Come Dine With Me, Belfast? eh?

Where to begin, eh? At least Channel 4 didn’t do the ‘hands across the divide’ Come Dine With Me when they visited Belfast in last night’s episode.

Maybe it’s because it was based in Belfast that I was cringing so much. Maybe when it’s in Newcastle everyone in the city cringes, or the same in London or wherever. But to me last night’s seemed to be weirder than normal.

Yes, instead of the infighting Northerners, we were treated to four of Belfast’s strangest people. You know it’s a strange episode when cage fighter Donal Kelly was the most normal by a long shot. The funniest moment coming when ‘burlesque babe’ (that’s what the C4 website says) Nikki Fisher arrived at Nick Cann’s house on night one. At first I thought Nick was kneeling down before realising the stripper/comedian/fire-eating woman was nearly twice his height.

Weird is the only way to describe it. Especially Jacqueline McGarry ? a spiritualist from the Belfast Spiritualist Church who claims to not only see dead people, sorry, ahem, I mean hear from the spirits, but she also ‘tastes’ what they’re tasting. No harm to you, but I doubt there’s a burger bar in heaven, hell or whatever you believe in.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a watch simply because it was based in Belfast. Had it been another city, I’d have said it was as dull as dishwater and to not bother watching it. You can see it on C4’s OD service by clicking here.

What did you all think of the show?