MasterChef Celebrity (Argentine TV series)

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MasterChef Celebrity
Genre Baking, cooking
Created by Franc Roddam
Directed byClaudio Cuscuela
Presented by
Judges
Voices ofClaudia Fasolo
Country of originArgentina
Original languageSpanish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes162
Production
Executive producers
  • Gustavo N. Perednik (1st season)
  • Nicolas Malowicki (2nd season)
ProducerDiego Guebel
Production location Buenos Aires
Running time
  • 90 minutes (week)
  • 120 minutes (sunday)
Production companies
Original release
Network Telefe
Release8 April 2018 (2018-04-08) –
11 March 2022 (2022-03-11)

MasterChef Celebrity Argentina is an Argentine gastronomy reality show contest produced by Boxfish TV for Telefe. It is the national variant of the television program and franchise MasterChef in which celebrities from Argentina participate. The program is hosted by Santiago del Moro [1] and the contestants are evaluated by a jury made up of chefs Donato De Santis, Germán Martitegui and Damián Betular. [2] [3]

Contents

Format

The tests that the participants will have to face are:

Only one of the three initial test variations is performed in each program. All tests have a time limit established by the jury, and before starting the applicants have three minutes to stock up on ingredients from the "supermarket", except in the team test.

First season (2020)

In mid-2020, Telefe confirmed that an edition of MasterChef Argentina would be held with characters known to the public; It was also announced that Santiago del Moro would be in charge of driving and that the influencer Flor Vigna would be in charge of presenting exclusive content for social networks. The chef Christophe Krywonis announced that he would not be part of the jury for this edition and that his place will be taken by Damián Betular, joining Donato De Santis and Germán Martitegui.

On September 26, it was confirmed that the reality show would air from October 5, from Monday to Thursday at 10:30 p.m. (GMT-3) and eliminations would be hold on Sundays at the same time. During the afternoon of Friday, October 2, it was confirmed that the entertainment journalist, Marcelo Polino, would be in charge of commenting on the culinary reality show on the programs of Florencia Peña, Flor de Equipo, in the morning, on Verónica Lozano, Cortá por Lozano, in the afternoon and at Gerardo Rozín and Jésica Cirio, La Peña de Morfi on Sunday afternoons prior to the Elimination Gala.

On October 12, 2020, it was confirmed that "Polaco" Cwirkaluk had tested positive for coronavirus, being confirmed on October 18 that he would be replaced by actress Natalie Pérez until he is recovered. Soon after, the positive of vedette Victoria Xipolitakis was added, who is replaced by model Christian Sancho. On October 20, it came to light that the jury Germán Martitegui had also tested positive for coronavirus, being replaced by Dolli Irigoyen.

On Monday, January 18, Claudia Villafañe was crowned the winner of this first season after beating Analía Franchín in the final. [4]

Contestants

ContestantOccupationStatus
Claudia Villafañe TV personalityWinner
Analía FranchínTV panelistRunner-up
El PolacoSinger-songwriter3rd Place
Sofía PachanoActress and dancer4th Place
Vicky XipolitakisModel and vedette5th Place
Belén LuciusInfluencer6th Place
Leticia Siciliani ActressQuit
El MonoKapanga vocalist11th Evicted2nd Evicted
Fede BalTheatre producer & TV personality10th Evicted
Rocío Marengo Model and TV personality9th Evicted6nd Evicted
El Turco Former footballer and manager8th Evicted
Boy OlmiFilmmaker7th Evicted
Iliana Calabró Actress and comedian vedette5th Evicted
Roberto MoldavskyComedian4th Evicted
Patricia Sosa Singer-songwriter3rd Evicted
Nacho SuredaActor1st Evicted
Christian SanchoActorGuest
Natalie Pérez Actress and singer-songwriterGuest

Second season (2021)

On November 3, 2020, after the resounding success in terms of audience of the first season, Telefe renewed the program for a second season to premiere on February 22, 2021. On December 2, 2020, it was confirmed to the first participant of this edition, actress Carmen Barbieri, who had to be replaced during the first week by her son, first edition's contestant Fede Bal, due to COVID-19 infection. On February 3, and after Bal resigned to participate in place of her mother in the competition, Claudia Fontán was announced as a new participant to join from the second week of the competition. Filming began on January 25, and the show debuted on February 22. After eight weeks, Barbieri returned to the kitchen.

