Today, the Celebrity Big Brother housemates get a visit from a very special guest. The infamous ‘Godfather of cooking’ and Michelin starred celerity chef Marco Pierre White. Marco will enter the house for the afternoon and get the celebrities slaving in the kitchen to impress him with a gourmet dish!

Housemates entered the garden to find Marco Pierre White standing behind his oven in full chef attire. Marco will demonstrate how to make one of his signature dishes, Sea Bass with Chinoise sauce. The celebrities must pay very close attention as they are to be recreating this dish from memory!

Housemates will separate themselves into pairs to compete against each other and be deemed, Big Brother’s ‘Best Chefs’ by the renowned celebrity chef. Each pair must prepare and cook their own versions of the dish in a specially built kitchen in the large task room. Each team will have an oven and hob each.

Housemates will have just thirty minutes to recreate their meal. Once their time is up, all cooks must stop cooking.
Marco will sample each dish in a grand taste–off to decide the best and the worst. The winning pair will be awarded with a lavish private dinner for two this evening. The pair who couldn’t stand the heat and are therefore the ‘Worst Chefs’ will have to face the grueling job of washing up everyone else’s dishes.

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Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White will be making a cameo appearance in ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ for a special task this weekend it has been reported.

The Hell’s Kitchen star will surprise the famous housemates – including Amy Childs, Darryn Lyons and Tara Reid – when he joins them inside the Elstree residence and insiders have claimed that the grump chef may even stay overnight with the stars.

A source told The Sun:

“Marco is a fan of ‘Big Brother’ and has cooked up a tasty task. The plan is for him to enter the house as a surprise. He will hang around all day and who knows, may even fancy staying the night.”

However one housemate will not get a chance to meet Marco, as three housemates face eviction tomorrow night. Bobby Sabel, Sally Bercow and Kerry Katona all face the public vote on Friday.

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Marco Pierre White has insisted that he detests ‘metrosexual’ men, who enjoy waxing and gym sessions.

The chef, whose show ‘Kitchen Burnout’ premiered on ITV last night, told Zoo magazine that he never goes to the gym or a beauty parlour and is content to use just a bit of deodorant and gel before he leaves the house.

He said:

“The thought of a gym disgusts me. I couldn’t cope with all those mirrors.

“Just the idea of a rowing machine brings me out in a sweat.”

He added: “I’d never go to a parlour to be groomed, I just put on a bit of gel and deodorant on and I’m away.

“I certainly do not moisturise and I definitely do not wax – men who wax should have been born a woman.”

However the chef does have one style secret…..hats!

He said: “Hats are very important to me. The secret of pulling a hat off is having the confidence to wear it.

“If you walk down the street with a hat on, more women will look at you than if you don’t have a hat on. It gives you status.”

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Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White is said to have been smitten by Nancy Dell’Olio, during filming for his new ITV show, Kitchen Burnout.

Fellow contestants on the cookery show have hinted that Marco may have fallen for Sven Goran Eriksson’s ex, but think that she may just be flirting as a way to win the competition.

One of them told The Sun: “Nan-cy has been all over Marco. It’s crazy. She is a very passionate woman and everyone is convinced she’s trying to curry favour.

“Marco, of course, loves the attention. He’s been flirting back but pretending he’s being all professional.

“There’s definitely a spark there. I think he respects a strong woman.

“Everyone keeps joking that they’re perfect for each other as they’re both pretty pushy people.”

And it seems like Nancy may not be a natural in the kitchen. During one cookery attempt, she left a bottle of olive oil on the stove and caused a fire!

A source revealed: “She lifted the bottle, the bottom fell out and the oil spilled everywhere and caught fire. There was mayhem.”

Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Burnout launches on ITV1 later this month.

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Do you have £20,000 going spare? If so then you can afford to hire Hell’s Kitchen star Marco Pierre White to cater your wedding.

The celebrity chef has revealed that he will be opening ‘White Weddings’, which is based at the West Tower country house in Lancashire town Aughton, in January 2010.

“Romance is what it’s all about in this industry, it’s what customers look for, but this is what a lot of modern day venues lack. Romance is the only thing that never dates – so I will invite my guests to step into a truly romantic environment,” said a the Leeds-born chef.

“This marks a new chapter in my career, I’ve never lost my Northern roots and I can’t wait to bring the next generation of events cuisine to the region. It’s about the occasion, about being with your family and friends, the experience as a whole.

