MasterChef
Reality competitive cooking show
Follow MasterChef on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| May 25 2025 | Rhiannon Anderson was eliminated in Series 17, finishing 18th. |
| May 21 2025 | Fifteenth season premieres. |
| May 20 2025 | Jimmy Wong appeared in Series 17 and was eliminated, finishing 19th. |
| May 11 2025 | Steph De Sousa was eliminated in Series 17, finishing 21st. |
| May 4 2025 | Cath Collins was eliminated in Series 17, finishing 23rd. |
| April 30 2025 | Pete Campbell withdrew from Series 17, finishing 24th. |
| April 8 2025 | Fifteenth season, subtitled Dynamic Duos, announced to feature pairs competing for the first time. Ramsay and Bastianich return as judges, with Tiffany Derry replacing Sánchez. |
| 2025 | MasterChef Australia Season 17, the second Back to Win series, is set to premiere with all previous judges returning and featuring Gordon Ramsay as a guest judge. |
| 2024 | Brin Pirathapan wins the MasterChef (British TV series) competition |
| 2024 | Series 16 expected to reach the milestone of 1,000th overall episode of MasterChef Australia. |
| 2024 | SonyLIV secured the broadcasting rights for the second season of the show. |
| 2024 | Second series of Young MasterChef aired, with Poppy O'Toole continuing as a judge and Big Has replacing Kerth Gumbs. |
| 2024 | Series 19 of Celebrity MasterChef aired, featuring a diverse lineup of 21 celebrity contestants including Vito Coppola, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Eshaan Akbar, and other notable personalities from entertainment and sports. |
| December 2024 | The BBC pulled two Christmas specials of MasterChef following allegations against Gregg Wallace. |
| December 2024 | Grace Dent confirmed as temporary replacement for John Wallace in the next year's celebrity series. |
| November 2024 | John Wallace temporarily stepped away from the show following allegations. |
| August 13 2024 | Nineteenth series of MasterChef set to premiere from 13 August to 20 September. |
| June 11 2024 | Fifth season of MasterChef Uruguay scheduled to premiere |
| May 23 2024 | Series 20 of MasterChef concludes. |
| May 13 2024 | Series renewed for a fifteenth season |
| May 13 2024 | MasterChef renewed for a fifteenth season. |
| April 1 2024 | Series 20 of MasterChef begins. |
| March 4 2024 | Fourteenth season, subtitled Generations, announced to premiere on May 29, 2024. |
| 2023 | Depinder Chhibber and Pete Campbell will appear in MasterChef Australia Series 17 for another chance to win. |
| 2023 | Akash Muralidharan from Chennai, Tamil Nadu won the second season of MasterChef India - Tamil, with Zarina Banu and Vani Sundar as runners-up. |
| 2023 | Series 18 of Celebrity MasterChef aired, featuring 20 celebrity contestants including Wynne Evans, Richie Anderson, apl.de.ap, Dave Benson Phillips, Luca Bish, Marcus Brigstocke, James Buckley, Remi Burgz, Dianne Buswell, Terry Christian, Dani Dyer, Sam Fox, Max George, Cheryl Hole, Jamelia, Leon 'Locksmith' Rolle, Shazia Mirza, Michael Praed, Mica Ven, and Amy Walsh. |
| 2023 | First series of Young MasterChef premiered, with Poppy O'Toole and Kerth Gumbs serving as judges. |
| 2023 | Australia created MasterChef: Dessert Masters, a series dedicated to confectionery and patisserie. |
| December 28 2023 | Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants Grace Dent, Jay Rayner, Jimi Famurewa, Leyla Kazim and William Sitwell. |
| December 20 2023 | Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants Duncan James, Faye Winter, Mel Blatt and Richard Blackwood. |
| November 28 2023 | Gareth Whitton, a Pastry Chef, won the first Dessert Masters spin-off season of MasterChef Australia. |
| November 20 2023 | Judges for MasterChef India - Tamil Season 2 (Koushik Shankar, Rakesh Raghunathan, and Shreeya Adka) were introduced on MasterChef India - Hindi. |
| August 9 2023 | Series renewed for a fourteenth season |
| August 9 2023 | MasterChef renewed for a fourteenth season. |
| August 2 2023 | Eighteenth series of MasterChef begins, airing from 2 August to 8 September. |
| June 11 2023 | Rick Stein's Travel Elimination Challenge took place, where Phil was eliminated after his unsuccessful attempt at spaghetti con anatra. |
| May 24 2023 | Thirteenth season premiered |
| May 24 2023 | MasterChef thirteenth season premieres. |
| May 21 2023 | Larissa Sewell returned to the competition after previous elimination. |
| May 14 2023 | Several contestants (Alice, Antonio, Cath, Declan, Jessica, Larissa, Rhiannon and Theo) were recovering from COVID and missed the elimination challenge. |
| May 9 2023 | Flavour Bomb Invention Test where contestants cooked with assigned flavour bombs. Malissa and Cath emerged as the top dishes and were chosen for the first immunity challenge. |
| May 8 2023 | Jamie Oliver Two-Round Challenge where contestants cooked in two rounds. Antonio and Jessica were the top 2 who won a chance to compete for immunity. |
| May 7 2023 | MasterChef Australia Series 15, subtitled 'Secrets & Surprises', premiered on television. |
| January 2023 | Birmingham City Council approved BBC plans to use the old Banana Warehouse in Digbeth as the new MasterChef studios. |
| 2022 | Depinder Chhibber appeared as a guest Judge on MasterChef India Season 7. |
| 2022 | Series 17 of Celebrity MasterChef aired, featuring 20 celebrity contestants including Lisa Snowdon, Richard Blackwood, Melanie Blatt, Jimmy Bullard, Paul Chuckle, Nancy Dell'Olio, Chris Eubank, Kirsty Gallacher, Danny Jones, Katya Jones, Lesley Joseph, Kae Kurd, Gareth Malone, Queen MoJo, Cliff Parisi, Adam Pearson, Clarke Peters, Kitty Scott-Claus, Ryan Thomas and Faye Winter. |
| 2022 | Brazil launched MasterChef +, a version featuring contestants over 60 years old. |
| December 30 2022 | Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants AJ Pritchard, Chizzy Akudolu, Kitty Scott-Claus and Megan McKenna. |
| December 23 2022 | Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants Bez, Josh Cuthbert, Lesley Garrett and Iwan Thomas. |
| October 2022 | Network Ten announced a new MasterChef spin-off series called Dessert Masters, featuring professional pastry chefs competing for a $100,000 prize, with Melissa Leong and international pastry chef Amaury Guichon as judges. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles MasterChef (Uruguayan TV series), MasterChef India – Tamil, MasterChef (British TV series), MasterChef Australia, MasterChef (American TV series), MasterChef Australia series 15, MasterChef Australia series 13, MasterChef Australia series 11, MasterChef Australia series 8 & MasterChef, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.