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Come Dine with Me: Season 24

32 episodes Premiered Jul 15, 2011 Updated Sep 27, 2026
Previously on Come Dine with Me

Season 24 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Come Dine with Me Season 23.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 24 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S24·E1 Mytharc

All in One: Hull

Jul 15, 2011

Housewife Beccy Harrison, DJ Paul Green, glam marketing girl Eve Clark, and amateur dramatics director Mark Daniels battle it out for the prize. Beccy's Thai-themed evening is swa

S24·E2 Core

All in One: Avonmouth

Jul 22, 2011 · 30 min

Four cooks in Avonmouth, near Bristol, battle it out in a week of dining including skip diving, food chanting, hula hooping and some rather embarrassing dancing. Cooking for the p

S24·E3 Core

All in One: East Yorkshire

Jul 29, 2011

Four cooks battle it out in a week of palm reading, some racy discoveries in the bedroom, a confusion between posset and possum, and a bit of a botox controversy. The four cooks a

S24·E4 Core

All in One: Norwich

Aug 5, 2011

The competitive foursome's week features an undercooked chicken, a 'busty' party trick, and a super hot chilli-eating challenge. Ultra-confident Sam Smith is positive he's got the

S24·E5 Core

All in One: South Devon

Aug 12, 2011

This new episode comes from south Devon, where party girl Frankie Tolliday takes on American rock chick Tara Mulholland, Dandy artist Simon Drew and relentless joker Peter Pyne.

S24·E6 Core

All in One: Bristol

Aug 19, 2011

Four nights of competitive dining in the West Country, features a bit of manhandling, some dodgy 80s disco moments, and an enormous handmade sausage. Scatty 23-year-old yummy mumm

S24·E7 Core

All in One: Costa del Sol Special

Aug 26, 2011

In a Come Dine with Me first, the culinary competition ventures abroad to the sunny Costa del Sol, where four amateur ex-pat chefs compete for the coveted £1000 prize. As usual, al

S24·E8 Core

All in One: Athletics Special

Sep 2, 2011

In this brand new Come Dine with Me celebrity special, four Olympians battle it out to win a £1000 cash prize for charity. Former world champion javelin thrower Fatima Whitbread k

S24·E9 Core

All in One: Rugby World Cup Special

Sep 9, 2011

Four rugby greats - Kyran Bracken, Martin Offiah, Victor Ubogu and Gareth Chilcott - go shoulder-to-shoulder in a charity rugby special. Cheeky scrum half Kyran Bracken kicks off

S24·E10 Core

All in One: Telford

Sep 16, 2011

Donna Daly kicks off the week with a man-pleasing menu as she takes on Ian Carter, Sarah Ashley-Ruff, and self-acclaimed 'Mr Perfect', Adam Hurlin.

S24·E11 Mytharc

All in One: Burton-on-Trent

Sep 23, 2011

In Burton-on-Trent four cooks battle it out in a week featuring sloppy banoffee pie, some seriously undercooked prawns, and much talk of fake boobs and Botox. Refined food snob Ch

S24·E12 Core

All in One: Tyneside

Sep 30, 2011

Battling it out in the north east are English teacher and competitive foodie Jenni McGagh, hairdresser Bobby Mukabaa, bowel-obsessed colonic irrigationist Cath Morgan, and cheeky-c

S24·E13 Core

All in One: Carlisle

Oct 7, 2011

Competing for culinary supremacy in Carlisle are complementary therapy student Helen Speakman, boy band drummer Andy Bainbridge, DIY devotee Nigel Hawes and cake maker Deborah Nixo

S24·E14 Core

All in One: Hampshire

Oct 14, 2011

In Hampshire, motor-mouth mum of four Selena Bartlett, punk rock vegan Jhon Cosgrove, retired boat lover Anson Lane and chatty hairdresser Terese Scott are battling it out for the

S24·E15 Core

All in One: North West London

Oct 21, 2011

Four very different amateur cooks are putting on four very different dinner parties. Competing for the prize are 25-year-old solicitor Bahareh Amani, bachelor boy and satellite dis

