Grace Dent made a major lifestyle change before her gig as a judge on Celebrity MasterChef . The 52-year-old food critic is joining the 2025 season of the cooking show, which kicks off on 17 November, as a regular judge. But more than a year before becoming the new face of MasterChef , Grace revealed she made a change behind the scenes after eating around 4,000 calories by 10am.

"Being a restaurant critic means your body doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to the newspaper really. There is always thousands, and thousands, and thousands of calories coming," the star explained on the Glad We Had This Chat podcast in July 2024. She continued: "Yesterday, when I was at the restaurant, I’d eaten at least 4,000 calories by 10am. It’s perilously easy to do that, a big stack of pancakes, a

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