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A Port Douglas couple is laying their relationship bare for all to see on Channel 7’s latest reality TV show The Super Switch.

Lachlan Petch, 27, and Miranda Van Lieshout, 24, agreed to work through their relationship problems by taking part in the controversial show.

In the show, one half of each of the couples live in an experimental relationship with a total stranger.

Unlike the previous versions of the show, the Seven Year Switch, the new Seven Studio production sees couples split into two mansions.

Lachlan and Miranda moved to Port Douglas from Victoria almost two years ago when Lachlan was offered a position playing AFL for the Port Douglas Crocs.

They have both settled into the town with Lachlan working at BH Electrics and Miranda continuing studying design while working at a local design studio.

They agreed to take part in the show after the suggestion was first made as a joke between them.

“It started off as a joke really; I was trying to get up Miranda a bit but then they (Channel 7) made contact with us it made us both think maybe we could benefit from it,” Lachlan said.

“Initially I was a bit shocked and then all of a sudden became serious,” Miranda said.

“I thought maybe it could make us a lot stronger if we can get through something like this.

“I was apprehensive at the start and didn’t want to be involved and thought it would be negative but the more we talked about it the better the opportunity seemed for us.”

The show has aired two episodes so far with the third set to premiere tonight.

It was in the second episode the pressure of the show started to show Lachlan made a comment he isn’t too proud of now.

“I did make the comment and call someone a trollop,” he said.

“It was in the heat of the moment and it’s a word I wouldn’t usually say. I regret it but I think in my head the meaning was construed and wasn’t exactly what I wanted to come across.

“I intended it in a general way to males and females and it wasn’t intended as a gendered slur. 

“I still stick to what was saying and what I was saying about having the wrong intentions but, if I could do it again, I would not use that word.”

The couple said they were a little worried about how the show’s finished product would portray them but they knew they had the support of their friends and family as well as the Port Douglas community.

“People will most likely see a side of us they haven’t seen before, it was a such a foreign place and you are not yourself,” Lachlan said.

“It’s a massive thing in the back your mind thinking how you are going to come across because it’s one thing to say something off camera being on camera can be very confronting and it’s hard to get across what you are trying to say,” said Miranda.

“But this a small community and people here know who we really are and have been really supportive about the whole thing.”

Catch Lachlan and Miranda on The Super Switch on Channel 7 tonight at 7.30pm.