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Ross Burden dead: Ready Steady Cook star dies aged 45 after cancer battle
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.CELEBRITY chef Ross Burden has died aged 45 after a battle with cancer.New Zealand-born Ross first gained TV fame reaching the final of Masterchef in 1993 before going on to appear regularly alongside Ainsley Harriott on Ready Steady Cook.In 2010 he returned to New Zealand to join the judging panel on the country’s first MasterChef series.His sister, Kirsten Hughes, is reported to have said the former model was diagnosed with a form of leukaemia last July, but died after contracting an infection during a bone marrow transplant.She told the New Zealand Herald that Burden had been one assignment away from completing a Masters in Maori Studies at Auckland
