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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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LuluJakey1 · 01/08/2018 20:29

Oxy yes, that's them, Gordon and Blossom.

The obsession with sausages is funny as well. I had no idea there was such variety because I don't eat them.

There was another one with a really annoying woman with lots of backcombed hair and very thick orange make-up who made humiliating remarks about her husband, laughed very loudly and talked over everyone. It was the episode where one of the places was a B and B in London that was a bit grubby and run by a man who was very laid back, had lived in a cave and didn't bother getting out of bed for guests' breakfast so they had to go 8nto the kitchen and make it themselves.

Rebecca36 · 01/08/2018 20:30

I've seen every episode. AMA - joking about that!
Also seen every 3 in a bed.

Love the programme.

LunaAzul · 01/08/2018 20:34

This Buzzfeed FIAB “quiz” is worth a go. Made me laugh anyway... www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/why-do-we-watch-this-show-for-hours-on-end?utm_term=.rgDe5mgL48#.rgDe5mgL48

Hygge · 01/08/2018 20:37

I love FIAB because it annoys me so much.

I once got so annoyed I emailed a B&B to tell them I thought they should have won, and someone emailed me back to say thanks but those owners weren't running it anymore, but that I could have a discount on my stay if I ever booked with them, so that was nice.

I get really annoyed with the scoring and underpayments.

I think the worst one was where the couple, who admitted they were a bit large, felt the bed was too small, and the woman hosting them said that their double bed was fine for two because she had the same one but king size just for her. Then she complained about the size of her bloody massive bed at their B&B when she was in it alone and it was bigger than the bed she gave them.

I also felt sorry for that American lady from Somerset who had a B&B in some kind of old prison. They all seemed to gang up on her a bit and I loved her B&B.

I can remember not warming to Blossom and Gordon.

Someone needs to start a threat about Coach Trip next, I'd love to hear what goes on behind the scenes there. That couple who got voted off and got invited back because they cried have got to be worth a story or two, they made me really stressed.

Crinkle77 · 01/08/2018 20:39

I couldn't believe the couple that said there was pee in the toilet when it was clearly yellow disinfectant. Or the ones that take the shower drain fitting apart and criticise them if there is any gunk. I mean who does that?

TanFranceFangirl · 01/08/2018 20:39

Do you remember the couple where there was an older wife and a younger husband with a ponytail who wouldn't fit the ensuite bathroom? I opened the door to the Postman the other day and it was him!

MrsJayy · 01/08/2018 20:40

That American lady offended an owner from Blackpool because the turret was too small for him😂

KC225 · 01/08/2018 20:41

I love Four in a Bed. They show it here in Sweden. Two in a row. Yes please. Recognise, some of the couples quoted on here. The mad cat lady with the cat graveyard. The hairy older man with his erotic art. He was exceptionally rude about the young man and was unnecessarily snippy with the wife of the other couple. I also remember Sadia and Veronica. She was so rude, and it was so cringing when people didn't want to stay in their run down and dated establishment and she was saying but it was clean and you enjoyed the food, so why wouldn't you stay? As a bit of a FIAB geek, I sometimes look the nutters up on Trip Advisor. Veronica is still getting snippy with the less than glowing reviewers.

Anyone remember the guy who kept making awful sexist jokes, 'women's feet are smaller so they can get nearer the sink'. They pulled him up on it and his wife started crying. And the guy who called himself Danny Lambo? And Steph and Dom from Gogglebox - their place was the stuff of a lottery win.

I have always wondered if the crew do a but of 'loose hair' spreading.

CandleWithHair · 01/08/2018 20:42

I love FIAB, but I rarely get to watch it. Managed to fit some in today on More4 and there was some crazy guy WASHING HIS FACE IN THE TOILET BOWLS. I nearly puked.

Ethylred · 01/08/2018 20:43

Three has been my maximum so far.
Bu working on it.

marvellousnightforamooncup · 01/08/2018 20:43

They filmed it at my house once. We ran a b&b and we're putting up one of the contestants as the b&b they were featuring locally didn't have enough rooms for all the people on one night. They interviewed the contestant staying with us about the featured b&b in my garden.

They all seemed very nice actually. The local b&b owner is batshit but nice, I see her in the Post Office sometimes. I don't think any scullduggery happened although the person who stayed with us said the production team left them hanging around a lot. She thinks it was on purpose to put them in a bad mood.

