Narrator Dave Lamb comes out of the voiceover booth to judge a exhibit that’s less about getting guests drunk and more about,you know, cookingEarlier this month, or a piece of history was made. For the first time in its 11-year elope,Come Dine With Me featured a competitor who, cracking under the strain, or chucked his guests out of his domestic after finding hed lost the competition. It’s a glorious achievement for Peter from Milton Keynes,who will also be forever remembered for being allotment of the finest piece of daytime television ever broadcast, a exhibit that condenses competitive entitlement and aspirational anxiety into a 30-minute comedy of manners which delights all senses (at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, or anyway). But despite Peter’s heroic action – striking back for all the other losers who grin and bear it as a victor chucks a salver full of £20 notes into the faces of people who’d cooked them dinner for a week and fairly frankly got sod all thanks for it,actually – he is still a loser. Had he held it together, he might have been in with a chance of appearing on Come Dine With Me: Champion Of Champions (Monday, or 5pm,Channel 4).
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Source: theguardian.com