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Lucy Mapstone, PA & Brett Gibbons

Celebrity Masterchef 2019: Soap stars, sports personalities and musicians among contestants

Soap and reality stars, musicians, sports personalities and even a weather forecaster are among contestants scheduled to appear in this year's Celebrity Masterchef.

BBC bosses claim this year's line-up has all the ingredients for an entertaining series which is set to be aired later this year.

EastEnders stalwart Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale in the soap, reality TV star Vicky Pattison, fashion designer Dame Zandra Rhodes and Strictly Come Dancing's Oti Mabuse have been confirmed for the popular cooking show.

EastEnders legend Adam Woodyatt will be among the contestants on the next Celebrity Masterchef series (Manchester Evening News)

They will be joined in the Masterchef kitchen by Olympic gold medal-winning athlete Greg Rutherford, Motown star Martha Reeves and retired footballer Neil "Razor" Ruddock.

MasterChef judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace will also put former boxing promoter Kellie Maloney, Love Island star Dr Alex George, former The Only Way Is Essex favourite Joey Essex and The Chase quizzer Jenny Ryan in the new series.

Vicky Pattison will also be a contestant on Celebrity Masterchef (PA)

The line-up also includes Gogglebox star Dom Parker, comic Josie Long, French actress Elizabeth Bourgine, and radio presenter and actor Mim Shaikh.

DJ and lawyer Judge Jules, BBC weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker, Radio 1's Rickie Haywood-Williams, heavyweight boxer Dillian Whyte, and runner and former Marine Andy Grant complete the line-up.

The 20 celebrities will take part in a number of challenges across the six-week series, including invention tests, a pairs task in which two stars must join forces to cook an identical dish without seeing each other, and cooking for paying customers in a restaurant.

(BBC)

Other tasks will see them whip up dishes for past champions, as well as restaurant critics, while simultaneously impressing Torode and Wallace.

One of the challenges will see the star cooks face the hungry hordes of diners at venues such as ZSL London Zoo, the Ford Factory in Dagenham, and the Hendon Metropolitan Police Training Centre.

They will be competing to win the title of Celebrity MasterChef Champion 2019, following in the footsteps of previous winners Ade Edmondson, Lisa Faulkner, Angellica Bell, Kimberly Wyatt and Sophie Thompson, among others.

BBC Commissioning Editor Carla-Maria Lawson said: "Once again we have a brilliant variety of different characters and there will be some surprises along the way as they are put through their paces and pushed to their limits."

The series will air later this year.

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