COME Dine With Me's Dave Lamb has revealed the amusement was expected to beryllium VERY antithetic - arsenic it marks 20 years connected air.
Dave, 56, has provided the Channel 4 show's iconic narration since the precise beginning.
As viewers know, Come Dine With Me features 5 amateur cooks hosting meal parties among themselves crossed a week - hoping to triumph a £1,000 currency prize.
Speaking to Jane Garvey and Fi Glover connected their podcast Off Air with Jane and Fi, Dave shared details astir the programme's beginnings.
As it turns out, the amusement initially didn't person the comedic constituent that fans cognize today.
Dave said: “I deliberation they did a aviator and it was rather a consecutive amusement astatine that point.
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"Channel 4 took the determination to audition comedy writer-performers arsenic a narrator, truthful that they could adhd a small thing to it astatine that point, coming successful from the voiceover.
“Once we really got into the workplace to record, we each stepped backmost from that a small bit.
"'This is simply a spot excessively much, we can’t outcry similar that astatine radical portion they’re trying to cook.'
"Over the years, it’s grown organically into the shout-fest that it presently is.”
Away from the Channel 4's amusement voiceover booth, Dave is besides an histrion and comedian.
He has appeared successful bid including Goodness Gracious Me and presented CBBC crippled amusement Horrible Histories: Gory Games.
In the aforesaid interview, Dave discussed his future connected Come Dine With Me.
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Having present worked connected the amusement for 2 decades, does helium privation to enactment on?
He told the podcast hosts: “I’m successful a truly bully spot with it astatine the moment.
"I deliberation the amusement is arsenic bully arsenic it’s ever been. Yes, I would similar to proceed doing it. I’m enjoying it."
Come Dine With Me airs connected Channel 4.
Channel 4's champion contention shows
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Four successful a Bed
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Come Dine With Me
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The Great British Bake Off
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Bake Off: The Professionals
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