A 26-year-old from Newport, who is Britain's youngest undertaker, is hoping to find love on a new TV dating show. Rachael Ryan made headlines in 2011 when we announced that she was Britain's youngest embalmer at the age of just 16. Eleven years on, Rachael still works in her family business and has her eyes set on love as she appears on Oti Mabuse's new ITV dating series Romeo & Duet.
And it's not Rachael's first foray into television, as a BBC Three documentary covered her family's funeral business in 2011. She became involved in the profession when she was 13 and although she mainly helped with clerical duties then, she is now a fully-fledged funeral director and says that she is well-known in the role in both Cardiff and Newport.
On Saturday, May 21, she will appear on Romeo & Duet where contestants have to perform one song to entice a singleton down from a balcony and meet face-to-face. The newly-formed couple will then head off on a "duet-date" to learn a song together, before returning later in the show to perform that number in a singing competition against the other couples. The studio audience then votes the winning couple for each episode.
