How does the interaction between strangers change throughout a complete episode of come dine with me?

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Come Dine with me is a reality TV show where four contestants compete to throw the best dinner party. They each throw a dinner party over the course of a week, and mark each other out of ten based on food, atmosphere and overall experience. The host with the most points at the end of the week wins a thousand pounds. Furthermore the show was originally aired in 2005 and since then it has only grown in popularity and has become a familiar TV show on Channel 4. Each contestant on the show wants to create a good impression of themselves to the other contestants as well as the viewers at home. Moreover, the show is heavily edited; which many viewers add unaware of nonetheless, this humour and makes the show more interesting. It’s a surprisingly entertaining format, with Dave Lamb's voice-over striking just the right tone, taking the ‘Mickey’ of all participates by adding various sarcastic comments throughout. As the First Dinner party comes around all the contestants are quite shy and nervous and they are conversing the only way they may know how to around new people-Politely. As they all arrive at the first dinner party which is hosted by Ben they are all greeted very politely. Ben and Jessica begin the conversation with “Hi” which is soon followed by “nice to meet you”. They are both trying to create good first impressions of themselves as after all this TV show is aired all over the UK and all the viewers would also want to create good impressions of them to the viewers at home. Moreover, as this is Ben’s dinner party, any rudeness or bad impressions may cost him marks which may influence his chances at winning the thousand pounds. Therefore Ben may feel that he needs to be polite to all of his rivals nonetheless once his dinner pa... ... middle of paper ... ... by his use of fillers “erm...” but this all changes as he becomes more comfortable around them. We see a new and different side to him when he starts of an argument at Jessica’s Dinner party. He is conveyed as being quite judgemental and opinionated but due to the fact that he had already had his dinner party he was no longer required to force himself to be friendly to them. Throughout the Come dine with me episode Cara has also as before she was using proper full names but towards the end she felt more comfortable and so decided to use nick-names. Moreover she has grown to like the group and sees them all as friends. Overall, to sum up as you get to know someone more and more the interaction is bound to increase more and more. All the characters have different personalities and outlooks on life yet they have grown a custom to one another over the course of a week.

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