Doncaster man to star on new TV dating show Five Guys A Week this week

Lou Humphreys, 29, will feature in Five Guys A Week – a dating show with a difference as one woman plays host to a bevy of men in her own home.

The show will see a different woman invite five men into her own home each week where she will get to know them all at the same time.

While there, the guys will do everything with her, including going for dinner with her friends, meeting family, going to work – and every day, the woman has to eliminate a different man until there’s one left, who she claims to be her perfect match.

Lou, 29, a plasterer from Hatfield, filmed the show last year and has had to wait more than a year until its broadcast.

He said: “I just applied never thinking I’d ever get on with all them beautiful lads out there but I got picked and smashed it.”

Filming took place in Halifax and he added: “I am not saying anything more but I did really well.”

Gilly Greenslade, Factual Entertainment Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 said: “This simple format goes well beyond the realm of a traditional dating show, exploring what people actually want from their partners as well as offering a revealing – and sometimes surprising - insight into the male psyche.”

The series is described as an antidote to traditional dating shows, offering the ultimate test of romance, compatibility and stamina by providing one singleton with five trial live-in boyfriends for a week – all at the same time.

The format fast-tracks the ‘getting to know you’ phase of a relationship and gives the dater a unique opportunity to compare and contrast five suitors in real time.

The new series of Five Guys a Week will air on Channel 4 this Friday from 10pm when viewers will be able to find out how Lou gets on in his search for romance on the small screen.