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As the culinary-based reality show ‘MasterChef Australia’ returns with its 16th edition, chef Andy Allen, one of the judges, has expressed his love for Indian food created by some of the previous contestants from the show.

The new season introduces three new judges — MasterChef alumna Poh Ling Yeow, food critic and journalist Sofia Levin, and multi-Michelin Star award-winning chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, alongside Andy Allen, the winner of a previous edition of ‘MasterChef Australia’.

Allen said: “The MasterChef Kitchen is where my food journey began, and it truly is one of the best platforms to realise one’s culinary dreams. Food is a language that transcends borders, and over the years, I have had the pleasure of witnessing so many new cultures.”

“Some of the Indian dishes brought by the past contestants are definitely at the top of my list. I am proud to continue to contribute to the legacy of...

Pointless Celebrities is returning for a new series on BBC One later this summer, it has been confirmed.

Radio 1 DJs Scott Mills and Gemma Cairney, England footballing legend Sir Geoff Hurst, and comedy duo Brendan O'Carroll and Christopher Biggins are among the stars signed up for the latest run.

Chefs Antony Worrall Thompson and Jean Christophe Novelli and former boxing champion Joe Calzaghe will also take part in the series.

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman return as hosts of the quiz show that is searching for 'pointless answers'.

The winning celebrities take home a cash prize for their respective charities.

Pointless repeats are currently airing on weekdays on BBC One.

Sky Living HD has announced that it has recommissioned Psychic Sally: On The Road, with Sally Morgan, the UK’s premier psychic.

Along with her famous on-the-road performances, each episode will feature a special celebrity reading.

Sally will be giving an insight into the stars’ lives, discussing everything from their careers to their personal lives. The series will also feature special celebrity dinner parties, hosted by Sally and her partner John, with one off on-the-spot mini readings.

Among the names confirmed to appear in the series are; Strictly Come Dancing judge, Alesha Dixon, Mark Wright and Lauren Goodger from The Only Way Is Essex, Corrie starlet Helen Flanagan, award-winning chef Jean Christophe Novelli, former X Factor contestant Mary Byrne, Hollyoaks actor Marcus Patrick and 80’s pop star Sinitta.

Produced by ITV Studios, the third series follows the country’s most fascinating psychic as she tours the country performing to sell-out audiences.

“The world’s sexiest chef”, Michelin-starred Jean Christophe Novelli comes to Good Food with a new and exclusive series. In Chef Academy, the man with restaurants in London, France and South Africa attempts to make his mark in America. Not only has Jean Christophe built an enviable reputation with his award-winning restaurants across Europe, he also runs the Novelli Academy Cookery School, one of the most prestigious culinary centres in the world.

Celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli has criticised Sophie Dahl's new food show. Dahl currently hosts BBC2 show The Delicious Miss Dahl but Novelli claimed that she cannot cook. According to the Daily Mail, he said: "Cooking is not about beauty, it's about a passion for food. Sophie is trying to copy Nigella [Lawson] but has a long way to go. Nigella (more)...

Toronto -- Canadian indie producer Cineflix Productions is opening a second beachhead to aid its U.S. expansion: British studio-based entertainment programming.

After striking U.S. ratings gold with The History Channel's docuseries "American Pickers," Toronto-based Cineflix is now working to produce entertainment format series in Britain for possible migration to the American market.

The strategy, explained Cineflix CEO of programming Simon Lloyd, is making friends with industry trends.

Lloyd argued U.S. networks remain on the hunt for reality formats that produce big audience spikes and, like "Dancing With The Stars" and "American Idol," first proved themselves in the British market.

"Often the best way to get a show on a U.S. network is to hang on a British network first of all, and try to improve it there. What we're hoping to do is to have hits in Britain, and we're hoping that some of those...

I'm not quite sure what to make of Bravo's newest culinary competition series Chef Academy, which launches tonight. I'm a huge foodie and Top Chef might just be one of my life's main obsessions but I couldn't work up any appetite for the soggy and tasteless Chef Academy, which plays as a budget chain knock-off of the glossy and well-edited Top Chef. Chef Academy revolves around hotheaded French chef Jean Christophe Novelli, a Columbo-obsessed Michelin star winner who moves to Los Angeles with his pregnant fiancee to open up a West Coast outpost of his celebrated London-based Novelli Academy Cookery School. I could have perhaps gotten behind a docudrama that focuses on Novelli's efforts to get his Venice, California cooking academy off the ground but that's not the route that Chef Academy's producers go, instead transforming it into a reality competition series as Novelli selects nine students for his academy...

