Former pupil of Catmose College in Oakham on Channel 4’s First Dates

While Cormac Boylan might not have found true love on First Dates tonight (Friday, July 11), he did find the TV experience to his liking.

The former pupil of Catmose College in Oakham made his entrance to the restaurant in Bath where the programme is filmed wearing a faux-fur coat over a suit patterned with large red hearts.

And after being served a drink by bartender Merlin Griffiths (his unusual choices are green tea and Bailey’s), Cormac was ready for his date to arrive.

“I like an older woman up to the age of about 65, and Lorraine was like a very good-looking Bond girl,” said Cormac after the programme was recorded.

“She was the Rolls Royce of women.”

The 58-year-old and Cormac, 25, ‘got on well’, chatting at the bar, over dinner (they split the bill) and afterwards around the fire pit.

“Lorraine has her own business, and a new Range Rover and an Aston Martin, so we could talk ‘cars’,” added Cormac, who still lives in the Rutland area.

“But when it was over we decided just to be friends. With any relationship, you can usually tell if there’s the right spark.

“The date went really well and she is a fabulous lady, but I wasn’t sure that there was that spark between us.”

Although he didn’t find ‘the one’, Cormac found the experience of being on First Dates ‘fascinating’ and felt he was treated ‘exceptionally well’ by the team behind it.

“You meet so many people through doing something like this and I would love to go back on First Dates - but perhaps next time as a waiter,” he said.

“I would really encourage people to go on the show as it’s much more fun than dating apps, where you’re not sure what and who is real.

“I’m old fashioned and like to meet people properly, face to face.”

Cormac, who has owned cars that include Rolls Royces, snooker legend Willie Thorne’s Chrysler, and a Sinclair C5, is a hospital radio DJ at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham.

He applied to go on First Dates after seeing an Instagram post about it, and was phoned by a programme producer who then asked him along for filming.

Cormac’s episode of First Dates screened on Friday, July 11 and is now available on catchup TV.