Some pies have all the luck..penny is a TV chef

Rod’s wife on celeb cooks show

PENNY Lancaster will be taking on other famous wannabe cooks on this summer’s Celebrity Masterchef.

Mondays star Bez, Strictly pro Johannes Radebe and actress Su Pollard. Ex-eastenders Rita Simons and Joe Swash, reality TV star Megan Mckenna, The Repair Shop’s Will Kirk and Love Islander Kem Cetinay are also in the mix. Completing the line-up are BGT comedian Nabil Abdulrashid, Katie Price, Paralympian Kadeena Cox, ex-footballer Dion Dublin, Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant, comedian Munya Chawawa, journalist Gavin Esler and actresses Melissa Johns and Michelle Collins. Guest judges on the BBC show hosted by John Torode and Gregg Wallace will include Tom Kerridge, Nisha Katona and Nieves Barragan Mohacho.

Sarah Clay, BBC commissioning editor, said there will be “brand new tasks which makes this year feel extra special”. She added: “The standard of cooking is like nothing we have seen.” mark.jefferies@ mirror.co.uk

The Loose Women star will pit her skills against the likes of TV’S Mel Sykes and Blue

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singer Duncan James to impress

Mondays’ Bez

top chefs. In the past Penny, 50, has admitted her husband Sir Rod Stewart hires a pro chef to cook his evening meals at home.

She said on Loose Women in 2016: “When he’s not working, which isn’t very often, he likes to do a proper, proper dinner.

“I do breakfast and lunches and someone else does dinner because I’m not good enough for the restaurant standards.”

But she has some fans, saying her kids love her spaghetti bolognese. Also feeling the heat in the kitchen will be Happy

STEWS Penny and Sir Rod