21 Facts About Dave Lamb

David Alexander Lamb was born on 17 January 1969 and is an English actor, comedian, narrator and presenter.

Dave Lamb is best known for his narration work on Come Dine with Me as well as appearances in British television and radio programmes, especially comedy programmes like Goodness Gracious Me.

Dave Lamb presented the CBBC game show Horrible Histories: Gory Games.

Dave Lamb attended the Broxbourne School in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, and studied philosophy and literature at the University of Warwick.

Dave Lamb was one of the main voice-over artists on satirical cartoon 2DTV alongside Jan Ravens and Jon Culshaw, but he gained cult status through his sarcastic voice-overs on dinner party show Come Dine with Me which began in 2005.

Dave Lamb stated that he would never take part in a celebrity edition as he wasn't famous enough to participate.

In 2008, Dave Lamb provided a voice for one of the Spade brothers in Lionhead Studios' Fable II and again in 2010 for Fable III.

Dave Lamb narrated Come Dine with Me-style sketches for five episodes of Horrible Histories, between 2010 and 2013.

In 2011 for the Big Brother 2011 Come Dine with Me task, Dave Lamb took over from usual narrator Marcus Bentley for the feature, the first time that anyone other than Bentley had provided a voice-over for the show.

Dave Lamb starred in a voice-over part for a character in the 2011 MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Dave Lamb narrates Come Dine with Me Ireland and Come Dine with Me South Africa and provides the voice-over on the CBeebies animated shows Big Barn Farm and Waybuloo.

Dave Lamb narrated a special section of Blue Peter on 25 October 2011.

In November 2013, Dave Lamb provided a voice over for Bedford Modern School's production of "The Only Way", a play commemorating 10 years of co-education.

In 2018 Dave Lamb was the commentator on BBC One's Saturday evening game show And They're Off.

Dave Lamb has had two main-cast roles in television sitcoms, firstly as producer Des in BBC's The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle and then in early 2008 he played put-upon television writer Carl Morris in ITV's Moving Wallpaper.

Dave Lamb co-presented the CBBC children's game show Horrible Histories: Gory Games from 2011 until its end in 2018, and was a regular on the first series of Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask.

In 2016, Dave Lamb presented Come Dine with Me: Champion of Champions, the first time in the 11-year history of the show that he had appeared on screen rather than just narrating.

Dave Lamb was a member of radio comedy troupe The Cheese Shop and has featured on radio recording three series of The Bigger Issues as well as featuring on 15 Minute Musical, The Alan Davies Show, ElvenQuest, No Future in Eternity, The Big Town All Stars, The Very World of Milton Jones, Artists and The Way It Is.

Dave Lamb has recorded two series of a radio drama entitled London, Europe for Radio 4, which he wrote.

Dave Lamb made his stage debut alongside Russ Abbot and Eric Sykes in 2003 in a production of Ray Cooney's Caught in the Net at the Vaudeville Theatre.

Dave Lamb lives in Lewes and is a regular at the Dripping Pan, home of Lewes FC.