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?

@VanillaSugar - I remember that lady - favourite ever episode, plus she told one of the other contestants who kept is secret from the others, hysterical!

My mate did FIAB - awful. Would not recommend. They planted pubic hairs on pillow etc. and then made them take multiple shots of giving certain expressions - happy, sad, angry, annoyed for editing. So, guess what, they could insert angry shot at any point during editing even if they were not angry. They then stirred up with the other contestants to create conflict on the last day - producers got everyone to meet 1 hr without them and then played anything even remotely negatively said.

Sadly, because this effects people's livelihoods, people were not as forgiving as on CDWM and instead of making friends there were rivalries. Real shame.

the very pretentious, self styled ‘Princess Pippa’ made the dinner lady Vera stand out in the street because she had arrived 10 minutes early

I remember that one - I thought "How bloody bad-mannered!"

NOBODY leaves a guest in the street, even if they've misread the invitation and come an hour early and caught you in your drawers.

Some of the posts on this thread are as fabricated as the recent CDWM episodes.

I mean...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..

Complete bullshit

Anyone remember an episode in Northern Ireland where one man got very aggressive towards another? Aggressive man was having a flirtation with one of the women who was majorly unfazed by him shouting and throwing his weight around. She was giggling away and enjoying it and I wanted to tell her for run for the hills- he'll turn on you one day.

Also an episode in St Andrews, I think, where a Scottish man and a very posh English guy started up this complete bromance, even though they could hardly understand a word the other said. That was absurdly lovely.

I think you're all disgraceful for not posting links to YouTube clips. (except if you did of course.)

Not having success in finding Princess Pippa.

I enjoy it when they people are nice and get on. I remember the Scottish bromance - they were so different in character yet hit it off immensely.

I remember one with a woman who had short bleached hair going first and being all sweet then being a total shitbag the rest of the week. On the last night the guy served dessert in his touring caravan and expressed his love of caravanning and blonde went on and on about how shit caravans are. Host lost the plot and threw her out. They had to film scores the next day, blonde won and no one would even look at her. It was priceless.

There was one woman who gleefully scored everyone ridiculously low as part of her game plan then got told off and made to rescore everyone (and I think confess).

Didn't a chap who got his chef mate to cook also have to come clean layer?

looks shifty

Ah, just realised I mentioned a particular episode without a clip

The wine throwing 'celebrities'

Stripey pipa, season 1, episode 14

There was an episode where there was an hilarious Welsh gay guy who did the Moonwalk on a window sill? In a fancy house in the home counties?

Does anyone remember that?

Someone, please, watch Heather Horsfall of Basingstoke and be as speechless as I was. Whole episode for full flavour or last 3 mins for the absolute gobsmacking ending. Priceless.

DSH, oh I could not possibly say! Oink oink!

I remember the episode with Nadia off Big Brother. Nadia at the time lived in a small flat in Woking. Every time she opened the door to let the guests in i realised she was actually in a house in Guildford and I was looking At DDs flat which was across the road.

The best CDWM ever was the week involving Dawn, the woman who sadly died. The characters in those episodes were just hilarious.

I know someone that has been on it. He's known as a pretty good cook amongst his friends, but for some reason, he made a really weird meal and came last and he came across badly, even though he's a nice guy.

Like others, he has since been approached to go on First Dates. But his episode was never aired.

My OH is obsessed with this drivel, I remember clearly a very early one where a woman ordered all the food from a local restaurant who delivered it through her kitchen window during the evening! If it's been mentioned already, sorry, can't scroll through 8 pages!

I remember one with a woman who had short bleached hair going first and being all sweet then being a total shitbag the rest of the week. On the last night the guy served dessert in his touring caravan and expressed his love of caravanning and blonde went on and on about how shit caravans are. Host lost the plot and threw her out. They had to film scores the next day, blonde won and no one would even look at her. It was priceless
That was local to me. I heard she lost her job over it.

The one with Dawn were amazing, all but one of them came across as fabulously bonkers. Valerie was marvelous. The youngest one was a nice guy but must have wondered what was going on.

Poor Dawn though, her reasons for being bonkers turned out to be sad ones.

Wow glamorous! She lost her job? She was truly awful but that's harsh.

I did it about 5 years ago.
Paid a £185 allowance which didn't cover my costs at all but that wasn't the point.
One of the funniest weeks of my life. All 5 of us are still in touch.
You are not told the next day's theme til you are on the way home at 1-2am then have to get your outfit ready for 5.30 pm start the next day. I thought I'd be able to work all week but I was exhausted by day 3. 1 taxi for the scoring then you each get sent home in your own taxi as soon as you've scored. Evenings end at 1-2am.
The evenings can be a bit stop/start. Only 1 camera crew which switches between the group, the cook and the upstairs scenes. You are told what to look for in the bedroom. It's not too disjointed. A 'minder' stays with the group when the camera is off filming other things to make sure you don't post on social media and they don't like you taking photos.
Occasional suggestions/cues about what they want you to talk about but conversation is allowed to flow.
We all got on so well they kept trying to engineer a fight between the other two women. They got a bit fed up and staged a fight on the last night. One of the contestants laid it on thick, spitting out food every night and she was given a hard time online, but tbh she did over play it a bit.
All in all I'd say a fantastic experience with a really diverse, lovely bunch of people and I really enjoyed it.

Caribbeanyesplease

Some of the posts on this thread are as fabricated as the recent CDWM episodes.

I mean...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

Complete bullshit

@Caribbeanyesplease with respect you are the one talking absolute bullshit. That comment was made by @iklboo Both of us know IRL the wife of that contestant and we can categorically state that this was correct. Seriously. She is one of the least BS people I know.

For those who want some clips, there are some highlights in this article

I KNow a few people who’ve been on it. One didn’t enjoy it at all. He’s a bit of a flamboyant character but very genuine & the other contestants were set up to question his sexuality & quite aggressively accused him of living a lie which he thought was disrespectful to his wife & daughter. That week was won by the cousin of an old schoolfriend of mine who made very traditional local dishes.

I know someone else who won & really enjoyed the experience.

Some great clips [ https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/the-most-ridiculous-moments-from-come-dine-with-me-2-120348/ here ] apologies if someone's already posted.

Bugger, got that wrong, should there be 2 brackets?