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Come Dine With Me winner's tree fall fright

3:19pm Friday 6th January 2012 in News By James Nadal

Lisa Bristow and her daughter, Jenai Douglas Lisa Bristow and her daughter, Jenai Douglas

A FORMER winner of popular Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me said she thought she was going to die when a 20ft tree in her garden was toppled in high winds.

Lisa Bristow, 31, of Barley Way, Marlow, said a sudden crash and bang gave her a huge fright yesterday afternoon.

After coming home from work at restaurant TGI Friday's she sat on her sofa about 1pm to relax.

But then: “I heard this loud cracking sound and heard this massive blow of wind and it crashed,” she said.

“I just ran because I didn't know what was happening “I thought I was going to die, I thought when the tree was crashing it was going to come through the house.

“I was in the house on my own and the dog was barking because of the wind and it was actually pretty scary.”

She said the 20ft eucalyptus tree had fallen from her garden into her neighbour's backyard, wrecking the fence and damaging her fish pond and shed.

Mrs Bristow won an episode of the cooking programme, aired on Channel 4 last year, which also featured Hughenden Manor House Manager Nicholas Witherick.

Jim Dale from Hazlemere-based British Weather Services said the windy conditions will be gone by the end of this week.

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The highest recorded wind speed in the area overnight Wednesday was 50mph, which he said is enough to cause some structural damage.

Comments(14)

readerabc says...
4:49pm Fri 6 Jan 12

so is the news that she was a winner 5000 years ago of a naff TV programme (like many others) or that her tree fell down (like many others)

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hm1 says...
5:04pm Fri 6 Jan 12

Bad Bad bad BFP. This isn't news.

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usvelt says...
5:17pm Fri 6 Jan 12

would this have been reported if she was only runner up in "popular Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me"

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Jip212 says...
5:37pm Fri 6 Jan 12

It was not her tree or garden, it was her
neighbours!!!!

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usvelt says...
5:47pm Fri 6 Jan 12

But the neighbour didnt win "popular Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me" so where would the news have been in that?

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Mama36 says...
6:26pm Fri 6 Jan 12

Wake me up next year!!

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holly4 says...
6:40pm Fri 6 Jan 12

Oh lighten up for Christ sake. The news is that the wind speeds in Marlow were such that it has caused damage to properties and brought down trees. Stop moaning about everything that is written!

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Mr Totterdge Hill says...
7:22pm Fri 6 Jan 12

hm1 wrote:
Bad Bad bad BFP. This isn't news.
SLOW news day... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Clyde the Retired Police Horse says...
12:23am Sat 7 Jan 12

Speaking a s a retired police horse I find the different voices and attitudes in each comment very funny.

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Clyde the Retired Police Horse says...
12:34am Sat 7 Jan 12

All these competing curmudgeonly statements. To say nothing of the headline - it sounds like a take-off of a newspaper headline from 'Scoop'. The wonderful journalese in ‘tree fall fright’ – someone is frightened by a tree falling nearby so it is a ‘tree fall fright’ and the fact that you have to know what ‘Come Dine With Me’ is in the first place to be excited by the tree fall fright of a former winner. LOL.

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gotanybiscuits? says...
5:54am Sat 7 Jan 12

Is this the same Jim Dale that appeared in the Carry On films??
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I had a huge fright once.
I believe that was during the afternoon, too.
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No spellchecker was used to write this comment.

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Mrs DaPoint says...
11:49am Sat 7 Jan 12

I had a tree come down in my garden last year... I didn't go running to the local rag about it!
I think someone here is just a little bit too full of her own importance.

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Lawrence Linehan says...
1:07pm Sat 7 Jan 12

Maybe you're being unfair on her Mrs DaPoint - perhaps she was pressed into doing it so the BFP reporter could fill a few column inches.

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littlelaura says...
8:32pm Sun 8 Jan 12

i didnt realise that lisa was a come dine with me winner.. all i know is that she's a damned good waitress and a wicked laugh!

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