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The chocolate factory thing, does anyone else find the guy incredibly irritating?

How did he get the meeting with Selfridges so easily too?
 
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I think his wife does.

I always wonder when they say how hard up they are why they can't get the fee for doing the programme early - and use that.

Maybe he said there'd be cameras there for his passport to Selfridge's.
 
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I'm not 100% convinced this program is real and not a PR stunt of some sort, it seems like too many coincidences and too well filmed for a "documentary". Did anyone else feel it was a little staged?
 
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Aaaaaggggggg it's so annoying. The crating drama. Ooooooooh they have sold everything they own to finance this. At least they have stuff to sell. Yes I find it all very contrived and intensely irritating.


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Especially when all of a sudden, guess what, a recipe using some gratings of 100% chocolate is demonstrated by Mr Wonky.

Didn't fancy his risotto much but the chocolate cake looked great.
 
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yes the cake did look fab, I will give him that


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In the next programme "an accident with a forklift truck threatens the installation of a vital piece of equipment at Willie's Devon-based factory, and delays production of his latest goods."

...and what a peice of luck the camera was filming at the time, with the sound man and producer.

I don't beleive it, do you? Ninja
 
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I did believe it when I saw how ham-fisted he was with the fork-lift. (A pinch of food metaphor there - ham, fork.) Sorry.

Anyway, at least his dinner party guests looked genuine enough - unlike Nigella's rent-a-mob shower.
 
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I think his wife does.

I always wonder when they say how hard up they are why they can't get the fee for doing the programme early - and use that.

Maybe he said there'd be cameras there for his passport to Selfridge's.


I think you'll find that they're not that desperate, Willies escapade is probably being funded by Tanias papa.They sold the family pile and all contents some time ago and all revenue spilt between Tania and 3 siblings.Tanias papa happens to be Lord Coleridge a direct descendant of the great poet

It's all here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnis...772&in_author_id=230

and here http://www.sgallery.net/artnews/2006/09/30/property-fro...on-at-sotheby-s.html
 
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Just finished watching programme 4-contrived yes-but do I want to get my hands on a bar-yes. (Did anyone else think the party food was a bit mean?)
 
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How on earth did the food standard agency allow him to produce food/ chocolate in a shed he called a factory, I produce food and has taken me months to get up to standard, I wish I had his contacts, he broke enough hygine laws during the programme to be sentenced to life in prison.
 
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How on earth did the food standard agency allow him to produce food/ chocolate in a shed he called a factory, I produce food and has taken me months to get up to standard, I wish I had his contacts, he broke enough hygine laws during the programme to be sentenced to life in prison.


Totally agree,I've just posted a new disscusion about this.
 
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Oh dear! Well, if he has any sense, he will do what El Presidente says and move production back to Venezuela.



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