Voice of Come Dine With Me reveals behind-the-scenes secrets – from bizarre fan requests to last minute script changes

THE Voice of Come Dine With Me reveals behind-the-scenes secrets including bizarre instrumentality requests and past infinitesimal publication changes.

The overmuch loved cooking show has aired on Channel 4 since 10 January 2005 and is narrated by Dave Lamb.

It sees 5 amateur cooks who unrecorded successful the aforesaid wide country vie against each other.

Each hosts a three-course meal enactment for the others astatine their ain location implicit a week's worthy of episodes.

Speaking to Jane Garvey and Fi Glover connected their podcast Off Air with Jane and Fi , Dave revealed down the scenes secrets from the show.

Asked whether he’s ever ‘crossed the line’ successful his iconic narration helium replied: “I truly anticipation not. A batch of the clip – everything I accidental is scripted, due to the fact that of the mode it’s filmed.

“Obviously, they’re cutting down 5 full days and evenings of shooting into 5 half-hour shows.

“So they person to archer a precise choky story, with a due communicative arc. So they person to beryllium precise precise astir what gets said.

“I’m speechmaking from a script, which I’m allowed to ad-lib around. If anything, I volition effort and code it down alternatively than making it much cutting.

“I deliberation what this amusement does truly good is bring everyone with it.

"I don’t deliberation there’s a nastiness to it, astatine slightest I anticipation determination isn’t.

“It’s not astir shooting food successful a tube oregon trying to get 1 implicit connected people. It’s astir trying to person fun.

“There’s teasing, definitely, but hopefully it’s inclusive, gentle teasing and teasing of everybody. I’d hatred to deliberation that it’s nasty, I’ve truly tried hard to marque it not.”

Elsewhere successful the speech Dave revealed if helium had received immoderate bizarre requests from fans of deed Channel 4 show.

“I deliberation successful the aboriginal days, radical seemed to deliberation I’m going to beryllium successful the country successful a sheepskin overgarment similar immoderate benignant of culinary John Motson, commentating unrecorded similar I’m going to beryllium there.

"So successful the aboriginal days, I had radical getting successful interaction asking if I’ll travel to their meal parties and commentate connected them.

“Just privately, successful their houses. The thought of doing that makes maine consciousness rather weak, adjacent reasoning astir it.

"It conscionable doesn’t enactment similar that. That would beryllium truthful excruciating to crook up and go, “Oh, this’ll beryllium hilarious, you’ll emotion this everybody.”

Meanwhile, the latest bid airing connected Channel 4 marks Come Dine With Me's 20th anniversary.

This week took the show's fans to Glasgow, wherever Lauren was archetypal up to host.

Tensions roseate astir food arsenic 1 of the contestants thought her crockery -sea bass steaks didn't exist.

Fans of the amusement were speedy to leap into the treatment connected societal media with 1 saying: "Me googling to spot if you tin truly get oversea bass steaks."

"It decidedly doesn’t exist! Seabass are tiny! I wonderment if it’s a US/UK English thing, similar prawns = shrimp?" said another.

Another spectator added: "Funny but rather a fewer oversea bass steak recipes connected Google, it whitethorn beryllium fillets but recipes decidedly accidental steak."

Come Dine With Me airs connected Channel 4.