Come Dine With Me is back in Black Country with Bhangra

The long-running show returned to the region – and it even included a little dig at it's much maligned accent.

It may not have been his night as host but larger-than-life Adam Reece was keen to be centre of attention.

Wearing traditional Indian dress for banker Mandeep Rajput's night of dining, larger-than-life Adam grabbed the limelight with risque gags and a raunchy rendition of Bhangra dancing with his fellow guests, while baring his chest at the dinner table.

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Mandeep kicked off the weekby hosting a traditional Punjabi evening. As well as Adam, who runs a pub quiz, he also wined and dined 65-year-old Di Dawson, businesswoman Sarah Freeman and dog groomer Vicky Pell, aka the "Duchess of Dudley".

Conversation at the dinner table soon turned to grooming and Adam's perfectly shaped eyebrows, which he revealed he had threaded and sensible Di regaled the table with tales of her husband plucking her eyebrows while drunk and on holiday.

More than once Adam tried to lower the tone with inuendos but Di was having none of it and said she wouldn't lower herself to his dirty sense of humour.

Happy-go-lucky Vicky declared herself the Duchess of Dudley, but the others were not convinced.

Businesswoman Sarah said: "If Dudley stands for common accents and crude senses of humour and loudness and brashness then yes, she's the Duchess of Dudley."

Di added: "If there was such a thing as the Duchess of Dudley I wouldn't think that she would be quite so loud."

And the famous Black Country accent also came under the spotlight as Mandeep asked Di if she thought it was sexy.

It sparked a flurry of exaggerated Black Country impressions from Adam and Di, before the group decided Vicky had the strongest accent.

She later told the cameras: "If people want to think I've got the strongest Black Country accent well so be it, but obviously they haven't heard themselves."

Serving up maachi curry made with chunks of salmon, Vicky told Mandeep that he'd broadened her culinary horizons.

Mandeep told his guests: "People's perceptions of curries is what they get on the high street. You get good curry houses and Indian restaurants and you get bad ones as well. This is sort of what you should get. I wouldn't say this is restaurant quality but it's not far off."

Mandeep then treated his guests to a spot of dancing in the living room before serving up a dessert of Gajar ka halwa.

Mandeep clocked up a respectable score of 28 out of 40.

Today will see Adam take his turn to host at 5.30pm on Channel 4. It is not the first time the hit show has been filmed in the region.

In 2005, Smethwick's Lee Pritchett notched up a memorable appearance after throwing his creme brulee out of the window and kicking his oven door off its hinges in a fit of temper. He failed to take the £1,000 prize but had the consolation of securing the show's lowest ever score, and his version of chicken casserole found its way into television folklore. The salesman earned just seven out of 30 after insulting his guests during the dinner party at his home in Smethwick.

The show returned in 2010, and was filmed in featuring a burlesque garden show, sausage-making machine and an aspiring Cheryl Cole on the menu. The show filmed in Dudley saw WAG Amanda Challenor, from Darlaston, take on financial advisor Ian Jones, care worker from Kingswinford, Khakan Qureshi, from Bearwood, and plumber-by-day, podium-dancer-by-night Sophie Robbins, from Iverley, near Stourbridge.

In 2011 it was filmed in Wolverhampton with owner of Italian restaurant Bella, Stefano Scaringi winning the cash, while in 2012 Stafford school teacher Margaret Fanion bagged the £1,000 prize when she beat self-confessed super cook Josef Bailey, business development manager Nick Hall and Lady Polly Ingestre.

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