Celebrity Masterchef: Last News

Lisa Snowdon has been crowned the winner of this year's Celebrity Masterchef, beating former McFly singer Danny Jones, who was runner up. English television and radio presenter stormed her way through the competition as she impressed the judges, Greg Wallace and John Torrode.

Lisa Faulkner, 50, has opened up about what it has been like sharing a kitchen with her MasterChef judge husband John Torode, 57. Lisa, who met John when she entered and won Celebrity MasterChef in 2010, has explained how cooking on TV together has been “exhausting” but a “brilliant experience” in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.Lisa spoke about her time cooking with John as part of a wider interview about encouraging families to be more connected during meal times.The star has teamed up with cracker company Carr’s to help create some tasty recipes that will hopefully spark conversations and deter families from looking at their phones during dinner.Lisa and John are a real power couple when it comes to cooking shows, with John having hosted MasterChef since 2005 right up to the current season, which is currently airing on BBC One.The pair have coupled up on camera as well as in real life to co-present John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen, which launched on ITV in 2019.“I feel very happy and blessed,” Lisa said, reflecting on their marriage and working relationship.“It’s good, you know, we get to work together - not all the time and both of us have our separate careers - but it’s nice.

Lisa Faulkner, 50, has described why Princess Diana’s wedding to King Charles III holds such special memories for her in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.

CELEBRITY MasterChef fans all agreed that it was time for Kitty Scott-Claus to go home. The Drag Race star, 30, struggled to keep up with the competition this evening and was left horrified as her efforts collapsed at the last minute. Now  Lisa Snowdon, Kitty Scott-Claus, EastEnders actor Cliff Parisi, McFly musician Danny Jones and All Saints singer Melanie Blatt will battle it out to win the show.

MASTERCHEF judge Gregg Wallace fought back tears tonight over Cliff Parisi’s bakewell tart. The pair become very emotional as the sweet treat brought back memories of their grandparents.

CELEBRITY MasterChef viewers have called out Faye Winter for "faking" her cooking skills after tonight's episode. The Love Island star, 26, was tasked with cooking celeriac with Dover sole and shrimp and brown butter sauce.

CELEBRITY Masterchef were left fuming at tonight's "insensitive" Jubilee themed episode and have demanded an apology. The BBC cooking competition was back on our screens with a double bill, airing at 8.30pm to 10pm.

Lisa Faulkner, 50, has spoken out about the BBC’s decision to end Holby City for good back in March, after 23 years on the air.The former Celebrity MasterChef winner, who is married to the show’s judge John Torode, 57, admitted she was “really sad” to see the soap get axed, in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk. Lisa played Victoria Merrick on the show from January 1999 to June 2001.Victoria was a senior house officer who trained in cardiothoracic surgery and paediatrics at Holby City Hospital.Two years after joining the show, Lisa’s character was stabbed to death in her own home by the father of a patient whose life she could not save.The star appeared in 45 episodes of the show early on in her acting career, which meant it was a strange thing for the celebrity chef to hear it had been cancelled.Speaking about when she heard the news, Lisa reflected: “Yeah, it was really sad. “I think it’s such a great show and, for me and my two best friends…“You know, I met Angela (Griffin) and Nicola (Stephenson) on that show and we have been best friends ever since. “So to me, it’s been a really important show in my life,” she added.Apart from her job as a TV chef, Lisa is also known for her previous roles on soaps such as Brookside, where she played Louise Hope, and EastEnders, where she played Fi Browning.However, she’s also enjoyed some more recent roles, such as Murdoch Mysteries and BBC One’s The Girl Before.Speaking about her future in the world of television, Lisa explained: “You know, it’s really nice to be going up for auditions again, playing small parts in nice dramas. “It’s just been fun doing the auditioning again and getting the jobs.

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John Torode, 57, was fortunate enough to meet Queen Elizabeth II on two occasions, having first met the monarch in 2009.The Celebrity MasterChef judge spoke to Express.co.uk about the "incredible" monarch whom he had the pleasure to meet at Buckingham Palace.John is known for being the face of BBC's MasterChef since 2005 alongside greengrocer, Gregg Wallace.Due to his highly successful cooking career, John has been given the opportunity to meet the Queen on two occasions.The MasterChef judge opened up about the "great honour" he felt meeting such a powerful monarch.John said: "The Queen, I mean, I suppose it's one of those great, great honours."The second meet, it was a private audience, which was for something about Australians, who were working in the UK and were high profile and so there was a lineup of Hugh Jackman, Jason Donovan, myself, it was just great!"It was really really interesting to meet her face to face and have a proper little chat."She’s an incredible woman who went and spoke to the 200 people in each room."He went on: "People come up to you and talk to you about how to address the Queen. It was just such an amazing way that it worked."I think I read that one year she had 580 official engagements, which is more than twice a day which is really quite incredible."John also recalled driving through the Buckingham Palace gates as it was something he never thought he would do.He continued: "The first time I met her was about 2009 and it was a sort of large gathering of around 600 people and you got moved from room to room, it was very formal."The most exciting thing was driving through the gates in my car."That was great.

