Masterchef: The Professionals
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Maybe they're trying her out on the easiest /least watched[?] version to see how she does before deciding if she can do the other series too.
I think she'll be great for the Celeb one, not the others.
Wtf was up with blackcurrant this year
. And fucking granita. I did not fancy any if the final desserts.
I loved all the final contestants and think the best person won, although George was a lovely guy and I definitely wanted to eat Chiara's food (imagine being so widely competent and with it at only 24).
Wtf was up with blackcurrant this year
. And fucking granita. I did not fancy any if the final desserts.I loved all the final contestants and think the best person won, although George was a lovely guy and I definitely wanted to eat Chiara's food (imagine being so widely competent and with it at only 24).
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As long as it's not Tom Parker-Bowles, every time he's on I'm acutely aware of the fact the King's step-son is scoffing delicious plates of food paid for with my licence fee, especially galling the time he was complaining his caviar was too warm.
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Silas Loom
A lome the lenthe of a yerde
Good writer and was an excellent TV critic but I don’t trust her food judgement. She’s always boasting in her restaurant reviews about how much she likes salad cream and monster munches and other horrors.
Lol. Clearly you didn't see her performance on I'm a Celeb...
She quit after a week over the quality of the food, and refused to talk to anyone in the camp. She came across as an utter diva.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Is GW unknowledgeable about food? I never got that impression.
Out of the food critics, Tracey McLeod would be the best choice. She's an experienced broadcaster with a likeable manner that doesn't come across as forced.
I have the same reaction. He's actually rather nice, gives thoughtful comments and doesn't come across as a snob, but who he is is a problem.
Out of the food critics, Tracey McLeod would be the best choice. She's an experienced broadcaster with a likeable manner that doesn't come across as forced.
AverageJoe
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Get Jamie Oliver or Ainsley Harriott to channel their inner Gregg Wallace. Jobs a goodun.
Pucka.
Pucka.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Me & MrsB thought that at the beginning, but warmed to her now as she doesn’t come across as being up her own arse. We think she’ll be a fine replacement
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Books, not bombs
"We"Me & MrsB thought that at the beginning, but warmed to her now as she doesn’t come across as being up her own arse. We think she’ll be a fine replacement
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Sounds like an actual relatable normal person then.Lol. Clearly you didn't see her performance on I'm a Celeb...
She quit after a week over the quality of the food, and refused to talk to anyone in the camp. She came across as an utter diva.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Racist
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Grace Dent manages to cover both fine dining places and local restaurants with humour and no touch of snobbery about her. I'm still laughing about her review of Harrods restaurant in which she says her parents bought one of those olive green Harrods shoppers to bring home the spuds from the Co-op in Carlisle.
Jay Rayner has a similar talent. Both of them do fabulous takedowns of pretentious restaurants with mediocre or bad food.
Jay Rayner has a similar talent. Both of them do fabulous takedowns of pretentious restaurants with mediocre or bad food.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
That's why she'll be good.
My first choice would have been Si King, but it was always going to be a woman.
The wonderfully bonkers Nigella would have been fun but I'll settle for GD.
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Grace Dent is an anagram of 'cert'n-aged'.
yeah, he would have been good.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Ggrace Dent, actually
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Marcus Wareing is also Northern but is a total cunt. Mrs SFM was at school with him and can confirm this.
He seems ok on screen. It's amazing how editing can distort things. Wallace actually always came across really well but apparently, not. I wonder what Monica's like IRL.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
When he first appeared on MC about 10 years ago as a guest judge for the amateur competition, he was thoroughly and unnecessarily nasty - reducing one contestant to tears. He did much the same on the Great British Menu - almost coming to blows with one chef. Once Michel Roux left (as the Beeb didn't like his endorsement of a certain brand of potatoes), he was brought back but had obviously had a bit of a media PR makeover - hence his current avuncular image.
It seems like a toxic industry. As anyone who has read any of Anthony Bourdain's books or watched various Gordon Ramsay shows would know. Not something I'd like to be involved in.
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Monica was Michel's deputy, and I'm sure you don't get to that position without shouting at a few people occasionally. Not all kitchens are horrors to work in, though. Being a senior chef is also about teaching.
Think I'd rather be taught by Monica than Marcus, for sure.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
I worked in catering for years in the 80s and 90s. A hotbed of bullying, violence, misogyny, substance abuse and alcoholism - esp for commis chefs. I think it's changing now with chefs like Angela Hartnett running respectful cooperative kitchen brigades but I recognise MW as still being a pretty Old School type.
