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PICK OF THE DAY CELEBRITY MASTERCHEF BBC1, 8.30pm
IT’S marathon MasterChef night, as the four remaining celebs take on three tough challenges to try to make it through to the semifinals. Only two out of the group of Spencer Matthews, John Partridge, Jean Johansson and Anita Harris can win a place, but that competition must be put to one side at first, as they’re put into teams and made to work together.
First up is the new task for this series – the pair’s challenge. John and Gregg have erected a culinary version of Donald Trump’s wall in the MasterChef kitchen and one celeb from each team has to stand on either side whilst they attempt to cook two plates of identical looking and tasting food.
They have a few minutes to plot how they’ll tackle it, then it’s down to shouting at each other across the wall to make sure they’re both on the same plate.
Spencer and Jean seem pretty well in ‘sink’ for their quail and mushrooms dish, while Anita is happy to be bossed about by John as they whip up fish cakes.
They stay in those teams for the next “ferocious” challenge (things are never underplayed on MasterChef ) as they visit Chessington’s World of Adventures and its wild animal park to cook lunch for the 100 staff, which means a whole lot of prepping, peeling and panicking.
Then finally it’s back to MCHQ and back to flying solo, as they each have to make their best two course meal for the judges – and last year’s finalists.