1:50pm UK, Friday March 05, 2004

Royal love rat James Hewitt is in talks to host a cookery show in the US - with his Back To Reality co-star Sarah Kozer.

TV bosses at Universal are keen to sign the pair, who have been getting close on the TV show.

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Hewitt and Kozer have got close during Back To Reality

Ex-Playboy centrefold Kozer is writing a cookery book while 45-year-old ex-army major Hewitt has been hogging the kitchen at the Five show's mansion.

"We've been contacted by a US network who want to sign up Hewitt and Sarah," a TV insider told The Sun.

"They have been getting hot and steamy and whipping up a lot of saucy innuendoes, so it is a great idea.

"They both love cooking as well, and have been cooking together on the show a lot, so it seems ideal for both of them."

Kozer, 30, is already a star in the US with the reality television hit Joe Millionaire.

But Hewitt, who tried to sell love letters from Princess Diana for millions of pounds, has seen his US career stall in the past.

He lost a claim in December against the US station Fox after they sacked him as an Iraq war reporter.