t be half of what it is now.

I actually did my first ever kissing scene on telly with Sian. It was in Phoenix Nights.

We were both so nervous and I just remember thinking ‘This is the least erotic thing I’ve ever done.’