From Melody's own website ....
"Languages: Farsi, Swedish, English, German and French" - which beggars the question ... how did she not know how to pronounce cloche properly and how did she not know what it was???????

I don't get your point - are you trying to say it is obvious it's a french word?

Is a dictionary also out of bounds?

Well I'm amazed that they're not if this is the case?

What on earth is the point in having people floundering around wondering what things are, and wasting god knows how much time, when they could simply Google?

It's not Medieval Apprentice!

If you were a contestant on the show that positively encourages an 'anything to win' mentality, would you not disappear off to the toilet with your iphone, and Google 'cloche?'

I know I would with £250,000 up for grabs. After all, who would know?

May I refer you to Post 30.

He was wearing Ray Bans.

As I understood it, they arent allowed their own phones when on a task, and LS wouldnt be stupid enough to give them phones that had internet access would he?...

I posted my astonishment elsewhere that not one of them knew what it was


The cloche covers the food on the platter/tray


There was Emma and Michelle returning under the cloches in BB5. Also in the diary room in tasks the food is usually covered with a cloche

BB. remove the cloche
HM eh what
BB; The metal lid


I'd say it was fairly obvious myself that it was french

yes they arent allowed anything except the maps and yellow pages

A cloche covers the food on a plate or a tray. It has two functions, one to keep the food warm and the other as a 'reveal' to the customer or guest. Usually in high class restaurants a number of waiters lift the cloches at the same time to reveal the food to everyone at the table.

I hope that helps some of you.

Agree, why not allow IA and make the tasks harder to compensate. even the local newsagent has IE.

It had me in stitches. How could they not know?
Why on earth didn't they just use a dictionary or google it to find out?

?Ray Bans that look like the old NHS specs...........perhaps no one of the younger generation are old enough to remember...........funny how fashion "Comes around"!

they just shuld off used googel the stupid ideots.

Very trendy at the 'mo - I've seen pix of Myleene Klass & Pixie Lott in them.

But phones are tiny and easy to conceal. Having read Lord S's autobiography I'm pretty sure he would have taken advantage of this fact.

Lord S would have been on the streets: "Hey mate, what's a ****ing cloche?"

Its a high risk strategy though - even if they could have smuggled one on there will be loads of production staff floating about. If caught they will be off the show and maybe sued too.

But I suspect they can spell "should" "Google" and "idiots", and probably know the difference between "off" and "have", so may not be such idiots after all.

It is pretty stupid that they aren't allowed to though. Sugar keeps telling us that these tasks demonstrate how easy it is to set up a business blah blah blah. In a real life business situation, the buyers would have access to the internet. Noone in a real life business situation would start out trying to buy ten items off a shopping list armed with nothing more than a copy of the yellow pages. Sugar obviously thinks it is still 1967.

Yes, I actually think that knowing your way around google is actually a pretty useful skill so it seems strange that they're not allowed to demonstrate it.

Have you actually googled cloche?

If you do, it comes up as being a bell.

It takes common sense to work it out.

Another poster has posted that in the Irish version, the contestants are searched proir to their taking part, and I doubt that the UK version would be any different.

I was surprised it was so cheap less then a tenner, whatever it was made of. Surely the Savoy would have silver cloches

I thought it was cringemaking of Glenn to try and beat the shopkeeper down with the price. Their can't be much profit on that and they have to make a living.