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Four In A Bed secrets

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LostInShoebiz · 01/08/2018 18:21

Sort of a thread about a thread but I’m loving the Come Dine With Me thread on AIBU.

So, AIBU to want to know if anyone has been on Four In A Bed or knows anyone who has?

I have to confess, if money was no object, I’d buy a B&B and go on the show.

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Merryoldgoat · 01/08/2018 18:26

Me too! I love it but they’re such gits a lot of the time I just wouldn’t be able to keep my temper.

The scoring is massively flawed too. It gives me the rage Blush

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LostInShoebiz · 01/08/2018 18:30

Gits is the word!

I’d probably die doing some of the activities - the animal ones for sure.

I must confess though, I’ve gone on more than one holiday on the strength of watching FIAB and the places we stayed were exactly like they were on television.

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Haberpop · 01/08/2018 18:33

A place my son was working for appeared as one of the activities in one of the early Four In A Bed episodes, we stayed in the hotel shown in that episode. The couple who ran it were lovely but didn't come over very well in the programme.

Skyejuly · 01/08/2018 18:34

This show is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine!

JellyBears · 01/08/2018 18:38

a B and B in my home town won. That’s about as near as I can get. I love that show but the scoring is often spiteful voting so it’s a bit unfair sometimes.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 01/08/2018 18:40

My friend has been on it, we used to get emails asking us to be on it, we always politely declined

serbska · 01/08/2018 18:41

Oh the scoring annoys me so much. The mean couple should just come out and say “it was really good but I want to win... so I’m underpaying by £50”

theanonymum1 · 01/08/2018 18:42

My boss did Four in a Bed!

FiestaThenSiesta · 01/08/2018 18:43

It also always features a bitter, chip on the shoulder type of “salt of the earth” couple and there’s always a bitchy gay from Blackpool with a silently suffering partner. I think the producers whip them up in a frenzy hoping they’ll say shite on camera and then create a character around them.

I think it’s quite horrific, given this is someone’s livelihood they’re basically fucking about with just to make a show.

notapizzaeater · 01/08/2018 18:44

I love it 😊

The people are horrid, I've never thought of removing all the sheets in any room I've been in

mermaidsandunicorns · 01/08/2018 18:47

I know a couple of people who have been on one was made out to be the panto villain and was horrified when she saw the final cut

Merryoldgoat · 01/08/2018 18:50

What is with removing sheets and checking on top of wardrobes for dust? Like I give a fuck?

And who checks UNDER the toilet rim?

LunaAzul · 01/08/2018 18:52

“It’s spotlessly clean, but I did find one single head hair which is exactly the same colour as mine on the bed so it has to be an 8 for cleanliness”

My guilty pleasure. Love chaining a whole week’s episodes from the repeats on More 4

HemanOrSheRa · 01/08/2018 18:56

I do the same LunaAzul - binge watch on More 4. I love the obsession over the breakfasts, especially the way they all go on about the sausages Grin.

DickensianHysteric · 01/08/2018 18:56

I love Four in a Bed! I know someone whose parents were on it, they didn't win because the other guests objected to the self-serve breakfast!

happypoobum · 01/08/2018 19:03

I love it too.

I would mark down for a self serve breakfast Dickens!!

And for lack of ensuite.

Some of the people on it are horrendous - which is what makes it watchable. My favourite was the lovely Mad Cat Lady whose "activity" was taking the other owners around her cat cemetery. Grin

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 01/08/2018 19:17

Someone from the nearest town was on it and won. He then went to prison for firearms offences.

LuluJakey1 · 01/08/2018 19:19

My friend and her daughter were on it - run a B and B on their farm near Gateshead and the Metro centre. They won.

tenterden · 01/08/2018 19:20

Ooh yes my Guilty Pleasure!!

LuluJakey1 · 01/08/2018 19:21

The oddest pair were the old couple - he had a lng grey beard and was quite fierce and eccentric. They got very upset by the comments about their place- which was full of art work that was supposed to be erotic- as I recall.

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LostInShoebiz · 01/08/2018 19:29

The “erotic” art was a fantastic episode.

Remember Mrs Tee the mushroom lady?

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Bluelonerose · 01/08/2018 19:32

I think they need to change the scoring system. Maybe just show them the feedback at the end of the week before they meet up to announce the winner.

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LostInShoebiz · 01/08/2018 19:33

They used to do everything at the end when it was Three In A Bed. That was more fair.

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Clionba · 01/08/2018 19:34

Aww, Mrs Tee was sweet. Not a great B&B though Confused. I love the programme "well I found a cobweb under the bin so that's only a 6 for cleanliness". Or the ones where you're expected to pay £120 to sleep in a yurt with no breakfast.

MrsJayy · 01/08/2018 19:35

I adore 4inabed I could watch it on a loop. A B&B I have used was on it the owner was bonkers but came across quite calm onTv I was so dissapointed and she did a cookedbreakfast she didn't when I stayed.