{"id":480849,"date":"2026-06-03T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480849\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:41:08","slug":"celebrity-masterchef-giorgio-locatelli-replaces-john-torode-as-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480849\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity MasterChef: Giorgio Locatelli replaces John Torode as presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on filming the series, Locatelli told the Table Manners podcast: &#8220;I think I was a bad cop. I&#8217;m strict. Strict about cleanliness and organisation. Those little skills that you teach them slowly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The contestants on the new series have not yet been revealed, but Locatelli said one star in particular stood out to him with the quality of some of their dishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the podcast&#8217;s presenters Jessie and Lennie Ware: &#8220;There was somebody who really surprised me a few times in the positive. It was good fun to do, it was really good fun to be with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The people who worked in entertainment found it so difficult to cook to the time,&#8221; he reflected. &#8220;The sportspeople always hit the time. Their life is run by time, while the other people are all about creativity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spin-off series sees a number of celebrities face cooking challenges, with judges overseeing their culinary skills until one star makes it to the end to claim the Celebrity MasterChef trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Locatelli is a Michelin-star chef who worked at the Savoy early in his career, before going on to launch restaurants including Olivo, Zafferano, Locanda Locatelli and Locatelli at the National Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on filming the series, Locatelli told the Table Manners podcast: &#8220;I think I was a bad cop.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-480849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480849","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=480849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}