Kitchen battle proves to be a dessert storm for Tracy
RACING pundit Tracy Piggott got her just desserts last night when a pudding flop saw her kicked out of Celebrity MasterChef.
The celebrity version of the cookery show saw the final six chefs face a punishing dessert challenge. Battling it out in the kitchen with the RTÉ broadcaster were comedy writer Maia Dunphy, athlete David Gillick, former model and columnist Yvonne Keating, newscaster Aengus Mac Grianna and journalist Conor Pope.
The daughter of legendary top jockey Lester Piggott fell at the third hurdle last night when judge Dylan McGrath turned his nose up at her savoury blue cheese-based dessert. But the country’s answer to Clare Balding insisted that her poor performance in the kitchen had more to do with her upbringing than her cooking ability.
‘The second task was to recreate a childhood dessert and I struggled with that,’ she said. ‘Because as a child my father was always watching his weight so we never really had sweet things. That’s why I tried to do the savoury pudding but I think Dylan hated it. It was a risk, but you know what? Some of my friends loved it, he didn’t, and that was that.’
She added: ‘But I’m not disappointed, I kind of knew my time was up, to be honest. My presentation let me down again and I felt that I had gone as far as I could in the competition.’
The sports journalist is the third celebrity to go. Après Match comic Gary Cooke and former Mr Ireland Kamal Ibrahim have already been booted off the RTÉ reality show.
Last night, Tracy had to replicate a vintage trifle after a demonstration by Michelin-starred chef Claire Clarke. However, it was during the second part of the task, when she was asked to create a childhood dessert, that she crumbled. But she said the right person had been eliminated: ‘To be honest, I felt I had come as far as I could and the time was right for me to go.’