“If we can be the new gay Posh and Becks, we’re down for it,” says Ollie King, the cheeky, moustached tarmacer from Brighton who memorably made history this year as a cast member on I Kissed a Boy, the UK’s first-ever gay dating series.

Hosted by Dannii Minogue, the BBC series was met with overwhelming acclaim over its depiction of the queer male experience and for reinvigorating new life into the reality dating genre. Following the reunion, it was confirmed that Ollie and Dan Harry, the duo known for their raunchy shower antics, were the only couple whose relationship survived post-Masseria.

Dan, a PR from London and fellow member of the burgeoning community of moustached gays, says: “Something that comes across in the show from Ollie and I’s relationship is that there’s a lot of sexual chemistry. That is absolutely the case, but it’s so much deeper than that. The emotional connection is what drove us together and kept us together over the last eight months.”

Here, Ollie and Dan speak with GAY TIMES about their ‘mischievous’ time on the historic series, how I Kissed a Boy ‘represented a queer utopia’ and how it could “go even further” in a potential second season.

GT: How has life been for you both, post-Masseria?

Ollie: The love that we have both received… Even yesterday, for instance, we popped in a shop in Brighton and the owner said, ‘My husband’s a massive fan and so am I.’ It’s beautiful to see, people’s faces light up when they clock us. It was just a gay holiday for us, and it’s impacted so many people. The love has been astonishing and we’re both super grateful for it.

Dan: Let’s go back and rewind. We spent one more night in the Masseria after filming wrapped, so no more recording, and that was the night where me and Ollie were more cuddly in bed. The next day, we got our phones back and that was when the whole realisation happened, about how we knew each other. We were standing in the queue for the plane, I was putting Ollie’s number into my phone and I just started going, ‘OH MY GOD!’

Ollie: You’d think he’d just met Elton John.

Dan: And Ollie was freaking out. He started panicking.

Ollie: I was like, ‘Oh no, don’t tell me I’ve sent nudes to his best mate.’

Dan: Basically, all the pictures that we’d sent to each other months prior…