Wednesday, 9 January 2008

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Bon appetite!

Come Dine With Me serves up a reality TV treat...

I have a new reality TV addiction. No not Big Brother, I'll have enough of that in the summer. For me you can't beat a bit of Come Dine With Me.

I am so sad I even Sky Plus it everyday as it's on when I'm at work. But honestly it's brilliant.

Five strangers each host a dinner party a night for the other four. they have to do a three course dinner and impress their guests with their culinary skills and hosting techniques before the other four vote in secret. Whoever scores highest at the end of the week wins £1,000.

Sometimes they cook amazing meals other times it's so vile you can't believe someone would dish it up to the dog let alone guests.

Not only are they bitchy behind each other's backs they do it to each other’s faces if you're lucky too!

The voiceover is suitably sarcastic and the editing is subtly sarcastic too.

The best thing ever though is the people they choose to go on it. They're not your usual fame hungry fare of wannabes. Most of the genuinely love food and want to win, but there's always at least one slightly mental person or one total bitch. Not mental in a 'I want to get my kit off and run around naked' kind of way, but in a slightly eccentric X Factor kind of way.

Last week had a rude lady obsessed with crystals and this week has two total snobs one of whom is trying to win by giving others incredibly low scores. I hate her.

Not since the genius reality show Coach Trip which I also became addicted to has their been daytime TV of this quality.