{"id":439788,"date":"2026-05-09T04:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:39:17","slug":"how-irish-chef-anna-haugh-has-brought-some-much-needed-zest-to-the-bbcs-refreshed-masterchef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439788\/","title":{"rendered":"How Irish chef Anna Haugh has brought some much-needed zest to the BBC\u2019s refreshed \u2018MasterChef\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Presenter lets the contestants and their dishes have the spotlight \u2013 not like Gregg Wallace and John Torode\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anna Haugh plays it straight, grown-up and with respect for the contestants as one of the new judges on \u2018MasterChef\u2019. Photo: BBC\/Shine TV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/if560385.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Anna Haugh plays it straight, grown-up and with respect for the contestants as one of the new judges on \u2018MasterChef\u2019. Photo: BBC\/Shine TV<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If you want to gauge how different the \u2018new\u2019 MasterChef (BBC One, Mondays and Thursdays at 8pm) is to the one hosted for close on 20 years by the now disgraced duo of Gregg Wallace and John Torode, just look at how Thursday&#8217;s episode handles nuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before we do that, though, such is the rate at which scandal-hit male BBC personalities are dropping from lofty positions like conkers in autumn, a little refresher feels in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter lets the contestants and their dishes have the spotlight \u2013 not like Gregg Wallace and John Torode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9617],"class_list":["post-439788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}