Stars testing their culinary prowess on the next series of Celebrity MasterChef will be judged by the straight-talking restaurant critic Grace Dent, who is to replace Gregg Wallace.
Dent has appeared regularly as a guest on the programme, and competed on MasterChef: Battle of the Critics last December. The author and podcaster said at that time that she felt as if every chef she had written about was sitting in front of their TV screen waiting for her to poison Wallace and his fellow judge, John Torode.
Dent, 51, will judge the upcoming 20th series of Celebrity MasterChef alongside Torode after Wallace stepped back while an external review is conducted into allegations of historical misconduct. Wallace’s lawyers said last month that it was “entirely