More cooking, less snogging

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Brian B, Brian D, Sophie and Nadia

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A happy group of diners

I have never seen anyone snogging on 'Come Dine With Me', let's face it it's not that kind of a show. People cook, people eat & drink, people talk crap, people fight and then somebody walks away with £1,000.

Last night however there was very little cooking, lots of drinking and fighting and let's be honest here more than a little groping at the dinner table. It's enough to put you off you mini-burger or whatever you're having yourself.

The guests were of course former winners of 'Big Brother' and right there is where the problems started as apparently none of them - Brian Dowling, Nadia, Brian Belo or Sophie Reade - were even remotely interested or indeed able to cook.

When Brian D's offering of Shepherd's Pie wins the prize you know the bar has been set fairly low. It's hard to pick a culinary highlight, sorry I mean lowlight, but when Brian B tried to liquidise fried vegetables (at least I think that's what they were) for his soup without actually adding any liquid I knew we were in trouble. Sophie's homemade guacamole also looked like an upset tummy in the making and even she admitted it was horrible. Also what were her nachos doing in the oven as she barely added any cheese?

Enough about the food because it was crap and on to Brian Belo's unfortunate efforts at wooing Sophie at the dining table using copious amount of wine and his charm (or what there is of it). Miss Sophie was not exactly backwards in coming forwards herself during the programme and her attire for cooking did not leave anything to the imagination. It was so revealing that even Brian Dowling couldn't avert his eyes. I saw a piece on 'The One Show' recently about a nudist colony in the UK and it reminded me of that. It is no wonder Sophie doesn't cook much if that's her preferred choice of outfits. She would need danger money for just trying to fry a sausage.

Yet again Brian acquitted himself and seemed like the only adult in the room. He kept his cool even when Sophie suggested to this proud Irish son of the soil that potatoes grow on trees. Nadia came across as a total diva and I am glad she is out of the final week of Ultimate Big Brother. She had already decided that she is the ultimate champion so I am sure her eviction has come as a bit of a shock!

All in all a cracking hour of TV and I am sure there is an idea in there to have a 'Come Dine With Me/Dating in the Dark' mash-up in the future.

Bree Treacy