Whether you watch it for the unusual recipes, the entertaining characters, or when you've been too hungover to reach for the remote, the chances are you'll have seen Come Dine With Me.
In the early noughties it became an early evening staple, as five complete strangers take it in turns to host a dinner party for one another in the hopes of bagging a cash prize of £1,000.
At the height of its popularity, many Brits dreamed of appearing on the show, and lots of people even hosted their own at home, but what was it really like to take part in Channel 4's Come Dine With Me?
Well, one former contestant is lifting the lid on what goes on behind the cameras, while answering fans' burning questions - and it's just as juicy as you'd hope.
Katy Spence appeared on a series of the hit show in 2014 and is now revealing all, from how much it cost to which bits are fake.
In a recent Q&A on TikTok, a follower asked Katy whether contestants get given loads of money to participate in the show, and the answer was a big, fat no.
"You get £250 and that covers your food, your entertainment and any cutlery that you need," she explained.
"Being that you take a gift to each contestant's house, it cost me five or six hundred pounds - that's not even including the fact that I couldn't work for the week because I was filming from about three or four o'clock every day."
But if that wasn't shocking enough, Katy opened up about how producers used to fix the results to get the people who they wanted to win to get the highest score.
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"During my week, one of the people absolutely should have won, their food was the best," she said. "But, it's hugely edited, massively staged - and they know who they want to win right from the get go."
In a follow up clip, Katy went on to say that producers would encourage contestants to go higher or lower on their scores while filming the scenes in the taxis.
When asked whether people tend to get drunk on the show, Katy said: "Sitting down for dinner for about six hours, all the while you're being stared at by four or five people around you. You barely even properly eat, let alone drink."
She also explained that the scenes involving people rooting around in each other's knicker drawers and the likes were heavily staged and producers would point to what they wanted people to look at.
"My heart has been shattered," one Come Dine With Me fan commented after learning the news, while another added: "Staged. I feel betrayed." You're not the only one.
A third wrote: "Ngl that's really upset me. I thought Come Dine With Me was a lot more real than that."
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