Celebrity Masterchef: Season 16
Season 16 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Celebrity Masterchef Season 15.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 16 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Aug 9, 2021 · 30 min
Su Pollard, Rita Simons, Duncan James, Bez and Munya Chawawa compete in the first heat of the celebrity contest, hosted by John Torode and Gregg Wallace. The first challenge is a n
Episode 2
Aug 10, 2021 · 30 min
The four remaining contenders face more culinary challenges as they battle for a place in the quarter-final. In previous years they have been sent to work with a professional chef
Episode 3
Aug 13, 2021 · 30 min
Familiar faces from the world of comedy, drama, sport, showbusiness and music compete to take the 2021 title The contest reaches the quarter-final and the battle for the first two
Episode 4
Aug 16, 2021 · 30 min
Penny Lancaster, Megan McKenna, Melanie Sykes, Patrick Grant and Nabil Abdulrashid enter the kitchen for the next round. They face another round of the new Under The Cloche challen
Episode 5
Aug 17, 2021 · 30 min
The four remaining contenders face more culinary challenges as they battle for a place in the quarter-final. One of the UK's top fish specialists, Mitch Tonks, is in the studio to
Episode 6
Aug 20, 2021 · 30 min
The quarter-final sees the three remaining celebrities tasked to prepare a faultless two-course meal that will not only be judged by hosts John Torode and Gregg Wallace but also by
Episode 7
Aug 23, 2021 · 30 min
In the third week of heats, the celebrities up for the culinary challenge are TV personality and author Katie Price, ex-England footballer and TV presenter Dion Dublin, actor and p
Episode 8
Aug 24, 2021 · 30 min
Chef Sabrina Gidda challenges each of the four remaining celebrities to cook one of her favourite recipes.
Episode 9
Aug 27, 2021 · 30 min
In the third quarter-final, the celebrities cook for three former contestants: Sophie Thompson (2014 champion), John Partridge (2018 champion) and Vicky Pattison (2019 finalist).
Episode 10
Sep 1, 2021 · 30 min
The contestants in the final week of heats are TV presenter Kem Cetinay, Paralympian Kadeena Cox, journalist Gavin Esler, Strictly Come Dancing's Johannes Radebe and actor Michelle
Episode 11
Sep 2, 2021 · 30 min
2010 MasterChef finalist Alex Rushmer challenges the remaining four contestants to prepare a dish from his menu that includes no meat or fish and instead focuses on vegetables.
Episode 12
Sep 3, 2021 · 30 min
In the last quarter-final, the celebrity cooks must prepare a two-course meal for former finalists Lisa Faulkner, Greg Rutherford and Rylan Clark-Neal.
Episode 13
Sep 8, 2021 · 30 min
In the first semi-final, the celebrities are tested on their teamwork. Split into two teams, they must cook not together but in relay, without telling each other what they have don
Episode 14
Sep 9, 2021 · 30 min
The remaining seven celebrities must cook for Spanish restaurateur Nieves Barragan and prepare party bites inspired by the film Abigail's Party.
Episode 15
Sep 10, 2021 · 30 min
In the last semi-final, the celebrities must produce one dish of their own design for three of the country’s most feared restaurant critics.
Episode 16
Sep 15, 2021 · 30 min
It's finals week, and the five remaining cooks will be pushed to deliver food on a whole new level as they continue to battle to become champion.
Episode 17
Sep 16, 2021 · 30 min
Finals week continues as the four best cooks face their penultimate challenge.
Episode 18
Sep 17, 2021 · 30 min
Twenty celebrities started the battle to become MasterChef champion, and now only three remain. Tonight, one of them will be crowned champion, and just one challenge stands between