MasterChef
British cooking competition television show
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| 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. |
| 2024 | Brin Pirathapan wins the MasterChef (British TV series) competition |
| 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 | First series of Young MasterChef premiered, with Poppy O'Toole and Kerth Gumbs serving as judges. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| May 24 2023 | Thirteenth season premiered |
| May 24 2023 | MasterChef thirteenth season premieres. |
| January 2023 | Birmingham City Council approved BBC plans to use the old Banana Warehouse in Digbeth as the new MasterChef studios. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| September 14 2022 | Fox renews MasterChef for a thirteenth season before the twelfth season's finale. |
| August 10 2022 | Seventeenth series of MasterChef launches, running from 10 August to 22 September. |
| May 25 2022 | Twelfth season premiered |
| May 25 2022 | MasterChef twelfth season premieres. |
| February 2022 | BBC Three commissioned Young MasterChef, a spin-off version of the main MasterChef series focused on young culinary talents. |
| February 2022 | BBC and Shine TV agreed to a multi-series six-year deal for the programme, with plans to move the production base from London to Birmingham starting in 2024. |
| 2021 | Series 16 of Celebrity MasterChef aired, featuring 20 celebrity contestants including Kadeena Cox, Nabil Abdulrashid, Bez, Kem Cetinay, Munya Chawawa, Michelle Collins, Dion Dublin, Gavin Esler, Patrick Grant, Duncan James, Melissa Johns, Will Kirk, Penny Lancaster, Megan McKenna, Su Pollard, Katie Price, Johannes Radebe, Rita Simons, Joe Swash, and Melanie Sykes. |
| December 23 2021 | Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants Gemma Collins, Joe Swash, Les Dennis, Mica Paris and Rev. Richard Coles. |
| December 21 2021 | Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants Joey Essex, Judi Love, Neil Ruddock, Oti Mabuse and Su Pollard. |
| August 18 2021 | Series renewed for a twelfth season |
| August 18 2021 | MasterChef renewed for a twelfth season. |
| August 9 2021 | Sixteenth series of MasterChef starts, airing from 9 August to 17 September with 18 episodes. |
| August 3 2021 | Premiere of the second season of MasterChef Celebrity, which was ultimately won by actress Paula Silva. |
| April 9 2021 | The final of the series was originally scheduled, but was postponed due to the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. |
| 2020 | Celebrity MasterChef Series 15 featured 20 celebrity contestants, including Riyadh Khalaf, Shyko Amos, John Barnes, Jeff Brazier, Baga Chipz, Phil Daniels, Karen Gibson, Gethin Jones (who withdrew due to illness), Amar Latif, Lady Leshurr, Dominic Littlewood, Judi Love, Felicity Montagu, Judy Murray, Matthew Pinsent, Sam Quek, Crissy Rock, Thomas Skinner, Myles Stephenson, and Pete Wicks. |
| December 23 2020 | Second Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants Craig Revel Horwood, Amar Latif, Crissy Rock and Spencer Matthews. |
| December 21 2020 | First Christmas Cook-Off special episode aired, featuring contestants Janet Street-Porter, Christopher Biggins, Dev Griffin and Vicky Pattison. |
| October 11 2020 | Junior MasterChef Australia's third season aired on Network Ten. |
| August 6 2020 | First episode of 'A Recipe for Success', a six-part series looking back over 15 years of Celebrity MasterChef was broadcast. |
| July 1 2020 | Fifteenth series of MasterChef begins, running from 1 July to 30 July with 15 episodes. |
| 2019 | The 14th series of Celebrity MasterChef aired, featuring 20 contestants including notable personalities such as Greg Rutherford (Olympic long jumper), Élizabeth Bourgine, Joey Essex, Alex George, Andy Grant, Rickie Haywood-Williams, Judge Jules, Josie Long, Oti Mabuse, Kellie Maloney, Dominic Parker, Vicky Pattison, Martha Reeves, Zandra Rhodes, Neil Ruddock, Jenny Ryan, Tomasz Schafernaker, Mim Shaikh, Dillian Whyte, and Adam Woodyatt. |
| September 5 2019 | Fourth season finale, with Natalia González winning, and Sebastián Piñeyro and Ximena Torres as runners-up |
| September 2 2019 | Fourteenth series of MasterChef premieres, airing from 2 September to 11 October with 18 episodes. |
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