Comedian Des Bishop has found love in China – after appearing on their version of Take Me Out.
The TV favourite – who recently learnt Mandarin over a year for RTE series Breaking China – was a big hit on the show which gets up to 40 million viewers.
The New York-born star, 38, went down a massive hit on the show, and bagged himself a date with Jin Li, 32.
Throughout the series, the sales assistant made it extremely clear she fancied him – even commenting on his long legs.
Breaking China: Des during his year in the country
Following the first round on the show just one of the 24 ladies on the panel turned their light off.
However Des – who previously dated model Jenny Lee Masterson, and was engaged to photographer Linda Brownlee – was accused of being a liar after insisting he has only ever been in love once.
But he was saved from embarrassment when it was pointed out he only thought there was one love worth mentioning – not that he’d only had one girlfriend.
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While on the show, Des bagged himself a trip to the Aegean Sea in Greece and admitted that pushing himself to so many viewers was his main reason for going on.
He said: “The reason I did another dating show in China is because this one can get up to 40 million viewers. And I won a trip to Greece!”
Speaking previously, Des admitted that after he went to China initially with RTE, he became totally obsessed with the county.
“I’d always been fascinated with China and when I broke up with my fiancée, not long after I finished filming In The Name Of The Fada, an entirely new life appeared before me,” he said.
Having the craic: Des on Chinese Take Me Out
“I’d already taken a few beginners classes in Mandarin in Dublin before I left for China. I couldn’t wait to road-test my new vocabulary when I got there but I’d overestimated what I’d learned because nobody understood a word I said.
“I became really obsessed and focused on improving to the point where I didn’t want to be in front of the camera because it meant having to speak English.
“I studied so hard for that initial two-month period, people were blown away by my progress. It was down to the fact I was obsessed.”