John Torode, 57, while she took part in Celebrity MasterChef in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.The star appeared on the show and went on to win back in 2010, with the couple starting their courtship that same year.Lisa spoke to Express.co.uk about her family life with John as part of a wider interview about encouraging families to be more connected during meal times.The star has teamed up with cracker company Carr’s to help create some tasty recipes that will hopefully spark conversations and deter families from looking at their phones during dinner.Lisa and John are a real power couple when it comes to cooking shows, with John having hosted MasterChef since 2005 right up to the current season, which is currently airing on BBC One.The pair have coupled up on camera as well as in real life to co-present John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen, which launched on ITV in 2019.Asked if she knew what a life-changing experience Celebrity Masterchef would be back in 2010, Lisa confirmed she did not.“No, I had absolutely no idea,” she reflected.

John Torode, 57, met his now-wife Lisa Faulkner, 50, in 2010 when she won Celebrity MasterChef.The celebrity chef has spoken exclusively to Express.co.uk about why his relationship with Lisa works so well, admitting that it helps that she's "quite attractive".John and Lisa are not shy of working together, having secured many joint cooking shows in recent years, including ITV's John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen.The pair married in 2019, following their engagement at the end of 2018 - and their relationship appears to be going from strength to strength.Express.co.uk asked John about his working relationship with his wife and how they keep their romance alive.John replied: "We do very different things at different times, so we are not always together and we’re not always home."I’ve even been away a few days this week and I only got back yesterday."So you know, I’m in the house for a couple of hours and then I disappear and when she has stuff on we probably won’t see each other all weekend."John then shared a personal insight into what he thinks helps their relationship run so smoothly.He admitted to Express.co.uk: "So, you know, when it actually comes to working together, it's actually really nice."Oh, yeah. It helps because we like each other which is good and she's quite attractive, you know?"We bounce off each other really nicely.

Celebrity MasterChef fans were speechless by a massive blunder made by a celebrity contestant on the BBC show.RuPaul's Drag Race UK alumni Kitty Scott-Claus left viewers gob-smacked after she served two epic blunders on Tuesday's episode (August 30).Drag artist Kitty joined Adam Pearson, Strictly dancer Katya Jones, model and presenter Lisa Snowdon and ex-Coronation Street's Ryan Thomas for the show's recent instalment. READ MORE: Love Island's Faye Winter sobs on Celebrity MasterChef over dad's health battleThey left quite the impression after mistaking an aubergine for a courgette.The Drag star then left judge Greg Wallace with quite a sour taste in his mouth after they served raw fish to the judges.Kitty served baked plaice with aubergine, asparagus and red peppers in the first round, to which Greg said: "The aubergines are really undercooked."Kitty hysterically got her vegetables confused and revealed: "I did think it was a courgette until I cut into it."The contestants were then faced with making fish tacos from scratch, but Kitty left viewers amazed after after she served the judges raw fish.

Celebrity MasterChef fans will see actor and disability advocate Adam Pearson take to the famous BBC kitchen this week, who has told Metro. co. uk how much he ‘relished’ the opportunity to take on the challenge. Adam is one of five famous faces set to take part in the final heats of the series as the competition continues to hot up.

CELEBRITY MasterChef fans are set to be left delighted following a surprise appearance from Dame Mary Berry at the semi-final stages of the competition.  Dame Mary will make her debut in the MasterChef kitchen in the episode broadcast on the 8th September where she will challenge the seven remaining stars to re-create one of her most popular dishes.  Mary will judge the celebrities alongside resident hosts, John Torode and Gregg Wallace, where they will have to master cooking with a host of unfamiliar ingredients and a variety of new techniques to impress the culinary trio.  Mary said: “I can’t wait to see these talented MasterChef semi-finalists bring my dishes to life and hopefully they are recipes they would enjoy making at home too.  They need to remember though that I’ve got eyes in the back of my head. They may think I’m not watching but I will be…” So far a whole host of famous faces have been battiling It out on the BBC One show to follow in the footsteps of stars such as Kimberly Wyatt and Lisa Faulkner.  Twenty celebrities will entered the kitchen with only eight of them moving into the semi-finalswith seven of them getting the chance to impress former Bake Off star Mary.  Read More on MasterChefNOT IMPRESSED Celebrity Masterchef fans left irritated by Jimmy's dishTOO MANY COOKS Here is who has left Celebrity MasterChef so far Reality TV star Faye Winter, best known for her time on Love Island, and McFly band member Danny Jones both beat off fierce competiton to become the most impressive cooks from heat one and we’re swiftly joined by Call the Midwife favourite Cliff Parisi 90’s popstar Mel Blatt.

