Anna Haugh and Grace Dent to take over as MasterChef hosts

The BBC has announced an all-female presenting team to host MasterChef after the previous judges, Gregg Wallace and John Torode, were sacked.

- Michael Savage

Grace Dent, the Guardian's restaurant critic, will host the show alongside the Irish chef Anna Haugh, who has already become a regular on the BBC's cooking programmes.

The BBC has confirmed that Haugh already stood in for Wallace in the final episodes of the current amateur edition of MasterChef, which was filmed at the end of last year. It was only at that point that Wallace stepped back from the programme, when a series of allegations were made about his behaviour.