A Kirk Michael resident is due to hit our TV screens as part of a new Channel 4 programme.

Liam Rice, aged 24, has taken part in a programme called A Year to Fall in Love, which looks at the challenges of dating in modern Britain.

The ManxSPCA worker is one of 20 people who have documented their personal dating lives to give an insight into what it is like to find love in this day and age.

On a Twitter post, Liam wrote: ’Finally!!! I am so excited yet nervous to announce that I have been filming for Channel 4 for over a year.

’The show is called A Year to Fall in Love and I was given a camera and I filmed my dating life for the entire duration of 2017!!’

A Year to Fall in Love will be featured at 10pm on Tuesday (June 19) as a single film.

It will later be available on All 4 as a series.

The series will appear here: www.channel4.com/programmes/a-year-to-fall-in-love.

Lucy Leveugle, commissioning editor for Factual Entertainment at Channel 4, said: ’By filming themselves, our 20 very engaging contributors offer an honest, unvarnished look at dating - from social media hook-ups to pub meets, falling in love to break-ups - told from their points of views.’

Liam has previously appeared in our papers after he reached online fame for a photoset he had posted on Twitter of himself and his dog, Luna, showing near identical expressions. They are pictured right with one of the images.

Isle of Man Newspapers had also written about the pair after they came across a giant deer skeleton in October last year, which was thought to be more than 10,000 years old.