Come Dine With Me's Dave to host Gory Games

Come Dine With Me's Dave to host Gory Games
Come Dine With Me's Dave to host Gory Games

Dave Lamb, the acerbic Come Dine With Me host, is to present a children's quiz show. The actor's no-holds-barred comments about contestants in the Channel 4 dinner party show have helped propel the programme to huge success. Now he is set to be the host of new series Gory Games - a spin-off from hit series Horrible Histories - for CBBC later this year. CBBC controller Damian Kavanagh said: "The series is being made by the revoltingly talented team behind Horrible Histories and we're sure that Gory Games will be a hideous hit too." Last month, Horrible Histories became the first children's programme to pick up the best sketch show prize at the British Comedy Awards. It is based on the series of books by Terry Deary which focus on some of the grim aspects of various historical eras to bring the past to life for youngsters. Gory Games will see young contestants answering grisly questions about Awful Egyptians, Vicious Vikings, the Measly Middle Ages and more. Winners of the quiz will have to take part in a physical challenge such as Henry VIII's pie-eating game. The programmes feature stars of Horrible Histories as well as author Terry.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.