Come Dine With Me fans ‘switch off’ as they spot ‘Peep Show legend’ on Channel 4 show
COME Dine With Me viewers switched off in their droves last night after an ‘irritating’ contestant was dubbed a complete turn off.
The episode aired last night showed day three of the dinner party competition, where DJ and nutritionist, Mark, hosted in Basingstoke.
He prepared three courses for his festival-themed night and even offered his guests a taste of his own brand of filtered water, but fellow contestant Izzy, a winery employee, did not take it well.
As Mark prepared the food in a fluorescent lime green shirt and red neckerchief viewers compared him to unscrupulous Peep Show character Super Hans, played by Matt King.
On Twitter one wrote: “Check out f***ing tie-dye Super Hans.” And another added: “The guy hosting on #comedinewithme today appears to have modelled his personality on Super Hans from Peep Show.”
And one said: “Watching #ComeDineWithMe – Mark is Super Hans from #ThePeepShow. 20 years later. After his mid-life crisis.”
While Mark played up to the camera, viewers couldn’t hide their irritation labelling him “hard work”, and “so annoying” and on Twitter one said: “Tonight’s host, I’m out.”
Mark used a cheese plane to peel a butternut squash, chopped aggressively and introduced his ‘oxygenator’ water machine, which he washes vegetables in without peeling them.
He also took great pleasure in showing off his outdoor well, insisted everybody eats bananas the wrong way round and bragged about using shop-bought ice cream.
He said: “I”m a busy man, and I ain’t got time to make ice-cream. And there’s a reason for that and that is other people make it just as well as I’d want to do it so why would I bother doing it?”
The episode was first shown on August 4 2021, and Mark’s dinner party efforts saw him score 32 out of a possible 40.
Come Dine With Me airs weeknights at 5.30pm on Channel 4 and All4.
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