A CONTESTANT on Come Dine With Me reveals how strict show bosses confiscated their booze after catching them secret drinking during the show.
Plymouth based, support worker Lea Dobson loved her time on the cooking show but explained that lots of things were cut from the show because the contestants were drunk.
Slain McGough Davey, Lea Dobson, Jazza Fandango, Katie Coates and Stephen Connolly appeared on Come Dine With Me as part of the programme’s 20th anniversary.
Lea who loved being on the show revealed exclusively to The Sun that she didn’t realise how strict the bosses were before she took part in the show.
Lea explained: “We didn’t realize that we were gonna get monitored on what we were drinking.
“It’s like they try and encourage you to have, like, a glass of alcohol with a meal but not much more.
“And, obviously, like, everyone from down my area, we do like to drink and have fun.
“So we were a bit like, oh, this this is shit, we want to drink a bit more than that.
“So we were like were having a look around the house and and we literally found a bottle of his moonshine, and we stole it.
“When we found the moonshine, we just all started swigging it.
Lee explained that they tried to be sneaky so that the producers didn’t see how much they were drinking.
“We’re trying to be sneaky and hiding it under the dinner table and passing it between us.
Lea laughed: “Every time one of them left, we were having more swigs.
“And then they actually caught me doing it and confiscated the bottle from me.
But the producers didn’t hide it too well because the hilarious Lea found it again.
“They hid it in a little food bag but as soon as he left the room, I just took it again, and we just pretty much necked the whole bottle.
In her final interview, Lea admitted that she could feel the room swaying around herself and that her speech was slurring.
She added: “On the last night of the show, which is Katie’s night, she served us shots.
“They said to us you’re not really supposed to drink spirits and, Katie told them that there’s only one shot in each drink.
“But there wasn’t and I didn’t realize until after I had drunk it, that there were about seven shots instead of one in each.
“And I drunk Slain’s too who was sat next to me as well.
“So I’m sat there drinking both of them thinking, god, I’m feeling a little bit wavy already.”
The self confessed fitness fanatic concluded by saying that she’s made friends for life and that being on the show was a great experience.
“You see other people crying on shows like Love Island and you think that’s dramatic as they have only known each other a few days.
“But you don’t realise how quickly the bond forms on reality shows.
“We spent so much time with each other off camera and have become very close to each other.”
Come Dine With Me airs on Channel 4.
