Celebrity MasterChef 2026 star Jason Mohammad has hit back at judge Giorgio Locatelli after being given the boot from the BBC cooking show.
The TV and radio presenter endured a disastrous day in the Celebrity MasterChef kitchen before Giorgio delivered a brutal verdict.
The new judge told Jason he would be better off “washing the pots” rather than cooking.
And it seems Jason was not exactly impressed with the criticism!
Jason later appeared to get his own back on Giorgio, joking that he would only visit the chef’s restaurant kitchen if the invitation came with no criticism.
And if it was for free!
So what happened between Jason and Giorgio? And who made it through to the semi finals?
Here’s everything that went down during a particularly tense episode of the BBC show.
Who left Celebrity MasterChef tonight? Jason’s disastrous day
Poor Jason had a shocker of a day in the Celebrity MasterChef kitchen. Thursday’s episode saw him repeatedly come under fire from Giorgio after making a string of mistakes.
In the first round, the contestants were split into pairs. Jason was paired with Emily Campbell, while Joe Pasquale and Shakira Khan were put together.
Each pair had to cook a two to three course meal. They had to prepare a starter of smoked mackerel scotch eggs. The main was panfried chicken breasts with “decadent” fondant potatoes and braised leeks. The dessert was a sticky toffee pudding.
Unfortunately, Jason did not cook the soft boiled eggs for long enough. They then broke while he was peeling them. As a result, Emily struggled to wrap the mackerel paste around them. She told Jason they were a “disaster”.
The pair then served up raw potatoes with their main, which had been Jason’s job. He also ruined the braised leeks, with Giorgio briskly asking: “What did it say? Mashed leaks?”
On the other team, Shakira and Joe served up a plate of slop for pudding. They had not baked their sticky toffee pudding for long enough.
Yet in proof as to how badly Emily and Jason had performed, Shakira and Joe still won the challenge.
Giorgio told Shakira she could be a Sous chef. He then turned his attention to Jason and said: “Jason, after I looked at your potatoes, you’re in the back doing the washing up.”
Once the contestants had left the room, Grace shook her head and said to Giorgio: “Telling Jason Mohammad you’d have him as a pot washer?”
Giorgio simply replied: “Yes.”
It was hardly the warmest welcome for Jason, and things were about to get even worse.
‘Naked broccoli’
Later in the show, Celebrity MasterChef welcomed Seema Pankhania into the kitchen. Each contestant took on one of the popular cook’s best loved recipes.
Jason was given cabbage dumplings. They were stuffed with soy and ginger minced chicken and served with egg fried rice and tender stem broccoli with a coconut topping.
But it all went wrong. First, Jason failed to follow the recipe correctly and began cooking the chicken filling for the dumplings. Seema had to step in and tell him it was supposed to be wrapped in the cabbage raw before cooking.
Grace Dent later described his broccoli as “naked”, as it was completely missing the topping.
Viewers were unlikely to be surprised when Giorgio and Grace showed Jason the door.
Jason hits back at Giorgio after Celebrity MasterChef exit
The judges put Emily and Shakira straight through to the first semi final of Celebrity MasterChef 2026. Joe was in the bottom two with Jason, but he scraped through as well.
Letting Jason go, Grace said: “Jason, you’ve shown improvement along the way but we’ve seen you struggle.”
Giorgio then invited Jason back to his kitchen one day. But Jason was quick to make his feelings clear.
He replied: “As long as you don’t have a go at me, that would be great.”
Hanging up his apron backstage, Jason again commented on Giorgio’s offer after his difficult day.
“Wow, the cabbages have killed me today. It was too hard for me and just too fancy,” he said.
“He’s invited me into his kitchen free but, if I’ve got to pay, you’re okay. I’ll keep watching him on telly instead.”
It sounds like Jason and Giorgio will not be swapping recipes anytime soon!
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