Food star Anna Haugh and critic Dent in MasterChef role

MASTERCHEF veterans Grace Dent and Anna Haugh have been confirmed as new presenters of the BBC show's amateur version.

- BY NICOLA METHVEN

Their appointments follow the axing of Gregg Wallace and John Torode.

They will become the first all-female team to front any of the MasterChefs – amateur, celebrity or professional.

Viewers will get to see top Irish chef and restaurateur Anna in action alongside Torode later this month, when she co-hosts two episodes in the final week of the series currently airing on BBC1.

She was drafted in after Wallace stepped down last year. A probe later upheld 45 allegations of inappropriate behaviour and comments.

Avid viewers will know that Anna, 44, filled in alongside Marcus Wareing on MasterChef: The Professionals in 2023, when usual co-host Monica Galetti took a year off.