Una Healy tipped for Celebrity Masterchef
The Saturdays star Una Healy has been tipped to show off her cooking skills on the new series of Celebrity Masterchef along with broadcaster Melvin Odoom.
Una Healy has been tipped to join the new series of Celebrity Masterchef.
The Saturdays star is said to have signed up to show off her cooking skills on the BBC show along with broadcaster Melvin Odoom and former Coronation Street actress Sue Cleaver.
A source told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "Celebrity MasterChef is casting for the new series and they are bringing in a wide range of stars to check their cooking prowess.
"Una loves cooking, especially Irish cuisine, so she cannot wait to show off her skills to new hosts Grace Dent and Anna Haugh. Melvin is more of a novice but he’s still a dab hand in the kitchen."
Strictly Come Dancing star Lauren Steadman and YouTuber Max Fosh are also both reported to have signed up to star in the new series of the cookery show, which is due to return with new host Grace Dent.
Grace will reportedly be joined by Michelin-starred chef Giorgio Locatelli – who ran Italian restaurant Locanda Locatelli in London for 22 years before it closed in January.
Grace, 52, previously shared that she hesitated for "about 10 seconds" about replacing Gregg Wallace on Celebrity MasterChef.
Grace admitted it was a "dream come true" to be asked to fill the former greengrocer's shoes but she felt a slight hint of trepidation about picking up the reigns.
Speaking to Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley on This Morning, she said: "Maybe for about 10 seconds. "Now I've got those reigns - no!
"It's one of those wonderful shows on British TV, and when you go out into the public, you feel that you can't eat anywhere in privacy ever again, you can't even go into a supermarket without people looking into your trolley and going, 'I can't believe she's bought that.'
"But, it was a dream come true to move to this role."
Prior to her appointment, Grace regularly appeared on the BBC cookery show as a guest judge but she highlighted how being a host is a "very different job" because it comes with the power of sending people home.
She added: "I've never sent a person home, and now I am that person, I am now the baddie - and I don't enjoy doing that."
