You won’t find it on her CV, but actress and Please Marry My Boy! host Ada Nicodemou admits she’s played Cupid once or twice.

“I’m always on the look-out for my single friends. I can’t help it – it’s the born matchmaker in me,” Ada says. “I’ll meet someone and immediately start making mental notes about why they would make a good partner.”

While the Home and Away favourite making her hosting debut concedes she has yet to create a perfect match, she’s adamant she’s not about to give up.

“I’m always going to give it a shot. I’m a true believer in romance and I love seeing couples in love,” says Ada, who didn’t think twice when offered the role to host the series giving four Aussie mums the chance to find their un-lucky inlove sons the girl of their dreams.

It’s clear the 34-year-old is relishing her first prime-time hosting role.

“I’ve really enjoyed getting to know the mums and their sons, watching their stories unfold in their quest to find love,” she says. “I’m hooked already!”

“Who doesn’t know a mum who dreams of her son meeting the perfect girl, falling in love and get married.”

“The mums we meet in the series are fantastic. They approach the task of finding a match for their sons with military precision. They know their boys better than anyone, so they have very firm ideas about the perfect mate. Their boys had better watch out!”

Ada is best known to Australian television audiences for her current role as single mum Leah Patterson in Channel Seven’s Home and Away. She began filming the series in 1999 and is one of the longest serving cast members of the successful drama. Her other television credits include Heartbreak High, Police Rescue, Beast Masters and a cameo role in the feature film, The Matrix.

In 2005, she took to the dance floor in Channel Seven’s Dancing with the Stars. After the marathon effort of shooting Home and Away and competing each Sunday night, Ada and her dance partner, Aric Yegudkin took out the championship.

In 2007, the Gold and Silver TV Week Logie nominated actress married her partner Chrys Xipolitas. They currently reside in Sydney’s southern suburbs where they own and manage Island, their Greek-Cypriot restaurant where she has spied on many first dates.

Her tip to the sons in the series for making a good impression on the first date: “Turning up on time always is a good start, looking presentable and smelling great helps, she says. “Pay for dinner and most importantly, be yourself.”