Ever feel like the guests at your dinner party are silently judging your cooking? The Reality TV gods have answered your prayers.
“Come Dine With Me” — the reality competition format that’s enchanted audiences in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Greece and a slew of other international markets — makes its U.S. debut Thursday on Lifetime, allowing American viewers to bask in the discomfort of dinner-party disasters without the fear of personal shame.
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On the series, contestants dine at each others’ homes, then privately — and often brutally — vote on their competitors’ cooking and hosting abilities, with the ultimate goal of taking home a cash prize.
In this exclusive clip, one contestant’s plans to add a blindfolded taste test to her dinner party come to an ignoble end, when one of her guests is sent running to the porcelain throne to jettison her beetroot mousse.
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“Come Dine With Me,” which is produced by ITV Studios America (“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Kitchen Nightmares”) premieres Thursday at 10 p.m./9c on Lifetime. In the meantime, take a look at the gut-churning exchange below: