During this episode of Come Dine With Me, series 24- episode 19, Cara-Anne, Ben, Jessica and Derek start as four strangers. The interaction changes as they start to discover what each other are really like

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“How does the interaction of strangers change through a complete episode of ‘Come Dine Wirth Me’?”

During this episode of ‘Come Dine With Me’, series 24- episode 19, Cara-Anne, Ben, Jessica and Derek start as four strangers. The interaction changes as they start to discover what each other are really like and become familiar with one another. Throughout the episode, some of the contestants get on well, whereas some have disagreements and don’t get on as well. However, by the end of the week, everyone is getting on reasonably well.

‘Come Dine With Me’ is a televised competition on Channel 4, made for entertainment about a group of strangers who serve as hosts and seat as guests. They all wish to win the prize of £1000 by receiving the most points by the other competitors, of their dining experience with each other as the host.

The show is known to use diverse characters and personalities to use as entertainment for arguments and clashes of opinions, as well as cutting out the boring clips and using the interesting ones to attract viewers. Also to emphasize the entertainment, the well-known sarcastic voice-over of Dave Lamb is used, who makes fun of and picks up upon the competitors mistakes. So, overall Come Dine With Me is supposed to be an entertaining and engaging show for many purposes.

The first dinner party is hosted by Ben and it is the first time the four strangers meet. And during the first introductions everyone seems to be very polite. Such as, when Ben says “Hi” and Jessica replies with “Hi”, they are using adjacency pairs and repeating one another, “Jessica, nice to meet you.”, “Nice to meet you”. They are acting this way because they do not know each other and can’t be too informal as they are still getting to know one another, like how they then start to discuss what they do as a living. The politeness features also show as they meet the other contestants, which portrays mutual feelings between everyone and the automatic response of politeness

During the first introductions from the other contestants, it is shown that Ben is quite nervous. When he starts to talk about his occupation, he says “Erm, I’m a PHD student” and “Erm, drug resistant Breast Cancer”. He uses fillers which suggest he’s hesitant and aware about his first impression he is putting across to the other guests. This shows that Ben is indeed nervous at the start of the evening.

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Throughout the evening, Jessica is acting quiet rude, compared to the others towards Ben. When Ben is talking about his academic past, Jessica responds with paralinguistic features like gasps. And when Ben says “So, I failed my exams five times”, Jessica responds with “You think you’d know how to pass after the fourth attempt”. This suggests that Jessica is insulting him, as well as her exaggerated reaction with her gasps. This shows rudeness towards Ben that the other contestants are hardly showing.

Also, Jessica stands out among the other contestants, from the beginning. First of all, when meeting the other ...

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