Celebrity MasterChef fans noticed chef John Torode had more than a little in common with everyone’s favourite sci-fi classic Star Trek. Viewers flocked to Twitter to point out the 57-year-old looked as though he’d borrowed from the wardrobe of Captain Kirk on Thursday’s episode. While deliberating which celebrity to send home out of Lesley Joseph, Richard Blackwood, Kirsty Gallacher and Jimmy Bullard, the TV personality sported a rather throwback get-up.

John Torode, 57, famously burned a tea towel live on air as he cooked a traditional English breakfast in 2020 on This Morning.The Celebrity MasterChef host has spoken exclusively to Express.co.uk about why he is not "embarrassed" about what happened and why he thinks he dealt with the situation "quite well".Speaking about the incident, John told Express.co.uk: "It was very good TV, but I mean I suppose it’s something that happens when you work in professional kitchens you have to stay in control and not panic."You can’t lose control, you have to continue with what you’re doing. I mean, I also can’t be embarrassed because it happens."John was recreating a McDonalds McMuffin in April 2020 at his home and was appearing on This Morning via video call.As John began to toast the muffins he failed to notice a tea towel left on the hob had set alight.Hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby frantically tried to warn John but his cries were left unheard as the flames got bigger.Luckily, John finally spotted the fire and dealt with it very professionally, throwing it into the sink as his alarm began to ring in the house.Recalling what happened, John told Express.co.uk: "Again, you need to remember at that time we were in full lockdown."I had some camera equipment, which I'd had to set up myself inside my own home kitchen.

Celebrity MasterChef spoilers from John Torode, 57, in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.The star insisted that knowing the results ahead of time would “ruin” the show for her, and that she makes sure she gets no inside intel from her husband ahead of time, as she still “has a lot of love” for the series.Lisa spoke to Express.co.uk about her family life with John as part of a wider interview about encouraging families to be more connected during meal times.The star has teamed up with cracker company Carr’s to help create some tasty recipes that will hopefully spark conversations and deter families from looking at their phones during dinner.Lisa and John are a real power couple when it comes to cooking shows, with John having hosted MasterChef since 2005 and Lisa winning the celebrity version of the series in 2010.Since then, they have coupled up on camera as well as in real life to co-present John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen, which launched on ITV in 2019.Speaking about Celebrity MasterChef, which is currently in its 17th series, Lisa revealed how she felt about receiving spoilers from John.Asked if her husband ever let things slip, she admitted: “The thing is that I could probe him, but I never want to because it just ruins it.“Sometimes I know certain things, just because I come to judge the show sometimes, so I’ve seen people or there are people you vaguely know who are on it.“But no, I never ever want to find out what happens because it’s so exciting to watch!”Lisa went on to share how much she is enjoying the current series, which includes celebs like Strictly Come Dancing’s Katya Jones, GB News presenter Kirsty Gallacher and Call the Midwife’s Cliff Parisi.“I am watching!” she confirmed.

Vicky Pattison looked sensational in a gallery of holiday snaps uploaded to her Instagram on Sunday (August 21).The former I'm A Celebrity queen, 34, gave fans a glimpse of some of her favourite looks from her sun-soaked getaway to Croatia with her fiancé Ercan Ramadan. In one shot, Vicky sizzled as she poured her curves into a leopard print swimsuit that plunged at the neckline.

Celebrity MasterChef spoilers follow. Tonight's (August 19) episode of Celebrity MasterChef saw Mel Blatt, Cliff Parisi and Gareth Malone battle it out for two semi-final places. The celebrities had to cook for not only the judges but former Celebrity MasterChef contestants Vicky Pattison and Neil 'Razor' Ruddock and the 2018 champion John Partridge.

Lisa Snowdon has labelled blowfish sperm the weirdest thing she has ever eaten. The Celebrity MasterChef contestant said she braved trying the Japanese delicacy on a romantic getaway with her fiancé George Smart. Speaking exclusively to OK!, Lisa said: "George and I have been to Japan a few times together.