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Eat is on for celeb cooks...

We grill Masterchef finalists

- BY NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor

Anything that is cooked with love is impressive. I try to cook with my heart.

Not at all – I’m very easily pleased. I’m a simple boy with simple needs.

I just came back from Lake Como and went to a little restaurant up in the mountains, where a young man cooked sausage in the back of his van. It was the best sausage I’ve ever had.

My pineapple disgrace on the show – I will never live that down.

The menu I cook in the final is very personal to me. You could say it’s my heritage. It’s really close to my heart, so I want to do it proud.

John taught me how to peel ginger with the back of a spoon, so you could say I’m team Torode. But I still love you, Gregg. My favourite TV chef is Marcus Wareing, he’s great. Anything with gravy.

To snatch the Masterchef trophy.

Less is more – simple ingredient­s, cooked well.

The Celebrity Masterchef final is an all-male affair, following the departure last night of the last woman standing, Paralympia­n Stef Reid.

The heated culinary battle between rugby ace Martin Bayfield, actor John Partridge and reality TV star Spencer Matthews will come to a head on BBC1 at 8.30pm tonight.

Here, we chat to the finalists and learn how Martin once enjoyed a meal so much that he ordered all three courses again, and how John’s favourite food was a sausage from a man in the back of a van in Italy.

Spencer reckons they have their work cut out. “All three of us really want it,” he sighs.

May the best man win...

 ??  ?? What would you cook to impress?Do your friends get nervous cooking for you?Best thing you’ve ever eaten? What is your worst culinary disaster? What were your fears for the final? MENTORS Judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode Who was the most helpful, John or Gregg? Who is your favourite TV chef and why? What would your final death row meal be? What is your ultimate cooking ambition? What’s your best cooking tip? Tell us what you think: yourvoice@mirror.co.uk Was Christian Clarke in BBC soap
What would you cook to impress?Do your friends get nervous cooking for you?Best thing you’ve ever eaten? What is your worst culinary disaster? What were your fears for the final? MENTORS Judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode Who was the most helpful, John or Gregg? Who is your favourite TV chef and why? What would your final death row meal be? What is your ultimate cooking ambition? What’s your best cooking tip? Tell us what you think: yourvoice@mirror.co.uk Was Christian Clarke in BBC soap

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