It was a fatal case of ‘you had one job...’ on Celebrity MasterChef

Celebrity MasterChef was actually impressive. Odd: The appeal of seeing whether the singer from Union J would make something not quite as bad as an actress who used to be in The Bill was as baffling as the continuing presence of Gregg Wallace Mess: Wallace it was who illustrated how, whereas The Great British Bake Off has perfected its formula, Celebrity MasterChef’s format was a shambles and bizarre The show was cashing in on those series re-creating British history like The Victorian Kitchen, by adjourning to Dudley in the Black Country to cook for ninety of the actors and volunteers in what Gregg Wallace called ‘one of the finest living museums in the country’ – a contradiction in terms if ever there was one. The moment Celebrity MasterChef surely ‘jumped the shark’ involved Gregg Wallace, Lisa Maxwell, and the ‘roasted cauliflower wedge stuffed with pepper’ she had elected to make regardless of lamenting: ‘I don’t have all the Indian spices I would have liked but they didn’t back in those days.’ John Torode had already thundered: ‘I don’t know what it is. Awkward: The moment Celebrity Masterchef surely ‘jumped the shark’ involved Gregg Wallace, Lisa Maxwell, and the ‘roasted cauliflower wedge stuffed with pepper’ she had elected to make Wise words: John Torode had already thundered, ‘I don’t know what it is. Neither he nor the BBC seemed to see the irony 12 other moments that showed Celebrity Masterchef had finally ‘jumped the shark’ 1.‘Gregg says your potatoes are ‘enthusiastically crisp.’ That means they’re very hard!’ - John Torode confirms what viewers have suspected all along: that Gregg Wallace doesn’t know what he’s talking about 2.