Celebrity MasterChef 2025 is on its way back to BBC1, for its 20th series, and as it’s recorded earlier in the year, as well as featuring new 2025 judge Grace Dent, there’s also still disgraced John Torode.
The red carpet will roll into the MasterChef kitchen for a glittering line-up of celebrities from the worlds of music, drama, comedy, sport and showbiz. Produced by Shine TV, a Banijay UK company, this 20th series warmly welcomes singers and sports stars, actors and authors, to comedians, entertainers and presenters, all with the aim of cooking their way to becoming Celebrity MasterChef 2025 Champion.
Five weeks of extraordinary challenges await, where the judges will oversee culinary this competition that will push the 15 celebrities beyond the comfort of their showbiz jobs. Acting the part won’t cut the mustard and singing for your supper will not equal success. The only thing guaranteed is that just one of them will be left standing at the end, where their sparkling career will lead them to the shiny prize – the iconic Celebrity MasterChef trophy.
Albeit stretching “celebrity” to breaking point, the 15 are:
- Alfie Boe OBE – singer
Alun Wyn Jones OBE – rugby player
Antony Costa – Blue singer, having lost a surprising amount of weight!
Ashley Cain – “reality TV star”
Chris Hughes – “TV personality”
Dawn Porter – who changed her name to “Dawn O’Porter” after marrying Chris O’Dowd, because that’s how ‘wacky’ she isn’t.
Gaz Choudhry MBE – Paralympian
Ginger Johnson – drag artist
Jaki Graham – ’80s singer
Jamie Lomas – actor
Jodie Ounsley – from Gladiators
Katie McGlynn – actress
Michelle Heaton – pop star
Noreen Khan – comedian
Uma Jammeh – “TV personality”
Celebrity MasterChef features three Heat weeks aimed at testing the celebrities’ abilities – with the cream of crop making it past the Quarter Finals at the end of the week, ready for the Semi Final stages, edging closer to Finals Week and in with a serious chance of claiming the gleaming 2025 trophy.
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