Come dine with me secrets

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Ok it looks good on tv but they must have to do re takes and it's probably a really long evening.

Also no-one EVER looks at the camera - I'm sure they're told not to but I'd be soooooooo tempted to give the odd sarcastic look at the audience! Lol.

Anyone have any behind the scenes secrets?

Black pudding never goes down well.

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned the episode when the guy started drinking Special Brew when cooking and ended up throwing one course (pudding I think) out of his kitchen window. Hilarious.

One that really stuck in my mind was one of the earlier episodes in Scotland. A guy called Forbes cooked hairy pigs trotters with tinned veg. It was vile. But so funny.

Can't find a YouTube link though.

I remember Forbes. He was as tight as two coats of paint.

I remember Forbes too. Did all the shopping for the night in Lidl and boasted about how little he had spent. The ladies kept accidently calling him Frasier.
Does anyone remember the celebrity episode with Christopher Biggins,Julia Bradbury, a young Hollyoaks actor and Edwina Currie? The first three were all lovely and Edwina Currie was absolutely vile! Christopher Biggins was hilarious

Remember one with Janice from Stroud and Patsy with one arm

They're was an absolute arrogant knob jockey on it he ripped Janice to shreds cos' she clocked his filthy bath....

Remember one with Janice from Stroud and Patsy with one arm

They're was an absolute arrogant knob jockey on it he ripped Janice to shreds cos' she clocked his filthy bath....

Remember one with Janice from Stroud and Patsy with one arm

They're was an absolute arrogant knob jockey on it he ripped Janice to shreds cos' she clocked his filthy bath....

Whoops
Bloody app

There was the guy who was so tight he spent about £10 on the whole meal and cooked all the meals using one jar of marmalade. He cut the tops of the asparagus and discarded them.

He had the major hits for one of the female contestants and his entertainer friend sang the song "when I think of you I touch myself" directly to her face.

He didn't win.

Thanks @MarthasGinYard as I watched that episode on More4 last night on your recommendation!

You can find every episode ever here...

www.thetvdb.com/series/come-dine-with-me/seasons/all

*All4

But Forbes spent a fortune on champagne and that’s why the ladies found it so funny, didn’t he?

From an interview he did later “The Come Dine With Me show was a wonderful experience. I took part in this with four local women, all of whom possessed excellent culinary skills. Although I had not cooked before I managed to show that you do not need a huge amount of money to produce a substantial meal. My entire menu only cost £15, and the odds were always against me winning. However I still managed to obtain 43% of the British votes online, despite losing, and the winner only managed 18%, so overall I was pleased with this.”

A girl I know went on it last year. I watched it but it wasn’t her personality at all. She has 2 jobs and they only concentrated on one of them and she was made out to be posh and pretentious when she is really down to earth.
Having said that, she had fun and stayed in touch with the other contestants.

However I still managed to obtain 43% of the British votes online, despite losing, and the winner only managed 18%

I didn't know viewers could vote too? Where can I do this!

Forbes must have won on a public 'hilarity' vote! It certainly wasn't due to his culinary skills or offerings

Was Forbes the casino owner? I seem to recall he was a bit tight.

I don't remember a Sally Army guy but I remember a sweetly eccentric vicar, Father Brian. The ladies didn't like his food but loved him. And his cute apron!

The asparagus marmalade chicken guy was a housing officer, I think.

My friend and her DH got accepted to go on couples CDWM. They were asked to take a weeks annual leave and were told that bits of their menu would need to be changed. Also if you talk about anything “local” the crew make you change the subject. They decided not to do in the end

I was a contestant on CDWM. I won too.

They don't tell you what to say but they do say things like "right discuss your first impressions of each other now.

If you say something funny they often made us say it again as natural conversation has people talking over each which doesn't work on TV.

The menu reveal is real, so you have no idea until you get that bit of paper.

The winning scroll is printed with all the possible 1st, 2nd etc positions so it's ready on the night.

None of the food we ate was cold.

You get £125 to spend on ingredients.

You get to keep the £1000 in £20 notes on the tray. I thought we'd get a cheque!

Any other questions?

There was a great one on a few weeks ago with the most fabulously eccentric old lady. She was so much fun, I love her! Think she was called Daphne? She got her Otter out on the first night and then rapped about tomatoes

Cant remember where it was, but there was a horrid guy who was a fucker to this one woman all week, trying to get the other contestants in on it. One of the contestants put tuna in her lasagne (boak!).

When it was turn to go the lady house, the guy was a complete twat to her because she had a rifle in view (I dont think it was a working one, and she had been in the forces I think)

One male contestant worked out what the other guy was doing so gave the host a 10, so she won. The twatty guy had to eat some humble pie.

Yes, me and the two dogs had to
stay out, I could have gone home but only after guests had left and that might have been late, think they all left about 11.30pm

I remembered the couples one with a couple where the woman was obsessed with making her flat look like Versailles. She’d never been.
She was all about how young she looked... and made the husband do most of the work.

Watched Bargain Hunt yesterday, not sure if it was a repeat or an old one and it had Giovanni on it from CDWM, he was with his sister , she was very nice , he was still the same as he had been on CDWM.
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