“The future of hospitality in my opinion is affordable glamour, straightforwardness, back to basics. This is what I will be bringing to the North West with the opening of this venue.”

The West Tower general manager added: “It’s a major coup to be bringing Marco Pierre White to the West Tower and the north-west. By becoming an exclusive Marco Pierre White private hire venue, we now have the platform to offer our guests an unrivalled wedding, conference and events service.

“His association has led to us being inundated with booking enquiries, several of those from high profile celebrities who have some very exciting projects in the pipeline.”

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ITV has cancelled Marco Pierre White’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ saying that making the show is too expensive. The surly chef will be back on our screens but in a slightly adapted show titled ‘Marco’s Kitchen Burnout.’

Burnout will be much cheaper to produce. No longer will the apprentice chefs live together, nor will ITV build their own restaurant. Instead they will use a real London eatery and according to The Sun, celebrity guests will have to pay for their food.

A show source told the newspaper: “It’s no secret that Hell’s Kitchen was an expensive show. This time they’re keeping the costs down and making it easier for decent celebs to take part – because they won’t have to live with everyone else.

“Bosses are gunning for some good names so it should be a cracking show.”

The show will be filmed in January and February next year and aired on Friday nights in April.

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Hell’s Kitchen runner up, Ade Edmondson has said that Marco Pierre White is quitting the ITV show because it is more about entertainment than cooking.

Ade told The Sun: “He’s very intent on his cooking and the show’s not really about cooking, is it? I think he began to realise it’s more of an entertainment show and he’d like to concentrate on something more serious.”

I don’t know that ITV can find another chef to take over the show, who will do such a good job as White. He is tough without being cruel, and as Ade said during his interview he inspires instead of humiliating. Somehow I can’t see Jamie Oliver or Heston Blumenthal doing the job as well.

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Marco Pierre White is quitting TV for good, according to The Sun.

The chef is currently appearing in ITV’s Hell’s Kitchen and has done so for the last two years, however the newspaper reports that he will not be presenting the show if it returns in 2010.

A source said: “He’s ready to throw in the towel now — he’s had enough. ITV have offered him opportunities to present other shows, but he’s not interested.

“Marco doesn’t need the money and he never set out to acquire fame.

“He took part in Hell’s Kitchen for the past two years because he felt that certain celebrity chefs portrayed the role badly.

“He hated the idea of kitchens being run by bullies. He knows he shouts too, but he doesn’t believe it’s necessary to scream and swear all the time to gain control.”

The source added: “Marco has always been very different from other celebrity chefs, with his wild character and big hair. He sees himself as much more rock ’n’ roll.

“He is keen to turn his focus on to running his restaurants. They are his priority now. He’s enjoyed his time in front of the camera but he says he won’t miss it at all.”

Marco has said of his TV role: “I’m here to feed the diners and inspire the contestants to cook and to win and inspire the public to want to cook.

“I did Hell’s Kitchen because I didn’t like the way certain people on TV portrayed my industry and I want to encourage young boys and girls to come into my industry.”

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Hell’s Kitchen reject Grant Bovey has questioned Marco Pierre White’s reasoning when he questioned Grant’s lack of humility in the kitchen.

Talking to Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield on This Morning, he said: “Marco was encouraging me to be the leader. He would say, ‘Grant, we need leadership in the kitchen, you carry on, you’re doing a sound job’ so I did carry on doing that…and clearly that led me to be sacked.”

He continued” “Marco is just very complicated. And as for me not showing any humility, I didn’t understand that remark at all. I was on the mash service for the first time and the service was two and half hours that night, which was twice as long as any other night we’d done, and we had a lot more people in.

“And yes, there was someone there to help me but I didn’t want to call upon Marco because I wanted to prove to Marco that I could do it on my own. And every portion of mash potato was delivered on time and hot and I did it myself. Yes, I made a mess doing it, but to me, making a mess wasn’t a problem.”

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Hell’s Kitchen presenter Claudia Winkleman has revealed that she has some less than platonic feelings towards show chef Marco Pierre White.

In an interview with Celebs On Sunday Claudia admitted:

“I wasn’t sure how I was going to react when I first met him. I thought I might end up putting my hair in bunches, and scratching myself – that’s when you can tell I really like a boy, I start twiddling my hair, and I do it with him, I think. He’s so tall and strong and I come up to his knees, but occasionally he’ll look down and smile at me.”

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