Bravo just announced its brand new show, "Chef Academy." The docu-series chronicles world renowed chef Jean Christophe Novelli's move to Los Angeles as he opens a test program for a top-notch culinary institute and trains and transforms nine aspiring chefs. Throughout the series, Chef Novelli presents unique dishes that only someone of his caliber could create with directives laden with a heavy French accent. According to Bravo, "the awe-struck students, many of whom are culinary novices, are wowed by the creations they see too quickly taking shape with such ease in front of their eyes. While the dishes inspire the students, tensions arise when they are asked to recreate the dishes with their very fate at...

Chef Jean Christophe Novelli is world-renowned and with Michelin award-winning restaurants to his name. Now the French celebrity chef is adding TV personality to his repertoire. He'll be the subject of Bravo's new show, "Chef Academy," which chronicles Novelli's opening of his first Academy in America.

The Novelli Academy Cookery School in the UK was named one of the "Top 25 Cookery Schools in the World," and Novelli's set his sights on Venice, California for his stateside venture. Along with his executive chef Steve Kitchen and assistant Joel, Novelli selects nine students for his first foray in teaching French cooking in America.

Of course, the fate of the students at the Academy are at stake and they'll be assessed weekly through a variety of tests and challenges, including recreating classic French dishes in their own style.

Named "World's Sexiest Chef" by the New York Times, Chef Novelli heads Bravo's newest student competition docu-series "Chef Academy,...

Bravo introduces American viewers to world famous, award-winning chef Jean Christophe Novelli in the new docu-series Chef Academy. Novelli is the owner of restaurants in London, France and South Africa as well as the London-based Novelli Academy Cookery School. Additionally, he was voted as the "World's Sexiest Chef" by The New York Times. In Chef Academy, Bravo follows Novelli as moves to Los Angeles and opens a test program within a top culinary institute where he will train nine aspiring chefs. The new series opens November 16 at 11p and is produced by Mentorn USA for Bravo.

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Friends and family have paid tribute to celebrity chef Keith Floyd at his funeral today. Floyd's partner Celia Martin, biographer James Steen and two children Patrick and Poppy were among the mourners at Ashton Court Mansion in Bristol, BBC News reports. Comedian Jim Davidson, who knew the late TV personality for 25 years, was also in attendance. Fellow chefs and friends Jean-Christophe Novelli and Marco Pierre White were absent due to work commitments. Davidson told the congregation: "He was such a positive man in a very difficult world. He was the first of a kind. It didn't matter what he cooked, he would just swig that glass of wine and we all loved him." Meanwhile, reading a written tribute to her father, Poppy (more)...

Peter Andre has joined This Morning to provide additional showbiz reporting, ITV has announced. He will be joined in the new run - scheduled to begin September 1 - by number of other This Morning newcomers, including designers Linda Barker and Danielle Proud, and gardeners Diarmuid Gavin and Sven Wombwell. Jason Gardiner will front the fashion content. Chefs Gino D’Acampo, Jean Christophe Novelli, Rosemary Shrager, Chris Gates, Ed Baines, and Dean Edwards are also joining (more)...

Jean-Christophe Novelli has admitted that he is becoming a recluse after struggling to deal with public attention. The celebrity chef raised his profile by appearing on Hell's Kitchen alongside Gary Rhodes in 2005. He later competed in X Factor: Battle Of The Stars for charity. Discussing the impact of his reality TV stints, Novelli told Take 5 magazine: "I don't feel comfortable with it. I don't go out anymore. I'm quite reserved, believe it or not. "Sometimes people (more)...

Simon Cowell has been snubbed by one of his proteges. The music mogul has been left stunned by 'X Factor' contestant Ruth Lorenzo - one of his favourite performers from the last series of the UK TV talent show - who turned down his offer of a record deal to sign a £1 million contract with rivals Emi/Virgin. Ruth revealed her decision while partying at the launch of celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli's latest restaurant. A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Ruth was telling everyone Simon was devastated she had signed elsewhere. "Ruth admitted Simon has given her lots of advice and also that he'd given her a lot of confidence with her singing and her career. "But...

