As we await the start of the latest series of this year's Celebrity MasterChef, ITV are treating us to a different type of cookery competition in the form of Cooking with the Stars. Now in its fourth series, the show sees eight celebrities paired up with professional chefs, who act as both judges and mentors to the stars, as they undertake a series of cookery tasks in a bid to be crowned the winner. You're bound to recognise at least a handful of the celebrities taking part in series four (which starts on Tuesday July 30th at 8pm), with the likes of Katherine Ryan, Carol Vorderman, Christopher Biggins and Ellie Simmonds taking part - but how many of the professional chefs can you name?

The chef mentors range from TV cookery stalwarts to Michelin-recognised masters, and although there are a few regulars who've featured on Cooking with the Stars before, there are also some new additions for series four. Below we'll introduce you to each professional chef is their background. To see them all in action, be sure to tune into ITV1 at 8pm on Tuesday nights for the next six weeks.

A highly respected name in the British culinary scene, Michael Caines has been cooking award-winning food for decades now. He made his name at country house hotel Gidleigh Park, where he won and retained two Michelin stars for seventeen years, before opening his own hotel and restaurant, Lympstone Manor in 2016. Michael currently holds one Michelin star and is returning to Cooking with the Stars after making his debut last year, when his mentee Joanna Page placed third overall.

Celebrated chef April Jackson has built a reputation over the past few years for her inventive modern Jamaican cookery which was formerly on show at her bar-cum-restaurant Three Little Birds in Brixton. In 2021, Three Little Birds was reimagined as Wood & Water, where April now cooks what she describes as 'modern British food with Jamaican soul'. This is her second series of Cooking with the Stars.

Former MasterChef winner Shelina Permalloo knows TV cookery competitions better than most. In 2012, she wowed Greg and John on the BBC show with her Mauritian food and romped her way to the title. Since then, she's published two cookbooks and opened her own restaurant in Southampton (which closed in 2020), becoming known as the British authority on Mauritian cookery. After crashing out in week one of last year's competition with celebrity partner Matt Willis, Shelina will be hoping she can take Ellie Simmonds to the later stages of Cooking with the Stars.

Known for both his rockstar style and his quirky approach to food, people are probably most familiar with Michael O'Hare from his various appearances on BBC's Great British Menu, initially as a contestant (and eventual winner) and more recently as a veteran judge. Off-camera, Michael has won numerous awards for his cookery including a Michelin star at his avant-garde Leeds restaurant The Man Behind the Curtain, where his dishes blur the lines between food and modern art. He's recently reopened The Man Behind The Curtain as Psycho Sandbar, where the food is pitched as more accessible without losing its outrageousness. It's O'Hare's first time appearing on Cooking with the Stars and you can be sure he'll be going for the win.

A familiar face for many TV fans, Tony Singh is by no means a newbie when it comes to cookery shows, having appeared on everything from Great British Menu to the One Show. Over the course of his career, Singh has owned and run a number of celebrated restaurants in Scotland and even been awarded an MBE for services to the food industry. This is the third series of Cooking with the Stars that he's been a part of.

Another Cooking with the Stars newbie, Poppy O'Toole has gone from relative anonymity to a a social media star and best-selling cookbook writer in the past four years, having exploded on TikTok during the pandemic. Her fun but approachable style of cookery has inspired plenty of people to get into the kitchen, but will she be able to inspire Linford Christie to a win in her first series on the show?

One of only two professionals to have featured on Cooking with the Stars since series one, Jack Stein is perhaps best-known as the son of chef and restaurateur Rick Stein, but he's also a top chef in his own right. Since 2017, he's been the chef director of all Stein Group restaurants and also become a familiar face on our TV screens.

A mainstay of British TV cookery programmes for the past two decades, Rosemary Shrager had years of high-end cookery experience behind her before making the leap onto our television screens, including training with the likes of Pierre Koffman and Jean Christophe-Novelli. This classical training, along with all the time she's spent in professional kitchens, has seen her become a brilliant mentor in her own right, which is why she's been a part of Cooking with the Stars since day one.

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