You might not have met them in person, but if you've watched Channel 4's hit programme Gogglebox anytime in the last few years, Steph and Dom have already welcomed you into their lives.
The show brings us into the living rooms of a number of real British families as they watch and discuss the latest TV happenings.
Steph and Dom Parker are the delightfully posh B&B owners whose eccentric behaviour has made them beloved among TV viewers across the UK. Since the show began in 2013, they have appeared, usually with a drink in hand and pet dog Gigi nearby, to give their opinions on all the latest and greatest television.
One memorable episode even saw UKIP leader Nigel Farage pay a visit to the B&B and stop for a chat.
The always outrageous couple appeared on Moncrieff ahead of their new book Steph and Dom's Guide to Life, which looks back on their almost two decade-long relationship.
The first met - or so they thought - on a blind date arranged by mutual friends who had been trying to get them together for a year.
Knowing that Steph had a thing for ginger beards, Dom's friend made some makeshift facial hair from joke shop hairy hands - and it seemed to do the trick. "It was love at first sight," she says. "A cracking evening," according to Dom.
But it hadn't been the first time they had met, as they soon realised. 10 years earlier, when Dom had been running a cottage rental business in New Forest, Steph rented a house on his estate. She describes him arriving in a white Range Rover, green moleskine trousers and brown suede shoes, while she was driving a Mini Cooper, wearing "almost homemade dresses."
She gave him the cold shoulder at the time, but things went differently the second time around.
"At last I found the guy, there he is," she thought. "Lets just get on with life now."
Though visibly (and audibly) delighted in each other's company, both are happy to sleep in separate rooms. Steph calls it "fundamental to any relationship," and Dom admits to "snoring like an elephant."
"There's nothing worse than being woken up half way through with no one getting any sleep," he says.
The TV stars also spoke about the importance of taking on one another's families. "When you meet the parents... there's a sort of interview process," says Steph, who added that one couple usually gets the better deal when it comes to parents.
Dom gave a slightly different take on the importance of meeting the parents: "From the male point of view, you've got to check out the mother. Because the chances are the girl is going to end up looking a bit like the mother."
"And if the mother is sort of deteriorated, you've got to take that on board," he said, clarifying that Steph's mother is "stunning."
Neither have tried to change the other during their 17-year marriage.
From the moment we got together it's been a a little bit mad and bonkers, and a lot of giggling and laughing. He's still an idiot and there's not much I can do about it," says Steph.
Dom agrees completely:
"I think its a big mistake a lot of people make - 'I'd like to make you a little more this or a little more that' - and that's not what attracted you together in the first place. The key is to don't change."
Though rarely stuck for words, the couple found the prospect of writing a book "daunting," and struggled to give it a sense of structure.
Playing on their strengths, they decided to record themselves speaking and have their conversations dictated. An audio book features the couple themselves riffing on the content of the books.
The process of producing the books has "tightened up" their marriage, they say, and has given them time to reflect on their years together.
"It's a bit like going through the wedding album through all the years, but it's been mentally rather than visually," says Dom.
You can listen to the full interview with the Gogglebox stars below:
