Celebrity MasterChef Australia
| Celebrity MasterChef Australia | |
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| Genre |
Cooking Game show |
| Judges |
George Calombaris Gary Mehigan Matt Preston |
| Narrated by | Nicholas McKay |
| Theme music composer | Katy Perry |
| Opening theme | Hot n Cold |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Paul Franklin Cathie Scott |
| Location(s) | 13 Doody Street, Alexandria, New South Wales |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Network Ten |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | 30 September – 25 November 2009 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | MasterChef Australia (season 1) |
| Followed by | MasterChef Australia (season 2) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Celebrity MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking game show. It is spin-off of MasterChef Australia, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features celebrity contestants. It began production in early September 2009, and premiered on Network Ten on 30 September 2009.
Matt Preston, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan returned as judges for the show; however Sarah Wilson did not reprise her role as host from the first season of MasterChef Australia. Instead Calombaris and Mehigan will also serve in a general hosting capacity.
Former world-record holder & Olympic medalist Eamon Sullivan won the series, taking home $50,000 for charity Swim Survive Stay Alive.
In February 2010, executive producer Mark Fennessy stated that he doubted the spin-off will return for a second season.
In contrast to its parent show, the celebrity version is based around a heats and semi-finals format similar to MasterChef Goes Large, and is aired only once a week in an hourly format.
Celebrities are split into groups of three as they compete in a heat round featuring two challenges, with one celebrity making their way from each heat into the semi-finals. The heats consist of an Invention Test, in which they prepare a dish of their own concoction, and a Pressure Test, in which they must complete a dish from a professional chef. Due to the difficulty of these dishes contestants are given a single "lifeline" in which the chef is able to aid them for 90 seconds.
The six remaining celebrities will then face further challenges in order to secure their place in the final.
Celebrity MasterChef Australia features 18 celebrities as contestants. Network Ten officially revealed the first batch of contestants on the 3 September 2009 episode of The 7PM Project. However, several contestants were revealed before Ten's official announcement of their participation.
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