Cooking up a storm; MasterChef is back - and this time a team of celebrities are competing for the cookery crown. But, as MARY GREENE reports, while some of them are gifted gourmets, others are little more than a recipe for disaster.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: September 2, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: MARY GREENE

Take 24 celebrities, subject them to TV's toughest cookery challenge and only one will emerge as Celebrity MasterChef. For three weeks the celebs, including Isabella Hervey, Sue Perkins, Matt Dawson, Charlie Dimmock, Linda Barker and many more - who mostly claim to be good home cooks - find out who can cut it as a professional chef.

To start with, they have to knock up two imaginative dishes from a mystery box of ingredients, test their stamina by working a real lunchtime service at a top London restaurant and impress judges John Torode and Gregg ...

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