Contestants

ContestantOccupationStatus
Gastón Dalmau ActorWinner
Georgina BarbarossaTV host and comedianRunner-up
Sol PérezModel and TV host3rd Place5th Evicted
Candela Vetrano Actress and model4th Place
Claudia Fontán Actress and TV host5th Place
María O'DonnellRadio broadcaster and writer15th Evicted
Álex Caniggia Reality TV star14th Evicted
Juanse Ratones Paranoicos vocalist13th Evicted3rd Evicted
Dani La Chepi Influencer12th Evicted
Carmen Barbieri Former vedette & theatre director11th Evicted
Andrea RincónModel and vedette10th Evicted
Daniel Aráoz Actor and comedian9th Evicted7th Evicted
Hernán Montenegro Former basketballer8th Evicted
Fernando CarlosSports journalist6th Evicted
Flavia PalmieroTV host and actress4th Evicted
CAESinger-songwriter2nd Evicted
Mariano Dalla Libera Former footballer and manager1st Evicted
Fede BalTV personality, S1 contestantGuest

Third season (2021/2022)

After the broadcast of the second season and after repeating the success of the previous season, Telefe renewed the program for a third season to premiere in November 2021. During the month of October, the journalist and ambassador of the reality Marcelo Polino was revealing and confirming, in the Flor de equipo program, the 16 official participants of the third edition of the cooking competition. That same month, the channel already began to promote the season with advertisements showing the contestants. Recordings began on October 19. More demanding and new challenges waited the new contestants.

They had to go through a different challenge every day, withstand the pressure of time and the demands of the judges to demonstrate their skills and thus remain in the contest and become the great champion. Whoever succeeds will win 1,500,000 pesos and other important prizes.

The third season took place in a new, larger studio with state-of-the-art technology. The most famous kitchens in the country were renovated for the contestants to face original challenges. The tests surprised for their originality and, as in each edition, there were great guest stars for the special challenges.

During this edition, several replacements had to be made, who later became official contestants: Sabrina Garciarena for Marcela Acuña on the fourth week, Malena Guinzburg for Micaela Viciconte during the tenth, and Bárbara Vélez and Ernestina Pais for Denise Dumas and Joaquín Levinton, respectively.

Contestants

ContestantOccupationStatus
Micaela Viciconte Sportswoman & TV personalityWinner
Tomás Fonzi ActorRunner-up
JuariuInfluencer and journalist3rd Place7th Evicted
Denise DumasFormer model and TV host4th Place4th Evicted
María del Cerro Actress and model17th Evicted
Malena GuinzburgComedian and actress16th EvictedExempt
Paula Pareto Olympic judokaQuit
Catherine Fulop Actress15th Evicted
Joaquín LevintonTurf vocalist and musician14th Evicted
Paulo KablanPolice-article journalist13th Evicted
Ernestina PaisTV host12th EvictedExempt
Luisa AlbinoniActress and former vedette11th Evicted
Bárbara Vélez Actress and model10th EvictedExempt
Marcela Acuña Boxer9th Evicted6th Evicted
Charlotte Caniggia Reality TV star8th Evicted
Tití FernándezSports journalist and writer5th Evicted
Gastón Soffritti Actor3rd Evicted
Héctor Enrique Former footballer2nd Evicted
José Luis GioiaActor and comedian1st Evicted
Sabrina Garciarena Actress and modelGuest

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References

  1. ↑ "Santiago del Moro will conduct Masterchef Celebrity on Telefe". Telefe (in Spanish).
  2. ↑ "Masterchef adds Chef Damián Betular as a jury". Pronto Magazine (in Spanish).[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "MasterChef Argentina: these are the 7 confirmed participants". Diario la provincia (in Spanish).
  4. ↑ "Claudia Villafañe, the great winner of MasterChef Celebrity and a special dedication". La Nacion (in Spanish).
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