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?

The best ever episode was the Halifax one where the bloke made Bailey's ice cream - named after his dog - and fished a hair out of the stew with his hands, looked at it and PUT IT BACK IN AGAIN.

About 10 years ago when I was made redundant and in the dole CDWM really kept me going. Mainly Dave lamb. Don’t think it’s as good any more though

What was the one where the woman absolutely lost her shit because she didn’t win?

Omg found it, she’s hilarious

Some of my favourites, in no particular order are -
There was a man who thought he was very sophisticated but cooked velvet chicken or something he called it with a tin of condensed soup it it and crumbled up cheese and onion crisps on top.
Woman who said Heston blumenthal was her chef hero but called him bloomin heseltine or something.
The woman gagging at the cat poo smell.

There she is Heather Horsfall a woman consumed by conceit, bitterness and envy. And those are the goods things

Anyone remember Jayne from Teesside in 2009? I can’t find clips but she was the haute cuisine foodie who tried to put on an amazing night a la Fat Duck/Heston and the inverted snobbery from the other 3 was just awful. They just completely ganged up on her with a ringleader who was a hobby local DJ and the producers made her out to be some snobby bitch who was a failed wanna be ballerina... was just a young single mum who was a PA. I didn’t warm to her but the others were such assholes to her and marked her last.

Gobby dj

I remember her fiesta

That episode always made me so sad, she seemed very nice and they were absolute bullies to her, completely agree inverted snobbery.

Big up to jane!

The highest score is 40 it was a Liverpool episode, they were all lovely. The winning guy cooked sea bass and was so impressed with someone else's food he said he would go vegan.

And Vera made a fruit coulis by watering down strawberry jam.

Loving this thread and thought I am not going to post until the end, however this comment is pure comedy gold. We all know a 'Vera'.

I remember the Liverpool one, they were all really nice. There was another one in Rotherham where they were all really different but got on well. One woman cut her finger and had to go to A&E so the others finished cooking the meal.

Wasn't there a woman from Cardiff who refused to eat desert who was bonkers in one of the earlier series.
I applied about 11 years ago and had 3 interviews on the phone and had to send quite a few pictures of my house to them.
I eventually declined as they wanted me to be ok with talking about my job and make a focus of it.

Had anyone mentioned Gerard the strapping posh butcher and his smashing thatched roof .
I really rather fancied him

Only enjoyed it as the narrator makes me laugh with his sarcastic and funny comments.

Another golden moment - the snake that shat all over the table

My then boss was on this a number of years ago. He was the one who kept cheese in his pocket

Oh yesssss, I remember posh Gerard .

Also the Liverpool one, with the guy who got 40. I think I remember that one, was the vegan a reall cool, lovely young boho type lady with lots of posters? She was so informative and lovely.

Also just a remembered the more recent one with the crazy rockabilly lady and her "boogie beef stew". She was scary!

I suspect I might be on repeat episodes atm, I'm getting random fb friend requests, which is what usually happens. One man messaged me the first 3 times it was on asking if he could buy my knickers

There was one I watched recently, no idea how old it was.

But there was a young guy who was quite braggy about how he was so successful so young, clearly saw himself as well above the rest of them. One of the other contestants was an oldish guy who said he was a car dealer. Which he was. But what he didn’t reveal until it was his night was that he was a self made man, owned the dealership and was extremely wealthy.

Well, the young guy went absolutely bonkers at him. Accusing him of lying about who he really was. Never mind the food, he just kept going on and on about you’ve lied to us, you’ve made us all look stupid. Nope, you’re making yourself look stupid. No one else was bothered, loved his food and I think he won.

DH and I were just amazed at this guy going on and on about this guys money.

I remember the lady who had takeaway food delivered.
The man whose sister was really ill & the winner donated some of their winnings to him, he later died himself, wasn’t very old.
The obnoxious woman Isabel I think who scored everyone low & was made to re-score.
The highest score was 39 I think 1 point was lost because he didn’t provide napkins?
And there was one where there was cat shit all over the house along with litter trays too!

The episode with the 5 ladies, 4 posh ones and the lady who didn't have a posh frock so wore her wedding dress is on More4 right now! Brighton I think?

Oh - I remember the one where the woman put her snake on the table and it pooed!

fished a hair out of the stew with his hands, looked at it and PUT IT BACK IN AGAIN.

Not quite done. eh?

Can anyone remember the very early episode where there were three women and one man. He was a member of the Salvation Army. Anyway one of the woman (played netball if I remember) turned everyone against him and bullied him. She told him off for sniffing his food when put in front of him - but I’ve seen loads of people do that since on episodes with no negative comments.
Never seen that one on repeat ever.

I think the celebrity ones are great.
The only one that comes to mind atm is when Peter stringfellows sink collapsed on him.

I'm sure there was one where somebody lived in a circle shaped house too which I thought was amazing.