Simon Cowell has been snubbed by one of his proteges. The music mogul has been left stunned by 'X Factor' contestant Ruth Lorenzo - one of his favourite performers from the last series of the UK TV talent show - who turned down his offer of a record deal to sign a £1 million contract with rivals Emi/Virgin. Ruth revealed her decision while partying at the launch of celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli's latest restaurant. A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Ruth was telling everyone Simon was devastated she had signed elsewhere. "Ruth admitted Simon has given her lots of advice and also that he'd given her a lot of confidence with her singing and her career. "But the Emi...

Simon Cowell has been snubbed by one of his proteges. The music mogul has been left stunned by "X Factor" contestant Ruth Lorenzo - one of his favorite performers from the last series of the U.K. TV talent show - who turned down his offer of a record deal to sign a Ł1 million [.5 million] contract with rivals Emi/Virgin.

Ruth revealed her decision while partying at the launch of celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli's latest restaurant.

A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Ruth was telling everyone Simon was devastated she had signed elsewhere."

"Ruth admitted Simon has given her lots of advice and also that he'd given her a lot of confidence with her singing and her career."...

Simon Cowell has been snubbed by one of his proteges. The music mogul has been left stunned by "X Factor" contestant Ruth Lorenzo - one of his favorite performers from the last series of the U.K. TV talent show - who turned down his offer of a record deal to sign a Ł1 million [.5 million] contract with rivals Emi/Virgin.

Ruth revealed her decision while partying at the launch of celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli's latest restaurant.

A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Ruth was telling everyone Simon was devastated she had signed elsewhere."

"Ruth admitted Simon has given her lots of advice and also that he'd given her a lot of confidence with her singing and her career."...

Ruth Lorenzo has signed a record contract with Emi/Virgin, a rival of Simon Cowell's Sony BMG subsidiary Syco, it has been claimed. According to The Sun, the former X Factor contestant's deal is being kept secret until it is formally unveiled at the start of May. A source at the launch of Jean-Christophe Novelli's new restaurant said: "Ruth was a bit giddy with the free champagne and was telling everyone Simon was gutted she signed elsewhere. "She said she wanted to sign with him because they got along so well during The X (more)...

Jean-Christophe Novelli has told of how a fire broke out as he was leading a festive cookery class at his Hertfordshire home. The Michelin-starred Frenchman said a fuse box burst into flames on Thursday at the Novelli Academy, which is part of his 14th-century farmhouse. "It was quite scary, I have to be honest with you. If there was not an immediate reaction it would have a been a disaster," he told The Telegraph. "It happened so quickly. I was just taking the Christmas turkey out of the oven and on the other side of the kitchen smoke, sparks, flames came out. At first I thought it was the turkey exploding. I looked back (more)...

Reality producer R. Greg Johnston has inked a two-year overall deal with Endemol USA to create and executive produce unscripted series.

Johnston is a 16-year MTV veteran who joined the cable network as an intern in its early days and worked his way up to vp in the music development department and then an MTV-based producer.

He played a key role in the development of such signature MTV reality series as "The Osbournes" and "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica," which he executive produced. For his work on "Osbournes," he shared a best nonfiction program Emmy in 2002.

Johnston also was part of the original development team of the MTV Movie Awards and was involved with the MTV Video Music Awards and such series as "Rich Girls," "Miss Seventeen," "The Ashlee Simpson Show" and "The Wade Robson Project."

"While comedy reality is my forte, I have a diverse background, and I love challenges working in new genres,...

We recently conferenced with Tom Colicchio and Padma Lakshmi from the Bravo! reality-tv series "Top Chef." "Chef" has won a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated for two years running for multiple Emmys. Padma Lakshmi talks about this seasons crew and more. "Well they’re an interesting bunch. Like, you know, most of our cast, they come from all over. And, you know, I thought they really held their own. I think the one thing I noted this season is that it was really interesting to watch the evolution of more than a few of them.I think they really are - were very quick learners. And so some of the contestants over the course of the challenges and weeks really surprised us." Read the whole interview here! Don't watch it yet? Here's what the show is about Bright knives, big city. On Top Chef: New York, the fifth season of the No.