Come dine with me secrets

[BlueTears]

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?

I've been told by a former contestant that they have to deliberately cook things the others don't like. (So if Miss A has stated she hates aubergines, Mr B will be told to make an aubergine dip for starters... etc.)

I loved the episode where the chap that won had used all these jarred sauces etc. for his Mexican feast!

I think all he did himself was brown some mince. :-)

has it really been on 14 years
Fuck that makes me feel old

For me personally - don't give a flying fuck if it's scripted - it makes it more entertaining and that's the whole bloody reason I watch, for entertainment.

And I luffs Dave Lamb

I have a close friend who works on this kind of programme who has told me never, ever to get involved with one. The producers (who are all very needy, I'm told) have a mission to make the participants look stupid because that's the main tool they use to keep viewers hooked, sadly.

My friend's husband went in it. They brought a wardrobe of track suits & baseball caps and made him wear them to look more 'in keeping' with the stereotype of the city. They asked him to do silly impressions of the city accent then edited to make him look like he spoke like that a lot himself.

They sabotaged one of his courses by substituting one ingredient for another, plied him with wine before, during & after the cooking and asked pointed / leading questions about the other contestants and, again, edited to make him look like a tool.

There was an episode of Four in a Bed which was in Kirkby, Merseyside - it was a B&B for people who worked at local factories. Of course there was the usual thing of the others saying it was dirty and the couple who ran it said the rooms had been occupied until the day before and they'd had to bring in friends to help clean. And of course that must be a problem, because if you're going to have an empty B&B for too long (so that you can really clean it well) then you're losing all those payments. Who can afford to do that?

It still amazes me, though, that people who must have watched the show still make the same mistakes.

Scripted or not, I will always love the sausage trifle episode!

yes that contestant who was drunk and went to bed passed away couple of years later-that was prob one of the best episodes ever

Oh no - I hadn't connected the 2!

All I remembered was someone falling off a chair with laughter.

How sad :(

That was the legendary Preston week with Valerie saying "moist" all the time.

There were two memorable ones for me:

• the one where the guy scored everyone low for using pre-prepped produce (mange tout from a plastic wrapper) but used crisps to top his fish pie

• the one where the guy was so fucked off af having lost that he ordered everyone out of his home

The one -Basingstoke?- in which the last contestant, who had smugly trashed everyone and their food all week, while boasting of her superior culinary expertise, didnt win - surprise! -. She was absolutely furious, insulted each of the other contestants and stomped off to bed. Somehow, production coerced her back downstairs to and grudgingly read out the results. Hilarious and highly recommended.

The one where the guy is so cross he didn’t win he orders everyone to get off his property while telling the winner to spend the money on lessons in grace and decorum! My favourite!

Twas Heather of Basingstoke. On utube. Dont miss it.

Speaking of four in a bed, I'm not really a fan but there is one episode I can never forget.

A guy, must have been in his late 30s or 40s, kicked off because the hosts expected him to sleep in a separate room from his mum. He even says something like 'I haven't been apart from my mum for 40 years!' And no one bats an eyelid. It is so insane and I can't understand how no one reacted and told him it was weird!

I think about that episode often!

Anyone remember the CDWM episode where the woman got her snake out (not a euphemism ) and it did a poo on the dining table ?

Not got any insights to share, but just wondered if anyone remembered the snake that crapped all over the table?

Or the guy who didn't actually own a table, spent most of what should have been his cooking time buying one and putting it up, then was narky with his guests because he was rushed/stressed and ended up with a terrible score? (I'm going back years there and I highly suspect it was a set-up, because there's just no way someone wouldn't make sure they had a table beforehand.)

Anyone remember the CDWM episode where the woman got her snake out (not a euphemism ) and it did a poo on the dining table ?

LOL snap, just posted exactly the same!

Snap!

Used to love this prog but have switched to ‘Four in a bed now’
Episodes of CDWM that have stuck in my head are:

• the one where everyone was really nice and honest and scored the final contestant ‘40’ because his food and evening were so lovely
• the one where a young contestant bought her meals from a local restaurant and had them delivered through her kitchen window to serve!
• the one with a mean-spirited contestant who marked everyone really low because she wanted to win (she admitted this!) and was made to re-score everyone at the end of the week!

All these contributions, and only one criticism of the presenter who shouts his way through every episode.
I found him just too unbearable to listen to, and never switched on again.

Princess The highest score ever is 39, not 40!

i bow to your superior knowledge! I remember it was an episode in Liverpool and the contestant was lovely. I really thought he got 40? Oh well....

There's a great episode with a guy who is just like the character David Brent from The Office. I thought surely they must have given him the hilarious one liners or that he was the person Ricky based his character on.