But what happened to our favourite couples?
Georgiana made her way back into Darcy’s good books by arranging for Elizabeth and him to go off to Fiji without Collins and Caroline.
From there, they traveled back to Boobie Hill, where Darcy stayed on his ‘parole’ for a week. Then after three months of long distance romance, Elizabeth moved to Sydney. She rented a small apartment and worked in a travel agent. Their romance continued.
Darcy finally managed to persuade her to move in with him, five months later. Then six more months passed before she said yes to his marriage proposal. The High and Mighty Darcy Junior didn’t make an appearance for yet another year, But the happy couple then had three more children. Not surprisingly, the nerdy scientist was extremely diligent in his research, planning and implementing an endless array of sexy games and role-plays to spice up their matrimonial love lives.
Bingley and Jane flew to Sydney after Fiji, where she
stayed there for three months before tying the knot. They had two children together.
Richard and Charlotte carried on a hot affair for about three months before they drifted apart.
As for Collins and Caroline, they eventually each found other targets to stalk, after four years.
Why so long?
It’s because Sexpert Challenge was a huge success for Lady C Productions. The show remained the top-rated program for Channel 12 over seven seasons. The saucy format and the successful romances of Bingley and Jane, as well as Darcy and Elizabeth, all contributed to the success of the show.
As for Collins and Caroline, they both gave up their old jobs and became an ‘odd couple’ who were invited to many comedy shows and events. They were so busy with their appointments that they didn’t have time to stalk.
One thing that continued to make Elizabeth and Darcy uncomfortable, however, was that every time they encountered Caroline, she would hint that Darcy had strange tastes in women, at which point she would attempt to console Elizabeth privately.
And what about our famous TV-industry couple? Lady C was very satisfied with Wickham’s performance, both on- and off-screen. She kept him with her for many years. But as she grew older, she became increasingly interested in S&M. Wickham tried to leave her several times, but his spending habits and sexual proclivities had become so dependent on her that he had to return, each time, after a few months of straying. In the end, he became the most infamous ‘boy toy’ in the industry.
Charmers In The Wallet
What if Mr. Darcy was a foul-mouthed chef?
“Jane, I want you to raise your bloody voice and give Lydia the shit! She’s late and she’s lazy. She cooks the crappiest oysters I have ever eaten. She skips out of the kitchen and flirts with all the male diners. Longbourn Restaurant will not survive another six weeks if you don’t begin acting like a boss,” Charles Bingley yelled at the top of his voice.
His furious expression made Jane Bennet burst into tears. She pulled open the back door and ran out of the kitchen.
He hurried after her. “Sorry, sweetie!” he called from the doorway. “I didn’t mean it. It’s only written in the script. You know Darce. He’s the opinionated one here. Jane, wait!” Charles took off his microphone and chased after her.
“Follow them!” Darcy yelled at the camera crew, the muttered, “Great!” sarcastically to himself and stormed off to the walk-in pantry to cool off, “Now we’ve lost the cast. I don’t want to be stuck here! I’ll die of frustration.” He sat down on a barrel of olive oil and dropped his head into his hands. He loved food and he loved the walk-in pantry. As a boy, he had often hidden in the pantry at Pemberley when he was chased by his cousin Richard.
Celebrity chef Charles Bingley was the face of “Heat Up the Kitchen Table,” but he was not the foul mouth personality he portrayed in front of the camera, a larger-than-life character who helped restaurant owners around the world to rescue their businesses. In reality, he was the forever cheerful man who was renowned for indecision.
The format and success of the show were due more to its quiet and insightful producer, William Darcy. Darcy was a successful businessman and media mogul with an arrogant and perfectionist attitude. He had scripted many of the initial controversial confrontations on camera which had served to launch Charles and the show into fame and win the hearts of struggling restaurant owners.
The crew of the popular television show was filming in Meryton, trying to rescue a family restaurant, Longbourn. It had quickly become apparent that head chef Jane Bennet was a doormat who let her sous-chef and youngest sister Lydia trample all over her.
In Darcy’s eyes, the mother and business manager, Fanny Bennet, was a nervous wreck who only wanted to marry off her daughters to any wealth patron who happened to pass through, and woman who should never have worked in a restaurant. She cried and screamed under the slightest pressure, as well as whenever she couldn’t get her own way from her husband. The head waitresses, Mary and Kitty Bennet, were forgetful and slack. The father hid in the upstairs office with his books all the time – not accounting books for the restaurant, but books from his personal library on philosophy and history. No wonder the restaurant was in dire need of a rescue.
The only person worth a glance was Elizabeth Bennet, the second eldest daughter. Actually, she was worth many glances. She had dark, curly hair, intelligent, bright eyes, witty conversation and a lovely smile, not to mention a body perfectly suited to his taste.
Darcy would never understand how Charles could prefer the skinny, willowy type like Jane. He himself was definitely a ‘meat’ lover who liked his woman voluptuous.
But Elizabeth didn’t work in Longbourn Restaurant. She was a chocolatier who owned and operated three shops called Pure Indulgence. Chocolate was Darcy’s weakness. And he had soon discovered that her chocolate was pure heaven. She had been using her profits to subsidize the ailing Longbourn for the past year, and it was she who had written to “Heat Up the Kitchen Table” to ask the show to help rescue the restaurant.
Darcy had met with Elizabeth several times before the shooting was due to begin. It wasn’t the norm, but Charles had fallen in love with his angel, Jane Bennet, immediately after meeting her, and so he had persuaded Darcy to come for the preshow meetings in Meryton, where he spent hours monopolizing Jane’s attention while Darcy and Elizabeth were left to “entertain” each other. Darcy thought that Elizabeth liked him. She certainly seemed to like to get a rise out of him in a sweet, arch way, always arguing with him about this and that, although never flaunting herself. And he had certainly been getting quite a rise every morning since he met her. She had been featured prominently in different positions in his erotic dreams for days, now.
The problem was that no woman in London, or anywhere else, had held any interest at all for him, since then. To be honest, he hadn’t been seriously interested in anyone since his father died. The occasional Friday night out wasn’t worth a mention.
Elizabeth was different. She tempted him too much and too fast. But he was a billionaire businessman with a family who relied on him and a self-made fortune. He had been chased by the most beautiful women in the world for years. He would not act on his infatuation yet, particularly not with a woman who had such a troublesome family.
That was why he had delayed the shooting at the Longbourn Restaurant for almost five months, distracting Charles with other urgent projects. Two weeks ago, however, Darcy’s and Elizabeth’s paths had crossed accidentally. He was attending a food and wine function in Kent with his cousin, only to discover that she was exhibiting her chocolate creations there. She was as tempting as her Pure Indulgence. And that blasted Richard had used every possible minute to flirt and chat her up. Darcy was green with jealousy and almost tongue-tied, at first. But he drew comfort from the fact that she kept talking and teasing him, despite Richard’s efforts to monopolize her.