Exeter-based PR Consultant Glen King, with clients across the
South West, celebrated her TV debut on popular Channel 4 programme, ‘Come Dine
with Me’ by hosting a special event to raise awareness for Exeter Foodbank.
Glen organised an evening for close friends and family at the
luxurious kitchen showroom Sapphire Living Space located at Topsham which was sponsored
by V-Zug. Guests were welcomed with wine and canapés and asked to donate tins
and packets of food for the local worthy cause.
A charity raffle with prizes donated by local independent companies was drawn
by BBC Radio Devon presenter Judi Spiers raising much needed funds for the
charity.
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Glen King/ Ross Pollard Director, Sapphire Living Space /
Nick Crosley Development Chef V-Zug/ Alex Newbery Business Development,
Sapphire Living Space /Mark Newbery Director, Sapphire Living Space/ Judi
Spiers and Matthew Dibley Company Director, Bang & Olufsen Exeter
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Wine and delicious food including melt-in-the-mouth rare beef
cooked using the ‘Soft Roast’ function on the V-Zug Combi-Steam oven was
prepared and served by Development Chef, Nick Crosley. Guests enjoyed each course in between
watching the five episodes of Glen’s week on ‘Come Dine with Me’ shown on an
impressive 55” LED television screen kindly donated by Bang & Olufsen of
Exeter.
Glen King
of Glen King PR/Marketing says: “I organise many events on behalf of my clients which always has a charity
angle as I firmly believe in business giving back to the local community. It was a great opportunity, therefore, to
raise awareness for Exeter Foodbank which tied in nicely with the theme of the
programme and Sapphire Living Space was the perfect venue. It is hard to
believe in this day and age that there are unemployed people here in the City
who through no fault of their own have little or no money to feed their
families and Christmas is a particularly stressful and difficult time for them.
The staff at Sapphire couldn’t have been more helpful and I particularly want
to thank Alex Newbery for all her amazing hard work to make it such a
successful and enjoyable event and her liaison with the charity as well as the
generosity of the sponsors and local businesses.”
Glen was successfully selected for ‘Come Dine with Me’ from over
300 applicants in the local area. Fellow
contestants were Estelle Macrow and Sarah Wallis based in Exeter plus Richard
Kaye of Ottery St. Mary and Estate Agent, Stephen Levy from Dartmouth. As part
of the new autumn series, the programme was aired in mid-November and although
Glen came in last she had a respectable score of 26.
Says Glen: “It was a fun and amazing experience to film for this popular and
much-loved programme although absolutely exhausting. There was a gruelling daily filming schedule
of 12 hours over a period of five days.
The other contestants were able to take the week off work however, being
self-employed I was still running my business as I didn’t want to let my
clients down. On my day of hosting,
everything was going smoothly and according to plan. I live in a town house and my kitchen/diner
is on the ground floor, however, at the eighth hour the director decided that
the guests were to be seated in my lounge which is located on the second
floor. As a result I was not able to return
to my kitchen to check on my cooking and all hell was let lose when the
smoke-alarm went off! I served burnt
carrots and raw lamb but it made great television and Dave Lamb the Voiceover
man had a field day – at least I will always be remembered!”
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