this Monday Masterchef, celebrities She turned off the stove again in the early hours of the morning to crown her tenth famous winner and conclude another successful edition of the cooking competition for La 1. This time it was presenter Mariló Montero who beat former footballer Miguel Torres in a shortlist of finalists and walked away with the program’s trophy and the €75,000 prize for her NGO (in this case, the Spanish Foundation for the Promotion of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research). Furthermore, the last two finalists, who beat singer Juanjo Bona and collaborator Torito, will have the opportunity during the gala to take a weekend cooking class at the Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences of the Basque Culinary Center of San Sebastián with a companion.
Montero, accompanied in the final by her children Rocío Crusset and Alberto Herrera to whom she dedicated the dishes and their history, was very controversial in promoting the competition when she went to The revolt to accuse RTVE’s ideology, which he described as “Pedro Sánchez’s order to build a one-way public television”. Now it is the public body that crowns her the winner of its stellar competition. “It’s a rush of energy and for me it’s fantastic. It’s a push for the next phase of life”, recognizes the man who for years was TVE’s morning presenter.
At the last gala of the tenth edition with the celebrities of talent show TVE’s culinary show, the contestants came, after 12 weeks of competition, to San Sebastián precisely to pay homage to the 50 years of experience of chef Martín Berasategui, the Spanish chef with the most Michelin stars. From the Miramar Palace, which once served as the summer residence of Queen María Cristina and which today hosts the most important events in the Gipuzkoan capital, the family and friends (including Basque chefs Pedro Subijana, David de Jorge and Eneko Atxa) of the famous chef gathered to receive the menu of the last three candidates for the final.
The grand finale also had as guests the former winner of the competition in its fourth edition, Tamara Falcó, and the chef Virgilio Martínez, of the Central restaurant, in Peru, recognized as the best in the world according to the ranking of The 50 best restaurants in the world. In that first test they reproduced a dish from the chef himself. But the decisive moment came in the great duel, where, like every year, the footballer and the presenter designed and prepared a complete menu, which was evaluated by the jury together with chef Oriol Castro, with three Michelin stars. Torres, accompanied by his partner, the actress Paula Echevarría, lost himself with elegance, underlining the importance of the competition for him: “I feel like a winner because it is, together with the time spent in football, the most beautiful project I have accomplished in my life.”
Montero joins the already long list of winners of Masterchef, celebrities since he Actor Miguel Ángel Muñoz won the trophy in 2016. He was followed by Olympians Saúl Craviotto and Ona Carbonell, the aforementioned Tamara Falcó, actress Raquel Meroño, the duo Juanma Castaño and Micky Nadal, presenter Lorena Castell, actress Laura Londoño and presenter Inés Hernand.
Despite the end of Masterchef, celebritiesRTVE will continue to make the most of competitions with celebrities doing things. In fact, they will continue cooking, in this case baking, even in the next one Top Chef: Desserts and Celebritiespresented by Paula Vázquez and which will see Belén Esteban, Antonio Resines, Mariña Castaño and Mariano Peña among the competitors.
