{"id":637292,"date":"2026-06-13T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:08:15","slug":"masterchef-star-reveals-he-was-stalked-by-angry-chef-after-bad-review-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637292\/","title":{"rendered":"MasterChef star reveals he was stalked by angry chef after bad review | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/masterchef\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MasterChef<\/a> star has claimed that he was stalked by an enraged chef after leaving a bad review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/william-sitwell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Sitwell<\/a>, the long-serving MasterChef guest judge and restaurant critic, revealed the ordeal during an appearance on Vanessa Feltz\u2019 Channel 5 show on Wednesday (10 June).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was stalked by a chef who sent me texts, voicemails, emails, saying \u2018get used to having me in the back of your mind wherever you go\u2019,\u201d Sitwell said.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed he called the police on the individual at one point after his \u201cwife got paranoid\u201d after seeing a mysterious figure at the end of their driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Feltz what the review had said, Sitwell replied: \u201cI think I mistook some pebbles for lentils and swallowed those, and I was quite cross about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MasterChef star has claimed that he was stalked by an enraged chef after leaving a bad review.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,211382,211381,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-optamatchid2562254","tag-optauuid51i8bgm45ruiglvkbgnyb6ihg","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}