- They will face the difficult challenges of the jury: reproducing recipes of great chefs, cooking international dishes, trying new ingredients …
- Alejandro Sanz, Alaska, Mario Vaquerizo, Pablo Carbonell, Francis Lorenzo, Lolita and Gisela Pulido, some luxury guests
- The winner will receive 75,000 euros that will go to an NGO and a course of creative cuisine in the Basque Culinary Center
- Premiere on Tuesday, September 19 in the prime time of La 1
Bibiana Fernández, Carlos Baute, Silvia Abril, José Corbacho, Anabel Alonso, Pepón Nieto, Marina San José, Edu Soto, Usun Yoon, Juan Betancourt, Patricia Montero and Saúl Craviotto will show how they are outside their comfort zone
They have tasted the dishes of the best restaurants, their professions have discovered the best of our gastronomy, they have traveled, their palates are very demanding, but will they be able to be as good cooks as diners? ‘MasterChef Celebrity’, the celebrity edition of culinary talent produced by RTVE in collaboration with Shine Iberia, puts the red carpet back in its kitchens on Tuesday to welcome twelve glamorous aspirants who will demonstrate that their passion for cooking is something more than a hobby.
It will be a program “full of unforgettable moments thanks to its twelve aspirants, so generous that they have given everything,” according to has advanced in the presentation TVE Entertainment Director, Toñi Prieto, for whom ‘MasterChef’ is a public service program in which stand out values such as fellowship, effort and improvement.
Macarena Rey, CEO of Shine Iberia, thanked TVE to continue relying on MasterChef and said that in this new edition “laughter will be assured; also tears at home and much spectacle. We are going to have a lot of gastronomy and many challenges, in an edition that is very special because we have 100 programs. ”
“I do not know anything about the kitchen, but I know how to identify a good dish, and this show is a dish of 10,” said juror Jordi Cruz. The experience has also given a lot of time to Samanta Vallejo-Nágera: “Just to see the aspirants as soon as I enter the set every morning I was dying of laughter. We had a great time, as always. ” For Pepe Rodríguez, “in these times, having people in front of you take everything with humor and always take the positive side of things is greatly appreciated.”
‘MasterChef Celebrity 2’
The first edition of ‘MasterChef Celebrity’ was a great success, becoming MasterChef’s most-watched season to date, with a 28.2% audience and more than 4.6 million people following the time when Michelangelo Muñoz stood with the trophy. Now Bibiana Fernández, Carlos Baute, Silvia Abril, Pepón Nieto, Anabel Alonso, José Corbacho, Marina San José, Edu Soto, Usun Yoon, Juan Betancourt, Patricia Montero and Saúl Craviotto will be the candidates Eva González will receive in the kitchens.
They will submit to the assessments of Pepe Rodriguez Rey, Samantha Vallejo-Nágera and Jordi Cruz and will show how they perform when they are taken out of their comfort zone. They have never faced anything like it. They will suffer nerves and friction, they will come to cry disconsolately. They will show you how they are: in MasterChef kitchens you can not pretend.
But this second edition of ‘MasterChef Celebrity’ will be characterized mainly by the good moments and the laughter of the participants, the comments during the cooked or the reactions in the tastings. In spite of the tensions, they will teach their most hooligan and comic side.
