This show features two heats. In the first, Ian Bleasdale, Shirley Robertson and Paul Martin cook for paying restaurant customers at Skylon, and in the second Pete Waterman, Gemma Bissix and Stephen K Amos cook at Just St James.

Only two of these contestants will get through to the quarter-final stage, which will take them one step closer to becoming the next Celebrity MasterChef...

The six best celebrity cooks remain, but at the end of the day two will be sent home for good. They must cook a two-course meal for 30 schoolchildren, and then make the perfect roast dinner to show judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace that they deserve to stay in the competition.

The four semi-finalists are sent to some of London's best restaurants to fine tune their individual cooking styles - before coming back to the studio to show judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace exactly what they've learnt. And they must then take on the challenge of being the sole caterers at an exclusive society dinner.

The four semi-finalists must cook their best two-course meal to impress three of the country's most respected food critics. And the pressure is really on as at the end of the show, judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace decide which one of the celebrities must leave the competition.