There was some brilliant news for Lisa Snowdon on BBC1 tonight.
She was crowned Celebrity MasterChef champion, which means she will now be remembered for being something other than “that model who went out with George Clooney for a bit”.
Okay, that might be pushing it. But at least she’ll have something more interesting to talk about whenever she throws a dinner party from now on – her award-winning food.
Not least on those occasions where her good friend Lisa Faulkner’s plus-one happens to be her husband, erm, Celebrity MasterChef judge John Torode.
Not that I’m suggesting Torode showed any favouritism towards Snowdon, of course.
He’s far too professional for that. Plus, his fellow culinary town crier Gregg Wallace was also taken with Snowdon’s food.
As her victory was announced, Gregg slipped into his best Charles Dickens character voice to grandly declare: “Faint heart never lifts a MasterChef title and that is why Lisa is our Celebrity MasterChef champion.”
Her three-course offering did look pretty tasty, to be fair. I was rooting for Melanie Blatt from All Saints though, especially after she unveiled her amazing Cherry Clafoutis. That’s a dessert, by the way. Not the name of a contestant on Ru Paul’s Drag Race.
The third finalist, Danny Jones from boyband McFly, who, I believe, may have toured Japan at some stage, fared less well on the night.
However, after he opened the show by announcing “I just wanna show off” I think we can safely assume he still went home happy.
All in all, it was another strong series from the BBC’s ever-reliable cooking contest, which had to show extra resilience this year on account of being knocked around the schedules by the Queen’s sad death.
To be honest, I only realised it was the final last night when I saw Gregg was dressed like he was up in court later, and Torode was dressed like he had an Austin Powers convention to get to by 3pm.
And speaking of dressing up, I guess we should thank Tuesday night’s fancy dress nonsense for at least confirming what Gregg Wallace would look like with hair. Tory berk Michael Fabricant.
I trust that means the wigs and hats can stay in the box next year though, fellas.
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