Actors, comedians and athletes will tie up the apron strings and fight to impress the judges when Celebrity MasterChef 2024 returns. We take a look at what you need to know.
Actors, comedians and athletes will tie up the apron strings and fight to impress the judges when Celebrity MasterChef 2024 returns. We take a look at what you need to know.
Ready for a new TV cooking competition? Luckily, there's not long to wait – Celebrity MasterChef is set to make a return to our screens this summer, with the nineteenth series of the show welcoming actors, athletes, popstars and comedians into the kitchen. Over six weeks, the contestants will take part in a series of challenges, being whittled down until the finals, when they'll battle it out to take home the trophy (and follow in the footsteps of previous winners including Wynne Evans, Lisa Snowdon, Greg Rutherford and Kimberly Wyatt).
Here, we've pulled together everything you need to know about Celebrity MasterChef 2024 – when it starts, where you can watch it, who'll be taking part and who will be judging.
The nineteenth series of Celebrity MasterChef will return this summer – no specific date has been announced, though last year it kicked off at the start of August.
Celebrity MasterChef 2024 will be shown on BBC One, with all episodes available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
No date has been announced for the Celebrity MasterChef 2024 final, but the show usually runs for around six weeks from its start date. Last year, the final was aired in early September.
John Torode and Gregg Wallace will return to keep an eye on the twenty celebrities for Celebrity MasterChef 2024. They'll be joined by guest judges, who will be announced as the series airs.
This year's line-up of twenty celebrities includes reality TV stars Charlotte Crosby, Chloe Burrows and Diane Carson, actors Danielle Harold, Rochenda Sandall and Tamer Hassan, comedians Eshaan Akbar and Jamie MacDonald and TV and radio presenters Edith Bowman, OJ Borg and Snoochie Shy. Christine McGuinness and Emma Thynn, both models and TV personalities, are also set to appear, alongside make-up artist and Glow Up judge Dominic Skinner and singer and presenter Jake Quickenden. Popstars Mutya Buena, of Sugababes fame, and Ian 'H' Watkins, from Steps, will also be competing, alongside Strictly Come Dancing pro Vito Coppola and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, a Team GB sprinter and Gladiator in the new BBC series. You can see all of this year's contestants below.
The series will kick off with four Heat weeks, each with three episodes, all aimed at testing the celebrities' skills. In the first Heat, five contestants will face the Under The Cloche challenge, before they then deliver a two-course Dinner Party Menu. Later, they'll step inside the world of professional cooking to come up with their own food truck dish. In the Quarter-Finals, they'll face critique from returning champions and finalists.
After Heats, eight successful celebrities will face up to what Semi and Final Week have in store, including a new Pizza round, a lavish feast on the British Pullman Train and a tricky brief of cooking something they don’t like to eat.
Amy Walsh, Luca Bish and Wynne Evans made it to the finals of Celebrity MasterChef 2023. Opera singer and broadcaster Wynne was crowned winner, impressing the judges with his meal of tuna tartare, Welsh lamb and bara brith.