A new series of Channel 4's popular culinary extravaganza begins with a celebrity special. Tamara Beckwith, cheeky MC Harvey, Lynsey de Paul and Jonathan Ansell compete for the prize of best host.

Another four amateur chefs cook for each other. The two ladies are a bit more interested in their male companions than they are in the food.

Today the show heads to Bournemouth, where four amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host and seize the £1,000 prize

Claudette Brady, Sonia Peck, James Dean, Clive Page.

Dinner-party series Come Dine with Me serves up another irresistible helping, with this week's hosts hailing from Newport. There's tears, trauma and of course the £1000 prize money to win!

This week's competitive cooks hail from Sheffield, but to get their hands on the £1,000 prize, the four enthusiastic amateur chefs must impress the rest by hosting the finest dinner party

With Susanne Bell, Ollie Baxter, Hazel Glossop and Chris Crossley

This week's show from Oxford, pits cheese enthusiast Juliet against fussy eater Adish, who can't, or won't, disguise her obvious distaste for the delicacy

The four contestants, all from Bath, are: town crier Adrian Dando, IT manager Simon Goddard, Kenyan born community worker Sarah Hillman, and horse eventer Annie Todd.

The four contestants, all from Devon, are: supermarket owner Karen Bretagne, Sarah Corbett', who believes image is everything; pig farmer Deborah Custance-Baker, and IT consultant Darren Frame, who dislikes self-absorbed giggly girls.

Legendary nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow, Blue heartthrob singer Lee Ryan, pop princess and party girl Michelle Heaton and interior design guru Linda Barker battle it out to win

Model Caprice, hairdresser Nicky Clarke, TV presenter Nancy Sorrell and music legend Jimmy Osmond all try to host the perfect dinner party.

The culinary contest takes place in Aberdeen as nightclub manager Rick, pub landlord Bob, farm owner Amanda and care worker Laura compete to throw the best dinner party.

East Yorkshire's finest take turns to see who can host the best dinner party, with the culinary quartet secretly marking each other's efforts to decide who walks away with the cash.

Loud and proud cooking obsessive Nat Jaspers is the first host in the culinary competition, dishing up an array of homemade curiosities including wine, beer, jams and bread.

In Blackburn, four strangers take it in turns to throw their idea of the perfect dinner party. But demanding diner Stephen Mahon could prove to be more than the other competitors had bargained for...

The culinary competition comes from Berkshire, where Belgian-born foodie Fred Wilkinson reckons Brits can't cook. But he's soon left reeling on the first night by hostess Helen Kent.

Four Swindon Cooks Compete For the £1000 This Week.

Self-proclaimed psychic, Annette, claims to speak with angels. Will her cooking be fit for the gods?

Food snob, Mark, is a chauvinist and proud of it. Can he win points from three opinionated ladies?

Sarah Louise is going for a Greek themed meal but with tempers high it could end in tragedy?

Fruity Imelda likes the finer things in life, like tinned milk and curries that blow your head off

In this episode of Come Dine With Me, it's women only as four females from Southampton take it in turns to throw their idea of the perfect dinner party

There's a chill in the air when the four ladies come face to face and find there isn't a man in sight. And the first host, Amy Lovett, nearly chokes her guests...

In Blackpool four strangers take it in turns to throw their idea of the perfect dinner party. There's a colourful cast and when one guest brings out their own chilli sauce, sparks fly.

In this episode, four super-competitive cooks from Wolverhampton take turns to host their idea of the perfect dinner party

But there are times when confidence can be misread as arrogance, and some of the tactics used in this week's competition prove hard to swallow, especially when beautician Farida Kalifa is insulted on night one by Mike Brett, who in turn is gunning for cocky salesman, Lee Pritchett.

Meanwhile, Lee rapidly decides that Daddy's girl, Natalie Middleton, can be swept away in the competition.

There are desserts thrown, insults hurled and points lost in the grim battle to win the title and the prize.

The Luton set battle it out for the culinary prize.

Luigi Muscella, Noorani Williamson, Martin Palmer, Alison Balfour-Lynn