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Nigel Farage: the politician with the pint, the fag and the... reality TV star? The Londoner hears that the Ukip leader recently made a surprise appearance at a country pub in Kent. At his heels was a documentary film crew, but leading the way was none other than Gogglebox’s Dom Parker.

Steph and Dom, affectionately known as “the posh couple”, are two of the breakout stars of the Bafta-winning Channel 4 show. The Kent-based couple run The Salutation, an upmarket B&B, and it was around the corner from there — at The George and Dragon Inn — that our country spy spotted the politician and the “posh one”.

“Dom brought Farage in to meet all the locals,” says our inside man in Sandwich. “It looked like they’d already had one or two drinks — Dom kept introducing him to people by asking if they’d like to meet ‘my mate Davey Cameron?’ Farage took it all in very good humour.”

The two gents then proceeded to get down to the serious business of drinking — “They must have knocked back at least three pints each in less than an hour” — before disappearing off in the direction of Dom’s B&B, TV crew in tow.

Farage has good reason for wanting to make inroads with the Kentish locals. He recently told The Andrew Marr Show that there was a “distinct possibility” that he would run for the Kent seat of Thanet South at the next General Election, despite having lost when he stood for the same constituency in 2005.

And what about Steph and Dom? The new season of Gogglebox doesn’t start filming until September. Is this proof that the posh couple are getting their own spin-off show?

“We’re exploring avenues,” said a Channel 4 spokesperson. “Nothing is fully confirmed as yet.”