To have a favourite episode of Come Dine with me and to get excited when it's repeated?

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Almost like a favourite film, if it's on I have to watch. It's a celebrity one.

A Killers song on the radio just made me think of it.

If you can guess which one it is, I wonder if you share my sad existence enthusiasm?

No one? Oh.

Yes! Thank you Wannabe it was Tracey! MrsMacfarlane I think she might have put food in her bag but don't remember her being a clown? Actually I doubt she would have hidden uneaten food in her bag as that would have been far too considerate of other people's feelings! Unless she was taking it for her pampered pooches of course.

She was so awful I actually wondered if she was a CDWM troll. The Liz Jones of dinner parties.

I could never ever go on cdwm even though I love it. The finger dipping and licking and cats and dogs and dirty kitchens dreadful, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Homes under the Hammer someone mentioned? Love the show, very inspiring....but Lucy's voice sounds far too breatless to be healthy. Martin's stupid grin and lame comments drive me NUTS I tell you and don't get me started on the wanky music that supports each scene

I liked the man who was a town crier, and his cat ate some of the starter but he served it anyway.

I was by the man who broke the glass bowl his pudding was in, but scraped out the bits least likely to have glass shards in and used them anyway.

Yes, Ray the Vegan had a scarily low sense of self awareness. What a tool.

mrsmacfarlene are you thinking of Julia from derby who hated Michelle the one who ran the pole dancing classes and is desperate to be famous she's been on wife swap as well

Yes itshothere I've made the same observation about Lucy, having asthma myself it makes me very uncomfortable to listen to her as she sounds so short of breath.

So many CDWM contestants are dirty, dirty pigs (or 'riffy wammals' as we say in the Black Country ). They all seem to lick the spoon then put it back in the pan, never cover food before they put it in the fridge and often have really long unhygienic false nails. I can't watch when someone finds a hair in their food, it always seems to be shown over and over again in close up. Boak indeed.

Other rules of CDWM: no-one ever has an electric hand whisk, and ice cream makers never work.

No, sadly I have never met any of them! They are quite an accurate representation of some of Preston's more colourful characters though!

I liked the one where the host had a Waterloo night and one of the girls dressed up as abba.

And the snobby girl that scored everyone really low and was made to re score

The Preston episode was classic, I agree. Absolutely hilarious. Val's voice alone was somewhat unique, Bernard was fabulously Ott and Dawn served fajitas but couldn't be arsed to actually cook them.

Another classic IMO is the one where the woman ordered the food from a restraunt and had the food passed through the window- I would be very tempted to do the same

Oh and another one that sticks in the mind was from, I think, Bristol area.

There was a Fred West lookalike that sounded drunk, and lived in a huge gothic type house and was a fabulous host and cook. I think he won.

He didn't get on with the really annoying man that kept laughing at everything and had litter trays all over the house.

And there was another one with a drag queen and the guy with the mayonnaise that he frogmarched out his house

I love CDWM

I loved the Biggins one.

I also like the one where it was at DI Burnside from The Bills house in Brighton and Dot from Eastenders was passing, didn't know they were filming cdwm and invited herself in. I'm sure it was him....chris Ellison isn't it?

Top tip if you are ever tempted to go on CDWM never attempt to make your own ice cream. Never. Ever. Works.

There was a mumsnetter on it a few years ago. She posted about all the behind the scenes stuff.

In the Preston series, did someone have a pole dancing pole that Valerie spun around in a toe curlingly cringy manner?

And was it Bernard that had all the pineapples lined up on his kitchen windowsill?

Wannabestepfordwife, thanks so much for clarifying the annoying clown woman. I remember now you mentioned the pole dancer. She really was the most unlikely clown you could imagine. Zero humour or sense of irony.

Oh I remember the Lesley Jospeh one - she was hilarious. More tan I can say for Sherrie Hewson, who thought she was hilarious but I actually wanted to punch her stupid face in by the end of it.

There is no way on God's green earth I'd be on that show. People are so nasty on it - it didn't used to be that bad!

any episode with cats in....cat shit...cat hair etc

and the one where the toilet was really really bad...

No problem mrsmacfarlene she was so PO faced and she was so stuck up about the pole dancers house. I think she was jealous that even though she had a boob job and had a prettier face then the pole dancer the pole dancer was far sexier and more charismatic.

Id totally forgotten the cringeworthyness on the Vera episodes when pippa asked the young lad out and he had to say yes out of politeness

I love this thread. I feel I am amongst lots of kindred spirits.
I had totally forgotten that Derby Julia was a clown. When people mentioned CDWM clown, I thought of that also rather serious lady, from Milton Keynes, who was applejack.

For some reason, thinking of clown Julia reminded me of that lady Cardiff (annette?), who got into a huff and went to sit on the lounge. She was a psychic.

lady IN Cardiff...

I know who you mean hazel the one who had the fake coughing fit and said it was bad energy in her chakras

My favourite is that one in Edinburgh where they all get on brilliantly and end up having lots of bottles of wine and getting happily drunk together. I like to imagine they are all still best friends.

And there was a really good one where one of the contestants threw a massive queenie strop and went to sit in the conservatory all night. But generally, I prefer it when they all get on.

Does anyone remember a celebrity episode in Liverpool with a model who was the nastiest piece of work ever? She was kicked off and replaced with the lovely Margie Clarke.