WEEK FOUR CELEBRITIES

It’s time for the fourth and final Heat week, which will see the last five celebrities of this year’s competition take to the culinary stage. The last group of celebrities taking a punt on winning the title are TV Personality Diane Carson, Make-Up Artist and TV Judge Dominic Skinner, Pop Star, Mutya Buena, BBC Radio 2 Presenter OJ Borg, and Professional Dancer and Choreographer Vito Coppola. They will jump straight in at the deep end, as they take on Under The Cloche. Each celebrity must pick a mystery ingredient that they must sprinkle with a bit of culinary magic.

Diane Carson - TV Personality

“For years, I've always had family and friends around and I've loved entertaining. I'm very happy to try out new recipes with friends - If they don't work, they don't work. Our house had been undergoing some building work and I had been without a proper kitchen or a fully functional oven for about a year when I was asked to take part in Celebrity MasterChef. I certainly hadn't been entertaining! Indeed, I was practising some of my MasterChef dishes alongside a staircase being installed!”

Mutya Buena - Pop Star

“I wanted to do Celebrity MasterChef because I enjoy cooking in general and I love cooking for my family and friends. I also wanted to learn some new things in the kitchen, some new tricks that I could bring home. I kind of kept it a secret from everyone that I was doing it! I enjoy cooking any type of meat with rice and veg. I think it's just always easy. My favourite food to eat would probably be seafood. I love all types of fish, except for salmon!”

Dominic Skinner - Make-Up Artist and TV Judge

“I've always loved cooking. What started out as necessity, turned into a real love and joy for cooking, but I'll never say that I was any good, and neither would any my friends or family! They would never have told me that I should have entered Celebrity MasterChef, absolutely not. But in a way, that's why I wanted to. I wanted to prove them wrong! I really love the flavours of East Asian cooking. I love the spices, I love the interesting flavours, the combinations and the bright colours."

OJ Borg - BBC Radio 2 Presenter

“I was so nervous walking into that MasterChef kitchen for the first time, I had an anxiety dream the night before, where I spent the entire night thinking I'd burnt a frozen pizza in the oven, and John was really disappointed in me and there's a bit of a smile on Gregg's face. When I walked in I didn't know what to do with my hands, I didn't know where to look. I couldn't stop giggling and it wasn't because I was finding it funny - It was because I was nervous!”

Vito Coppola - Professional Dancer and Choreographer

“It has always been a very big passion of mine to cook and since I’ve left my home at a very young age, I had to cook for myself on my own and learn how to do it. Since I was a kid, I remember helping my mum, my grandmother and all my family, cooking and making pasta and doing things. Since being in the UK, I’ve tried to practice and to cook for myself. And sometimes I cook for the other Strictly pros, I bring some dessert, some cake, in for them and I want feedback! The first person who told me to go on Celebrity MasterChef was Dianne and I remember last year, after her first episode, she posted a story, and she gave me a shoutout and said: “yeah, I think you should do it!”



Images: BBC/Shine TV. The Celebrity MasterChef series continues Tuesday
3rd September, and will be available to watch on BBC One and catchup on
the BBC iPlayer.

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