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Come Dine With Me's 'whisk man' makes a fortune 10 years after show appearance

Come Dine With Me icon Kev Riley will finally make a small fortune thanks to his classic appearance over a decade ago.

The DJ is sure to be coining it in after finding fame on the programme back in 2012.

Kev became a legend of the daytime show after shoving a dripping whisk in his mouth in the middle of preparing a meal for his three guests.

A few years later he became a meme following what quickly became known as one of the best Come Dine With Me episodes ever.

After bizarrely slurping cheesecake mix off the utensil as he made his desert, everyone knows his face - and now he is really cashing in.

DJ Kev Riley is Come Dine With Me royalty - and now he is finally earning big from it (Channel4)

The music man was approached by personalised messaging service Cameo and he was quick to say yes.

He told Metro : "I’ve had 20 requests in in two days.

"I started low thinking I’m Z-list at the very best so I looked for the cheapest and did it as that, but then I got an email straightaway from Cameo and they know what they’re doing, saying 'you’re too cheap, you know, put it up!'

"I put it up to 30 quid, but they’ve email me again saying you could get more but I’m just going to leave it at that."

He says he only shoved the whisk in his mouth to make the crew laugh (Channel4)

He finally spoke about why he bunged the whisk in his gob last year.

Speaking on the Curious Cast podcast he said: "Do you know what? Loads of people ask me that, and I don’t suppose I know the answer.

"It was just something I did to make the producer laugh really.

"They all absolutely wet themselves laughing – I thought 'That’s definitely gonna be in the show'!"

Kev finds it all hilarious even if it took a while to go global.

He continued: "When it was on, it wasn’t something that everyone was talking about, but it was a couple of years later, the first time it got shared, and then a couple of years after that, and then it seems like it never dies.

"It’s a strange thing – just when I think it’s done now, I don’t think anyone’s shared it for a bit, then all of a sudden Lindt the chocolate company will have shared it, or Lee Evans shared it once, then there’s some bloke that goes in the Capitol building in Washington that looks like me.

"It seems whatever the news is at the time, it gets applied to that and re-shared."

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