Hey all,
Last month I was on a UK tv show called Dinner Date, which you may or may not be familiar with. I got a DVD copy of the show and have put it up on my youtube channel as a private video so if you want to watch me then you can do so below.
Illuminatiprimus on Dinner Date
I’m menu number 1, in case you can’t figure it out! 
Cool.
Very fun! Hope you enjoyed it!
I find it very hard to believe that Alan is so experienced as a cook based on some of his comments - he wasn’t aware that gnocci was potato not pasta, had never tried crab and his favorite vegetable was broccoli? Pshaw, he wasn’t good enough for you!
I’m finding it a little difficult to word this next section without being offensive so please be patient with me when you read it…
Is this a major network kind of show or a specialty channel? If it’s the first, go UK because I can’t imagine that yet here in Canada. Not for the reason of anyone being offended but I suspect that ratings would be too low to keep it on the air.
Why would that be offensive? It’s a major network - ITV - which is one of the five main terrestrial channels and so therefore viewable in the whole UK. It was also shown at 5pm, so hardly a specialist show. Dinner date is a big hit here - are you saying you find it hard to believe people would watch such a show or that they’d have men dating on it?
I enjoyed it! Thanks for posting!
I loved getting a peek into the homes and kitchens! Plus, you are cute!
I think it’s that we’re more conservative in the US, and that there might be lots of complaints to the network here about a same-sex dating episode.
That being said, the first winners of the Food Network’s show “The Next Food Network Star” were a gay couple from Chicago who own a restaurant/catering business together. It’s not a non-cable network, but it’s pretty popular.
I watched through the first menu presentation and will finish later - I agree, you’re cute!
Well first of all I misunderstood - I didn’t realize the show could set up couples of any orientation for some reason I jumped to the conclusion that this was a same sex only dating show.
I’m going to blame lack of sleep since it seems so obvious now and that’s the best excuse I can come up with.
I watched the entire show, and thank you for posting it! It kind of reminds me of a variation of a popular German show, Das Perfekte Dinner (The Perfect Dinner) where four people invite each over for dinner at their homes over four nights, and they vote at the end who had the best. No dating in that show, just eat and vote (plus they get nasty with comments about each other).
That said, this was a fun show!
To be honest, I think you dodged a bullet - Alan seemed like a boring, egocentric jerk. For a so-called professional chef/cook, he didn’t seem to know much, and I have never heard of “weak teeth” - perhaps he means he has some kind of gum disease? That’s an attractive quality.
Plus, what were those godawful shorts he was wearing in the beginning of the show? Geez - I am surprised he wasn’t arrested by the Fashion Police. I think good 'ol Alan has been watching too much 80’s porn.
Your menu looked good - but I have to admit that using a double boiler for chocolate is really Cooking 101. If not, you could have just melted it in the microwave to make it soft…but other than that, you did a great job! Plus, you seemed very real and down to earth - by far the best candidate!
As an American, I thought the American on the show was a perfect match for Alan as he too was a bit full of himself. Perhaps he needs to meditate a bit longer in his yoga classes, and also read up what yoga is, as his definition was not exactly what most people consider yoga to be.
I felt sorry for the winner - he went in with high hopes, was thrilled to be chosen, but once again, Alan had no intention whatsoever of doing anything more than have dinner. I hate cockteasers and Alan was most certainly just playing the guy along.
You did a fantastic job, were great on camera and, despite the outcome, I think you were lucky not to have been chosen for that final dinner. My guess is that Alan will be single for quite some time, so who knows - maybe you will see him again someday as the manager at your local McDonalds. When you see him there, let him know the fish filet was a bit limp.
Thanks again for the link! Fun to watch!
Who is the woman who does the voice over? I’ve heard her voice a million times and I don’t live in the UK! Is she the only woman who does vo work in Brittan?
Ah - I see. That’s okay, guess it was a simple conclusion to draw. No, I was in the first episode where they had same sex dating (I feel like a trail blazer!).
We have that show too, it’s called “Come dine with me”. It’s a horrid, horrid show and I would never want to be on it. The producers clearly want everyone to hate each other and for there to be a trainwreck of a dinner, and the voiceover guy is really insulting. Can’t understand why ANYONE would want to be on it.
Thank you for that, and all the other nice compliments! Yeah, like I said, everyone I know who watched it thought he was a cock and that I lucked out by not being picked. I agree he had no intention of seeing the guy he picked again, no idea what that was about.
The narrator is Charlotte Hudson, not sure if she does anything else. Can’t say she sounds that familiar to me but some googling says she acts too.
I loved it, and I agree; you dodged a bullet. Who would tell someone who is cooking a salmon dinner for you that you will know if it’s a minute overcooked? And he used his fingers with the salad, although I apologize if that’s a custom. I think after a while you would have gotten tired of those shorts when you two were out running or bicycling.
How nervous were you? I can’t imagine meeting someone and cooking with a TV camera pointed at me. Did you really have to wait until Friday to find out if it was going to be Alan or a frozen dinner at your door?
You looked great. Would you do it again? Have you gotten any mail from admirers?
I guess she has a standard UK presenter voice.
Moved from MPSIMS to Cafe Society.
WTF was up with Alan’s shorts at the very beginning of the show?
Ooooh! I love goat’s cheese! And rocket (arugula)! And salmon! You must be a wonderful cook, and a hell of a catch.
I have to say, I kind of didn’t like that guy right away. Knowing you to the extent that I do,I think that he would have been a drag in short order.
Personally, I picture you with an intellectual philanthropist billionaire with ties to the music industry. Like Ironman, if he hung out with Infected Mushroom.
Not as much of a dick move as saying “yeah I told him I was a chef because I wanted to see how he operated under pressure”. Idiot.
Initially I was a bit nervous but after a couple of reassuring words from the director I just piled on. Fortunately I’d done a dry run the night before with a friend so I knew exactly what I was doing - the only thing I’d do differently was melt the chocolate on a lower heat so it didn’t burn. Yes, I know the conventional way is to do it over a bowl of water blah blah blah but I’d melted it in a pan the night before and it worked fine. I did have to wait until Sunday to find out if I was being taken out, but when I got told that they were going to be with me at 11am it was pretty obvious that that wasn’t going to be me getting picked up to go for dinner. Ah well, c’est la vie. I haven’t had any fan mail (yet). 
Like I said, he was pretty dim all said and done, so no there wouldn’t have been a long term future there. Still, I had a pleasant enough evening and would recommend it at as experience to anyone else who was interested in a fun evening and likes to cook.
I burst out laughing when they focused in on his crotch in those shorts, with the voiceover saying, “I have a very big passion…”
I thought Alan sounded a bit like a tool, too, when he was talking about his fancy dinner having pies! And cheese! Woo, you must be a gourmet!
I thought the whole bit about him being a chef was some what laughable - yeah, you were a chef, in the army! The key criteria there are how many spuds a minute can you peel and do you know how to use a tin opener.
Yeah. But you came across rather well. Him, not so much.
I can’t imagine the pressure to have a ‘natural’ date in front of a TV camera. I don’t think I could do it. You seemed to do it very well.
One thing though - I think ‘dates’ where one person disappears for half the time and leaves the other person sitting alone at the table are really lame. Get your date into the kitchen to help! I guarantee you’ll learn more about them that way.
Well done though!