Line of Duty’s Rochenda Sandall teases kitchen mishaps on Celebrity MasterChef – ‘I couldn’t stop dropping things’ 

Virgin Radio

20 Aug 2024, 08:49

Actress Rochenda Sandall has revealed how issues bought very messy whereas she was competing on Celeb MasterChef. 

The Line of Responsibility star takes half in her first warmth tonight (twentieth August), alongside Gladiator and Crew GB sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, actor Danielle Harold, comic and actor Eshaan Akbar, actuality star Chloe Burrows.

Talking solely to virginradio.co.uk, Rochenda dished on how she managed to get by way of the extreme course of – however from the sounds of it, there have been loads of main mishaps alongside the best way. 

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It appears Rochenda’s MasterChef journey was full of close to misses and spills. She defined: “I feel it is perhaps to do with the adrenaline, as a result of I clearly went again and watched the collection earlier than, simply to see what I used to be letting myself in for. For me, it is a hundred percent the messiness.

“I could not cease dropping issues,” she exclaimed. “It is adrenaline coursing by way of your veins, and you are not used to the setting. The kitchen is completely completely different to your personal at house, and the knives are lots sharper, so all people chops their fingers off within the first couple of days getting used to the sharp knives.”

Rochenda has been on one thing of a cooking journey in recent times, and it’s all all the way down to rising up in a “freezer household.”

Talking about her drive to compete on Celeb MasterChef, Rochenda revealed: “I discovered that cooking effectively, notably with nice produce and issues like that. I did not actually have numerous entry to stuff like that rising up, however residing in Crouch Finish, you’re bombarded by all this excellent fruit and veg and native sellers and cheese retailers. I might by no means even been in one among them after I was a child. In order that form of evokes you to go additional.

“Additionally well being,” she added. “I am actually beginning to realise that the higher you eat, the extra your mind is much less foggy, and issues like that. And it is a pleasure to cook dinner. And folks say, ‘Oh, that was very nice.’”

For Rochenda, whereas she was decided to make the Celeb MasterChef line-up this yr, her slot really got here as a little bit of a shock after companion Mark Stanley was the one to signal her up for the 2024 collection. 

“My companion really had a sneaky cellphone name with my agent,” she informed us. “It was at all times one which I mentioned I wished to do. It was on my bucket record for particular, and so he had a sneaky cellphone name with my agent, they usually cracked on with the deal with out me even understanding.”

The primary warmth of Celeb MasterChef has to date seen Steps star Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Craig Doyle from This Morning, radio star Edith Bowman and Geordie Shore’s Charlotte Crosby showcasing their culinary abilities. 

After an intense quarter-final final week that noticed Ian on the centre of an enormous culinary mishap, the semi-finalists of the primary warmth have been revealed because the Steps star and Craig Doyle. 

Celeb MasterChef continues Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.