It has emerged that a number of the celebrity contestants on Channel 4’s 'Come Dine With Me' were lent properties to film in rather than use their own homes to host their dinner parties.
The Daily Mail reports that Christopher Biggins and Sherrie Hewson featured in houses on the show which were not their own.
Channel 4 has admitted the practice was used 'occasionally' in the celebrity version of the show when people were not all from the same area of the UK.
In the episode featuring Biggins he is seen showing off a photo of himself and Joan Collins on a book shelf. However it was not said explicitly during the show that he owned the property. Biggins went on to win the 'Come Dine With Me' in which he featured with Julia Bradbury, Edwina Currie and Phil Olivier.
The reports claims that in the case of Hewson the producers decided that she lived too far away from the other contestants and so they hired a property.
A Channel 4 spokesman said: "For logistic and security reasons, some of the celebrity dinner parties are filmed at a rented location rather than their own homes.
"This is only the case for the celebrity spin-offs. Contributors for Come Dine With Me host their dinners at their own homes."
