MasterChef's new host Grace Dent repeatedly mocked show and dished up Gregg Wallace barbs

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MasterChef's new host Grace Dent served up a feast of criticism of the show - and made jibes about shamed Gregg Wallace.The critic this week said the gig was “more than a dream to me”.

But the Mirror has revealed that she has repeatedly panned the BBC programme – with co-host John Torode not spared.In an apparent reference to bald-headed Wallace - who stood aside over sexual misconduct allegations - Dent once joked about any pencil skirt-wearing girl succeeding on MasterChef by carrying an expression saying “I like older men with no hair”.In other comments, she mocked the show by saying someone could set fire to the restaurant and still reach the celeb version semi-finals “if you're pretty and made something for Gregg Wallace that involves custard and runny toffee”.The 51-year-old dished out scathing attacks on the celeb edition – declaring on another occasion: “We are in the dying days for many of these spin-rinsed TV formats”.

And she has also commented that MasterChef has “acid reflux staying power”.She was announced as the host for the next series of Celebrity MasterChef on Wednesday.

Dent previously appeared as a guest judge on MasterChef, as well as a contestant on MasterChef: Battle Of The Critics.In 2011 Dent passed judgment on MasterChef, writing for the Guardian: “For a long while I said any girl could get through round one of MasterChef simply by turning up in a pencil skirt and making a fried Nutella sandwich with condensed milk and an expression that says, ‘I like older men with no hair’.” She did, however, add that her “wholly unfair theory is disproven in episode one”.In another piece the same year, Dent – who appeared on last year’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here – was scathing about the show’s