Mark Kot, MD, wearing Ralph Lauren, and Kelli Delaney in a Tracy Feith dress

 
  At the cottage on the Great Peconic Bay, the couple loves to take the kayaks out at sunset
 
  Delaney completely gutted the formerly brick-red master bath, adding bead board, moldings, a Carrara marble vanity and a chandelier and painting it wedding-veil white

In Royal Pains, the USA Network medical series set on the East End, Mark Feuerstein plays a doctor who treats high-end patients. In real life, Mark R. Kot, considered one of the finest medical diagnosticians in the Hamptons, actually does minister to the ills of an East End clientele that includes the rich and famous. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, the real-deal urgent-care MD worked in the emergency room at Southampton Hospital for nine years before founding his popular Southampton Urgent Medical Care practice in 2003.

Locals appreciate Kot for his medical acumen—and his rugged good looks. In his spare time, the good doctor collects fine art and has an eye for beauty, as evidenced by his historic farmhouse and his lovely fiancée, Kelli Delaney, founder of kdhamptons.com, which she calls “the luxury lifestyle diary of the Hamptons.”

The match sparked on a blind date. Then they discovered they share a similar outlook on life. Kot, after 16 years as a Southampton doctor, and Delaney, a Condé Nast fashion veteran (Allure, Glamour) and a former designer and president of the fashion line Members Only, are a self-described Green Acres-style pair who both chose fresh air over city life.

“I had Googled pictures of her, but they didn’t do her justice,” he says. “She arrived on the blind date in stiletto heels and white denim jeans… and I knew.”

“[I was wearing a] Calypso St. Barth top,” she recalls. “When I walked up to the porch of his house, I couldn’t believe it—he’s so good-looking.”

Kot’s stately 1887 Victorian farmhouse with lush gardens, in Water Mill, is now their full-time residence, which they share with his 12-year-old daughter, Lily. The house was recently pictured in a book about the area’s founding farmers. Delaney quickly gave the home a luxe tweak. “His style is traditional,” she says. “I wanted to mix in some contemporary style.”

According to her plan, the couple would demolish and renovate four bathrooms “with a pedestal tub [in the master bathroom] and marble,” she says. “I wanted to keep the feel of a Victorian farmhouse,” says Kot. “But Kelli brightened up the rooms.”