IT'S not everyday that a Dominatrix walks into the First Dates restaurant, but mum-of-three Sherry wasn't shy when it came to talking about her job.

The 65-year-old, from Swindon, revealed that her alter-ego Mistress Sophia's 'slaves' range in age from 21 to 84, and insists that her BDSM career path is no different to any other.

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Speaking to First Dates barman Merlin Griffiths, she said: "It’s not sexual. I don’t touch them, they don’t touch me, apart from my feet."

She added: "My children know what I do. All my neighbours know. My friends know. I don’t mix business with pleasure. It’s business.

"I don’t want to be dominant in a relationship. I would like it to be on an even keel, so that we both respect each other.

"I think I’m single because it takes a special person to accept what I do."

Sherry, who has been single for seven years, was matched with confident 67-year-old chartered surveyor John.

He told the Channel 4 cameras: "I am an excellent catch. I have charisma, personality, looks, charm, I’m in good shape.

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"I’ve got a bob or too. Good lord. Everything in one package, it’s beyond belief."

During her date, Sherry gave an eye-opening account of life as a dominatrix.

She said: "I have slaves and they do my housework, any jobs I want doing. I’ve got a couple of judges, I’ve got solicitors, I’ve got a bowel surgeon.

"I’ve got a puppy cage because I do puppy play. They like to feed out of the bowl, dog food of course, and then I put them in the cage.

"I’ve got a bone and a ball, they play in the garden. They do whatever I want them to do."

She added: "I guess I have an alter-ego, where Mistress Sophia is the dominatrix and Sherry is just me. And I don’t mix the two.

"With my work, I’m a bit like a therapist. I have one guy, his doctor said he would be losing his legs if he didn’t stop smoking. He tried everything to give up."

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Sherry explained that she became a dominatrix when her husband of 25 years left her for another woman - leaving behind spiralling debts and a "huge mortgage".

She added: "My ex-husband left me in a very embarrassing financial condition, so I do what I do.

"I was desperate. I can’t even put it into words how I felt. I took it badly, I have to say.

"I went down to seven stone and I’m 5ft8. One day my daughter sat on the edge of the sofa.

"She was crying and I said ‘what’s wrong?’ And she said ‘I think you’re going to die. Look at you’.

"And that was a trigger for me to pull myself together, which I did."

She also joked to John: "When he first left, it was tough. But actually he did me a big, big favour when it comes to the phone sex.

"Because I spent 25 years faking it with him, I’m very good on the phone."

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John, who has been single since he got divorced "decades" ago, said he was looking for someone to "complete the picture" of his life.

He added: "I’m missing somebody like you."

However, his chuckles in reaction to Sherry's job did not go down well.

Speaking on the phone in the toilets, Sherry said: "He’s disrespectful and arrogant."

Ironically, as she spoke, John was outside telling waiter Sam Conrad: "Man, she’s a dominatrix. I think she’s good to go, baby.

"She’s totally besotted with me."

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Unsurprisingly, Sherry wasn't keen on the idea of a second date. She told John: "I just felt you were a little bit disrespectful if I’m honest.

"Like when I was explaining about my work and you laughed about it. And I just didn’t think it was appropriate."

The rejection came as a shock to optimistic John, who had previously told the interviewer: "Yes, I would like to see Sherry again.

"She can take me to the cellar and tie me up."

If Sherry's story pricked your interest, meet Ari Mactans - a dominatrix who has raked in £250,000 by torturing and humiliating men.

While Madame Margherite's kinky clients pay £235-an-hour to be dressed as dogs, and love being disciplined when they put a paw out of line.

And Hollywood dominatrix Jenny Nordbak reveals she even flogged a movie star and led him around on a LEASH.

First Dates is on Channel 4 at 10pm on Tuesday nights.