Top chef and restaurateur John Torode, and food writer and ingredients expert Gregg Wallace were back, judging the cooking skills of 24 well-known faces selected for their passion for food.
During the first-round heats each celebrity was asked to invent dishes from a mystery box of ingredients, cook lunch for paying customers at a top London restaurant and impress the judges with a two-course meal demonstrating flair, skill and potential to make it as a great chef.
Former popstar and music producer Midge Ure, Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood and TV presenter Nadia Sawalha made it to the final. Each had overcome their own challenges to reach the last stage of the competition, with Midge’s creativity sometimes causing him to lose focus, Craig’s tendency to overcomplicate his food in the face of nerves, and Nadia’s poor presentation letting her down.
In the end it was Nadia who most impressed the judges in the final with a return to the Middle-Eastern flavours of her heritage and she was crowned Celebrity MasterChef 2007.
First & Exclusive
Mondays-Fridays, 1-11 March, at 7:35pm (SIN/HK); 8:35pm (KOR).
Episodes 7-11 premiere 1-5 March
Episodes 12-14 premiere 8-10 March
Episode 15 (finale) premieres 11 March
Subtitled in Traditional Chinese.