Apprentice star Stuart Baggs is back on TV next week - appearing in a second Isle of Man serving of Come Dine With Me.
Telecoms entrepreneur Stuart will be shown competing against four other budding chefs for the £1,000 prize in the hit Channel 4 show that will be broadcast at 5pm every weekday from Monday.
Filming took place in the island back in March.
Stuart, founder of BlueWave Communications, said: ‘I’d completely forgotten about it - it happened so long ago. It was great fun. I’m a terrible cook!
‘You’ve only got to make one slip up and that makes it into the edit - that’s how TV works.
‘It’s a bit different filming the show in the island. You know everyone will be watching it, everybody will be talking about it. So we tried to present a united front - that lasted until the taxi ride home the first night!
‘I started from a position of being hated so the others had further to fall!’
Fellow contestant Manx NFU Mutual account manager Justine Gaisford-Martin said: ‘I’m absolutely dreading it being on TV! I enjoyed it but it was really tiring - it started at 5.30pm each night and didn’t finish until 3.30 to 4am.’
Retired gardener Eva Sanders, 66, who moved to the island 12 years ago from Orpington in Kent, said: ‘We didn’t know it was coming on until a friend told us she’d seen something on Twitter.
‘I don’t want to see myself on TV. I enjoyed doing it very, very much. They were interesting people, all extroverts. They’ve all come round for dinner here since with the exception of Stuart whose always very busy. I love cooking - it’s my hobby.’
Also competing was Rich Ashcroft, who runs the Patchwork Cafe in Port St Mary, said: ‘What I learned - apart from the fact that Manx hospitality is alive and well - is to keep menus simple.
‘Don’t skimp on providing your guests with plenty of wine. Don’t go posh, unless you can pull it off with aplomb.
‘And, if you appear on reality television edits of your ‘magical moments’ will be instantly accessible on the internet for an unspecified period of time (probably forever).
‘Finally, if someone gives you a tongue in cheek nickname, be sure the ask them why – but only after the camera has stopped rolling!’
The island episodes start on Monday with Michelle Crellin of the Ballachurry Riding School in St Jude’s serving up a country themed menu of game pie for main, and home grown rhubarb on sponge for dessert.
Irishman Sean O’Connell won the top prize of £1,000 when the show first came to the Isle of Man in 2011.