MasterChef's Grace Dent needn't be nervous

Is John Torode quietly savouring Tim Davie’s resignation from the BBC? It was reportedly the former director-general “drawing a line in the sand” that sealed Torode’s fate and meant the MasterChef presenter didn’t survive the allegation against him (that he used “an extremely offensive racist term”, something Torode says he doesn’t remember). In any case, Torode has outlasted his old boss, in the sense that he survives on our screens in the new series of Celebrity MasterChef .

As with the most recent series of MasterChef , which was recorded before Gregg Wallace’s sacking , we have the odd situation where an individual deemed unacceptable by the BBC is being broadcast by the BBC. The current series of Celebrity MasterChef was recorded, of course, before Torode was fired, whi