Congratulations to our Chancellor Gavin Esler, who reached the quarter-final of this year’s Celebrity MasterChef.
Gavin took part in Celebrity MasterChef 2021’s fourth week of heats alongside TV presenter Kem Cetinay, Paralympian Kadeena Cox, Strictly Come Dancing’s Johannes Radebe and actress Michelle Collins.
After initially impressing the judges with his taste for ‘seasoning’ when cooking roasted butternut squash and chorizo and pea puree, he went on to cook a seabass Dinner Party Dish before wowing the judges with fried tofu marinated in soy and chilli with a kimchi coleslaw. Gavin narrowly missed out on a place in the semi-final after cooking scallops followed by a pear sorbet and plum compote as a two-course meal in the quarter-final.
Gavin’s Celebrity MasterChef journey can be watched in episodes 10,11 and 12 of series 16, available on BBC iPlayer.
Season five of Gavin Esler In Conversation kicks off from Tuesday 28 September at the Gulbenkian, with guests including Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE, Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE and Dame Prue Leith DBE DL. Find out more: www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/in-conversation