Episode 8

The five celebrities face two more culinary challenges as they battle for a place in the quarter-final.

First up, it’s the return of the mystery box. Under their boxes, the celebrities will find a mystery ingredient, and they have one hour to invent and cook a dish with it. This time it’s vegetables, and it will take all the celebrities’ imagination, knowledge and skill to come up with a dish that not only stands out but shows skill when their main protein has been taken away!

Then, for the first time in their heat, they will have to cook to stay in the competition, and they won't just be cooking to impress Grace and Giorgio... this crucial round is called Who’s Coming to Dinner? Each week, a special guest will set a culinary brief for the celebrities, who will then have to make something worthy of a quarter-final place. This week sees social media sensation Morgan Burtwistle (aka Angry Ginge) enter the MasterChef kitchen, and he’s looking for the celebrities’ ultimate takeaway. What will win him over? Something classic and traditional? Or is he looking to be surprised with something creative and inventive?

Everything will need to be on point, as at the end of this task, one celebrity will be heading home, and nobody will want to be out first.

The four remaining celebrities will be counting their lucky stars as they head into this year’s first quarter-final, one step closer to their dream of being crowned Celebrity MasterChef Champion 2026.