Cooking with the Stars renewed for a second series
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ITV has confirmed that Cooking with the Stars has been renewed for a second series.
The show, fronted by Emma Willis and Tom Allen, will see eight new celebrities be taught to cook by a professional chef.
The celebs will be transformed from at-home, family cooks into chefs who can (hopefully) serve restaurant-quality food.
The new series' professionals include familiar faces such as British chef and TV presenter Rosemary Shrager, Scottish chef and restaurateur Tony Singh MBE, chef and business owner Ronnie Murray, chef director Jack Stein, Korean chef and restaurateur Judy Joo, Michelin-starred French chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, This Morning's chef Clodagh McKenna and TV personality Mike Reid.
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Each week the celebrities – who have not yet been revealed – will face an exciting new challenge and produce a delicious dish with the help of their culinary mentor.
Then the celebrities serve the dish to the other professional chefs, before the two with the lowest scores find themselves in the bottom two and have to fight for their spot in the competition.
The judges do a blind taste test of their final dishes to decide who should stay and who will have to depart from the contest.
Opening up about the second series, Willis said: "Tom and I had so much fun last series and I'm looking forward to getting back into the kitchen.
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"The pressure the celebs are under is real and once the competition starts heating up everybody wants to win, but I'm hoping there isn't as much blood as last series!"
Her co-host Allen added: "Last series was so exciting! Emma Willis and I have been polishing our frying pans in preparation – we have so much fun working together.
"The celebrities are being trained by some of the best chefs in the business and with the clock ticking it's always tense to see if they'll improve their cooking enough each week to measure up to the judges' high standards."
The first season included Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas, Coronation Street's Catherine Tyldesley, Denise Van Outen, McFly's Harry Judd, comedian and actor Johnny Vegas, TV presenter AJ Odudu, comedian and actor Griff Rhys-Jones and DJ and songwriter Naughty Boy.
At the end of the series, Judd triumphed after impressing the judges week after week with his skills in the kitchen.
The six-part cooking show will air on ITV and ITV Hub this summer.
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