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Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured

The combination of cookery and snooping has revealed Brits at their best and worst: generous and gracious – or sneering and judgmental

If we have learned anything from 15 years of Come Dine With Me, it’s this: never buy shop-bought pastry if you want to impress four strangers with your culinary skills.

This year celebrates the 15th anniversary of the show in which five people in one city invite a group of strangers to have a dinner party for five nights. Afterwards, they rate their hosts (usually in the back of a taxi) and scores are tallied to crown a winner of £1,000 at the end of the week. It swiftly became a cult hit.

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