A FORMER Come Dine With Me contestant has revealed how she was cruelly branded “fake” by her co-stars on the Channel 4 show.
Katy Spence appeared on the much-loved series back in 2014, and is now taking to TikTok to spill the beans about her experience.
Come Dine With Me gives contestants a chance to host the perfect dinner party and put their skills to the test for strangers.
After taking part in the iconic series eight years ago, Katy has been busy lifting the lid on the secrets of the show that don’t make it to TV.
Now, the star has detailed how she was given horrific comments made by her co-stars after they rummaged through all her things.
Katy posted a follow-up to her first video, in which detailed how she took “a whole week off work” in order to film for her episode.
“Do you agree to people going through your stuff?” one fan had asked, to which she responded with a two-minute video.
“You know what room you’re doing because they fill it with light,” she detailed. “They don’t just casually go round your house in your pants drawer – they have to set up the lights, the boom, the cameras.
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“You don’t really know what’s happening in there. For example, they went through my make up after I’d spilt make up that day because I was running late.
“I had about minutes to get ready between finishing cooking and the evening crew arriving for my opening of the door.”
Katy went on to detail how her co-stars called her “concrete face” because of her collection of make up products.
“They called me concrete face because my make up drawer was dirty,” she explained. “They thought I was a WAG, I was just a woman in her 30s who liked hair and lash extensions.”
Katy followed up by detailing how one of the fellow contestants looked to have branded her “fake” due to the editing of the show.
“Before the show I said I thought they would have someone who doesn’t like make up – someone who is against adding things to yourself,” she added of her predictions before filming.
“The contestants don’t just go rifling through your house, the production crew have set it up and show the contestants what they want them to see. It’s all so staged.
Yesterday, Katy went viral on TikTok after detailing how she was forced to take days off work in order to film for the show.
Spence admitted she was not the one to take home the cash prize, but claimed Channel 4 bosses “know who they want to win” even before the cooking takes place.
She revealed: “During my week, one of the people absolutely should have won, their food was the best.
“But, it’s hugely edited, massively staged – and they know who they want to win right from the get-go.”
Katy also made allegations about the funding contestants receive to take part in the show, claiming: “You get £250 and that covers your food, your entertainment and any cutlery that you need.”
However, she claimed this was not enough to cover the cost of everything she needed to take part, adding: “Being that you take a gift to each contestant’s house, it cost me five or six hundred pounds.
“That’s not even including the fact that I couldn’t work for the week because I was filming from about three or four o’clock every day.”
In a follow-up clip, Katy went on to say that producers would “encourage contestants to go higher or lower on their scores” while filming the scenes in the taxis.
She also explained that the scenes involving people rooting around in each other’s knicker drawers and the likes were “heavily staged” and producers would point to what they wanted people to look at.
Come Dine With Me is available to watch on All 4 now.