S24·E16 Core

All in One: Windsor

Oct 28, 2011

In Windsor solicitor Anil Vij takes on food snob and web designer Harry Hardisty, posh property business woman Jan Bowdler, and lady of leisure Ansa Khan - who thinks of herself as

S24·E17 Core

All in One: Isle of Man

Nov 4, 2011

On the Isle of Man four hosts go head to head in a week featuring some flirting, some bitching, some insults, a Manx crab starter, and one host dressing up as a cow to serve puddin

S24·E18 Core

All in One: Luton

Nov 11, 2011

This brand new episode comes from Luton where, battling it out over four nights are B&B owner Alison McGaw, fire-fighting action man Gary Salvage, fearsomely feisty Polish mum Alex

S24·E19 Mytharc

All in One: Coventry

Nov 25, 2011

Magician Gareth Twynam takes on mum-of-two Sumi Malhortra-Chauhan, recruitment consultant Kristy Mooney, and salesman Phil Roberts, in a week featuring a bit of Bollywood, a chilli

S24·E20 Core

All in One: Dundee and Lothian

Dec 2, 2011

A week of competitive dining featuring bickering, edible glitter, sumo-wrestling, and a post-dinner toilet roll game. Super serious science student Ben Skerry takes on celebrity-o

S24·E21 Core

All in One: Nottingham

Dec 9, 2011

Battling it out this time are a potty-mouthed pensioner, a wrestler, a mouthy mum and a marketing director. Expect some unsavoury dinner table conversation and a battle of the sexe

S24·E22 Core

All in One: Herefordshire

Dec 16, 2011

Battling it out in Herefordshire is 47-year-old customer service advisor Mandy Fincher, `professional bum' John Harrington, actor Simon Blood DeVay, and straight-talking accountant

S24·E23 Filler

All in One: Comedians Christmas Special

Dec 23, 2011

Four comedians do culinary battle for charity. Going head-to-head in this festive special are Sean Hughes, Gina Yashere, Paul Tonkinson and Duncan Norvelle. Sean serves up a non-

S24·E24 Core

All in One: Derry/Londonderry

Jan 1, 2012

This week of competitive dining comes from Northern Ireland and features a controversial seaweed starter, some alternative therapies, some arguing and a stray hair. Taking part is

S24·E25 Core

All in One: Celebrity Special

Jan 6, 2012

Tina Malone from Shameless takes on scandal sensation Imogen Thomas, ex-Hollyoaks actor Paul Danan, and 80s pop star David Van Day in a week of competitive dining for charity. Tin

S24·E26 Core

All in One: Isle of Wight

Jan 13, 2012

The four battling for the prize on the Isle of Wight are local celebrity and singer Derek Sandy, eco-entrepreneur Rob Drake-Knight, single mum Claire Cheek and posh pensioner Tina

S24·E27 Core

All in One: Scarborough

Jan 20, 2012

Four cooks battle it out in a week of loud suits, shoddy hosting, bad food, strong opinions, showgirls, a Laurel and Hardy tribute act and an absolute belter of an argument. Takin

S24·E28 Core

All in One: South London

Jan 27, 2012

Four south London residents go fork to fork. Australian comedian Colin Cole, tennis coach Josh Harvey, Marilyn Monroe lookalike Suzie Kennedy, and teacher Rachel Melito, in a week

S24·E29 Core

All in One: Oldham

Feb 3, 2012

Battling it out in Oldham are student Vicki Shea, `cultured' Am-dram director James Schofield, cocktail barman Ben Brooks, and self-confessed man-eater Kathy Howard.

S24·E30 Core

All in One: Sheffield

Feb 10, 2012

Four amateur cooks in Sheffield compete in a week of dining featuring feuding, risque anecdotes, some fine food, and a raging battle over whether wine corks or screw-top lids are b

S24·E31 Mytharc

All in One: North London

Feb 17, 2012

It's a week of flamboyance and flames, serenading and (unwanted) snogging as four north London residents go head-to-head. Guests include bling-tastic Raj Bahad, 21-year-old Rusty

S24·E32 Mytharc

All in One: Costa del Sol 2

Mar 2, 2012

Battling it out on the Costa del Sol are four expats in a week featuring some odd food, shameless name dropping, some bare-cheek service, and a kitchen fiasco where a host loses hi

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