SneakyGremlins · 01/08/2018 20:44

I've started a coach trip thread Grin

tentative3 · 01/08/2018 20:45

We watched one the other day where one lady put her fingers right up under the toilet rim. Her bare fingers. And she found some black stuff. Grim. Why would you?!

Sparklesocks · 01/08/2018 20:46

I don’t know much about the behind the scenes stuff but I love how dramatic it is!! It’s the definition of petty

‘Well yes it’s lovely, I slept brilliantly, the breakfast was gorgeous and the eggs and milk from the on site farm were a nice touch, but I opened the u-bend with a wrench and found a single pube right in the middle, also a bird sang for about 15 seconds by my window around 7am which really impacted on my comfort’

GabsAlot · 01/08/2018 20:46

coach trip years ago was great then they went down the love island route and only had younger people on

thought it was much better before

Katedotness1963 · 01/08/2018 20:46

We can't have a FIAB thread without mentioning the donkey farm lady. She was foul to the Edinburgh couple.

And there was one with a cleaning obsessed lady who was in tears at one of the other B&B's cleanliness, and horrified at the thought people might have sex in her beds.

And the guy who painted the shower walls as a "joke" for his guests.

But the most annoying thing is when they order things for breakfast that aren't on the menu, then knock points off because it's not cooked the way they like it. Eggs Benedict is a popular one...

Clionba · 01/08/2018 20:47

I felt sorry for that American lady who had the courthouse B&B. I felt that the others picked on her, especially that smug couple.
Steph and Dom were great. They didn't win, but were lovely about everyone and overpaid the Blackpool guy.

cheesemongery · 01/08/2018 20:48

I also felt sorry for that American lady from Somerset who had a B&B in some kind of old prison. They all seemed to gang up on her a bit and I loved her B&B.

I've read this thread loving it! I remember her and felt so sorry for her, wasn't it and old 'jail' block or something and she really did just get the cell! There's your single bed, no you can't reach the window, no you can't have space to undress, an ensuite? Bonkers. Welcome to prison block H by any other name. £100 for the night please!

I love the poached egg twats. It's not on the menu... erm could I possibly have? In that situation I'd be perfecting my eggs in the hope hat somebody would order one, so I could serve it up all smug.

I've gotten myself all excited now - I don't get out much. I just cracked up at the couple who squirted yellow toilet cleaner down the - well, toilet. Looked like and old stale piss welcoming any guest Grin

Mmm pubey bed, pissy bog, what's not to like for £40 a night!

MrsJayy · 01/08/2018 20:51

A gaycouple who won an early coach trip have been on a 4 in a bed. I hate the new coach trip it is hollyoaks fodder

Crinkle77 · 01/08/2018 20:51

gabsalot i agree. It was much better when there was a mix of ages.

MrsJayy · 01/08/2018 20:53

Poached egg twats Grin

GunpowderGelatine · 01/08/2018 20:54

My Aunty was on FIAB and did not come across well at all. The other contestants made a big song and dance about how "it's not a B&B they've just turned their house into rooms they charge for". Erm isn't that exactly what a B&B is?! My Aunty got well swizzed as well!

Crinkle77 · 01/08/2018 20:59

Did someone say they had started a coach trip thread? Can't see it and where is the come dine one.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 01/08/2018 21:01

My friend’s DH and his sister did FIAB. They came across as lovely but bonkers (which they areSmile), didn’t win but we’re nice to everyone and didn’t under pay, overpaid one in fact. They viewed it as good publicity and they did get extra business as a result. They were upset about the end edit though because there was one lone old bloke running his own place and the tv crew had obviously decided to make him look like the baddie of the show when in reality he was perfectly nice. And the floaty, hippy winner- who had been lovely to their face all week (and my friend who went along but didn’t appear on camera) but said some quite snidey things off camera that appeared on the final show. My friend in particular was really upset as she thought they had made a genuine friend. Shock

KC225 · 01/08/2018 21:03

One lady I felt really sad for was the woman and daughter, they fell for some old Scottish guy in a castle thought he was their best friend. Then he was really horrible about their place and they'd assumed it was the two young guys with yurts and were really frosty to them. When they found out on payment day it was the Scottish guy, she was so upset she started crying and saying 'I thought you'd come to see me'. She was gutted.