Dent, 51, can be the restaurant critic for the Guardian and hosts a podcast known as Consolation Consuming with Grace Dent, and was a contestant on I am a Movie star in 2023.

However the broadcaster and journalist, who grew up in Carlisle in Cumbria, left the Australian jungle after only a week, on medical grounds.

Dent mentioned: “I have been watching MasterChef since I used to be a woman sitting with my dad on the couch. My complete household watches it. It is all about uncovering and championing expertise – and to have ended up on this place, is greater than a dream to me.

“I am so excited that I am unable to eat, which is severely detrimental to a restaurant critic. I really feel very fortunate to be stepping in for the subsequent Movie star MasterChef.

“I am unable to wait to satisfy the recent celeb faces for 2025.”

Torode, who has offered MasterChef since 2005, mentioned: “I’ve liked working with Grace on MasterChef over time. She has been a superb visitor, an inspiring critic and in addition set some unbelievable challenges.

“Experience is what MasterChef is all about, from the contestants to our fantastic manufacturing workforce, to us as judges.

“The love of meals, the love of MasterChef, and that unquestionable experience, makes Grace the proper individual to step in alongside me as choose for the forthcoming Movie star MasterChef sequence.”

The common beginner sequence of MasterChef is known to be presently in manufacturing. However the BBC pulled its MasterChef Christmas specials after the allegations towards Wallace.