Pop star Michelle Heaton couldn’t believe the mistake she made in the Celebrity MasterChef kitchen.
Michelle Heaton is appearing on Celebrity MasterChef
Michelle Heaton confessed that she was “absolutely gutted” as she completely burned her dish on Celebrity MasterChef.
The Liberty X singer is one of the stars competing on the latest series of the BBC programme, alongside Love Island’s Chris Hughes, author Dawn O’Porter, soul legend Jaki Graham and actor Jamie Lomas.
She was preparing a halloumi burger with a sweet chili jam and sweet potato fries when she had a disaster. The star left her sweet potatoes in the oven for too long and when she checked them they had burned to a crisp. She gasped as she pulled out the blackened chips, then held her head in her hands.
“Oh, no!” she exclaimed. “I actually can’t believe it. Burned my sweet potato fries.”
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Dawn had been allowed an extra 10 minutes cooking time after winning an earlier taste challenge, and after seeing what had happened to Michelle she offered to give it to her.
“Can I gift it?” she asked. However, judge Grace Dent told her: “I am sorry, but you can’t.”
The star said she was ‘gutted’
Michelle refused to give up and quickly prepared some small sweet potato cubes to serve up instead. She said she would just have to “hope for the best” when it came to the judging, admitting: “I am absolutely gutted.”
“You had a bit of a disaster,” judge John Torode noted as she served it up.
“I had a massive one,” she agreed, but he told her: “You picked yourself up and you went and sorted it out. That’s what MasterChef is all about, Michelle. Good on you.”
Michelle said she learned something about herself from the experience(Image: BBC screengrab)
The singer ended up getting some good comments for her dish, with John saying that the halloumi was “cooked really nicely”. However, he thought her brioche bun was “on the edge of too sweet”.
Speaking afterwards, Michelle said: “I am feeling OK considering I had a massive disaster.
“I was about to cry, but I didn’t, because I usually do. And I just ploughed on. And I’m really, really happy that I did, because I learned something about myself.”
Celebrity MasterChef airs on BBC One.
